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Written by Gita T. This article argues that Taiwan’s green transition assumes energy demand will remain manageable and relatively stable amid rapid technological expansion. This assumption is increasingly difficult to sustain. These dynamics suggest that Taiwan’s green transition requires a shift not only in technology, but in how energy systems are planned and governed.

Written by Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley. The article compares Simon Long’s 1991 book, Taiwan: China’s Last Frontier and Chris Horton’s recent publication, Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival (2025). The author traces Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian frontier within a China-centric framework to a democratic, identity-driven political subject central to global geopolitics, yet still diplomatically constrained. By examining the two frameworks, the author reveals both profound change and enduring discourse on Taiwan’s self-determination and the limits of international recognition.

Written by Baosheng Guo. This article argues that Trump’s recent comments about arms sales to Taiwan at least violated the principle and tradition of the second article of the Six Assurances. Though his foreign policy is rife with unpredictability and uncertainty, his willingness to abide by the rule of law provides a measure of assurance to Taiwan’s security.

Written by Charles R. Charrington. This article re-examines Japanese colonial rule in Taiwan by juxtaposing narratives of modernisation with documented violence. It traces military invasions, massacres, and coercive governance from the late nineteenth century to World War II, while situating them within broader imperial dynamics. Rather than advancing anti-Japanese sentiment, it foregrounds how colonial violence has been obscured despite its centrality to Taiwan’s historical formation.

Written by Sheng-mei Ma. This essay mobilises Cao Zhi’s seven-step poem as an allegorical lens on cross-Strait tensions, tracing how fraternal violence, de-personalised poetics, and classical Chinese cosmology illuminate Taiwan’s precarious geopolitics. Interweaving “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” and “Journey to the West”, it critiques power, survival, and moral contamination, arguing that domination ultimately inscribes both victim and victor within enduring cycles of violence.

Written by ChuChun Yu and Tiffany Jan. This article shares how the Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation advances the thinking from peacebuilding in Taiwan amid rising geopolitical tension. Reframing peace highlights dialogue, education, and grassroots initiatives as practical tools. Peace emerges not as an abstraction but as an everyday civic practice sustaining resilience, empathy, and democratic life.

Written by Yingtai Lung. The article proposes that, in contrast to the preparation for war, Taiwan should prioritise resilience, communication, and goodwill diplomacy to prevent escalation, sustain trust, and protect society from panic, thereby making peace an active, practiced strategy.

Written by Roi Silbeberg. This essay traces an encounter between Taiwan’s White Terror memory and the unfolding devastation in Gaza to argue that peacebuilding must confront asymmetries of power, not obscure them. Moving across intergroup dialogue, identity formation, and international responsibility, it insists that silence sustains violence, and that ethical clarity, political engagement, and global accountability are conditions for any meaningful future.

Written by Hazem Almassry. Visiting Kinmen, a Taiwanese frontline-turned-tourist site, the author reflects on living under continuous threat, comparing it to Gaza. Both challenge conventional ideas of peace as post-conflict stability, revealing instead how people adapt to enduring militarisation and structural violence, in which “peace” often means managing rather than resolving ongoing conditions.