2018 - 1st Quarter
Taiwan Envisions a New Role in a Global Paradigm
As space and time continue to be more rapidly traversed, our perception and paradigmatic vision of the world shrinks in kind. This pressures citizens of all nations to continually rethink the issues that their imagined communities face in the new world order being established and what leadership they want to bring about. ...
Taiwan, Norway, and the Olympic Spirit
The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea have ended and along with the usual fanfare and emotion, the Games had their share of surprising victories and defeats. ...
The Century of Taiwan's Three Elder Statesmen
A century--one hundred years--certainly seems like a long time. This is true, especially when seen from a historical perspective. A lot can happen in a century. ...
In Search of an Author: Taiwan's Great Epic
Life is fragile, short and often, as stated in the Book of Ecclesiastes, "a vanity of vanities." Yet throughout the ages, writers around the world have composed majestic epics that capture and interpret the depths of human experience. A few examples are: the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, the Indian Mahabharata and Ramayana, the Greek Iliad and Odyssey, the Roman Aeniad, and John Milton's Paradise Lost. ...
World Conflict, Peace and Taiwan
In what direction is the geo-political world headed and what place does Taiwan have in it? What future conflicts might be on the horizon? To understand this and related issues one has to step back a couple of decades and look at paradigmatic framing and development. ...