Taiwan is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world. A total of 26 languages are spoken on the island, which includes Mandarin Chinese, the official language, Cantonese, English, ...
As a country that experienced successive waves of colonization against a diverse Indigenous population, Taiwan is a multilingual society, but power relations among languages are far from equal. Yet ...
To anyone familiar with Beijing’s established discourse on Taiwan, Xi’s remarks to Trump represented a significant departure.