Taiwan's Vice President Lai Ching-te will make a visit to diplomatic ally Paraguay next month, but it's his planned stopovers in the U.S. that are garnering the most attention. There's renewed speculation that Foxconn founder Terry Gou may launch an independent run for president after he wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Post saying Taiwan's best hope for peace is to accept a "one China" framework of which Taiwan is a part. And the former U.S. defense secretary, Mark Esper, has weighed in on Taiwan's military, saying the country should expand defense spending and maintain a year of mandatory service. Also:
- Two fugitives who fled Taiwan more than 20 years ago accused of scamming investors out of US$130 million have been extradited from Thailand.
- Comparing the wealth gap between the richest and poorest neighborhoods of Taiwan's capital, Taipei.
- How the pied paddy skipper, a species of dragonfly that was once a common sight around Taiwan, seems to be losing its last habitat in the country.
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