Template:Short description Template:About Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox newspaper Template:Infobox Chinese
The Taipei Times is an English-language print newspaper in Taiwan published by the Liberty Times Group. Founded as the third English-language newspaper on 15 June 1999,<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it is currently the last surviving English-language print newspaper in Taiwan.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
HistoryEdit
Published by the Liberty Times Group, the Taipei Times launched its first edition on 15 June 1999.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It was the third English-language newspaper founded in Taiwan.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref name=":0" /> President Lee Teng-hui attended its launch ceremony.<ref name=":0" /> The other two English-language media before the Taipei Times were Taiwan News and The China Post.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> It is a participant in Project Syndicate.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In a column celebrating the paper's fifth anniversary, then-Taipei Times associate editor Laurence Eyton wrote that much of the initial planning of the paper was concluded over pints of Carlsberg in a pub with Anthony Lawrence, the paper's first managing editor.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In 2002, the daily circulation stood at 280,000 copies.<ref name="auto">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
By 2017, the Taipei Times had become the last daily print newspaper in Taiwan, after competitors Taiwan News and China Post switched to digital-only formats.<ref name="auto" />
The Taipei Times has been involved in several controversies over the years, including an argument with a member of the United States House of Representatives, a push for nuclear weapons under President Chen Shui-bian, and misleading readers about the origin of a letter to The Wall Street Journal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Editorial positionsEdit
Its editorial position leans toward Taiwan independence, and supports the development of Taiwan's own nuclear arsenal.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }} The data page is in Chinese and there are abstracts in both Chinese and English, but the document body is only in English.</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Opinion writersEdit
- Jerome F. Keating<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
|CitationClass=web }}</ref>