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Chris Horton

Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author of the book Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025). His writing has appeared in Bloomberg News, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asian Review and elsewhere. Prior to arriving in Taiwan in 2015, Chris lived and worked in China for 15 years, in Shanghai,…

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Chris Horton is a Taipei-based journalist and author of the book Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival (Macmillan, 2025). His writing has appeared in Bloomberg News, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Nikkei Asian Review and elsewhere. Prior to arriving in Taiwan in 2015, Chris lived and worked in China for 15 years, in Shanghai, Kunming, and Hong Kong. @heguisen

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China’s Trojan Horse Fleet

China’s Trojan Horse Fleet

Chinese-operated vessels regularly ply Taiwan’s waters and visit its ports, while one of Beijing’s state-owned enterprises operates berths at the island’s biggest harbor through a Hong Kong subsidiary. Both are national security risks that the island’s government is beginning to address.
‘The Plan to Destroy Taiwan’

‘The Plan to Destroy Taiwan’

Why is one of Taiwan's largest media groups — Want Want China Times Media Group — spreading anti-U.S. rhetoric? Largely because its billionaire owner, Tsai Eng-meng, is known to sympathize with the Chinese Communist Party and favors unification with the mainland. Now, with Taiwan gearing...
The China Jackpot

The China Jackpot

The center of gravity in the world of casinos has shifted east, to Asia, and now coalesces around the world’s most populous country, China. One of the unlikely winners in this game is a little known casino complex in Cambodia called NagaWorld.