There are those in Taiwan who have hailed Brexit as a positive, seeing false equivalency between Brexit and achieving a referendum on Taiwanese independence from China. But this is to fail to understand that Brexit indicates a rightward political shift, not only in European, but global politics...
While there are many analyses that insist on highlighting the disconnection between Taiwan’s unusual political tremors and those of the world’s, comparisons must be drawn regarding the rise of third parties after the Sunflower Movement and across the world....