In evaluating the overall slate of younger candidates run by the DPP, one notes the interesting pattern of that former critics of the Tsai administration ended up aligning with it as part of 2020 campaigning... Read More
The question of who will become the KMT’s next party chair remains opaque, with party heavyweights still refraining from throwing their hat into the race... Read More
The spread of a previously unknown strain of coronavirus originally detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan should raise issues concerning Taiwan’s exclusion from international health organizations such as the World Health Organization and its governing body, the World Health Association... Read More
A protest assembly in Hong Kong was forcibly dispersed by police yesterday, with many criticisms of the Hong Kong Police Force’s handling of the matter... Read More
Plans by Taiwanese company Formosa Plastics to build a 9.2 billion USD plastics complex in the St. James Parish in Louisiana should once again call attention to Formosa’s blatant disregard for the environment and human life in other countries... Read More
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke to Asylum Access, an international NGO working on asylum issues, about the status of asylum laws in Taiwan, the organization's work, and its efforts to work on asylum issues in Taiwan... Read More
The city of Prague breaking off a sister city agreement with Beijing to sign a sister city agreement in Taipei instead is likely to be misunderstood in Taiwan, seeing as this may be intended as a move in Czech domestic politics more than anything else... Read More
Ko Wen-je's Taiwan People’s Party may be the largest uncertain factor after the results of the 2020 elections, seeing as the party is a newly emergent political force... Read More
The results of 2020 elections led to the reelection of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP retaining its majority in the legislature. However, how should we analyze the election results?... Read More
Brian Hioe was one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance writer on social movements and politics, and occasional translator. A New York native and Taiwanese-American, he has an MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University and graduated from New York University with majors in History, East Asian Studies, and English Literature. He was Democracy and Human Rights Service Fellow at the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy from 2017 to 2018.
