Brian Hioe

Lai Administration Blocks Chinese Job Platform Targeting Young Taiwanese

Brian Hioe
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) has announced the blocking of a Chinese platform that offered educational and employment opportunities to Taiwanese young people. Specifically, the MAC cited that the platform could be used to collect data from Taiwanese young people, as well as that it violated Articles 23, 33, and 34 of the Cross-Strait Act. These articles pertain to Taiwanese taking up educational opportunities, participating in Chinese political organizations, and regarding advertisements for Chinese goods and services. 2,000 companies had posted 6,000 vacancies on the platform before its blocking...
August 2026Cross StraitEnglishInternational4 min read

科爾比的推文發飆事件，顯示出川普政府既想建立帝國，又想坐享其成

Brian Hioe
川普政府戰爭部次長埃爾布里奇·科爾比（Elbridge Colby）近期在推特上發表了一系列推文，猛烈抨擊「中等強權」將取代美國主導地位的說法。科爾比聲稱：「我們（戰爭部）並不擔心這會成為一種嚴重的可能性。相反地，我們更擔心少數盟友和夥伴會『認為這是可能的』，並因此將寶貴的時間、金錢和政治資本浪費在這種分散注意力的事情上。」...
America and the Asia PacificAugust 2026InternationalPolitics中文0 min read

Why Would Disinformation About South Korean Elections Spread in Taiwan?

Brian Hioe
There has been a wave of disinformation and misinformation in Taiwan as of late about recent South Korean elections, alleging widespread fraud and vote-rigging. This has occurred, in many cases, through videos alleging ballot stuffing being shared online, as being translated from Korean into Chinese through automated translation tools...
August 2026EnglishInternationalPoliticsRegional Tensions3 min read

In Response to Food Oil Scandal, Chiang Wan-an Calls for Expediting Legislative Elections

Brian Hioe
The KMT rallied for food safety last weekend, lashing out at the Lai administration over a food oil safety scandal after accusations of cooking oil adulteration by Central Oil Corporation. This would be hitting out at a familiar political issue in Taiwan, one that routinely leads to scandals every decade or so. Indeed, the previous major food scandal affected Ting Hsin and was leveraged to attack the then-ruling Ma administration by the DPP. One notes that food safety scandals can be reliably counted on to galvanize rage in Taiwanese politics...
August 2026EnglishPolitics4 min read

Batanes Claims Show Chinese Nationalism’s Irredentist Streak

Brian Hioe
Claims by Chinese scholars that Batanes, which constitutes the smallest province of the Philippines, belongs to China were widely circulated in Philippine media last month. In particular, the claims were advanced at a conference by scholars from Chinese institutions, such as the School of International Studies at Jinan University and the Center for South China Sea History and Culture at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies...
EnglishInternationalJuly 2026Regional Tensions4 min read
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Brian Hioe

Brian Hioe is one of the founding editors of New Bloom. He is a freelance journalist, as well as a 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 and is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at the University of Nottingham's Taiwan Studies Programme, as well as board member of the Taiwan Foreign Correspondents' Club.

丘琦欣，創建破土的編輯之一，專於撰寫社會運動和政治的自由作家偶而亦從事翻譯工作。他自哥倫比亞大學畢業，是亞洲語言及文化科系的碩士，同時擁有紐約大學的歷史，東亞研究及英文文學三項學士學位。