Gui Minhai, a Chinese-born Swedish national who is one of the kidnapped Causeway Bay booksellers, was sentenced to ten years in jail by the Ningbo Intermediate People’s Court on Monday. Gui is accused of illegally providing intelligence to overseas political parties...
Efforts to fight the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak continue in Taiwan. New developments, however, have seen rising concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in South Korea and the potential effects this could have on Taiwan...
Comments by American Democratic Party presidential candidate contender Bernie Sanders during an interview with Anderson Cooper on “60 Minutes” have been read as Sanders expressing support for Taiwan by many...
The apparent inability of the Transitional Justice Commission to confirm that the 1980 murders of Lin Yi-hsiung’s family were murders committed by the Taiwan Garrison Command or other state security forces points to the dilemmas of reckoning with political crimes committed during Taiwan’s authoritarian period. The Transitional Justice Commission recently announced that, according to its investigations of the murders, state security forces were “likely” involved but did not state any definitive conclusion as to if they were...
The expulsion of three Wall Street Journal reporters from China for an op-ed seems to be indicative of deteriorating relations between the US and China...
Efforts to combat the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic continue in Taiwan, with the Central Epidemic Command Center announcing the 26th confirmed case of the epidemic in Taiwan yesterday. One notes that several recent confirmed cases are examples of the domestic spread of COVID-19...
Controversy within the KMT about what to do with Fu Kun-chi, the former Hualien county magistrate who was successful in his bid for the legislature in 2020 legislative elections last month, reflect the unresolved contradictions of the party...
Protests took place in Hong Kong over the weekend, with demonstrations against planned quarantine centers and clinics which would house patients who have contracted the COVID-19 coronavirus. Hong Kong currently has 57 COVID-19 cases, with one death having occurred so far...
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.
