Australian newspaper The Age reported yesterday that Alex Tsai of the KMT attempted to force accused Chinese spy Wang Liqiang to recant his claims that he assisted in Chinese infiltration efforts aimed at influencing the Taiwanese elections...
As with the past several elections since the 2014 Sunflower Movement, young candidates continued to be the source of much creativity during 2020 election campaigning, where aesthetics were concerned...
The past year has been an unusual one for the“Third Force” parties which emerged after the Sunflower Movement. Third Force parties can be thought of as part of the pan-Green camp due to the fact that they generally support Taiwanese independence, but Third Force parties sought to establish third parties that were not KMT or DPP...
The KMT appeared to have experienced a reversal of political fortunes in 2018 elections, in which against expectations, the KMT proved resurgent. Some half a year later, the KMT’s fortunes seem to have reversed. Backlash against the KMT ensued after it released its party list, which was stacked with pro-China candidates. Han is increasingly unpopularity as candidate, having incensed the public with numerous gaffes and having gained a reputation for mismanagement as mayor of Kaohsiung...
New Bloom interviewed Chen Bo-wei, legislative candidate for the Taiwan Statebuilding Party in Taichung City District 2, on December 11th. Chen was originally a film worker, before becoming well-known for a series of videos criticizing Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu, with his catchphrase being "3Q"...
New Bloom interviewed Yan Ming-wei, legislative candidate for the Taiwan Statebuilding Party in Taipei City District 8, on December 30th. Yan first became well-known for throwing a copy of Formosa Betrayed at then-president Ma Ying-jeou in 2014, then as a spokesperson for the TSP...
Two recent demonstrations prove significant, for attempting to raise key issues before the elections by targeting all of the major parties in Taiwan...
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.