The association of the KMT and organized crime does not seem set to fade anytime soon in the popular imagination, with membership drives in recent months which have been accused of allowing elements of organized crime into the party without due scrutiny...
The recent suspension of Uber services in Taiwan has provoked a public debate about Taiwan’s ability to adapt to technological innovation. But, as a result, there has been insufficient attention paid to Uber as a labor issue...
If the Chinese government wishes for Chinese films to circulate internationally, China simply needs to produce better films, which not only an international audience, but first a Chinese audience at home, will find enjoyable...
Reports indicating that the Chinese province of Liaoning has been artificially inflating its growth figures have recently provoked larger worry about the accuracy of Chinese statistics for economic growth. Should this really be surprising?...
China's constant bellyaching about Taiwan to the US or other western countries may prove counterproductive for attempts to reclaim Taiwan, seeing as through continual high-profile complaints about Taiwan, it risks coming off as petty and single-mindedly fixated on the issue of Taiwan...
Would Taiwan become the target of Donald Trump's ire because of Taiwanese society's progressive values? Taking in refugees or legalizing gay marriage are two fronts upon which Taiwanese society might be targeted by Trump...
As recent events under the Trump administration illustrate, one cannot bank entirely on claims that America should defend Taiwan because it is of some rational use to America to argue that Americans should concern themselves with Taiwan...
Some odd reactions have appeared in recent days among members of the Taiwanese pro-unification Left and Chinese New Leftists online after recent actions by American president Donald Trump. What they reveal is Chinese nationalism taking precedent over leftism...
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.