Brian Hioe

Is China Planning To Carve Out Spheres Of Influence In Hong Kong?

Brian Hioe
China may at present be adopting the strategy of arrogating territory within Hong Kong as subject to Chinese law in the Chinese mainland, rather than Hong Kong law as specified by the Hong Kong Basic Law, with the claim that this land is being leased to China. We see this with regards to the West Kowloon train station, in which sections of the station will be subject to Chinese rather than Hong Kong law. There is the dangerous possibility that China is establishing future legal grounds to put down resistance against its rule in Hong Kong—perhaps even using armed force...
#19August 2017EnglishPolitics6 min read

Recent Comments By Stephen Yates Return To American Disrespect For Taiwanese Democracy

Brian Hioe
A recent letter in the Taipei Times by Tom Lee, head of the Friends of Tsai Overseas and president of the Taiwan Daily, reflecting on comments by Stephen Yates, a known “friend of Taiwan” and former US deputy national security advisor proves not only an interesting symptom of the blind spots in how many Taiwanese independence advocates conceive of US-Taiwan relations, but illustrates how many American "friends of Taiwan" fundamentally do not respect Taiwanese democracy, no matter what they might claim otherwise...
America and the Asia PacificAugust 2017EnglishInternational9 min read

Recent SCMP Op-Ed Reveals Extent To Which Newspaper Has Become Pro-China Propaganda Organ

Brian Hioe
A recent article written by Alex Lo, op-ed columnist at the South China Morning Post, has prompted ire in Taiwan because of its citing of claims by Taiwanese political pundit Chang Yu-Hua that at least four student leaders of the Sunflower Movement. Such sentiments are no surprise from Lo, a pro-Beijing pundit and political conservative, who publishes articles for the South China Morning Post daily as part of his “My Take” column. We might question the claims of his article, ultimately a sign of how the South China Morning Post is increasingly a Chinese propaganda organ...
August 2017EnglishPolitics8 min read

Dangerous Possibilities Ahead On North Korea Issue, Following Comments By Trump

Brian Hioe
Panic has ensued globally following statements by American president Donald Trump which could be construed as nuclear threats against North Korea. After reports that North Korea had developed the miniaturized nuclear warheads which could be placed on North Korean missiles capable of hitting the United States, Trump stated in public comments that North Korean threats “will be met with fire and fury and frankly power the likes of which the world has never seen before," comments which were apparently largely improvised...
EnglishInternationalJuly 2017Regional Tensions9 min read

中國隨時都能入侵臺灣嗎？

Brian Hioe
中國隨時都能入侵台灣嗎？美聯社前駐台特派員溫逸德（Peter Enav）近日在《台灣守望》發表文章，引起台灣社會廣泛討論，他認為中國最快在 2018 年下半年就能為侵台做好準備，中國近日也再度叫囂將不惜為捍衛領土主權而出兵作戰。但人們對於中國這麼快就能做好準備進攻台灣的說法，其實應保持懷疑。...
August 2017InternationalRegional TensionsWilliam Tsai中文2 min read

中國對於「白左」的討論顯露出民族主義與左派主義之間的衝突

Brian Hioe
觀察中國網友近期嘲笑以移民制度、少數民族、同志或環保的議題來批評川普的西方批評者為天真的"白左"，這真是一種奇怪的自相矛盾。在中國民族主義者眼中，美國顯然是中國在國際上興起的最大障礙。 但是，所有的民族主義者皆有相同的想法，並認為他們與川普志趣相投。 ...
August 2017Politics中文狄叡頡0 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.

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。