Questions of activists entering electoral politics are back on the table in Hong Kong with the formation of the Demosistō political party from Umbrella Movement student leaders...
Deportation of Taiwanese nationals from Kenya to China, rather than Taiwan, provokes anger. We might take a look at the overall context of the incident...
Questions about the possibilities for multiparty politics in Taiwan remain salient after the results of 2016 elections, with the expansion of third party politics...
It is interesting to note that however counterintuitive it is to say, by the numbers, Taiwan is by no means a small country. But why is Taiwan thought of as small nonetheless?...
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.
