Recent news that KMT chairperson Hung Hsiu-Chu will be visiting China next month, with a likely meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping to take place, is not surprising...
The first National Day celebrations to date under the Tsai administration took place today, with ceremonies, speeches, and performances taking place on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Residence...
Recent statements by China that it seeks to export its model of human rights abroad indicate how the Chinese party-state perceives criticisms made against it in the name of human rights as simply being western attempts to undermine it...
The rape scandal at Fu Jen Catholic University that began in April of this year continues to unfold, with recently removed university dean Hsia Lin-Ching coming under fire for a television appearance in which she tried to defend her handling of the case...
After much waffling on the matter, it would be that Tsai Ing-Wen has taken a hard line against Taiwanese labor with planned changes to labor policy which Tsai has ordered to be forced through the Legislative Yuan. This has provoked outrage from labor groups...
The detention of Joshua Wong at an airport in Thailand for over twelve hours on Wednesday has provoked shock and anger. The request for Wong’s deportation may have come from Chinese authorities...
Given that the KMT has devoted much time and energy on trying to hammer Tsai Ing-Wen on the issue of her non-acknowledgement of the 1992 Consensus, it may be ironic in that there is now conflict within the KMT about what exactly the 1992 Consensus means...
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.
