Given Chiang Kai-Shek’s evident legacy of authoritarianism, why is the KMT fixating on defending Chiang to the degree of political irrationality? The answers lie in KMT political ideology...
The question of what stance Taiwan should take regarding the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile defense system is one highly revealing of Taiwan’s dilemma of being caught between the superpowers of America and China...
A recent diplomatic flap between American president Donald Trump and German chancellor Angela Merkel provides an important object lesson for what Taiwan can expect in attempts to lure America into closer diplomatic relations under Trump’s presidency...
Joshua Wong of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and Lin Fei-Fan, Chen Wei-Ting, and Huang Kuo-Chang of Taiwan's Sunflower Movement held a joint press conference in Taipei today regarding the detention of Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-Che and the upcoming meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and American president Donald Trump...
Condemnation by Taiwan over the possibility of a new US-China communique after Donald Trump's upcoming meeting with Xi Jinping is indicative of the Tsai administration’s shifting view of the Trump administration...
With Sunflower Movement activists found not guilty today of all charges related to the occupation of the Legislative Yuan three years ago, another part of the unresolved legacy of the Sunflower Movement has been taken care of. But it remains that the sentencing for other legal cases involving incidents during the Sunflower Movement have not yet been heard. And, of course, the trial verdict raises the fact that many of the demands of the Sunflower Movement still have not been met...
The arrest and detention in China of Lee Ming-Che, a former staffer in DPP headquarters and human rights advocate, has provoked shock and worry in Taiwan...
Looking back on American secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s visit to Asia and meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, one observes that verdicts were sharply divided in critical evaluations...
Due to increasing tensions between both parties, the NPP and DPP may be set for a permanent split in the near future, as accentuated by the issue of a recall vote facing NPP chair Huang Kuo-Chang...
The "election" of Carrie Lam as Chief Executive of Hong Kong should be of little surprise to those who follow Hong Kong politics. But what now for Hong Kong?...
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.
