Recent attempts by the Bureau of Consular Affairs to crack down on a campaign to place "Republic of Taiwan" stickers on ROC passports has foregrounded questions about Taiwan's displacement from the international community....
Xi Jinping will arrive in America for a weeklong visit starting on September 22nd. What does this mean for countries and territories caught between China and America?...
With the mass participation of young people, can we understand present protests in Japan as something along the lines of Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement?...
The complete account of last month's Ministry of Education occupation from New Bloom editor Brian Hioe, who was present for most of the occupation from the beginning....
In early April, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed the Social Democratic Party's Jennifer Lu (呂欣潔) by Skype. Although several months have passed since then, we still believe the interview still to be insightful about the Social Democratic Party and its political positions in the present. This was our second interview with Jennifer Lu, we first interviewed her in August of 2014....
Is it possible that China's recent economic woes may lead to both increasingly aggressive foreign policy as well attempts to crack down on perceived domestic dissidence?...
How was it that the Tianjin explosions became an object of international media spectacle? And what are implications going forward based on Chinese government responses?...
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.
