Brian Hioe

Six Domestic Cases Announced, Yunlin Case Breaks 62-Day Streak of No Cases

Brian Hioe
Six domestic cases and four imported cases were announced by the CECC at its daily press conference today. Two of these cases were already in quarantine. No deaths were announced. Three cases were in Taipei and one case each was reported in New Taipei, Taoyuan, and Yunlin. The case reported in Yunlin breaks a 62-day streak in which Yunlin reported no cases...
August 2021COVID UpdatesEnglishPolitics6 min read

Discursive Effects of the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan on Taiwan Cannot Be Ignored

Brian Hioe
Over the past few days, much of the world has been fixed on the spectacle of the resurgent Taliban taking provincial capitals across Afghanistan, eventually sweeping the capital of Kabul. It may not be surprising that there has been a wave of discussion of how Taiwan relates to this series of events, if at all. Many of these responses have been sharply divided...
August 2021EnglishPolitics17 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。