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Video: One Year Anniversary of Start of Hong Kong Protests Remembered in Taipei

One day before the anticipated passage of new national security legislation in Hong Kong, New Bloom presents a look back at the solidarity rally for Hong Kong that took place in Taipei earlier this month in Liberty Plaza. The rally commemorated one year since the start of the protests in Hong Kong, with calls for asylum policies to be passed for Hongkongers by the Tsai administration...

Pan-Blue Camp, Pro-Unification Left’s Nationalism is Self-Evident in Senkaku/Diaoyutai Island Naming Dispute

A proposal by the Ishigaki city government in Japan to rename the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyutai Islands, in order to reaffirm Japanese claims of sovereignty over the island, has been led to nationalistic responses in Taiwan among members of the KMT and members of the pan-Blue camp. This should not be particularly surprising...