For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Vincent Wong. Vincent is a lawyer and research associate at the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, and a member of the Lausan Collective...
The apparent suicide of Kaohsiung city council speaker Hsu Kun-yuan on the same day as Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu was successfully recalled earlier this month has quickly become used as political ammunition by the KMT against political opponents. A number of recall campaigns against supporters of Han’s recall have been launched by members of the pan-Blue camp...
With the COVID-19 situation under control in Taiwan, questions have been raised about when international students, particularly students who are from China, Hong Kong, or Macau, will be allowed to return to Taiwan. In particular, the Taiwanese government has yet to announce a clear timeline as to when students from China, Hong Kong, or Macau will be allowed to return to Taiwan, or when other international students currently unable to re-enter Taiwan will be allowed to do so...
A demonstration in support of Hongkongers took place in Liberty Plaza today, with a number of civil society groups setting up booths starting from 3 PM, and speeches and performances taking place starting from 6 PM. The demonstration today commemorated the one-year anniversary of the start of the protests in Hong Kong and aimed to pressure the Tsai administration on the issue of providing aid to Hongkongers seeking asylum in Taiwan. Organizers claimed that 7,000 were in attendance...
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the 228 Memorial Park today as part of a solidarity rally for Black Lives Matters. Demonstrators probably numbered around one thousand in number, many of them expats...
With the protests that have taken place in America after the murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, many among the Taiwanese diaspora have been forced to reckon with the apparent racism of some of their elders and peers. Namely, some Taiwanese have actually seen the protests as an attempt by the Chinese government to undermine the US...
Over the past two weeks, Americans across the country have engaged in a protest movement against their police forces. Police have responded with militarized force against what are overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations...
When I still lived in Beijing, I once lived in Muxidi, a place where memories of the day will never fade. It was said that bullet holes can still be seen on buildings around the block...
It is widely expected that many Hongkongers will want to flee the city, given the possibility of being ‘disappeared’ into the prison system of a state that has imprisoned untold numbers of political prisoners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and others that don’t fit into Xi Jinping’s “China Dream.” Many have already fled. The Taiwanese government should take steps to aid them...