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Are There Lessons From South Korea’s Presidential Election For Taiwan?

Brian Hioe
The victory of Moon Jae-In as president of South Korea draws strong parallels to Taiwan, with the election of a center-left president put into power after a social movement which galvanized much of society. But we can observe where structural parallels between Taiwan and South Korea end, given that as a center-left political candidate, Moon is skeptical of closer ties between South Korea and the US...
EnglishInternationalMay 2017Regional Tensions10 min read

Author Suicide Prompts Public Outcry

Brian Hioe
The suicide of bestselling author Lin Yi-Han has provoked no shortage of editorializing and public discussion in Taiwan, seeing as Lin's suicide is attributed to depression over a sexual assault incident which occurred nine years ago in a cram school, the perpetrator being a teacher at the cram school. Lin’s bestselling novel, which was autobiographical in nature, detailed the incident...
#17EnglishGender/SexualityMay 2017Social Movements8 min read

Australia Conference Debacle Actually Opportunity For Taiwan

Brian Hioe
With a recent incident in Australia last week in which the Taiwanese delegation to the Kimberley Process conference on blood diamond trafficking was expelled following the demands of the Chinese delegation and affiliated African delegations, however counterintuitively, we can observe an opportunity for Taiwan to make its plight known to the international world. The real question is whether the Tsai administration is willing to take action to make Taiwan’s plight better known to the international world...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalMay 20176 min read