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What Can We Expect for Taiwan with the Second Trump Presidency?

Brian Hioe
Recent comments by US President-elect Donald Trump have called for the US to annex Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Trump has also suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” With Trump set to take office today, this already shows the instability that is potentially ahead for Taiwan with a second Trump presidency...
America and the Asia PacificEnglishFeaturedInternationalJanuary 2025Politics6 min read

Lai Administration Carries Out Its First Execution, In Effort to Prove Capital Punishment Still on the Books

Brian Hioe
The first execution under the Lai administration took place yesterday. This was the first execution carried out by the Taiwanese government in five years. For the execution to have been carried out, the Minister of Justice and President would have to sign off. The last execution in Taiwan took place under the Tsai administration in April 2020...
EnglishFeaturedJanuary 2025PoliticsSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

A Taiwanese Doctor’s “Surreal” Humanitarian Journey in Gaza

Peiyi Yu
“Leaving Gaza was surreal. As we left the buffer zone from Gaza, people care little about throwing away half a bottle of soda, or flicking a cigarette, like how things are in a normal world,“ said Dr. Wu. According to Dr. Wu, just about 10 kilometers away from the blockade, only one out of the four sinks at Dr.Wu’s workstation in Nasser Hospital supplied a somewhat stable source of clean water. According to CSIS, Oxfam International, The United Nations Children’s Fund, BBC, CNN, there were barely any sanitation standards for water outside of hospitals because of Israel’s targeted strikes on Gaza’s infrastructure....
EnglishFeaturedJanuary 2025Politics14 min read

Why Has the KMT Begun to Attack the Kuma Academy Over Funding?

Brian Hioe
The KMT has hit out at funding for the Kuma Academy, the best-known of Taiwan’s civil defense initiatives. In particular, the KMT has accused fundraising efforts for the Kuma Academy–which took place on a public welfare fundraising platform run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare–as being an effort to fund political activities. Laws forbid political activities from fundraising on public welfare platforms...
EnglishFeaturedJanuary 2025PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements4 min read