The question of what stance Taiwan should take regarding the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile defense system is one highly revealing of Taiwan’s dilemma of being caught between the superpowers of America and China...
A recent diplomatic flap between American president Donald Trump and German chancellor Angela Merkel provides an important object lesson for what Taiwan can expect in attempts to lure America into closer diplomatic relations under Trump’s presidency...
The arrest and detention in China of Lee Ming-Che, a former staffer in DPP headquarters and human rights advocate, has provoked shock and worry in Taiwan...
Looking back on American secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s visit to Asia and meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, one observes that verdicts were sharply divided in critical evaluations...
One of the paradoxes of uncritical pro-Americanism on the part of some Taiwanese independence advocates is that sometimes they do not actually know the most about American politics. One finds that assessments of Donald Trump remain wildly off the mark, due to lack of knowledge about the political forces which have arrayed themselves behind him and the man himself...
A bizarre delusion, which seems to be held by many English language commentators on Taiwanese politics with a pro-Taiwan stance, is to somehow believe that Trump has had a consistent position on Taiwan throughout and that his stance on Taiwan have never changed...
New Bloom presents the second installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, who wrote "Black Lives Matter, Taiwan’s ‘228 Incident,’ and the Transnational Struggle For Liberation" in the Black Youth Project, reflecting on the parallels between Taiwan's 228 Incident and the policing of black populations in the United States...
The recent announcement that Rebiya Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress, will not be visiting Taiwan in the near future may be a sign that the strategy adopted by pro-China political forces in Taiwan who have taken to harassing or even physically assaulting political dissidents against China may be working...
The bizarre news that China plans on commemorating Taiwan’s 228 Massacre is representative of Chinese attempts to assert claims over Taiwan by incorporating Taiwanese history in Chinese history writ large. This is nothing new...
