No, the DPP is Not About to Remove Chiang Kai-shek Statues En Masse

Brian Hioe

Tsai Administration Seeks to Reassure on US Support After Aid Package

Brian Hioe

Pension Reform Set to Become a Battleground Issue Between the Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Brian Hioe

Immigration Policy Debated in Legislature in Past Months

Brian Hioe

Politics

KMT Lashes Out At Tsai Administration’s Handling Of Flooding

Brian Hioe
Criticisms of the Tsai administration’s handling of flooding in southern Taiwan in the past week have been seized upon by members of the pan-Blue camp. Some of this has bordered on fake news and it is unlikely that a KMT administration would have done any differently. All this would point to the KMT’s lack of any concrete policy platform upon which to contest the DPP, with the KMT instead latching onto any criticisms that it can...
August 2018EnglishPolitics5 min read

KMT’s 2018 National Congress Demonstrates More Confused Attempts To Appeal To Youth

Brian Hioe
The KMT's National Congress over the weekend proved an utterly bizarre sight, with the KMT embracing imagery it thinks will appeal to young people, while pushing for almost exactly the same political platform which led to such blowback against it from young people in the 2014 Sunflower Movement. Evidently, the KMT has learned incredibly little from the past four years...
August 2018EnglishPolitics5 min read

Does CUPP Raid Indicate Future Attempts To Crack Down On Chinese Funding Of Pro-Unification Groups?

Brian Hioe
Raids on the offices of "White Wolf" Chang An-Lo's Chinese Unification Promotion Party have led to accusations from Chang that the DPP is conducting political persecution against pan-Blue political actors. The raids took place on August 7th, with Chang An-Lo and his son called in for questioning by police on August 9th. Both were later released without jail...
August 2018EnglishPolitics6 min read

Why Would PXMart Release A Series Of White Terror-Themed Commercials?

Brian Hioe
Controversy broke out recently following a PXMart commercial featuring a man who appeared to be murdered political dissident Chen Wen-Chen. Two other White Terror-themed commercials would later be released on the Internet. Although the controversy was more a tempest in a teapot than anything, we might still take a look as to why PXMart would produce a series of White Terror-themed commercials...
August 2018EnglishPolitics7 min read