Category: Politics | Page 115 | New Bloom Magazine

Taiwan Should Open Its Doors To Refugees, Chinese Or Otherwise

Brian Hioe06/08/2018

It proves a disgraceful fact that Taiwan does little to help human rights activists and political dissidents internationally in need of safe harbor, even under a DPP administration. This has been raised in the news lately after Chinese human rights activist Huang Yan, who has been granted political refugee status by the UN, fled to Taiwan seeking asylum. Huang has been granted three month stay in Taiwan, after which she will have to move elsewhere...

EnglishJune 2018Politics7 min read

Hong Kong-Taiwan Murder Case Complicated By Issues Of Sovereignty

Brian Hioe05/30/2018

A murder case from earlier this year involving a Hong Kong student murdered in Taiwan by her boyfriend, also from Hong Kong, may go unpunished due to legal loopholes regarding Taiwan’s lack of official recognition by Hong Kong and the lack of any extradition treaty. The case raises a number of issues that could affect relations between Hong Kong and Taiwan going forward...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

Brian Hioe05/28/2018

Reflexive anger from Taiwanese publishers after reports earlier this month by the United Daily News that the Ministry of Culture was planning on screening Chinese books allowed to be published in China shows in microcosm the dilemmas facing free speech in Taiwan. Yet this also shows why free speech is aggressively defended in Taiwan and unlikely to come under threat from the government anytime soon...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

“499 Chaos” Has Roots In Low Salaries And Dominance Of “Big Three” Telecom Companies

Brian Hioe05/26/2018

The recent “499 Chaos” ultimately proves no laughing matter given that it has its roots in the poor salaries faced by Taiwanese and the dominance of major Taiwanese industries by a small number of powerful companies...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 min read

Vague Attempts By Tsai To Pacify Taiwanese Activists?

Brian Hioe05/24/2018

As the two year anniversary of the Tsai administration taking power was on May 20th, recent comments by Tsai Ing-Wen on what she has accomplished to date in the two years of her presidency suggest that Tsai has not wholly abandoned attempts to keep the civil society groups that took public prominence after the Sunflower Movement happy...

EnglishMay 2018Politics5 min read

World Health Organization Sees Calls By Taiwan For Inclusion

Brian Hioe05/22/2018

As with past years, Taiwan’s lack of membership in the World Health Organization has become a matter of controversy again. Taiwan is currently blocked from participating in the World Health Organization and the WHO’s governing body, the World Health Assembly, due to Chinese pressure...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

Taiwan Civil Government Proves A Peculiarly Taiwanese Example Of Conspiracy Theories Found Worldwide

Brian Hioe05/21/2018

Reports that the Taiwan Civil Government is being investigated for fraud and scam activity may surprise few. However, it seems unlikely that the underlying ideology of the group will go away anytime soon. After all, vaguely similar conspiracy theories exist all over the world, but the underlying ideology of the Taiwan Civil Government would be one uniquely a product of Taiwan’s unusual geopolitical situation...

EnglishMay 2018Politics11 min read

Are Pro-Unification Versus Pro-Independence Politics Behind The Formosa TV Fee Dispute?

Brian Hioe05/18/2018

A fee dispute between some of Taiwan’s most significant television networks has touched upon long-standing concerns about undue attempts to influence political developments through the media. Namely, television network Formosa TV has alleged that FoxConn CEO Terry Gou is attempting to use the fee dispute to prevent Formosa TV programs from being shown as a form of political censorship...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

Brian Hioe05/16/2018

With former president Ma Ying-Jeou facing four months of imprisonment after being found guilty of leaking classified information by the Taiwan High Court, it seems predictable that the KMT will leverage on this fact to claim political persecution by the DPP...

EnglishMay 2018Politics7 min read

DPP’s Quandary Evident In Inability To Resolve Ko Nomination Impasse

Brian Hioe05/15/2018

As Taipei 2018 mayoral elections approach ever closer, it remains an opaque question as to whether the DPP will back Ko Wen-Je. In the meantime, one can divine something of the shifts in the DPP’s position going into 2018 elections as compared to 2016 from the continued debate over whether the DPP will endorse Ko this year...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue

China Seeks to Influence Taiwan Through Outlying Islands

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

What Can We Expect from Lai’s Inauguration Address?

Ko Wen-je Faces Scrutiny Over Taipei Development

Social Movements

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

What Can We Expect from Lai’s Inauguration Address?

Ko Wen-je Faces Scrutiny Over Taipei Development

KMT Takes Aim at Ukraine-Related Issues

Politics

Taiwan Should Open Its Doors To Refugees, Chinese Or Otherwise

Hong Kong-Taiwan Murder Case Complicated By Issues Of Sovereignty

Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

“499 Chaos” Has Roots In Low Salaries And Dominance Of “Big Three” Telecom Companies

Vague Attempts By Tsai To Pacify Taiwanese Activists?

World Health Organization Sees Calls By Taiwan For Inclusion

Taiwan Civil Government Proves A Peculiarly Taiwanese Example Of Conspiracy Theories Found Worldwide

Are Pro-Unification Versus Pro-Independence Politics Behind The Formosa TV Fee Dispute?

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

DPP’s Quandary Evident In Inability To Resolve Ko Nomination Impasse

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

In Spontaneous Protest, Hundreds Demonstrate Outside of Legislative Yuan Against KMT Actions

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue

Ahead of the Lai Inauguration, China Sanctions Five Taiwanese Citizens

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue