With the struggle to push the “Forward-Looking” Infrastructure Development Program into law, the DPP may be kicking a hornet’s nest if it is unable to handle the matter in a way satisfactory to the public...
With recent contention regarding judicial reform, part of what would be at stake is questions of the fundamental basis upon which Taiwan’s legal system is built...
With recent polling by the Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation indicating that the majority of the Taiwanese public is dissatisfied with the government, this would be a sign of the Tsai administration’s failure to maintain the political momentum it rode into power on. However, although this does not absolve Tsai from blame for her political actions either, perhaps this ultimately is due to the characteristics of Taiwan’s democracy as a result of the process of Taiwanese democratization...
The debacle of KMT chair elections is illustrative of the party’s internal crisis, as well as the means by which the party is highly unlikely to overcome its current crisis, no matter who wins the race. Namely, KMT chair candidates have as of late taken to doubling down on accusations of vote-buying, bribery, and fraud within the election process after it was found that many of petitions submitted by chair hopefuls to qualify for the election contained false signatures or repeat signatures between multiple petitions...
And then there was only one. With the end of the China Post’s print edition, only one English language print newspaper remains in Taiwan, the Taipei Times. What does this mean for Taiwan's news environment?...
The recent introduction of an alternative military service program which allows draftees to work jobs in fast food chains, convenience stores, and other service industry jobs to fulfill their military service requirement have provoked much scorn, particularly from Taiwanese netizens. Yet the program should raise concerns not only about ties between large corporations and the state, but about the exploitation of youth as cheap labor...
United Airlines probably did not anticipate that its decision to forcibly remove Vietnamese-American doctor David Dao from its overbooked flight on Monday in Chicago would ignite an international controversy on the subject of American racism and corporate privilege...
Given Chiang Kai-Shek’s evident legacy of authoritarianism, why is the KMT fixating on defending Chiang to the degree of political irrationality? The answers lie in KMT political ideology...
Framing news stories to demonize and portray users and sellers of drugs as being at the top of issues affecting Taiwan is irresponsible and lends itself to clouding other serious issues...
