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...
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...
What has been read as the “banning” of children’s cartoon character Peppa Pig in Chinese media can be seen as the begin of what will probably be an expansive cycle of relatively harmless icons being banned in China because they come to be perceived as too politically sensitive. We might take a closer look...
A recent article in the South China Morning Post by Lawrence Chung has provoked ire, with its bizarre suggestion that former president Ma Ying-Jeou pursue the Taiwanese presidency for a third term. Indeed, the factual errors and implausible speculations of this article only go to show how much the South China Morning Post has deteriorated as a publication, in becoming little more than a propaganda organ for China...
China forcing airlines to list Taiwan as part of China on their websites is a highly significant move in framing Taiwan as part of China from the get-go for anyone going to Taiwan. As it seems unlikely that airlines will defy China, in spite of American condemnations, this may require intelligent responses...
In surprising fashion, the KMT and DPP may be converging on similar tactics in its choice of political candidates in 2018 elections, at least where Taipei mayoral candidates are concerned. This perhaps illustrates that the DPP and KMT are in many ways caught in the same bind politically at present...
Controversy regarding the Ministry of Education’s decision to block the appointment of Kuan Chung-Ming as president of NTU continues, with demonstrations taking place on campus yesterday. However, as a result, surreal scenes broke out on the NTU campus, becoming widely discussed among civil society activists on social media...
Public outrage has broken out in Taiwan following the death of five firefighters and two migrant workers from a factory fire in Taoyuan. Outrage, which has primarily focused on firefighters' deaths, calls for an improvement in safety conditions for firefighters...
After much back and forth, the decision by the Ministry of Education to block Kuan Chung-ming from being named president of National Taiwan University has at least settled the matter that Kuan will not be the next president of NTU. But one does not expect controversy regarding Kuan’s blocked appointment to end anytime soon...
