Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camp Contention Over Media Regulation Continues

Brian Hioe

DPP Criticizes KMT Over Pension Vote

Brian Hioe

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

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Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

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Politics

Will Taiwanese Academics Be Targeted by the Hong Kong National Security Law?

Brian Hioe
Academic Wu Rwei-ren has been accused by pro-Beijing media in Hong Kong earlier this month of violating the national security law that was passed in June 2020. The law targets what it considers acts of separatism or sedition and was passed by China’s National People’s Congress, circumventing the Hong Kong legislative council. Wu is an associate research fellow at Academia Sinica...
EnglishJanuary 2022Politics6 min read

Tsai Stokes Controversy with Speech at Chiang Ching-Kuo Park Opening

Brian Hioe
A memorial park to Chiang Ching-kuo in Taipei has become a contested political issue, due to the fact that the park memorializes a dictator. Plans for opening the park were condemned by the Transitional Justice Commission. Nevertheless, this did not prevent President Tsai Ing-wen from speaking at the park’s opening ceremonies, in an unusual move that provoked controversy among many members of the pan-Green camp...
EnglishJanuary 2022Politics6 min read

13 Domestic Cases Reported Today, Concentrated in Taoyuan and Kaohsiung

Brian Hioe
13 domestic cases, 25 imported cases, and zero deaths were reported by the Central Epidemic Command Center today. This represents a second consecutive day in which there were around a dozen or so cases, following 82 domestic cases reported on January 22nd, and 52 domestic cases reported on January 23rd, after the development of clusters among migrant workers in the Farglory Free Trade Zone in Taoyuan...
EnglishJanuary 2022Politics6 min read