It has been an inadvertent consequence that increasing attention has been drawn to Taiwan’s exclusion from international organizations as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak...
The KMT chair election debates, which took place on Wednesday, prove illustrative of the party’s general lack of solutions to address the party’s crisis. The chair election will take place on March 7th, 2020...
In the midst of the Coronavirus epidemic, publishing unsubstantiated rumors and misinformation poisons the well of public discourse, and performs a disservice to society. Perhaps the most egregious example of this in domestic English-language media is Taiwan News, an online media platform owned by Luis Ko, the CEO of I-Mei Foods, a major Taiwanese brand. Taiwan News recently published a number of articles making extraordinary claims about the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Two articles in particular deserve additional scrutiny; both were written by Keoni Everington, whose bylines list him as either “editor” or “staff writer”
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak continues to have widespread implications in Taiwan, with a number of measures rolled out by the government in past days aimed at stopping the spread of the disease...
A recall vote against Han Kuo-yu of the KMT, the current mayor of Kaohsiung and the KMT’s presidential candidate during 2020 elections, seems likely to meet the necessary benchmarks to be held...
The Chinese Communist Party has put its political priorities over the need to combat the novel coronavirus epidemic within China. But Beijing’s growing international clout means that the international community also suffers from the primacy of the party...
New rules introduced by the Tsai administration to regulate the selling of medical masks are likely to lead to further blowback against the government...
In observing the results of 2020 elections, one notes that the international media reporting generally reported on the defeat of the KMT in both presidential and legislative elections as though it were an overwhelming landslide...
One notes that attempts to target the Tsai administration for its handling of the coronavirus crisis from members of the pan-Blue camp have taken a number of different approaches in past days. That there is no ideological consistency among these attempts to attack the Tsai administration is likely illustrative of the internal splits within the pan-Blue camp...