Self-Determination

Why is Taiwan Still Listed as “Taiwan, China”?

Tim Chng
When people from Taiwan travel internationally, one frustrating experience they face happens long before they board a plane or check into a hotel. Whether booking airline tickets, hotel reservations, or simply registering for a conference online, they are often forced to select their country of origin from a dropdown menu—and more often than not, what they see is “Taiwan, China” or “Taiwan, Province of China.”...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 2025Self-DeterminationSocial Movements3 min read

KMT Recall Campaigns Against DPP Legislators Run Aground

Brian Hioe
The KMT’s recall campaigns against DPP legislators have run aground. With fifteen recall campaigns, compared to the 35 recall campaigns facing KMT legislators, recall efforts against DPP politicians were always smaller in scale than the other way around. Even if eight of the pan-Blue recall campaigns against DPP legislators still have time to collect further signatures, a number of the high-profile KMT recall campaigns have not succeeded. The overall effort to launch recalls of DPP legislators, then, is largely viewed as a failure...
EnglishJune 2025PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

Gender Equity and Taiwan’s Independence: A Decolonial Perspective on Community Interests and Conflicts

Lorraine Pan
Can gender equity issues like women's and LGBTQ rights be discussed along with Taiwan independence? Is there one more important and urgent topic among all the issues concerning different marginalized people? When issues such as feminism and LGBTQ rights are discussed together with social news, there is often criticism that talking about marginalized people is a way to distract people and divert public resources from the issue of Taiwan independence. However, from a decolonial perspective, gender equity and Taiwan independence move in the same direction and support each other...
EnglishGender/SexualityMay 2025Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

KMT Calls for Recall of Lai Ching-te At Rally

Brian Hioe
The KMT claimed 250,000 in attendance at a rally against DPP recalls held yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard. Aerial photographs do not seem to correspond to this claim, but either way, the pan-Blue camp was out in force against the DPP in what was a de facto campaign rally for the pan-Blue camp. Both the KMT and its smaller ally party, the TPP, were present...
April 2025EnglishPoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

In Unusual Turn, Calls for Dissolution of Cabinet and New Elections Break Out in KMT

Brian Hioe
The ongoing wave of recalls against all KMT legislators has taken a strange turn, with proposals from some elements of the pan-Blue camp to dissolve the cabinet. If so, this would trigger a legal mechanism that would allow for the legislature to be dismissed and a new set of general elections to be held, if the Premier and the President of the Legislative Yuan agree on this...
April 2025EnglishPoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements6 min read

以反戰為名的姑息主義瀰漫，我們如何建立以反抗為基礎的團結？

Lorraine Pan
作家龍應台近日稱，「台灣不確保和平，就不會有民主」。多年來，龍應台以「反戰」自居，要求台灣避戰求和。如2023年四位學者發出「烏俄停戰談判、反對美中戰爭、主張台灣與大國維持友好等距外交」的呼籲，亦是以「反戰立場」為名。...
April 2025PoliticsSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements中文0 min read