A press conference to raise legal funds for four Sunflower Movement demonstrators facing charges related to the encirclement and blockade of Zhongzheng First Police Precinct by demonstrators on April 11th, 2014 was held on Wednesday...
Are the days of freedom for the Umbrella trio limited? Joshua Wong, Nathan Law, and Alex Chow have been released on bail pending an appeal set for January, a legal decision which surprised many legal experts. But the trio may be jailed again soon enough, pending the decision on their appeals...
Differences between Catalonia and Taiwan aside, this has not prevented most of those in Taiwan who support continued Taiwanese independence from feeling sympathetic to Catalonia’s cause...
Demonstrations took place concurrent with ROC National Day celebrations today on Ketagalan Boulevard, with several hundred demonstrators gathering to listen to speeches, sing songs, and to burn a straw effigy dressed in Qing dynasty clothing representative of the “corpse” of the Republic of China...
During past few years, the conflict between China and Taiwan has resonated more frequently than one would think in Catalan media, which has historically been ignorant of anything that occurs in Asia—except with regards to some news items about China. It is important to note that the attention given by Catalan media to this conflict is in part because of the more or less accurate perception that recent political developments related to the disputed international status of Taiwan are similar to what Catalonia has experienced in the past decade. The aim of this article is therefore to analyze the similarities and differences between the political projects of "independence" in Taiwan and Catalonia...
Protests marked Chinese National Day in Hong Kong on October 1st earlier this week, with 40,000 taking to the streets in order to demonstrate the worsening condition for human rights and the deterioration of democratic freedoms in Hong Kong. Protests saw some clashes with police and pro-China groups, including the arrest of youth activists from Demosisto after being attacked by pro-China demonstrators. What comes next for Hong Kong, however, remains to be seen...
In past days, youth activist and civil society groups in Taiwan have expressed support of Catalonia following the Spanish government’s use of brutal force to put down the Catalan independence referendum. This is not too surprising, seeing as youth activist groups in Taiwan see a sense of shared cause between the Catalan people’s struggle for self-determination and Taiwan’s own struggle for independence. Yet the outcome of not only the Catalan referendum, but also the recent Kurdish referendum in Iraq, offers lessons for Taiwan regarding its own aspirations towards using referendum to settle longstanding questions regarding Taiwanese independence...
The aftermath of a recent incident at National Taiwan University in which Taiwanese independence demonstrators protesting the Sing! China concert held on the campus of National Taiwan University continues to unfold...
Anger has ensued from members of Taiwanese civil society following attacks on demonstrators protesting the Sing! China: Shanghai-Taipei Music Festival on National Taiwan University campus yesterday afternoon...
A demonstration to call for normalization of Taiwan’s international status was held at Liberty Plaza tonight, calling for the removal of Taiwan’s status as a “province” of China in the ROC constitution and the permanent connection of Taiwan and China enshrined in the ROC constitution through the Act Governing Relations between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area...