Youth Movements

After Passage of National Security Legislation, a Political Crackdown May Be Imminent in Hong Kong

Brian Hioe
National security legislation targeting Hong Kong was passed by China’s National People’s Congress this morning. It is believed that the new law, which criminalizes sedition, collusion with foreign forces, subversion of the government, and other charges, will have wide sweeping effects on Hong Kong’s political freedoms...
EnglishJune 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements10 min read

Video: One Year Anniversary of Start of Hong Kong Protests Remembered in Taipei

newbloomeditor
One day before the anticipated passage of new national security legislation in Hong Kong, New Bloom presents a look back at the solidarity rally for Hong Kong that took place in Taipei earlier this month in Liberty Plaza. The rally commemorated one year since the start of the protests in Hong Kong, with calls for asylum policies to be passed for Hongkongers by the Tsai administration...
EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements0 min read

International Students from China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Other Places Still Face Issues Returning to Taiwan

Brian Hioe
With the COVID-19 situation under control in Taiwan, questions have been raised about when international students, particularly students who are from China, Hong Kong, or Macau, will be allowed to return to Taiwan. In particular, the Taiwanese government has yet to announce a clear timeline as to when students from China, Hong Kong, or Macau will be allowed to return to Taiwan, or when other international students currently unable to re-enter Taiwan will be allowed to do so...
EnglishJune 2020Social MovementsYouth Movements7 min read

One-Year Anniversary of Protests in Hong Kong Commemorated in Taipei, Calls for Asylum for Hongkongers

Brian Hioe
A demonstration in support of Hongkongers took place in Liberty Plaza today, with a number of civil society groups setting up booths starting from 3 PM, and speeches and performances taking place starting from 6 PM. The demonstration today commemorated the one-year anniversary of the start of the protests in Hong Kong and aimed to pressure the Tsai administration on the issue of providing aid to Hongkongers seeking asylum in Taiwan. Organizers claimed that 7,000 were in attendance...
EnglishJune 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements9 min read

The Case for Accepting Hong Kong Refugees in Taiwan

Tristan Reynolds
It is widely expected that many Hongkongers will want to flee the city, given the possibility of being ‘disappeared’ into the prison system of a state that has imprisoned untold numbers of political prisoners, Uighurs, Tibetans, and others that don’t fit into Xi Jinping’s “China Dream.” Many have already fled. The Taiwanese government should take steps to aid them...
EnglishJune 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements8 min read

Tiananmen, Hong Kong and the US in the Age of COVID, Trump, and Xi

Adam K. Dedman
Whether it be young black men targeted in disproportionate numbers amidst white revanchism led by Trump or Hong Kong students beaten and arrested by security forces implementing a reign of terror engendered by Xi’s trampling of the city’s Basic Law, we must look past nationalistic rhetoric that obscures dark legacies of American and Chinese empire and policies of state violence that continue to operationalize in the present. On the 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square, this is what we should keep in mind...
EnglishJune 2020Social MovementsYouth Movements9 min read

American Abandonment of Hong Kong Could Be Framed as an Anti-China Move Through Loss of Autonomous Status

Brian Hioe
It is possible that protests yesterday in Hong Kong will be remembered as a pivotal event. Although yesterday’s demonstration is comparable to many of the protests that took place in the past year before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the wake of the protests yesterday, American Secretary of State Mike Pompeo certified to Congress that Hong Kong was no longer autonomous from China...
EnglishMay 2020Self-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements13 min read

Statement by Tsai Ing-wen Is Vague at Best, at Worst Is Aimed at Cutting Ties With Hong Kong

Brian Hioe
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen took to Facebook yesterday night to issue a statement regarding the ongoing protests in Hong Kong. While Tsai expressed support of Hongkongers, it proves hasty to assume that Tsai was proposing any concrete measure to aid Hongkongers out of a sense of solidarity. In fact, if it proves to be more than a vague statement that Tsai has no real intention of acting on, Tsai’s statement could be interpreted as aimed at putting further distance between Taiwan and Hong Kong more than anything else...
EnglishMay 2020PhotographersSelf-DeterminationSocial MovementsYouth Movements15 min read