Live-fire exercises conducted by China are not, as some international media has mistakenly reported, anything new. But they are cause for some concern nonetheless...
The decision by American president Donald Trump to conduct an missile strikes in Syria, an act many have condemned globally, should have lessons for Taiwan...
With the Central Election Commission announcing that a referendum against same-sex marriage pushed for by anti-gay groups has passed the necessary threshold for a referendum to be held, shock and anger has broken out in Taiwan. However, in itself, it may not be too surprising that anti-gay groups were able to achieve reaching this referendum...
Reports that Donald Trump intends to reverse course on the TPP are vaguely humorous. Namely, withdrawing from the agreement was not only a key campaign promise of Trump’s but literally one of Trump’s first actions in office. But there will no doubt be those that claim that the Trump administration's reversal is the Trump administration engaging in high-risk negotiation tactics rather than simple incoherency...
The Sun An-Tso case has been one that Taiwanese media, hungry as it always is for gossip and sensational news, has seized upon. At stake in the case would be a number of issues, including Sun’s celebrity parents, the issue of gun control in the United States, Taiwan's relation to the US, and similar cases in Taiwan in recent years...
Our next issue of New Bloom will focus on the referendum campaign to rectify Taiwan’s name, as well as matters of transitional justice! /《破土》下期的主題將會關注於台灣正名連署／公投和轉型正義！...
The #MeToo campaign has exploded across the Chinese Internet in the past month. This was prompted by an outpouring of anger regarding a twenty-year-old sexual assault case involving university student Gao Yan, who killed herself in 1998...
With a meeting between Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Xi Jinping of China taking place in last month in Beijing, this represents that at least publicly, North Korea and China will continue to present somewhat of a united front in the face of America under Donald Trump...
Controversy has broken out regarding the Tsai administration’s appointment of Huang Huang-xiong as head of the transitional justice promotion committee...
The KMT has probably learned little from its authoritarian past with the choice of Hou You-yi as its mayoral candidate for New Taipei City, given Hou's actions during the authoritarian period. However, the DPP has also attempted to recruit Hou in the past...
