The possibility of China sterilizing Uighurs has become more widely reported on after reports by the Nikkei and other outlets citing former detainees who claim they have been sterilized after being detained in prison camps...
Protests in Hong Kong continue, with the last major action being the “Hong Kong Way” yesterday. The “Hong Kong Way” consisted of protesters holding hands to form a 40-kilometer human chain, stretching across Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories...
More than 700 New Yorkers showed up at the New York City rally in support of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protests last weekend. The protest is simultaneously about many things: yet the democratic future of Hong Kong and police brutality are the two major issues at the heart of the events that have unfolded over the past few weeks...
The Chinese government confirmed yesterday that it is currently holding 28-year-old Hong Konger Simon Cheng in detention. Cheng, who works in the British consulate, disappeared earlier this month on August 8th while returning from Shenzhen to Hong Kong from a one-day business meeting...
An abortive alliance between Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, former KMT majority speaker Wang Jinpyng, and FoxConn CEO Terry Gou seems to have sputtered out, following comments by Ko in which he denigrated the other two before a planned meeting that was to take place last Sunday. Although unlikely, talk is also on the rise of the KMT potentially replacing Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu as its presidential candidate in 2020 elections, with the KMT demonstrating some unusual splits regarding Han...
Despite the narrative in international media that the Tsai administration has offered aid to Hong Kongers seeking to settle in Taiwan, the Tsai administration still has not taken adequate steps to provide refuge for Hong Kongers...
Hong Kongers took the streets yesterday in what was likely the largest demonstration since June, when the protests that have rocked the city for the past two months first began. According to organizers, 1.7 million individuals participated in demonstrations...
Several recent incidents are reflective of how Chinese political and economic pressure continues to be used as a means of forcing compliance to China’s claims of sovereignty globally...
Reuters broke a story late last week that no less than five major Taiwanese news outlets were being paid by the Chinese government for positive press...
Huang Kuo-chang, one of the NPP's two remaining legislators and the party’s former chair, suggested earlier this week that he will not run for reelection as legislator, a move that has led to criticisms with the view that this would lose another legislative seat for the NPP. With it becoming increasingly clear that younger members of the party—who are primarily city councilors and in their 20s and early 30s—will have to take over the party leadership if it is to survive, Taipei city councilor Sabrina Lim announced her plans to run for party chair earlier today...