A recent murder case involving a woman and her sister being stabbed to death by her husband while on a scooter in New Taipei proves familiar. Namely, there are a number of cases in past years of women being murdered by men. The causes return to weak enforcement of anti-stalking laws in Taiwan...
With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” last week, some have asked the question of whether the DPP and KMT will seek to make amends. After all, it now seems clear that the pan-Green camp will not be able to oust the KMT from the legislature...
With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” over the weekend, it is notable to observe that some claims in media discourse have sought to frame the results as a rebuke to the DPP, indicating that the Taiwanese public supports the KMT. Chinese nationalists have gone even further, suggesting that the results mean that the majority of Taiwanese identify as Chinese...
Elbridge Colby, who is currently Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Trump administration, is again in the news. In particular, Colby has come under scrutiny as the responsible party for halting arms shipments to Ukraine...
The KMT has hit out against former president Tsai Ing-wen, claiming that green energy investments by the Tsai administration were due to illicit ties between Tsai and green energy companies...
The first round of recall voting in Taiwan took place today. The results, however, mostly indicate a defeat for pro-recall campaigners, in that no KMT legislators were recalled. 24 legislators and one mayor were up for recall today...
Tomorrow is the date of the recalls set to take place in Taiwan. What should be self-apparent is that it was a sense of political crisis that led up to this point. For the recalls, as a self-initiated movement to recall all KMT legislators, to take place involved both domestic and international factors, as well as an interplay between social movement politics and electoral politics....
The aesthetics of the “Great Recall Movement” have, in many ways, reflected the aesthetics of preceding social movements. Nevertheless, one notes that campaign aesthetics have, in many ways, been more disparate than in terms of past movements...
The recalls set to take place later this week are a historically unprecedented event in Taiwan. Recalls have never occurred in Taiwan in such a wide-ranging manner as at present. Some have taken this as a hopeful sign, in that this could lead to the recall of KMT politicians in a manner that allows for a shift in the balance of power in the legislature...
