Category: June 2018 | Page 3 | New Bloom Magazine

Tempest In A Teapot Regarding AIT Move

Brian Hioe06/12/2018

The opening of the new American Institute in Taiwan complex in Neihu was largely a non-event today. Apart from being overshadowed by the Trump-Kim summit that took place concurrently in Singapore, the building move signals little about any shift in American policy on Taiwan, regardless of boilerplate talk by American and Taiwanese policymakers...

America and the Asia PacificEnglishInternationalJune 20187 min read

Edward Leung Sentenced To Six Years In Prison, What Now For Hong Kong Activists?

Brian Hioe06/11/2018

Outrage has broken out in Hong Kong after the sentencing of Edward Leung in Hong Kong to six years in prison for his role in the events known as the “Fishball Revolution”. What now for Hong Kong activists?...

EnglishJune 2018Self-DeterminationSocial Movements7 min read

Taiwan Will Need Creative Strategies To Deal With Airline Bullying By China

Brian Hioe06/10/2018

China's stratagem to force airlines to remove mention of “Taiwan” as a separate country on their websites seems to have been a largely successful one. This can be observed in microcosm with the example of Qantas Airlines, an Australian airline which initially resisted impositions by China, but even buckled...

EnglishInternationalJune 2018Regional Tensions6 min read

Haiti Visit Revealing Of The Paradoxes Of ROC State Relations

Brian Hioe06/09/2018

A recent five-day visit to Taiwan late last month by Haitian president Jovenel Moïse ended with Haiti walking away with a 150 million dollar investment by Taiwan in Haiti’s power grid...

EnglishJune 2018Politics5 min read

Taiwan Should Open Its Doors To Refugees, Chinese Or Otherwise

Brian Hioe06/08/2018

It proves a disgraceful fact that Taiwan does little to help human rights activists and political dissidents internationally in need of safe harbor, even under a DPP administration. This has been raised in the news lately after Chinese human rights activist Huang Yan, who has been granted political refugee status by the UN, fled to Taiwan seeking asylum. Huang has been granted three month stay in Taiwan, after which she will have to move elsewhere...

EnglishJune 2018Politics7 min read

Filipino Migrant Workers Demonstrate Against Coercion By HTC And Google

Brian Hioe06/07/2018

Filipino migrant workers would demonstrate on June 3rd outside of Google’s office in Taipei 101...

EnglishJune 2018LaborSocial Movements5 min read

Visit To China By Top KMT Officials Illustrates Disrespect For Taiwan’s Democratic Institutions

Brian Hioe06/06/2018

A recent visit by high-ranking KMT officials to Xiamen to conduct the tenth annual Straits Forum this week indicates the KMT’s fundamental disrespect of the institutions of Taiwanese democracy. This is nothing surprising...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 20186 min read

29th Anniversary Of Tiananmen Square Massacre Commemorated In Taipei

Brian Hioe06/05/2018

Yearly commemorations for the 29th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place in Liberty Plaza yesterday night. As with past years, the demonstration was not widely attended. However, the demonstration serves as proof as the killings committed by the Chinese Communist Party leadership in 1989 have not been forgotten in Taiwan...

EnglishJune 2018Social MovementsTheory and History7 min read

Interview: Paul Lai

Forrest Sherman06/04/2018

An interview with Paul Lai of Upsilon Acrux, who currently performs under the name (Z)erpent in Taipei...

EnglishInterviewsJune 201815 min read

“Amit, Wake Up”: Indigenous Feminist Politics in Chang Hui-mei/Amit’s Music Production

J.Y. Kao06/03/2018

The gender politics and ethnic minority identity of pop diva A-mei, also known as Amit, Kulilay Amit, or Chang Hui-mei, prove worth examining. We might look at the series of developments which led her to embrace indigenous identity in music ...

Arts and CultureEnglishJune 2018Music28 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

After Nine Years, Second Ma-Xi Meeting Occurs in Beijing

DPP Aims to Strengthen Laws Regarding Treason, Leaks

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

Social Movements

June 2018

Tempest In A Teapot Regarding AIT Move

Taiwan Will Need Creative Strategies To Deal With Airline Bullying By China

Haiti Visit Revealing Of The Paradoxes Of ROC State Relations

Taiwan Should Open Its Doors To Refugees, Chinese Or Otherwise

Visit To China By Top KMT Officials Illustrates Disrespect For Taiwan’s Democratic Institutions

Interview: Paul Lai

“Amit, Wake Up”: Indigenous Feminist Politics in Chang Hui-mei/Amit’s Music Production

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

Interview: Kawtorpai Church

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

KMT Leans Into Calls for Capital Punishment Against Child Abusers

Han Kuo-yu Becomes Chair of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy