The legislature voted down the Executive Yuan’s motion to reconsider the controversial legislative powers this afternoon. This took place after two days of arguments between the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps in the legislature...
The centennial of the storied Whampoa Military Academy has become disputed between Taiwan and China in a struggle over historical memory. Yet this proves particularly unusual with regards to that this takes place under the DPP administration...
Chinese United Front activity involving Taiwanese celebrities and influencers has increasingly been in the spotlight after a number of recent incidents...
In commemoration of this year’s Eid-al Adha, or the feast of sacrifice, dozens gathered at Taipei’s Grand Mosque to hold a candle-lighting ceremony honoring the more than 15.000 Palestinian children that have been murdered since Israel’s siege on Gaza began last October 2023...
KMT legislator Hsu Chiao-hsin has recently become embroiled in a series of scandals. This perhaps proves instructive as to the current political trajectory of the KMT...
In August, the Chinese government announced a list of 78 countries in which tour groups will now be allowed to travel to. This includes a number of frequent travel destinations for Chinese tourists that China is otherwise geopolitically at odds with, such as the US, South Korea, Japan, and the UK...
The KMT seems to be on the offensive in the legislature as of late, seeking to roll back much of what has occurred under the Tsai administration using its narrow majority. The latest case of this would be the KMT seeking to amend laws previously pushed for by the DPP targeting the KMT’s party assets, with regards to the China Youth Corps...
New amendments to the Name Act will allow Indigenous to use their Indigenous names on their national ID, household registration, and passport without requiring a Chinese name. At present, laws require that Indigenous names, using Roman characters, also have Chinese characters for individuals registering for households, passports, or naturalizing...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is having a moment in Taiwan. In particular, Huang has been widely praised in Taiwan after a speech in which he declared that the world was on the precipice of a new Industrial Revolution–involving AI–and that Taiwan was key to this. This occurred on the occasion of a keynote speech by Huang at Computex, one of the major annual tech exhibitions in Taiwan...
The KMT has sought to attack the DPP on ostensible concerns about the tracking of protestors after comments by DPP legislator Wang Yi-chuan. Wang’s comments, which were rather vague about their specifics, were interpreted as suggesting that data could be gathered from protesters outside of the Legislative Yuan during the Bluebird Movement protests based on their age and gender...
