These days, one routinely sees pan-Blue politicians lambasting Taiwan as lagging behind all international standards, criticizing Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 as among the world’s worst. Many of the claims circulated by pan-Blue politicians verge on disinformation...
266 domestic cases and 89 cases from the test backlog were announced today at the CECC daily press briefing. There were no imported cases. 11 deaths were also announced...
It has proven an odd twist that the manufacturing giant FoxConn and Chang Ya-chung, the head of the Sun Yat-Sen School and the pro-unification Chinese Integration Association, have announced plans to purchase vaccines in the past few days. Although FoxConn CEO Terry Gou claims that he intend to purchase German BioNTech vaccines for Taiwan, not Chinese vaccines, BioNTech's past record makes a strong case for skepticism. Chang's actions are further suspicious, as his actions suggest murky links to Shanghai Fosun, in seeking to purchase both BioNTech and Sinopharm vaccines. Sinopharm is 49% owned by Shanghai Fosun, ostensibly BioNtech's Greater China market distributor, as a joint venture with the Chinese government...
In an unusual diplomatic spat, the Hong Kong Economic, Trade, and Cultural Office, shut down its offices in Taipei earlier this month. The HKETCO represents Hong Kong in Taiwan in lieu of an embassy or consulate, given the lack of formal diplomatic relations between Taiwan and Hong Kong...
320 new domestic cases were announced by the CECC today, along with seven imported cases, and 166 cases from the backlog. The CECC also revealed details of its efforts to speed up the processing of backlogged cases, stating that lower daily numbers have been reported from the backlog because the processing of backlogged cases has increased in speed...
297 domestic cases of COVID-19, two imported cases, and 258 cases from the backlog were announced at the CECC's daily press conference today. 19 deaths were also reported, setting a new record for the daily deaths due to COVID-19, breaking yesterday’s records...
The brutal stream of assaults on Asian Americans does not occur in a vacuum. While American leaders have issued statements decrying anti-Asian attacks, they have largely ignored the underlying structural racism that facilitates them...
401 new domestic cases and four imported cases were announced today, along with 266 cases added from the backlog. For the first time, Minister of Health Chen Shih-chung revealed the timeline for negotiations with Biontech and why talks broke down, something that began due to Biontech raising issues over what term Taiwan should be referred to as in a press release, despite having originally signed off on the press release...