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一位台灣醫生的「超現實」加薩人道救援之旅

Peiyi Yu
「剛剛離開加薩時蠻沒真實感的。」鄔醫師道。「當我們離開加薩的緩衝區時，人們幾乎不在乎扔掉半瓶汽水，或是彈掉抽一半的香煙，就像在正常世界中一樣。」根據鄔醫師的說法，在距離以色列-加薩邊境約10公里的納瑟醫院的工作站裡，四個水槽中只有一個能提供還算穩定的乾淨水源。根據CSIS、國際樂施會、聯合國兒童基金會、BBC和CNN，由於以色列對加薩基礎設施的針對性打擊，加薩地區幾乎沒有穩定的乾淨水源。...
January 2025Politics中文4 min read

KMT’s Infrastructure Bill Last Year Shows the False Nature of Its Claims to Care About Fiscal Balance

Brian Hioe
With recent wide-ranging budget cuts passed by the KMT, the KMT has sought to defend the cuts as necessary for fiscal security in Taiwan. To this extent, the KMT has claimed that the cuts only amount to 3% of the budget and that such budget-cutting also occurred during the Tsai administration. By contrast, President Lai Ching-te of the DPP has framed the cuts and freezes as amounting to 30% of the available funding. There have never been cuts on this scale in the past twenty years, showing that against the claims of the KMT, such budget-cutting is not normal in the legislature...
EnglishJanuary 2025Politics7 min read

What Can We Expect for Taiwan with the Second Trump Presidency?

Brian Hioe
Recent comments by US President-elect Donald Trump have called for the US to annex Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Trump has also suggested renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.” With Trump set to take office today, this already shows the instability that is potentially ahead for Taiwan with a second Trump presidency...
America and the Asia PacificEnglishInternationalJanuary 2025Politics6 min read