New Bloom presents the third installment of our podcast, Radio New Bloom! Our interview guest for this installment is Jennifer Lu, who is one of the leading figures of the marriage equality movement in Taiwan and currently a research fellow at the Taiwan Tongzhi Hotline Association...
The debacle of KMT chair elections is illustrative of the party’s internal crisis, as well as the means by which the party is highly unlikely to overcome its current crisis, no matter who wins the race. Namely, KMT chair candidates have as of late taken to doubling down on accusations of vote-buying, bribery, and fraud within the election process after it was found that many of petitions submitted by chair hopefuls to qualify for the election contained false signatures or repeat signatures between multiple petitions...
Trump's recent handling of South Korea should be concerning for Taiwan. For one, Trump suggested that Korea had once been part of China, which obviously does not bode well for Taiwan given China's claims over it. Likewise, Trump was willing to lie outright regarding the possibility of intervention against North Korean missile tests...
And then there was only one. With the end of the China Post’s print edition, only one English language print newspaper remains in Taiwan, the Taipei Times. What does this mean for Taiwan's news environment?...
It draws interesting parallels to Taiwan to note that, as the world descended into panic over the possibility of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula over the possibility of North Korean nuclear testing leading to an American reprisals, South Koreans were hardly panicking...
The recent turn of groups previously protesting against marriage equality to demonstrating against drugs illustrates the reactionary underpinnings to their thought in attempting to depict gays as drug users. In this way, such groups are very likely hoping to tap into the sharply ingrained taboo against drugs in Taiwanese society...
The rejection of Chinese asylum seeker Zhang Xiangzhong’s application for asylum in Taiwan illustrates the Tsai administration’s unwillingness to rock the boat on cross-strait matters at present. This is likely indicative of a highly conservative impulse in the Tsai administration’s current attempts to maintain a stable relationship between Taiwan and China...
SueAnn Shiah’s HuanDao is not only an able take on Taiwanese-American identity, but an impressive showing from a young documentary filmmaker, considering that the film was shot when Shiah was 22...