Some in Taiwan have taken John Bolton’s recent editorial in the The Wall Street Journal suggesting that America relocate its bases from Okinawa to Taiwan as cause for celebration. But it does well to be more skeptical about this possibility...
Our first issue of New Bloom for the new year will focus on two topics! The first topic will be the election of Donald Trump to president of the United States and the second topic will be what next for the marriage equality movement in Taiwan / 今年第一期的破土將聚焦在兩大主題上:第一是川普當選美國總統,第二則是台灣婚姻平權的下一步何去何從?...
Given the current legislative recess until April, marriage equality has not been in the news for some time. Yet we do well to remember that the struggle is not over. Rather, competing groups for and against marriage equality both seem to be taking the time to regroup...
With the swearing in of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States of America, the realities of global politics are now a different ball game entirely. What should we make of his inaugural address and what now for Taiwan, now that Trump is president of America?...
Trump's contradictory and frequently shifting foreign policy stances are a result of the divided nature of his supporters. This is why a Trump presidency will prove dangerously unpredictable for Taiwan...
The WikiLeaks e-mails in which Hillary Clinton expresses interest in the idea of abandoning Taiwan in exchange for economic concessions from China expresses a worldview she, in fact, shares with Donald Trump and other American politicians. Such politicians have only ever viewed Taiwan as a bargaining chip from the beginning...
The upcoming race for KMT party chair seems set to be a hotly contested one, with party heavyweights Hau Lung-Bin and Wu Den-Yih seeking to pry the position of KMT party chair away from Hung Hsiu-Chu. But new contenders have entered the race. Further questions are up in the air about ties between candidates for KMT party chair and Terry Gou, a possible future presidential candidate of the KMT ...
The saga of Singaporean free speech advocate and political dissident Amos Yee seems to have taken a strange turn with a bid for asylum in America last month...
Tsai's recent visit to Taiwan’s Central American allies highlight the difficulties of Taiwan in maintaining relations with its few remaining diplomatic allies abroad. We might review her trip...