Civil society groups demonstrated against Chinese National Day today in Taipei. Chinese National Day is commemorated on October 1st, which is tomorrow...
Former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo, who served under the Trump administration, visited Taiwan again this week. This followed up on an earlier visit to Taiwan by Pompeo in March...
Recent efforts by the pan-Blue camp to attack the DPP have attempted to frame the Tsai administration as lacking transparency and incompetent. Notably, this may dovetail with Chinese disinformation efforts, as amplified by domestic pan-Blue outlets...
In 2017, Nikal Kabala’an, an Amis woman, carried her first newborn daughter to the Taipei City Da’an District Household Registration Office to register her baby’s birth. Nikal and her husband, who is Han, decided to register their child under Nikal’s husband’s Mandarin surname with the intention of simultaneously registering a traditional Amis name to continue her Indigenous heritage into the next generation. However, she was informed at the Household Registration Office that she could not register her child under her husband’s surname and a traditional Amis name, and thus had to choose only one...
Unverified reports claiming a sightseeing visit to Thailand by National Security Bureau director-general Chen Ming-tong at the public expense began to appear earlier this month, following screenshots posted by a Twitter account with the username @andreny45652235. The Twitter account only had six posts before being taken down, which raised questions as to the authenticity of the account, but the photo of Chen it posted seemed to be taken from Thai customs. It is unclear as to whether Chen traveled to Thailand recently, whether these were older screenshots, or whether they could have been photoshopped...
Earlier this month, several dozen civil society organizations have issued an open letter criticizing the inaction of Taichung city authorities regarding a sexual assault case involving a principal accused of assaulting a female student 25 years ago...
A Louisiana judge struck down air permits for Taiwan-owned Formosa Plastics’ 9 billion USD “Sunshine Project” earlier this month. The Sunshine Project would have occupied 2,500 acres of land, consisting of fourteen facilities, and would have become the world’s largest production facility for plastics and materials used for the production of plastics...
One wonders when Jacobin will eventually get any Taiwanese voice to write–or even comment–on the possibility of conflict between the US and China that engulfs Taiwan. Their latest proves another article by Branko Marcetic, who is apparently the leftist magazine’s go-to-writer on Taiwan...
The Taiwan Policy Act cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week. This clears the way for the bill to be discussed and voted upon by the US House of Representatives and Senate, with some warnings that China may take a strong response to the bill. The bill passed the committee by a vote of 17 to 5, with bipartisan support...
Earlier today, US president Joe Biden confused again with comments on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that suggested US commitment to defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack. Subsequently, as with previous such incidents in which Biden indicated US commitment to defend Taiwan, these comments were quickly walked back by the White House, which stated that US policy on Taiwan had not changed...
