Controversy has broken out after claims that the Taiwanese government has been holding five Hongkongers that fled to Taiwan under detention for the last two months. The Taiwanese government was, for the most part, opaque over past weeks about whether it is, in fact, holding the five Hongkongers—with questions having been raised about whether they have been allowed to see lawyers or contact their families...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Lev Nachman. Lev Nachman is a Fulbright Research Fellow in Taiwan and a Ph. D candidate in political science at UC Irvine currently conducting fieldwork in Taiwan...
A solidarity rally for the ongoing protests in Thailand was held in Taipei Main Station today. Many participants were Thai residents of Taiwan, particularly students...
One day before the anticipated passage of new national security legislation in Hong Kong, New Bloom presents a look back at the solidarity rally for Hong Kong that took place in Taipei earlier this month in Liberty Plaza. The rally commemorated one year since the start of the protests in Hong Kong, with calls for asylum policies to be passed for Hongkongers by the Tsai administration...
For this week's installment of Radio New Bloom, editor Garrett Dee spoke with Vincent Wong. Vincent is a lawyer and research associate at the International Human Rights Program at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, and a member of the Lausan Collective...
Over the past two weeks, Americans across the country have engaged in a protest movement against their police forces. Police have responded with militarized force against what are overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations...
A vigil commemorating the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre took place in Liberty Plaza in Taipei today. According to organizers, over 2,000 were present...
Whether it be young black men targeted in disproportionate numbers amidst white revanchism led by Trump or Hong Kong students beaten and arrested by security forces implementing a reign of terror engendered by Xi’s trampling of the city’s Basic Law, we must look past nationalistic rhetoric that obscures dark legacies of American and Chinese empire and policies of state violence that continue to operationalize in the present. On the 31st anniversary of Tiananmen Square, this is what we should keep in mind...
