Efforts to combat the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic continue in Taiwan, with the Central Epidemic Command Center announcing the 26th confirmed case of the epidemic in Taiwan yesterday. One notes that several recent confirmed cases are examples of the domestic spread of COVID-19...
The Central Epidemic Command Center, which is coordinating efforts in Taiwan to combat the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus epidemic, reported the first death in Taiwan due to the epidemic yesterday...
In the midst of the Coronavirus epidemic, publishing unsubstantiated rumors and misinformation poisons the well of public discourse, and performs a disservice to society. Perhaps the most egregious example of this in domestic English-language media is Taiwan News, an online media platform owned by Luis Ko, the CEO of I-Mei Foods, a major Taiwanese brand. Taiwan News recently published a number of articles making extraordinary claims about the COVID-19 outbreak in China. Two articles in particular deserve additional scrutiny; both were written by Keoni Everington, whose bylines list him as either “editor” or “staff writer”
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The 2019 Novel Coronavirus outbreak continues to have widespread implications in Taiwan, with a number of measures rolled out by the government in past days aimed at stopping the spread of the disease...
The Chinese Communist Party has put its political priorities over the need to combat the novel coronavirus epidemic within China. But Beijing’s growing international clout means that the international community also suffers from the primacy of the party...
The Chinese government's refusal to allow four hundred Taiwanese citizens trapped in Wuhan to return to Taiwan points to the contradictions of China’s efforts at luring Taiwan back into the fold. Taiwanese trapped in Wuhan are unable to leave the city, because of the fact that the city has been sealed off due to the outbreak of the coronavirus...
The priorities of the CCP should be clear given its response to the coronavirus outbreak. Namely, the CCP has not acted to protect the health of the Chinese people, but instead acted with its priorities on presenting the appearance of stability, so as to maintain political legitimacy...
Taiwanese political leaders took the opportunity to criticize China’s lack of democracy in their Lunar New Year’s messages, as observed in speeches by president Tsai Ing-wen and premier Su Tseng-chang...
The proposed banning of a Marxist book club at Peking University, one of China’s most prestigious and elite universities, is ironic. Namely, as part of its drive towards centralizing authority and advancing its version of Chinese nationalism, the current Chinese government under Xi Jinping purports to return to Marxist fundamentals rather than destabilizing western influences...
