39 Chinese warplanes intruded on Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone on Sunday, in the largest such intrusion by the Chinese air force since October. This was followed on Monday by an air intrusion by 13 aircraft...
The issue of food imports from Japan’s Fukushima prefecture is expected to become a contested issue for the Tsai administration in the near future. This takes place in the wake of a December 2020 referendum that saw the DPP victorious, with the DPP’s positions on all four referendum questions winning out over the KMT, in addition to the referendum failing to meet benchmarks to be binding. Some reports suggest that the DPP will next move to lift the ban...
The pan-Green camp saw a victory today, with independent legislator Freddy Lim retaining his seat in Zhongzheng-Wanhua in Taipei District 5, and Lin Ching-yi of the DPP winning the by-election for Taichung District 2, which includes Shalu, Longjing, Dadu, Wuri, and Wufeng. Voting took place in Taichung and Taipei from 8 AM to 4 PM. Vote counting in Zhongzheng-Wanhua was more or less finished by 5 PM, while Lin showed a clear lead in vote counting in Taichung earlier on. Although it was originally expected that results would be known by 7 PM, results were known far earlier...
There have been increased concerns about espionage in the Taiwanese military after a report by Reuters that was released late last month. According to the report, China conducting spying efforts through a number of ways...
President Tsai Ing-wen's New Year address touched on a number of points with regards to domestic policies. For the most part, there were few surprises in Tsai’s comments. But as with other national addresses of this nature, its foreign policy implications were primarily focused on in international media coverage...
Indigenous groups have been critical after a performance held by the Presidential Office as part of new year’s celebrations. In particular, the performance featured five performers that were supposedly dressed as Amis Indigenous, singing traditional songs. Nevertheless, Indigenous groups such as the Indigenous Youth Front have criticized this performance as an act of cultural appropriation, seeing as the clothing worn by the performers was not authentic to cultural customs, appeared to be cheaply rented costumes, and the songs performed fit Han stereotypes regarding Indigenous traditional music...
Yen Kuan-heng, who is the KMT’s candidate for the by-election to fill the seat formerly occupied by Chen Po-wei of the Taiwan Statebuilding Party, has taken to alleging media bias against him. In particular, Yen filed forty-five complaints at the National Communications Commission alleging unfair media coverage that has disproportionately focused on him in national television networks...
Chang Ya-chung and Dennis Peng came together to organize a rally questioning the validity of Tsai Ing-wen’s dissertation outside of the Presidential Office on Saturday...
After the results of the referendum that took place earlier this month, internal splits have deepened in the KMT. What is notable, however, is to what extent these splits deepen the gap between moderates and hardliners within the party...
Recent comments by KMT legislators in the Legislative Yuan focused on fire on Minister of Foreign Affair Joseph Wu for Taiwan’s loss of diplomatic allies. In particular, a number of KMT legislators called on Wu to resign. Chen I-Hsin, a KMT legislator, even called on Wu to kill himself in apology...
