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Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

Brian Hioe05/28/2018

Reflexive anger from Taiwanese publishers after reports earlier this month by the United Daily News that the Ministry of Culture was planning on screening Chinese books allowed to be published in China shows in microcosm the dilemmas facing free speech in Taiwan. Yet this also shows why free speech is aggressively defended in Taiwan and unlikely to come under threat from the government anytime soon...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

Vague Attempts By Tsai To Pacify Taiwanese Activists?

Brian Hioe05/24/2018

As the two year anniversary of the Tsai administration taking power was on May 20th, recent comments by Tsai Ing-Wen on what she has accomplished to date in the two years of her presidency suggest that Tsai has not wholly abandoned attempts to keep the civil society groups that took public prominence after the Sunflower Movement happy...

EnglishMay 2018Politics5 min read

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

Brian Hioe05/16/2018

With former president Ma Ying-Jeou facing four months of imprisonment after being found guilty of leaking classified information by the Taiwan High Court, it seems predictable that the KMT will leverage on this fact to claim political persecution by the DPP...

EnglishMay 2018Politics7 min read

DPP’s Quandary Evident In Inability To Resolve Ko Nomination Impasse

Brian Hioe05/15/2018

As Taipei 2018 mayoral elections approach ever closer, it remains an opaque question as to whether the DPP will back Ko Wen-Je. In the meantime, one can divine something of the shifts in the DPP’s position going into 2018 elections as compared to 2016 from the continued debate over whether the DPP will endorse Ko this year...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 min read

Path Dependency By The KMT And DPP In Taipei Mayoral Elections?

Brian Hioe05/08/2018

In surprising fashion, the KMT and DPP may be converging on similar tactics in its choice of political candidates in 2018 elections, at least where Taipei mayoral candidates are concerned. This perhaps illustrates that the DPP and KMT are in many ways caught in the same bind politically at present...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 min read

2018 International Workers’ Day Protests In Taiwan Call For Repeal Of Labor Law Changes

Brian Hioe05/01/2018

The annual demonstration commemorating International Workers’ Day took place today in Taipei, drawing thousands of workers out onto the streets in protest...

EnglishLaborMay 2018Social Movements9 min read

LGBTQ Groups Hold Rally As Start Of Campaign Against Anti-Marriage Equality Referendum

Brian Hioe04/23/2018

A demonstration was held by LGBTQ groups this morning to demonstrate the Central Election Commission passing a referendum pushed for by anti-gay groups. The referendum seeks to overturn a judicial ruling in favor of the legalization of marriage equality in Taiwan by the Council of Grand Justices last year. In particular, the demonstration serves as the start of what will necessarily be a longer campaign by LGBTQ groups...

#21April 2018EnglishGender/SexualitySocial Movements7 min read

Controversy Breaks Out Regarding Transitional Justice Committee Head

Brian Hioe04/11/2018

Controversy has broken out regarding the Tsai administration’s appointment of Huang Huang-xiong as head of the transitional justice promotion committee...

April 2018EnglishPolitics6 min read

KMT Referendums Continue Attempts To Co-Opt Civil Society Tactics

Brian Hioe04/03/2018

Pushes by the KMT for a referendum on food imports from radiation-affected areas in Japan and air pollution are ironic appropriations of referendum reform in Taiwan. This is in line with broader attempts by the KMT to imitate tactics of Taiwanese civil society...

April 2018EnglishPolitics5 min read

Referendum Push By Third Force Reveals Aims To Seize Traditional Voter Base Of DPP

Brian Hioe03/03/2018

The declaration by Third Force parties, along with former presidents Chen Shui-Bian and Lee Teng-Hui and other influential figures, that they intend to seek a referendum on Taiwanese independence poses a significant challenge to the DPP...

EnglishMarch 2018Self-DeterminationSocial Movements7 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue

China Seeks to Influence Taiwan Through Outlying Islands

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

What Can We Expect from Lai’s Inauguration Address?

Ko Wen-je Faces Scrutiny Over Taipei Development

Social Movements

Democratic Progressive Party

Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

Vague Attempts By Tsai To Pacify Taiwanese Activists?

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

DPP’s Quandary Evident In Inability To Resolve Ko Nomination Impasse

Path Dependency By The KMT And DPP In Taipei Mayoral Elections?

Controversy Breaks Out Regarding Transitional Justice Committee Head

KMT Referendums Continue Attempts To Co-Opt Civil Society Tactics

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

In Spontaneous Protest, Hundreds Demonstrate Outside of Legislative Yuan Against KMT Actions

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue

Ahead of the Lai Inauguration, China Sanctions Five Taiwanese Citizens

iQiyi Not Guilty Ruling Overturned, Though Legal Contention to Continue

Kinmen Soldier Continues to be Detained in China After Rescue