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Outrage Against American Liberals By South Koreans After Trump-Kim Summit Familiar For Taiwan

Brian Hioe06/18/2018

Anger has broken out from a number of Korean progressives at American liberals for their reactions to the Trump-Kim summit. Namely, American liberals are seen as prioritizing sniping at Trump over establishing peace on the Korean Peninsula. Such outrage is all too familiar for Taiwan... Read More

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Much Uncertainty Going Forward After The Trump-Kim Summit

Brian Hioe06/12/2018

It will prove difficult trying to evaluate what the effects of the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and American president Donald Trump will be going forward... Read More

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Tempest In A Teapot Regarding AIT Move

Brian Hioe06/12/2018

The opening of the new American Institute in Taiwan complex in Neihu was largely a non-event today. Apart from being overshadowed by the Trump-Kim summit that took place concurrently in Singapore, the building move signals little about any shift in American policy on Taiwan, regardless of boilerplate talk by American and Taiwanese policymakers... Read More

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Taiwan Will Need Creative Strategies To Deal With Airline Bullying By China

Brian Hioe06/10/2018

China's stratagem to force airlines to remove mention of “Taiwan” as a separate country on their websites seems to have been a largely successful one. This can be observed in microcosm with the example of Qantas Airlines, an Australian airline which initially resisted impositions by China, but even buckled... Read More

EnglishInternationalJune 2018Regional Tensions2 Comments 06 min read

Can The Trump-Kim Meeting Still Take Place?

Brian Hioe05/28/2018

Much uncertainty prevails about what will be next for the two Koreas seeing as, last week, American president Donald Trump called off a planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un originally slated to take place in Singapore on June 12th. Yet Trump now suggests the meeting could still take place. This raises broader questions for the region at large... Read More

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North Korea Threatens To Call Off Talks With US Over John Bolton

Brian Hioe05/20/2018

News that North Korea has cancelled planned talks with South Korea should be nothing surprising for those skeptical that peace had been achieved on the Korean Peninsula following a meeting between South Korean president Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. North Korea now also threatens to call off talks with the US, specifically raising issue with comments by American National Security Advisor John Bolton... Read More

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ZTE Reversal A Sign Of Further Inconsistency On China By Trump

Brian Hioe05/18/2018

Confusion has broken out in the United States regarding perceptions that American president Trump has abruptly reversed course, with claims that “too many jobs [have been] lost” in China, and that he intends to reverse sanctions on Chinese electronics manufacturer ZTE... Read More

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Gaza Massacre Has Lessons For Taiwan

Brian Hioe05/17/2018

Images of the killing of Palestinians on the Israel-Gaza border during protests against the American Embassy relocation to Jerusalem have been shocking for many in Taiwan. However, instead of looking at this tragic set of events merely as a tragedy in a distant, faraway land, perhaps there are lessons from this to be drawn for Taiwan and connections to be drawn between Taiwan's own struggles and Palestine's plight... Read More

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Trump-Kim Meeting Increasingly Uncertain After America Withdraws From Iran Nuclear Deal

Brian Hioe05/13/2018

A great deal of uncertainty would seem to be ahead for the planned meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and American president Donald Trump, which is scheduled to take place on June 12th in Singapore. This is particularly seeing as Trump has decided abruptly to withdraw from a nuclear deal with Iran that lifted long-standing economic sanctions on Iran in 2015 in return for Iran dismantling aspects of its nuclear weapons program... Read More

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What Will Be The Effect Of Chinese Attempts To Force Airlines To List Taiwan As Part of China?

Brian Hioe05/09/2018

China forcing airlines to list Taiwan as part of China on their websites is a highly significant move in framing Taiwan as part of China from the get-go for anyone going to Taiwan. As it seems unlikely that airlines will defy China, in spite of American condemnations, this may require intelligent responses... Read More

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Arts/Culture

Mulan Proves to be Apologia for Statist Nationalism, Patriarchy, and Ethnic Cleansing

Golden Bell Awards Marred by Racist Comments Against Taiwanese Indigenous

Is It Time We Stop Indulging Influencers?

International

KMT’s Plans for a Cross-Strait Forum with the CCP Abruptly Cancelled

Taiwan Opens Representative Office in Somaliland

Azar Ends Four-Day Visit to Taiwan, but Whether Visit Is More Than Political Theater to Be Seen

Interviews

Interview: James Griffiths on The Great Firewall of China

專訪：陳日君

Politics

美國肉：政治虛偽和冷感的素食者，與氣候變遷、畜牧業的關係

China May Be Seeking to Drive the Public into the KMT’s Arms Through Military Intimidation

Taiwan News Continues Record of Endangering National Security with Misleading Report on Chinese Rocket Launch

Social Movements

Donald Trump

Outrage Against American Liberals By South Koreans After Trump-Kim Summit Familiar For Taiwan

Much Uncertainty Going Forward After The Trump-Kim Summit

Tempest In A Teapot Regarding AIT Move

Taiwan Will Need Creative Strategies To Deal With Airline Bullying By China

Can The Trump-Kim Meeting Still Take Place?

North Korea Threatens To Call Off Talks With US Over John Bolton

ZTE Reversal A Sign Of Further Inconsistency On China By Trump

Gaza Massacre Has Lessons For Taiwan

Trump-Kim Meeting Increasingly Uncertain After America Withdraws From Iran Nuclear Deal

What Will Be The Effect Of Chinese Attempts To Force Airlines To List Taiwan As Part of China?

美國肉：政治虛偽和冷感的素食者，與氣候變遷、畜牧業的關係

China May Be Seeking to Drive the Public into the KMT’s Arms Through Military Intimidation

KMT’s Plans for a Cross-Strait Forum with the CCP Abruptly Cancelled

專訪：鄭文傑

美國肉：政治虛偽和冷感的素食者，與氣候變遷、畜牧業的關係

China May Be Seeking to Drive the Public into the KMT’s Arms Through Military Intimidation

KMT’s Plans for a Cross-Strait Forum with the CCP Abruptly Cancelled

Taiwan News Continues Record of Endangering National Security with Misleading Report on Chinese Rocket Launch