The political struggle between Ma Ying-Jeou and Ker Chien-Ming ultimately returns to the recent nature of Taiwanese democracy and the unstable nature of many of its institutions...
Tsai's recent visit to Taiwan’s Central American allies highlight the difficulties of Taiwan in maintaining relations with its few remaining diplomatic allies abroad. We might review her trip...
Tsai Ing-Wen's stopover transit in Houston on her way to visit Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and El Salvador and her subsequent meeting with Texas senator and former presidential hopeful Ted Cruz may have drawn hysterics from alarmists, but it is really no more than business as usual. But this non-departure from standard procedure in and of itself is worthy of reflection, and we might take look at how this fits into the current context of Taiwan’s international situation...
The twisted nature of Tawan's workplace culture is evident in that business groups’ solution to what is quite evidently a problem of understaffing after recent labor reforms is not to hire more workers, but in many cases to try and force workers to work overtime. The Tsai administration has not proved much better...
Some claim that the KMT only needs to "localize" to survive its current political crisis. But the truth is that the KMT has already "localized" and this only took the party in an extreme pro-unification direction. We can observe this in the example of Hung Hsiu-Chu herself...
20,000 demonstrated in support of marriage equality in front of the Legislative Yuan today, protests coinciding with the second of two public hearings held by the Legislative Yuan on marriage equality...