China's Taiwan Affairs Office announced sanctions on five Taiwanese citizens, as well as their family members, earlier this week. These five individuals are Huang Shih-tsung, Lee Zheng-hao, Liu Bao-jie, Wang Yi-chuan, and Yu Pei-chen...
An incident involving the following of Taiwanese Vice President-elect Hsiao Bikhim’s motorcade by a vehicle driven by a Chinese military attache in Prague last week proves revealing. The Chinese military attache was following Hsiao in a vehicle, as a means of harassment, and was stopped by Czech police due to his following Hsiao’s motorcade...
The vice presidential policy presentation took place on December 22nd. Though the format is not a debate, it is often a de facto debate–compared to the first presidential policy platform presentation a few days earlier, it was still more of a debate. The order was Cynthia Wu of the TPP, Jaw Shaw-kong of the KMT, and Hsiao Bikhim of the DPP...
Controversy has broken out about the DPP and TPP vice presidential candidates regarding allegations about whether they hold US citizenship. In particular, the DPP is fielding former representative to the US, Hsiao Bikhim, as its vice presidential candidate. On the other hand, the TPP is fielding legislator Cynthia Wu as its vice presidential candidate. The KMT is fielding pan-Blue firebrand and media personality Jaw Shaw-kong as their vice presidential candidate, though he has not become embroiled in any citizenship controversy...
