Kuomintang

Calls to Distinguish the National Emblem from the KMT Party Logo Retread Familiar Territory

Brian Hioe
The KMT’s party logo and its similarity to the national emblem has again become an object of political contestation. Last week, the Legislative Yuan passed a resolution calling for the Ministry of Interior to investigate the possibility of changing the national emblem. The Ministry of the Interior is required to produce a report on the matter within two months to report to the Internal Administration Committee of the Legislative Yuan...
EnglishFebruary 2021Self-DeterminationSocial Movements7 min read

Weekend Sees Eighth Death in Taiwan from COVID-19 Since Start of the Pandemic

Brian Hioe
The situation regarding the Taoyuan General Hospital cluster, Taiwan’s first COVID-19 cluster since last April and Taiwan’s largest COVID-19 cluster to date, continues to develop. Friday night saw the first COVID-19 death in eight months, after a woman in her eighties part of the cluster died, and was found to have been infected with COVID-19 after her death...
EnglishFebruary 2021Politics9 min read

Fears of Undetected Transmission Chains Lead to Quarantine of Taoyuan General Hospital Contacts

Brian Hioe
With the cluster of cases linked to the Taoyuan General Hospital having now expanded to a total of fifteen cases, the Central Epidemic Command Center that coordinates Taiwan’s response to COVID-19 has announced that discharged patients that were released from the hospital between January 6 and 19 and their close contacts must undergo a fourteen-day home quarantine...
EnglishJanuary 2021Politics5 min read

KMT Calls for a Lockdown of Taoyuan to Attack the DPP, Disregarding the Human Cost

Brian Hioe
Over the past week, KMT politicians have begun calling for a lockdown of Taoyuan after a cluster of thirteen cases of COVID-19 connected to the Taoyuan General Hospital broke out. This is the first domestic cluster of COVID-19 since last April. However, the situation in Taoyuan is far from one which would warrant the need for a lockdown, and the KMT's call for a lockdown is simply a means to attack the DPP, disregarding what the human consequences of a lockdown for residents of Taoyuan would be...
EnglishJanuary 2021Politics10 min read

American Meat: Through the Overton Window Darkly

Enbion Micah Aan
On Christmas Day 2020, after much contention, the lifting of limits on American pork imports was passed by the Legislative Yuan, with KMT lawmakers vowing to continue to oppose pork imports, possibly by way of referendum. More broadly speaking, media coverage and political discussions around the issue of ractopamine and American pork imports to Taiwan have reached the point of absurdity in past weeks...
December 2020EnglishPolitics9 min read