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CtiTV License Ruling to Prove a Litmus Test for Tsai in Combating Disinformation

Brian Hioe11/18/2020

After weeks of speculation, the National Communication Commission ruled today that it would not be renewing the license of television broadcaster CtiTV. One expects the ruling to lead to resistance from the KMT, as well as accusations against the Tsai administration that it is violating freedoms of press in Taiwan from the pan-Blue camp...

EnglishNovember 2020Politics17 min read

RCEP Trade Pact Exclusion Debated in Taiwan

Brian Hioe11/17/2020

Concerns have been raised in Taiwan regarding Taiwan’s exclusion from the recently inked RCEP, a regional multilateral free trade pact linking fifteen economies. The deal was signed on Sunday at the biannual ASEAN Summit, which was held in Vietnam this year, though much of the summit proceedings took place online because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic...

EnglishInternationalNovember 2020Regional Tensions9 min read

Ma Ying-jeou Attempts to Hit Back at Tsai on Fifth Anniversary of Ma-Xi Meeting

Brian Hioe11/12/2020

Former president Ma Ying-jeou has continued to lash out at current president Tsai Ing-wen, accusing Tsai of undoing his efforts aimed at achieving peace across the Taiwan Straits. In particular, Ma’s latest attack on Tsai took place in the context of a conference held by the Ma Ying-jeou Foundation in Taipei marking the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Ma-Xi meeting earlier this month...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalNovember 20206 min read

KMT Likely to Make CtiTV’s Operations License Renewal into a Contested Issue

Brian Hioe10/24/2020

With hearings held by the National Communications Commission coming up next week regarding television outlet CtiTV’s renewal of its operations license, the issue has become one with which the KMT has sought to attack the DPP. In particular, the KMT has framed the issue as the DPP seeking to shut down CtiTV, as a means of targeting political critics...

EnglishOctober 2020Politics6 min read

KMT Denies Considering Name Change for Party

Brian Hioe10/21/2020

KMT chair Johnny Chiang rejected suggestions that the party was considering changing its name last week, with signs of a growing internal split in the KMT. Chiang was asked about the issue after the party passed a resolution to seek to reestablish formal diplomatic ties between the ROC and the US. The resolution surprised, because of the KMT’s historical advocacy of unification between Taiwan and China...

EnglishOctober 2020Politics6 min read

Despite Moderate Tone During National Day Speech, China Strikes Back at Tsai Administration

Brian Hioe10/13/2020

During National Day, the celebration of the Republic of China’s founding, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen struck a moderate tone in her state address. Tsai touted Taiwan’s successes fighting COVID-19 and economic growth in spite of the pandemic, while also promising to encourage innovation, and strengthen ties with the international world...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalOctober 20208 min read

Constitutional Reform Likely to be an Issue that Divides Along Partisan Lines

Brian Hioe10/09/2020

Constitutional reform is set to take center stage as a leading issue in the current legislative session, with a number of key issues on the table. However, it is less clear what the ultimate results of constitutional reform will be, given conflicting and irreconcilable imperatives between the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps...

EnglishOctober 2020Politics6 min read

KMT Surprises with Resolution to Seek Formal Diplomatic Ties with the US

Brian Hioe10/07/2020

The KMT surprised yesterday by proposing two resolutions that passed unanimously in the Legislative Yuan, in a rare show of bipartisanship in Taiwanese electoral politics...

EnglishOctober 2020Politics8 min read

Calls for Removing Sun Yat-Sen Portraits Particularly Salient Ahead of National Day

Brian Hioe10/05/2020

DPP legislators Fan Yun and Chang Jui-hsiung recently called for the requirement that elected officials swear their oaths to a portrait of Sun Yat-sen to be dropped. Unsurprisingly, this has prompted backlash from KMT legislators such as Chen Yixin, who accused this of being the DPP’s latest effort to erase symbols of the ROC...

EnglishOctober 2020Politics6 min read

Krach Visit Ends, Though American Delegation Seeks to Keep a Low Profile

Brian Hioe09/21/2020

A three-day to Taiwan by American Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment Keith Krach ended yesterday, though not without some controversy...

EnglishInternationalRegional TensionsSeptember 20208 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

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

After Nine Years, Second Ma-Xi Meeting Occurs in Beijing

DPP Aims to Strengthen Laws Regarding Treason, Leaks

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

Taiwan and China Continue to Contest Air Traffic

No, the DPP is Not About to Remove Chiang Kai-shek Statues En Masse

Social Movements

Kuomintang

CtiTV License Ruling to Prove a Litmus Test for Tsai in Combating Disinformation

RCEP Trade Pact Exclusion Debated in Taiwan

Ma Ying-jeou Attempts to Hit Back at Tsai on Fifth Anniversary of Ma-Xi Meeting

KMT Likely to Make CtiTV’s Operations License Renewal into a Contested Issue

KMT Denies Considering Name Change for Party

Despite Moderate Tone During National Day Speech, China Strikes Back at Tsai Administration

Constitutional Reform Likely to be an Issue that Divides Along Partisan Lines

KMT Surprises with Resolution to Seek Formal Diplomatic Ties with the US

Calls for Removing Sun Yat-Sen Portraits Particularly Salient Ahead of National Day

Krach Visit Ends, Though American Delegation Seeks to Keep a Low Profile

Rally Calling for Child Protections Takes Place on Ketagalan Boulevard

Anti-Nuclear Protest Takes Place in Front of Legislature to Mark Tenth Anniversary of 427 Street Occupation

Environmental Groups Seek to Pressure DPP on Carbon Emissions

Taiwan and China Continue to Contest Air Traffic

Taiwan and China Continue to Contest Air Traffic

No, the DPP is Not About to Remove Chiang Kai-shek Statues En Masse