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Is The Ma Indictment A Sign Of The Party Assets Probe Targeting Higher-Level KMT Officials?

Brian Hioe07/19/2018

The recent indictment of former president Ma Ying-Jeou on charges tied to the KMT’s illegal party assets and KMT-affiliated organizations would have been more or less an inevitable event, if the DPP is serious about its ongoing probe into illegal party assets of the KMT. However, is this a sign that the KMT party assets probe is expanding?...

EnglishJuly 2018Politics7 min read

Real Estate Scandals Continue To Face KMT Politicians?

Brian Hioe07/17/2018

Two recent incidents prove examples of murky KMT politics at the local level, with KMT politicians in both urban and rural areas implicated in scandals regarding real estate. This can be observed both with a scandal regarding a dorm complex owned by KMT mayoral candidate Hou You-yi and the sentencing of former Yunlin County commissioner Chang Jung-wei by the Supreme Court...

EnglishJuly 2018Politics7 min read

DPP, KMT, PFP Fail To Take Action Against Religious Cults

Brian Hioe07/15/2018

The DPP, KMT, and PFP have failed to take action to curb scams masquerading as religious organizations with the passage of the Financial Group and Corporation Law after its third reading in the Legislative Yuan...

EnglishJuly 2018Politics5 min read

Challenges To Pension Reform From KMT And “800 Heroes” Likely To Continue

Brian Hioe06/27/2018

Despite the DPP passing the pension reform bill for public servants, teachers, and military veterans it has struggled to push through legislature for some time, one expects that challenges to the bill will continue in the future...

EnglishJune 2018Politics5 min read

Conflict Between The DPP, KMT, And Ko Behind The Wu Yin-ning Scandal?

Brian Hioe06/14/2018

Controversy has broken out over actions by Taipei Agricultural Products Marketing Corporation director Wu Yin-ning. While opponents of Wu allege corruption or at least incompetence, defenders of Wu allege that Wu has been caught in the crossfire between the KMT, DPP, and Taipei mayor Ko Wen-Je...

EnglishJune 2018Politics12 min read

Visit To China By Top KMT Officials Illustrates Disrespect For Taiwan’s Democratic Institutions

Brian Hioe06/06/2018

A recent visit by high-ranking KMT officials to Xiamen to conduct the tenth annual Straits Forum this week indicates the KMT’s fundamental disrespect of the institutions of Taiwanese democracy. This is nothing surprising...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 20186 min read

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

Brian Hioe05/16/2018

With former president Ma Ying-Jeou facing four months of imprisonment after being found guilty of leaking classified information by the Taiwan High Court, it seems predictable that the KMT will leverage on this fact to claim political persecution by the DPP...

EnglishMay 2018Politics7 min read

Civic Groups Call On Tsai Administration To Transition To Jury-Based System

Brian Hioe05/11/2018

With over 1,000 demonstrating on May 5th to call for implementation of a jury trial system, members of the public continue to attempt to push the Tsai administration towards advocacy for a jury-based system...

EnglishMay 2018Self-DeterminationSocial Movements6 min read

Claims By SCMP That Ma Can Run For A Third Presidential Term Are Ludicrous

Brian Hioe05/10/2018

A recent article in the South China Morning Post by Lawrence Chung has provoked ire, with its bizarre suggestion that former president Ma Ying-Jeou pursue the Taiwanese presidency for a third term. Indeed, the factual errors and implausible speculations of this article only go to show how much the South China Morning Post has deteriorated as a publication, in becoming little more than a propaganda organ for China...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 min read

Path Dependency By The KMT And DPP In Taipei Mayoral Elections?

Brian Hioe05/08/2018

In surprising fashion, the KMT and DPP may be converging on similar tactics in its choice of political candidates in 2018 elections, at least where Taipei mayoral candidates are concerned. This perhaps illustrates that the DPP and KMT are in many ways caught in the same bind politically at present...

EnglishMay 2018Politics8 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

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

China Aims to Frame DPP as Reluctant to Open Up Tours with Partial Resumption

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

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

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Over 100 Americans in Taiwan Send Letter to AIT

NCC Chair Appointment Becomes Firestorm Between Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

Social Movements

Kuomintang

Is The Ma Indictment A Sign Of The Party Assets Probe Targeting Higher-Level KMT Officials?

Real Estate Scandals Continue To Face KMT Politicians?

DPP, KMT, PFP Fail To Take Action Against Religious Cults

Challenges To Pension Reform From KMT And “800 Heroes” Likely To Continue

Conflict Between The DPP, KMT, And Ko Behind The Wu Yin-ning Scandal?

Visit To China By Top KMT Officials Illustrates Disrespect For Taiwan’s Democratic Institutions

Ma Charged Over September Political Struggle

Claims By SCMP That Ma Can Run For A Third Presidential Term Are Ludicrous

Path Dependency By The KMT And DPP In Taipei Mayoral Elections?

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Over 100 Americans in Taiwan Send Letter to AIT

NCC Chair Appointment Becomes Firestorm Between Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Unions Mark International Workers’ Day with March

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

Israel/Palestine Conflict: Over 100 Americans in Taiwan Send Letter to AIT

NCC Chair Appointment Becomes Firestorm Between Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Fu Kun-chi Returns from Trip to China, Touts Dividends

China Aims to Frame DPP as Reluctant to Open Up Tours with Partial Resumption