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Surreal Scenes On NTU Campus Yesterday With Calls For “New May 4th Movement”

Brian Hioe05/05/2018

Controversy regarding the Ministry of Education’s decision to block the appointment of Kuan Chung-Ming as president of NTU continues, with demonstrations taking place on campus yesterday. However, as a result, surreal scenes broke out on the NTU campus, becoming widely discussed among civil society activists on social media...

EnglishMay 2018Politics10 min read

Blocking Of Kuan’s Appointment Unlikely To End NTU Presidential Controversy

Brian Hioe04/30/2018

After much back and forth, the decision by the Ministry of Education to block Kuan Chung-ming from being named president of National Taiwan University has at least settled the matter that Kuan will not be the next president of NTU. But one does not expect controversy regarding Kuan’s blocked appointment to end anytime soon...

April 2018EnglishPolitics13 min read

KMT Asserts Inconsistent Stance On Nuclear Power Simply To Oppose DPP

Brian Hioe04/29/2018

The KMT continues to demonstrates its incoherency with conflicting claims regarding nuclear power. This very likely results from the KMT’s opportunistic embrace of the issue of nuclear power in the hopes that it can leverage on it against the DPP...

April 2018EnglishPolitics6 min read

Violent Attacks On Journalists, Police By Anti-Pension Reform Demonstrators

Brian Hioe04/26/2018

Anger broken out in Taiwanese society after physical violence by pan-Blue demonstrators protesting against pension reform yesterday. What has been shocking and angering has been the use of physical violence by anti-pension demonstrators, particularly against journalists and the police. This led to fourteen journalists and 84 police officers being injured, including the beating of journalists and destruction of their equipment, attacks on media vans, and disruptions to the National Taiwan University Children's Hospital by anti-pension demonstrators...

April 2018EnglishPolitics8 min read

Will The KMT’s Opposition To Pension Reform Ultimately Backfire In 2018 Elections?

Brian Hioe04/24/2018

With a large rally against pension reform taking place yesterday on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office Building that drew hundreds, one observes that KMT continues to leverage on the issue of pension reform as a way to appeal to supporters...

April 2018EnglishPolitics7 min read

Controversy Breaks Out Regarding Transitional Justice Committee Head

Brian Hioe04/11/2018

Controversy has broken out regarding the Tsai administration’s appointment of Huang Huang-xiong as head of the transitional justice promotion committee...

April 2018EnglishPolitics6 min read

KMT’s New Taipei Candidate Demonstrates Checkered Past During Authoritarian Period

Brian Hioe04/10/2018

The KMT has probably learned little from its authoritarian past with the choice of Hou You-yi as its mayoral candidate for New Taipei City, given Hou's actions during the authoritarian period. However, the DPP has also attempted to recruit Hou in the past...

April 2018EnglishPolitics6 min read

KMT Referendums Continue Attempts To Co-Opt Civil Society Tactics

Brian Hioe04/03/2018

Pushes by the KMT for a referendum on food imports from radiation-affected areas in Japan and air pollution are ironic appropriations of referendum reform in Taiwan. This is in line with broader attempts by the KMT to imitate tactics of Taiwanese civil society...

April 2018EnglishPolitics5 min read

Attacks On Independence Activists Indicate Willingness To Use Violence By Pro-Unification Camp

Brian Hioe03/14/2018

Charges filed against youth activists from a pro-independence group for throwing red paint onto the sarcophagus of Chiang Kai-Shek in the Cihu Mausoleum, accusations of Internet censorship, attacks by pro-unfication activists on the longstanding occupation of the Free Taiwan Party outside the Legislative Yuan, and a physical attack by pro-unification activists on Tsay Ting-Kuei of the Free Taiwan Party have provoked outrage...

EnglishMarch 2018Self-DeterminationSocial Movements9 min read

Anger After Attacks On ART Encampment Outside Legislative Yuan By KMT Members

Brian Hioe03/07/2018

Anger has broken out after attacks by purported members of the KMT Youth Corps on the Alliance of Referendum for Taiwan’s long-standing occupation tent outside the Legislative Yuan yesterday...

EnglishMarch 2018Self-DeterminationSocial Movements12 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

Surreal Scenes On NTU Campus Yesterday With Calls For “New May 4th Movement”

Blocking Of Kuan’s Appointment Unlikely To End NTU Presidential Controversy

KMT Asserts Inconsistent Stance On Nuclear Power Simply To Oppose DPP

Violent Attacks On Journalists, Police By Anti-Pension Reform Demonstrators

Will The KMT’s Opposition To Pension Reform Ultimately Backfire In 2018 Elections?

Controversy Breaks Out Regarding Transitional Justice Committee Head

KMT’s New Taipei Candidate Demonstrates Checkered Past During Authoritarian Period

KMT Referendums Continue Attempts To Co-Opt Civil Society Tactics

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