Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen gave a New Year’s address earlier today. This is the last New Year’s address of Tsai’s presidency, seeing as her second and final term will end later this year. Elections will take place on January 13th to decide who Taiwan’s next president will be...
Reports indicate that a Taiwanese member of I-Kuan Tao, a Daoist religious organization, was detained in China on charges of entering China under the auspices of tourism to spread the religion...
The only presidential debate of the election season took place today. This took place after three presidential policy presentations, which are not formal debates, but often amount to de facto debates. These took place on December 20th, December 26th, and December 28th...
The third and final presidential policy presentation took place on Thursday. This is the last of the three presidential policy platforms that will take place before the formal debates between presidential candidates...
A fatal stabbing incident in New Taipei at a school has led to the candidates of all of the major parties to pledge to enact measures to ensure the safety of students in Taiwan...
With less than twenty days left until elections next month, the race has largely come down to a competition between Lai Ching-te of the DPP and Hou You-yi of the KMT. At this stage in the election, candidates have taken to attacks on each other hoping to magnify scandals of the other candidates. One notes that a number of these scandals revolve around similar themes...
The second presidential policy presentation took place yesterday afternoon. Compared to the first presidential policy presentation, the exchanges between the candidates were less heated and mostly focused on domestic policy. As with the first presidential policy presentation, there were three rounds of exchanges...
China has again sought to pressure Taiwan through economic means ahead of the upcoming election. This has taken the form of a carrot-and-stick approach as of late, however, with China announcing that tax concessions for twelve chemical compound imports will be suspended...
The first presidential policy presentation took place on December 20th. The format is not strictly a debate, as it offers more limited opportunities for exchanges between presidential candidates. Nevertheless, it usually amounts to a de facto debate, and candidates usually do attack each other in the course of the policy presentation...
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...
