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...
DPP presidential candidate William Lai has hit out at Lu Shiow-yen’s mayoral administration in Taichung over the Blue Line of the Taichung MRT. Lai alleged that the stops along the line were adjusted in order to please “powerful people'' in Taichung. This has, in turn, been denied by the Lu administration...
Ahead of the January elections, Taiwanese presidential candidates have begun to outline the steps they would take to improve the healthcare system. This takes place even as all candidates are largely in agreement that Taiwan faces fundamental demographic issues regarding its declining birthrate and rising elderly population. As such, the proposed measures take place within this context...
