Recent comments by Ma Ying-Jeou outlining three “Noes” for Taiwan are a clear attempt to influence the course of 2018 local elections in favor of the KMT...
Recently, President Ma Ying-jeou has made a number of erroneous statements about open data, claiming that Taiwan’s number-one ranking on the Open Knowledge Foundation’s open data index is proof of his administration’s overall transparency. In response, Billy Lin, a prominent member of the civic-tech community “g0v” wrote an editorial response to Taiwan’s Apple Daily editorial board...
Recent comments by current DPP general-secretary Joseph Wu recently stirred waves. Wu stated the incoming DPP government under Tsai Ing-Wen will preserve the spirit of cooperation of the 1992 Consensus. What is surprising about Wu’s comments is that the DPP has in the past never acknowledged the existence of the 1992 Consensus...
There seems to exist not only a troubling disconnect from, but also an outright misreading of the situation of the Xi-Ma meeting by foreign governments and media organizations...
After the sudden, unexpected unblocking of Facebook in China for a day, DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-Wen’s Facebook page was flooded by posts attacking Tsai which originated from China...
Evaluations of the Xi-Ma meeting roughly falls into two camps. The first camp are those who insist that the Xi-Ma meeting does not mean very much and those who attribute greater importance to it...
The world may be sucked into the narrative of peaceful reconciliation on the basis of Xi and Ma’s statements during the meeting as reported on by international media...