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The KMT Opening Door for Old Members to Rejoin Reflects Desperation

Brian Hioe11/24/2021

A new resolution passed by the KMT’s Central Standing Committee earlier this month provides an amnesty period, allowing for members that left or were kicked out of the KMT to rejoin before February 17th. This move is part of an initiative by recently elected chair Eric Chu to open the door for old members that have since left the party...

EnglishNovember 2021Politics6 min read

Is the Milk Tea Alliance the Latest Target by Chinese Disinformation Efforts in Taiwan?

Brian Hioe12/17/2020

A recent case involving the recruitment of Taiwanese as agents for spreading disinformation by the Chinese government has not led to a great deal of public attention. But the case is worth examining in detail...

December 2020EnglishSocial MovementsYouth Movements5 min read

CtiTV License Ruling to Prove a Litmus Test for Tsai in Combating Disinformation

Brian Hioe11/18/2020

After weeks of speculation, the National Communication Commission ruled today that it would not be renewing the license of television broadcaster CtiTV. One expects the ruling to lead to resistance from the KMT, as well as accusations against the Tsai administration that it is violating freedoms of press in Taiwan from the pan-Blue camp...

EnglishNovember 2020Politics17 min read

Is the Passage of the Anti-Infiltration Act More A Political Stunt, Than Anything Else?

Brian Hioe01/01/2020

The passage of the Anti-Infiltration Act yesterday, on the last day of the year, is more likely a political stunt more than anything else...

EnglishJanuary 2020Politics6 min read

Party Policy Presentations Reveal Battle Lines Between Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Brian Hioe12/31/2019

The party policy presentations which took place on December 6th, as organized by the Citizens’ Congress Watch, largely proved a non-starter in terms of genuine debate between the parties. Instead, debate largely took place between the pan-Green and pan-Blue alliances...

December 2019EnglishPolitics6 min read

Is Controversy Regarding the Anti-Infiltration Bill a Fake Political Issue?

Brian Hioe12/28/2019

Controversy regarding a new anti-infiltration bill that the Tsai administration intends to pass before the end of the year largely proves a false issue. Namely, while Tsai seems in a rush to pass the bill before the year’s end and the KMT claims that the DPP is infringing on political freedoms and shrugging off legal oversight measures to pass the bill so quickly, it is actually quite unlikely the bill will do much to stop Chinese efforts to influence Taiwanese elections...

December 2019EnglishPolitics8 min read

Comments by New Party’s Presidential Candidate Point to Broader Issues Regarding Misogyny in Taiwanese Politics

Brian Hioe07/12/2019

The New Party, unsurprisingly, illustrated its misogyny after recent comments by Yang Shih-kuang, the director of the party’s Youth Corps and its presidential candidate in next year’s presidential election, regarding current President Tsai Ing-wen...

EnglishJuly 2019Politics5 min read

Few Reactions To Wang Ping-Chung Arrest Indicate That Taiwanese Society Accepts Veracity Of Spying Charges

Brian Hioe06/30/2018

With Wang Ping-Chung, his father Wang Ching-Pu, and fellow New Party officials Ho Han-ting and Lin Ming-cheng indicted on charges of espionage for spying on China earlier this month, this has prompted few reactions from Taiwanese society. This likely indicates that Taiwanese society has largely come to accept the veracity of charges against them...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJune 20185 min read

Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

Brian Hioe05/28/2018

Reflexive anger from Taiwanese publishers after reports earlier this month by the United Daily News that the Ministry of Culture was planning on screening Chinese books allowed to be published in China shows in microcosm the dilemmas facing free speech in Taiwan. Yet this also shows why free speech is aggressively defended in Taiwan and unlikely to come under threat from the government anytime soon...

EnglishMay 2018Politics6 min read

Comments By Wang Ping-Chung In Global Times Provoke Outrage

Brian Hioe01/17/2018

Comments by Wang Ping-Chung of the New Party in an op-ed submitted by Wang to a Chinese state-run media outlet, the Global Times, have provoked outrage, due to Wang stating outright in the op-ed that “China cannot wait for unification". Wang, a prominent figure of the New Party, is currently under scrutiny due to charges that he operated a news outlet for China aimed at pro-unification views in Taiwan, with the aim of eventually developing an espionage network for China...

Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJanuary 20189 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

KMT Seeks to Attack Tsai Administration Over US and Chinese Vessels Passing Near Itu Aba/Taiping Island

Natural Disaster Disinformation Leans on Conspiratorial Thinking

China Threatens to End ECFA Ahead of Elections

Interviews

A Conversation with Diane Wilson Near Day 30 of a Water-Only Hunger Strike Against Formosa Plastics

Cartoons as a Tool for Democracy: A Conversation with Stellina Chen

Radio New Bloom #19: Coen Blaauw on Thirty Years of Pro-Taiwan Advocacy in Washington

Politics

Ahead of Elections, Motorcycle Riders Rally for Rights

Match-Fixing Scandal Reflects Familiar Issues

Hundreds Gather in Daan Park for Taipei Peace Rally for Palestine

Social Movements

New Party

The KMT Opening Door for Old Members to Rejoin Reflects Desperation

CtiTV License Ruling to Prove a Litmus Test for Tsai in Combating Disinformation

Is the Passage of the Anti-Infiltration Act More A Political Stunt, Than Anything Else?

Party Policy Presentations Reveal Battle Lines Between Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camps

Is Controversy Regarding the Anti-Infiltration Bill a Fake Political Issue?

Comments by New Party’s Presidential Candidate Point to Broader Issues Regarding Misogyny in Taiwanese Politics

Few Reactions To Wang Ping-Chung Arrest Indicate That Taiwanese Society Accepts Veracity Of Spying Charges

Backlash Against Reported Plans To Censor Chinese Books Shows High Value Placed On Free Speech In Taiwan

Comments By Wang Ping-Chung In Global Times Provoke Outrage

Ahead of Elections, Motorcycle Riders Rally for Rights

Match-Fixing Scandal Reflects Familiar Issues

A Conversation with Diane Wilson Near Day 30 of a Water-Only Hunger Strike Against Formosa Plastics

Collective Statement on Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Ahead of Elections, Motorcycle Riders Rally for Rights

Match-Fixing Scandal Reflects Familiar Issues

A Conversation with Diane Wilson Near Day 30 of a Water-Only Hunger Strike Against Formosa Plastics

Collective Statement on Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Hundreds Gather in Daan Park for Taipei Peace Rally for Palestine