We might draw parallels between past November local elections in Hong Kong and Taiwan 2016 elections in regard to Taiwan’s “Third Force” and Hong Kong’s “Umbrella Soldiers”...
Freddy Lim’s recent concert at Freedom Plaza has drawn international attention on the basis of the unusual nature of a political rally which was in part a concert by a heavy metal band...
New Bloom took the opportunity to interview Chen Wei-Ting during Chiu Hsien-Chih’s visit to the US on August 30th. As part of the New Power Party, Chen Wei-Ting was requested by Chiu Hsien-Chih to be his campaign manager for his campaign in Hsinchu...
The eleventh hour meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Taiwanese president Ma Ying-Jeou planned for November 7th in Singapore comes as a curveball...
The gay pride parade which is held yearly in Taipei took place this past Saturday. We might use the occasion to more broadly look at the current state of LGBTQ politics in Taiwan...
While there are many analyses that insist on highlighting the disconnection between Taiwan’s unusual political tremors and those of the world’s, comparisons must be drawn regarding the rise of third parties after the Sunflower Movement and across the world....
On August 6th, New Bloom’s Brian Hioe interviewed Huang Kuo-Chang of the New Power Party. Huang Kuo-Chang, formerly a professor at Academica Sinica, was one of the lead figures of the Sunflower Movement....