Chinese state-run media has sought to frame DPP legislator Puma Shen as under investigation by government authorities. This proves unusual, seeing as China does not control Taiwan, and there would be little way for China to enforce any judicial rulings against Shen...
It proves notable that, according to the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the number of Taiwanese detained by China has tripled this year. This follows up on previous statements by the MAC that nine Taiwanese go missing in China each month. Although some Taiwanese may have simply befallen unfortunate accidents and gone missing, such as while hiking, it is believed that these disappearances are primarily individuals held on political causes...
Attacks by the KMT on DPP legislator Puma Shen have continued. In recent days, however, this has taken the unusual turn of claiming that Shen is an American spy. KMT legislative caucus leader Fu Kun-chi has been particularly emphatic on such claims...
China has updated its list of Taiwanese independence advocates that it sanctions. In particular, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) announced last month that it has opened a new mailbox for individuals to report tips on what are termed “Taiwanese independence hired thugs”. According to the TAO, it has received 323 reports to date. Eleven individuals are listed as “hired thugs”...
The KMT has hit out at the Kuma Academy as of late, with continued accusations over the Kuma Academy’s funding. The Kuma Academy is one of, but not the only, Taiwan’s civil defense training organizations...
The KMT has hit out at funding for the Kuma Academy, the best-known of Taiwan’s civil defense initiatives. In particular, the KMT has accused fundraising efforts for the Kuma Academy–which took place on a public welfare fundraising platform run by the Ministry of Health and Welfare–as being an effort to fund political activities. Laws forbid political activities from fundraising on public welfare platforms...
China announced a new round of military exercises around Taiwan, titled “Joint Sword-2024B”, this morning. This confirms, then, suspicions that the Chinese government would use Lai’s National Day address on October 10th as a pretext to launch military drills around Taiwan...
The Taiwan Statebuilding Party held a press conference late last week about an incident involving an Eslite customer receiving phone calls from two Chinese individuals pretending to be customer service after purchasing a copy of If China Attacks...
New Bloom interviewed Puma Shen, assistant professor at the National Taipei University’s Graduate School of Criminology and the director of the DoubleThink Labs, on issues regarding fake news and disinformation in Taiwan before the election and efforts to combat this...
