The Formosa Alliance held a rally this afternoon outside DPP headquarters in Taipei in order to push for a referendum on the name Taiwan will participate in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics under. Organizers claimed that 120,000 were in attendance...
The Taipei mayoral election continues to be a political minefield for independents, with clashes in the Third Force regarding the New Power Party’s stance on current mayor Ko Wen-Je...
On May 12th, New Bloom editor Brian Hioe and Ferran Pérez Mena interviewed Miao Po-ya of the Social Democratic Party, who is running in the Daan-Wenshan area of Taipei. This is part of New Bloom's ongoing series of interviews with independent city councilor candidates, as part of its special 2018 election coverage...
The declaration by Third Force parties, along with former presidents Chen Shui-Bian and Lee Teng-Hui and other influential figures, that they intend to seek a referendum on Taiwanese independence poses a significant challenge to the DPP...
A “civil war” between post-Sunflower Movement “Third Force” parties, composed of activists that sought to enter electoral politics after the movement, is a possibility in the lead-up to 2018 elections. Namely, it is possible that multiple Third Force parties will run in the same areas, leading to conflict....
Recent incidents of urban demolition or evictions in Taichung and Kaohsiung have led to resistance from youth activists and others. We might take a look...
Questions about the possibilities for multiparty politics in Taiwan remain salient after the results of 2016 elections, with the expansion of third party politics...
Can we trace the victory of Tsai Ing-Wen for president and the overwhelming victory of the DPP in legislature back to the Sunflower Movement? Both yes and no...
If most international attention has focused on Tsai Ing-Wen's victory over Eric Chu in presidential elections, who were the winners and losers of legislative elections?...