It is anxieties about Taiwan's place in the world which undergird arguments for Taiwan’s entrance into the TPP. But in joining the TPP, what do we risk in terms in terms of the values we are willing to throw overboard?...
For those of us who lived through the Sunflower Movement and its aftermath, Joshua Wong’s announcement of his intent to run for legislator in Hong Kong would strike as eerily familiar...
As we reach the one year anniversary of the Umbrella Movement's beginning, we might look back on Hong Kong and Taiwan after the year of the Umbrella Movement and Sunflower Movement...
In early August, New Bloom interviewed Wuer Kaixi, longtime democracy activist and Chinese dissident about his run for legislator in Taichung as an independent....
The complete account of last month's Ministry of Education occupation from New Bloom editor Brian Hioe, who was present for most of the occupation from the beginning....
What were the differences between last year's Sunflower Movement and this year's Anti-Textbook Revision Movement? On the other hand, what was shared?...
Taiwanese conservatives, “Left” unificationists, and ultra-left sectarians, all happen to understand the non-stop stream of student movement as the DPP’s manipulation of nationalism, or its buying of the agitation of young students of Taiwan. This kind of short-sighted and limited analysis, only reflects the lack of understanding of how society changes, but also lacks a recognition of the political and economic reasons for the growing anti-government demonstrations....
Day seven of the occupation included the visit of the White Wolf, the possibility of withdrawal by the students in the future, and the possibility of legal resolutions to the textbook crisis....