Taiwan People’s Party

Does “Hong Kong Influence” Linger in the 2024 Taiwan Election?

It has been widely recognized that Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement in 2019 was the turning point of the 2020 General Election in Taiwan. In the last general election, Beijing’s hardline crackdown on the protests in Hong Kong gave rise to the Taiwanese’s mistrust of China and finally brought a big win to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which was expected to lose both their majority over the Legislative Yuan and their presidency. But after three years of National Security Law (NSL) enactment in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong issue in this general election seems no longer as focal as it was. How should we make sense of this huge contrast in attention? Has “Hong Kong Influence” faded out totally...

Vice Presidential Debate Sees Theatrics by Jaw, Hsiao Echoing Tsai Ing-wen, and Verbal Stumbles by Wu

The vice presidential debate took place this afternoon. This was the last of the debates held as part of the presidential campaign season, coming after three presidential policy platform presentations that are not formal debates on December 20th, December 26th, and December 28th, one vice presidential presidential policy platform presentation, and one presidential debate...