Reports indicate that a Taiwanese member of I-Kuan Tao, a Daoist religious organization, was detained in China on charges of entering China under the auspices of tourism to spread the religion...
The only presidential debate of the election season took place today. This took place after three presidential policy presentations, which are not formal debates, but often amount to de facto debates. These took place on December 20th, December 26th, and December 28th...
The third and final presidential policy presentation took place on Thursday. This is the last of the three presidential policy platforms that will take place before the formal debates between presidential candidates...
A fatal stabbing incident in New Taipei at a school has led to the candidates of all of the major parties to pledge to enact measures to ensure the safety of students in Taiwan...
With less than twenty days left until elections next month, the race has largely come down to a competition between Lai Ching-te of the DPP and Hou You-yi of the KMT. At this stage in the election, candidates have taken to attacks on each other hoping to magnify scandals of the other candidates. One notes that a number of these scandals revolve around similar themes...
The second presidential policy presentation took place yesterday afternoon. Compared to the first presidential policy presentation, the exchanges between the candidates were less heated and mostly focused on domestic policy. As with the first presidential policy presentation, there were three rounds of exchanges...
The vice presidential policy presentation took place on December 22nd. Though the format is not a debate, it is often a de facto debate–compared to the first presidential policy platform presentation a few days earlier, it was still more of a debate. The order was Cynthia Wu of the TPP, Jaw Shaw-kong of the KMT, and Hsiao Bikhim of the DPP...
The first presidential policy presentation took place on December 20th. The format is not strictly a debate, as it offers more limited opportunities for exchanges between presidential candidates. Nevertheless, it usually amounts to a de facto debate, and candidates usually do attack each other in the course of the policy presentation...
With less than a month until elections take place in Taiwan, the KMT’s messaging proves to be highly unusual. In particular, the party does not seem to have a coherent strategy, caught between efforts to moderate its message and try to appeal to the hardliners of the deep Blue camp...
In a surprise move, TPP presidential candidate Ko Wen-je has stated that he intends to maintain the current foreign policy of President Tsai Ing-wen, except that he would place greater emphasis on exchanges with China. This seems to be an attempt by Ko to swerve after the embarrassing debacle in which he rowed with KMT presidential candidate Hou You-yi, as well as independent candidate Terry Gou on live television...
