TPP

TPP Seeks to Cut Ties with Former Spokesperson Over Chinese Funding

Brian Hioe
The TPP has found itself in hot water over Ma Chi-wei, a former party spokesperson who is now running as an independent legislative candidate, who was found to have received funds from the Chinese government to support her campaign. The funds were transferred through cryptocurrency, ironically enough, as the first major public incident in which the CCP has been found to distribute funds through cryptocurrency to candidates it backs in Taiwan...
EnglishJanuary 2023Politics5 min read

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

Sanho Chung
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...
Cross StraitEnglishInternationalJanuary 2023PoliticsRegional Tensions11 min read

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

Brian Hioe
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...
EnglishJanuary 2023Politics11 min read