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Trump’s Recent Handling Of South Korea Should Be Lesson For Taiwan

Brian Hioe04/26/2017

Trump's recent handling of South Korea should be concerning for Taiwan. For one, Trump suggested that Korea had once been part of China, which obviously does not bode well for Taiwan given China's claims over it. Likewise, Trump was willing to lie outright regarding the possibility of intervention against North Korean missile tests...

April 2017EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions5 min read

Coverage Of North Korean Missile Crisis Draws Parallels To Coverage Of Taiwan

Brian Hioe04/23/2017

It draws interesting parallels to Taiwan to note that, as the world descended into panic over the possibility of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula over the possibility of North Korean nuclear testing leading to an American reprisals, South Koreans were hardly panicking...

America and the Asia PacificApril 2017EnglishInternational5 min read

Inconsistent Reports On The Trump-Xi Summit Show Need To Be Skeptical Of Official Narratives

Brian Hioe04/15/2017

Inconsistent reports on whether Taiwan was mentioned or not at the Trump-Xi summit earlier this month illustrate the need to distrust media reports and to generally be more deeply skeptical of comments about Taiwan by either the Trump or Xi administrations...

April 2017EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions7 min read

First Trump-Xi Meeting Goes Off Without a Hitch, Uncertainty Still Looms Large For Taiwan

Garrett Dee04/10/2017

Though world may have awaited with baited breath the first meeting between recently-inaugurated US president Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping at Trump’s Florida club Mar-a-Lago which occurred last week, reports coming out of the two-day event indicate an almost entirely conventional summit with no major surprises. Nevertheless, uncertainty still looms large for Taiwan...

April 2017EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions16 min read

What Does Bannon’s Ouster From The National Security Council Mean For Taiwan?

Brian Hioe04/09/2017

Dangers continue for Taiwan in regards to the Trump administration if the loss of power of Steve Bannon within the Trump administration merely means the replacement of one figure in the Trump administration which could be dangerous for Taiwan with another...

America and the Asia PacificApril 2017EnglishInternational9 min read

Taiwan’s THAAD Question: To THAAD Or Not To THAAD, If At All?

Brian Hioe04/07/2017

The question of what stance Taiwan should take regarding the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense antimissile defense system is one highly revealing of Taiwan’s dilemma of being caught between the superpowers of America and China...

America and the Asia PacificApril 2017EnglishInternational10 min read

Ahead Of Trump-Xi Meeting, Umbrella And Sunflower Activists Condemn Lee Ming-Che Arrest

Brian Hioe04/02/2017

Joshua Wong of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and Lin Fei-Fan, Chen Wei-Ting, and Huang Kuo-Chang of Taiwan's Sunflower Movement held a joint press conference in Taipei today regarding the detention of Taiwanese human rights activist Lee Ming-Che and the upcoming meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and American president Donald Trump...

#16April 2017EnglishSelf-DeterminationSocial Movements12 min read

Looking Back On Rex Tillerson’s Meeting With Xi Jinping

Brian Hioe03/29/2017

Looking back on American secretary of state Rex Tillerson’s visit to Asia and meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, one observes that verdicts were sharply divided in critical evaluations...

#16America and the Asia PacificEnglishInternationalMarch 20177 min read

“Friends Of Taiwan” In The Trump Administration Cannot Be Counted On

Brian Hioe03/10/2017

One of the paradoxes of uncritical pro-Americanism on the part of some Taiwanese independence advocates is that sometimes they do not actually know the most about American politics. One finds that assessments of Donald Trump remain wildly off the mark, due to lack of knowledge about the political forces which have arrayed themselves behind him and the man himself...

#16America and the Asia PacificEnglishInternationalMarch 20175 min read

Is Discussion About American Marines At AIT Overexaggerated?

Brian Hioe03/04/2017

That public discussion has been disproportionately large regarding the posting of what would probably be approximately a dozen or so American marines to AIT’s new facilities in Neihu illustrates the highly charged nature of the diplomatic relationship between America and Taiwan in recent months...

EnglishMarch 2017Politics6 min read

Arts/Culture

Calling For a Return to Sinocentrism in the Name of Opposing It: Responding to ‘Reconsidering Sinophone Studies’

Re/writing COVID-19 in China: Solidarity as Metonym for Historical Truth?

How Taipei Became the Home of Live Comedy During the Pandemic

International

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

After Nine Years, Second Ma-Xi Meeting Occurs in Beijing

DPP Aims to Strengthen Laws Regarding Treason, Leaks

Interviews

“Trying to Gain More Autonomy in Our Narrative”: An Interview with René Hà on Stamped

Reflecting on an Ongoing Genocide: A Conversation with the Interviewees of All Static & Noise

Interview: David Novack and Janice Engelhart on All Static & Noise

Politics

Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camp Contention Over Media Regulation Continues

DPP Criticizes KMT Over Pension Vote

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

Social Movements

Trump administration

Trump’s Recent Handling Of South Korea Should Be Lesson For Taiwan

Coverage Of North Korean Missile Crisis Draws Parallels To Coverage Of Taiwan

Inconsistent Reports On The Trump-Xi Summit Show Need To Be Skeptical Of Official Narratives

First Trump-Xi Meeting Goes Off Without a Hitch, Uncertainty Still Looms Large For Taiwan

What Does Bannon’s Ouster From The National Security Council Mean For Taiwan?

Taiwan’s THAAD Question: To THAAD Or Not To THAAD, If At All?

Looking Back On Rex Tillerson’s Meeting With Xi Jinping

“Friends Of Taiwan” In The Trump Administration Cannot Be Counted On

Is Discussion About American Marines At AIT Overexaggerated?

Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camp Contention Over Media Regulation Continues

DPP Criticizes KMT Over Pension Vote

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security

Four Decades of Strife and Resistance: A Deep Dive Into What’s Happening in West Papua

Pan-Blue and Pan-Green Camp Contention Over Media Regulation Continues

DPP Criticizes KMT Over Pension Vote

TSMC’s Development of Arizona Semiconductor Plant Could Have Implications for Taiwan’s Security