Joe Biden has narrowly won the 2020 US presidential election, defeating Donald Trump after obtaining the needed 270 electoral votes to win the election. What will the implications for Taiwan be?...
With vote counts delayed because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the question of who will be the next American president still remains opaque. Joe Biden currently leads at press time, with 225 electoral votes to 213 votes, and 100 electoral votes yet to be called, but many believe that Biden's odds of victory are increasingly slim. What will the stakes be for Taiwan, in the event of a Biden or Trump victory?...
With US presidential elections set to take place on Tuesday, the question of who will be the next American president has been foregrounded in Taiwan...
With hearings held by the National Communications Commission coming up next week regarding television outlet CtiTV’s renewal of its operations license, the issue has become one with which the KMT has sought to attack the DPP. In particular, the KMT has framed the issue as the DPP seeking to shut down CtiTV, as a means of targeting political critics...
The KMT surprised yesterday by proposing two resolutions that passed unanimously in the Legislative Yuan, in a rare show of bipartisanship in Taiwanese electoral politics...
A recent controversy regarding the distribution of counterfeit “Made in Taiwan” masks proves the COVID-19 edition of a long-running social issue in Taiwan...
The KMT unexpectedly reversed course on plans to conduct a cross-strait forum with the CCP earlier this week, citing anger over news reports from Chinese state-run media as the reason for doing so...
That racial discrimination against indigenous continues to be an issue in Taiwan was spotlighted late last month at the Golden Bell Awards after Luo Xiao-yun, the chair of the judging committee for the awards, made ape noises while presenting an award to an indigenous NGO...
The Tsai administration surprised last week, with the announcement that it intended to open Taiwan up to beef and pork imports from America. The move is one which is clearly aimed at removing one of the major political hurdles to a bilateral trade agreement with the US, the US having made this into a precondition of a bilateral trade agreement with Taiwan for well over a decade...
