In observing the results of 2020 elections, one notes that the international media reporting generally reported on the defeat of the KMT in both presidential and legislative elections as though it were an overwhelming landslide...
One notes that attempts to target the Tsai administration for its handling of the coronavirus crisis from members of the pan-Blue camp have taken a number of different approaches in past days. That there is no ideological consistency among these attempts to attack the Tsai administration is likely illustrative of the internal splits within the pan-Blue camp...
The protracted saga of Control Yuan member Chen Shih-meng’s resignation reflects the challenges of Taiwan’s democratic transition. The case also points to the splits which continue to exist in the pan-Green camp between the Tsai administration and pan-Green traditionalists that take issue with the moderate political course it has taken...
In evaluating the overall slate of younger candidates run by the DPP, one notes the interesting pattern of that former critics of the Tsai administration ended up aligning with it as part of 2020 campaigning...
New Bloom editor Brian Hioe spoke to Asylum Access, an international NGO working on asylum issues, about the status of asylum laws in Taiwan, the organization's work, and its efforts to work on asylum issues in Taiwan...
The results of 2020 elections led to the reelection of incumbent president Tsai Ing-wen and the DPP retaining its majority in the legislature. However, how should we analyze the election results?...
Tsai Ing-wen of the DPP won reelection by large margins today. Tsai won over eight million votes, winning 57% of votes, and handily defeating her opponent, Han Kuo-Yu of the KMT. In the legislature, the DPP took a total of 61 seats, the KMT 38 seats, the TPP five seats, the NPP three seats, the Taiwan Statebuilding Party one seat...
In tracking political developments in the five years since the Sunflower Movement, one has observed a number of unexpected developments in the past year. First, one has seen increasingly large internal splits among the Third Force, and the sudden and unexpected resurgence of the KMT, which led to the consolidation of the pan-Green camp within the DPP...
There is an observable pattern of last-minute scandals breaking the news shortly before elections are set to take place in Taiwan. This seems to have been the case in the last 72 hours, with a number of scandals about the KMT that have suddenly erupted out in the open, as well as, to a lesser extent, the TPP. Most scandals are relatively minor, with the exception of explosive allegations against Alex Tsai of the KMT, which could potentially have a strong impact on elections tomorrow...
