The Executive Yuan has finally released its draft bill on legalization for same-sex unions. Yet the draft bill does not allow gay couples the same rights that heterosexual couples currently enjoy in many crucial aspects. What will this mean for efforts to realize marriage equality in Taiwan?...
Responding to a call for progress towards an independence referendum, the American Institute in Taiwan, America’s de facto embassy in Taiwan has explicitly rejected efforts to change Taiwan’s status quo. The move is paradoxical. While the US praises Taiwan for its democracy and states that the decisions to island’s future should be left to the people of Taiwan, it at the same time hopes to discourage the people of Taiwan from making a decision on their political future...
A group of Republican senators recently called on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to invite Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen to speak at a session of the US Congress. However, this notion would be criticized by former AIT head Richard Bush, among others. Bush would later also criticize the notion of the holding a referendum on Taiwanese independence, something later backed up by comments from AIT stating that America would not be in support of a referendum...
Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen recently made use of a Lunar New Year gala held with prominent Taiwanese business leaders normally based in China to declare that Taiwanese businesses should return their manufacturing and production to Taiwan from China. But how likely is this to actually take place?...
Taiwanese political leaders took the opportunity to criticize China’s lack of democracy in their Lunar New Year’s messages, as observed in speeches by president Tsai Ing-wen and premier Su Tseng-chang...
As Taiwanese NGO worker Lee Ming-che approaches his 700th day in jail, Chinese actions to retaliate against his family for efforts to continue to advocate for his release have escalated...
Speculation about who will run in 2020 presidential elections has already begun in Taiwan. Perhaps this is unsurprising. Presidential elections will likely take place in January of next year, meaning that elections are scarcely a year away...
A statement by indigenous members of the Indigenous Historical Justice and Transitional Justice Committee on Tuesday has received a great deal of attention for affirming indigenous sovereignty against Chinese territorial claims over Taiwan...
A fierce confrontation took place between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen over the new year. In response to statements by Xi on the 40th anniversary of the “Message to the Compatriots of Taiwan,” which could be described as a threat, Tsai’s quick and immediate response rallied the Taiwanese public and pressured the media and forced politicians across the political spectrum to affirm their stances in response. But what now?...