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Does China Plan On Investigating Taiwanese Companies For Their Political Donations?

Brian Hioe
DPP legislators would in the past week make allegations that the Chinese government has begun investigating whether Taiwanese businesses operating in China have made donations to the pan-Green political camp. If found to have done so, the Chinese government reportedly intends to take punitive measures against such companies, forcing them to make statements acknowledging the 1992 Consensus or otherwise acknowledging a political stance that Taiwan is a part of China ...
EnglishInternationalRegional TensionsSeptember 20186 min read

KMT Lashes Out At Tsai Administration’s Handling Of Flooding

Brian Hioe
Criticisms of the Tsai administration’s handling of flooding in southern Taiwan in the past week have been seized upon by members of the pan-Blue camp. Some of this has bordered on fake news and it is unlikely that a KMT administration would have done any differently. All this would point to the KMT’s lack of any concrete policy platform upon which to contest the DPP, with the KMT instead latching onto any criticisms that it can...
August 2018EnglishPolitics5 min read

What Are The Takeaways From Tsai’s US Visit?

Brian Hioe
A recent visit by Taiwanese president to America has received much attention, with this being seen as a sign of stronger ties between Taiwan and America in the wake of the passage of the Taiwan Travel Act. However, first, the visit represents incremental change far more than it does a substantial break from previous American policy towards Taiwan, and second, one actually observes increased wariness of the Trump administration from the Tsai administration in the course of the visit...
America and the Asia PacificAugust 2018EnglishInternational9 min read

Politicization Of Comfort Women Issue Prevents Justice For Being Realized For Survivors

Brian Hioe
Unfortunately, it continues to be unlikely that Taiwanese comfort women who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese empire will see justice in their lifetimes given the politicization of the issue by both pan-Blue and pan-Green political actors, and the reluctance of the current Japanese government to make any genuine apology for its actions during World War II...
August 2018EnglishInternationalRegional Tensions8 min read