Politics Sunny Days and Nuclear Disasters: The China Factor in Taiwan’s Local Elections November 21, 2014 0 Written by Stefan Fleischauer. Taiwan is gearing up for the largest slate of local elections it has ever seen to date. On 29 November, more…
Politics Protest Songs and Taiwanese Identity in the Sunflower Movement April 9, 2014 3 Written by Marie-Alice McLean-Dreyfus. The current protests in Taiwan point to the emergence of a unified and more clearly articulated definition of what it means to…
Politics In Defense of the Sunflower Movement April 9, 2014 7 Written by J. Michael Cole. Aside from shedding light on a poorly crafted and potentially harmful services trade pact with China, Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement has performed…
Politics Debunking the Myths About Taiwan’s Sunflower Movement April 4, 2014 11 Written by J. Michael Cole. In the absence of knowledge, fall back on conspiracies. This is what many foreign analysts and the Taiwanese government have…
Politics The Hidden Agenda of President Ma’s ‘Economics First, Politics Later’ Cross-Strait Policy March 27, 2014 3 Written by Ben Goren. During the last six years President Ma has signed over eighteen agreements with the PRC. During this period he has repeatedly…
Politics Occupy Taiwan and the Red Shirts Movement March 24, 2014 0 Written by Dafydd Fell. One of the challenges of studying Taiwan politics is that we often have too much information and data to cope with.…
Politics Taiwan’s Youth: Blamed if you don’t, blamed if you do March 21, 2014 0 Written by Michal Thim. It seems that Taiwan has grown accustomed to frequent protests targeting a broad range of issues, starting with land grabbing disputes,…
Taiwan Anti-Media Monopoly Policies in Taiwan March 25, 2013 1 By Ming-yeh Rawnsley. The student-led Anti-Media Monopoly Movement (反媒體壟斷運動) in Taiwan has garnered strong support within and outside the island since the second half of…
