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Politics Sunflower Students Join Lilies and Strawberries in making Taiwanese History April 9, 2014 0 Written by Ben Goren. At six o’clock on Monday April 7, twenty one days after starting their historic occupation of Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan main chambers,…
Politics Taiwan’s Congress-gate October 28, 2013 0 Written by Chris Wang. What was perceived as President Ma Ying-jeou’s well-crafted political conspiracy to remove Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng, Ma’s Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang,…
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Politics Taps October 9, 2013 0 Written by Paul R. Katz. It has been a rough few weeks for Taiwan’s young democracy (see the reports in The Economist and Washington Post).…