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French utilities giant EDF this year decided to close its offices in Taiwan, a democratically self-governed archipelago which China vigorously lays claim to as a province of its own. Curiously, the move comes just as Taiwan launches an ambitious programme to develop renewable energies, an (...)
For the last five years Chi Yang* has been working as a hostess in a club on Linsen North Road in Taipei’s popular red-light district. There, the 25-year-old and her colleagues entertain customers who pay them to sing, drink and dine with them in private rooms, where sexual intercourse is (...)
Taiwanese voters are going to the polls tomorrow for presidential elections as protests continue to rage in Hong Kong. But in order to understand Taiwan, we have to understand the power of China — and the looming shadow of US imperialism.
On Saturday, voters in Taiwan will go to the polls to (...)
Every so often a woman takes up arms to lead a spirited struggle against invaders and occupiers of her homeland. Such women usually wind up dead at an early age, but they capture the imagination. The most famous example in British history is Boudica, aka Boedicea; in French history, it is Joan of Arc.
The Taiwanese revolutionary Hsieh Hsüeh-hung (1901-1970) is such a figure, (...)
The frustrations of small farmers from the Han majority are being channeled against their indigenous neighbours.
The demonstration on 15 May 2019 involved over one thousand members of the Taiwan Association for the Rights of Non-Aboriginal Residents in Mountain Indigenous Townships (TARNARMIT, (...)
Taiwan had been able to achieve both growth and equality in the process of development until the 1980s. The statistics of household disposable income publicized by the government show that the highest 20% of households earned four times of the lowest 20% in the 1980s, but the ratio gradually (...)
For the last 20 years or so, international NGOs focused on Greater China have generally set up camp in Hong Kong or in China. Particularly as Beijing allowed more and more groups to operate within the PRC’s borders — granting explicit permission or offering tacit consent — it was an obvious choice (...)
In 2014, the Sunflower Movement rocked the island-nation of Taiwan. A grassroots, youth-driven coalition, they used innovative open source digital organising tools in a broad effort to stop a controversial trade deal with China the then-ruling Kuomintang party was planning to rush through the (...)
Beijing says bill violates ‘one China’ policy and asks US to stop pursuing official ties with Taipei
China has called on the US to “correct its mistake” after Donald Trump approved rules allowing top-level US officials to travel to Taiwan to meet their Taipei counterparts.
US representatives can (...)
The sale is the first of its kind since Donald Trump took office and will upset China, which regards Taiwan as part of its territory.
The US state department has approved arms sales to Taiwan worth a total of $1.4bn, the first such deal with the self-governing island since Donald Trump took (...)
THE DECEMBER 2, 2016 phone call between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-Wen and American President Donald J. Trump focused new attention on the issue of Taiwan independence. The call set off two dominant reactions, both problematic. On the one hand, a troubling Taiwanese national enthusiasm (...)
US President-elect Donald Trump tweeted on December 2 that the president of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-Wen, called him to offer her congratulations for winning the US election — breaking with decades of US protocol. Shortly afterward, he questioned in an interview , “I don’t know why we have to be bound by (...)
Taiwan’s recent election was a referendum on its past — and a battle for its future.
On January 16, Taiwan held its sixth presidential and eighth parliamentary plebiscite since political liberalization in the early 1990s. Tsai Ing-wen’s Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won an overwhelming (...)
New president, old elite – assessing Taiwan’s forthcoming 2016 election from a working class viewpoint
There will be three presidential candidates competing in Taiwan’s 2016 presidential election. They are Tsai Ying Wen the leader of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Eric Chu who represents the (...)
Both inside and outside Taiwan, the research on Taiwan’s democratization has been overwhelmingly dominated by Western liberal discourses. In the mainstream liberal view, to the extent that the “most powerful collective decision makers are selected through fair, honest, and periodic elections in (...)
(March 25, 2014, Taiwan) Taiwan Rural Front (TRF) and Taiwan Farmers Union (TFU), member of La Via Campesina in East and Southeast Asia, launch an emergency appeal for international solidarity against current administration’s rush for cross-strait free trade agreement and excessive use of police (...)
On Thursday, Taiwan’s anti service trade agreement movement will leave the Legislative Yuan and the occupation will come to an end. Some of its participants think that the movement has not achieved its aims and do not want to leave. As outsiders it is difficult for us to judge. However, although (...)
April 7, representatives of trade unions and citizens’ group in Osaka went to the office of Taiwan Government to condemn the repression on the students and people. We will have a meeting on Friday this week. We Condemn the Taiwan government for Cracking down on Students And Support the (...)
Six days after the occupation of the Legislature Yuan on March 18, because of dissatisfaction with the authorities for failing to give a positive response to the students’ demand, of “returning the trade deal to the legislature for re-considering”, on the night of March 23, hundreds of students (...)
Students were beaten by angry police at the Administrative Yuan on March 24, 2014, after five days of ongoing rallies since they had occupied the Legislature Yuan.
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Brutal Crackdown on Student Activists by Riot Police ForceBlood. Bruises. Battered bodies and souls. (...)
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