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, by Associated Press
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 (…)
, by HAAS Benjamin
Landmark ruling will mean country is first in Asia to allow gay couples to marry and cements reputation as beacon of liberalism.
Taiwan is to become the first country in Asia to legalise same-sex marriage, after the island’s constitutional court ruled current laws defining unions as between a (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
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 (…)
, by LIN I-fan
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 HIOE Brian
THE MUCH ANTICIPATED apology by President Tsai Ing-Wen to Taiwanese indigenous took place today. Tsai is the first president of the ROC to formally apologize to Taiwanese indigenous. The apology took place on August 1st, which is normally commemorated as “Indigenous Peoples’ Day.”
However, the (…)
, by ISETT Christopher
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 (…)
, by MAO Yi Yu
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 (…)
, by HIOE Brian
Ultimately an Appeal to Leftist Orientalism
One suspects vaguely that irrespective of its content, Petrus Liu’s Queer Marxism in Two Chinas would have found success, simply on the basis of its title containing the words “Queer,” “Marxism,” and “China”. These are, of course, all hot buzzwords (…)
, by KAO M. Bob
This 2014 article by lawyer Bob Kao looks at the allegations against Ko in Gutmann’s book and the issues surrounding Ko’s involvement in transplants in China for Taiwanese patients on long waiting lists back in Taiwan.
DR. KO WEN-JE ran a generally clean and honourable campaign that resulted (…)
, by WAN Poe Yu-ze
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 (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
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 (…)
, by APWSL, ATTAC (Kansai), Labor Fiesta Osaka, Rodo Joho (Osaka)
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.
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We Condemn the Taiwan government for Cracking down on (…)
, by FUJUI Wang, NOBLE Alistair
In the realms of Taiwanese noise, sound, and media art, no figure is more influential than Wang Fujui. As an artist, publisher, curator, and organizer, Wang’s contribution to establishing these fields in Taiwan has been indispensable. The artist’s biggest early impact was the founding of NOISE (…)
, by Petition / Sign-on Letter
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 (…)
, by TofBrownCoat
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. (…)
, by AU Loong-yu
Since March 18th, several hundred young students have been occupying the Taiwanese Parliament for more than 36 hours. At some point they were supported by 20,000 protestors outside the parliament. They are protesting due to the simple idea of defending common people’s livelihoods from the (…)
, by HIRANO Keiji
Taiwan civic groups demand Japan compensate ex-comfort women
TAIPEI (Kyodo) — A coalition of legislators, college students and women rights groups staged a protest outside Japan’s de facto mission in Taiwan on Wednesday, demanding the Japanese government properly apologize and compensate (…)
, by LOA Iok-sin
Thu, May 31, 2012
La Via Campesina (LVC) — a global alliance of 150 farming rights groups — yesterday voiced their support for Taiwanese farmers who are struggling against forced government land seizures and said it would deliver letters to the Taiwanese government to protest the land-grabs. (…)
, by KASTNER Jens
TAIPEI - Beijing is gearing up its efforts to achieve unification with Taiwan only a few weeks after Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT), the mainland’s favorite candidate, won re-election as Taiwanese president.
Since conditions are not ripe for opening cross-strait talks on political (…)
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