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No surprises during William Lai’s low-key transit through the U.S.
During stops through the United States this week, Taiwan’s vice president and current front-runner for the island’s upcoming presidential election sought to portray himself as a pragmatic successor to Tsai Ing-wen.
The China Agenda for August 14–20 — Camp David Summit
This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of August 14–20.
The China Agenda for August 7–13 — Taiwan’s vice president to New York
This is what’s on the diplomatic, political, and business agenda for the week of August 7–13.
NGOs try to bridge Taiwan’s civil defense gap
Taiwan’s national civil defense teams are tasked with supporting the military during wartime, and disaster prevention and relief during peacetime. Critics say they’re woefully unprepared.
China and South Korea: Beijing balks at the new global order
South Korea’s conservative president, Yoon Suk-yeol, is bolstering the alliance with America and embracing Japan despite Seoul’s historic disputes with Tokyo. These moves aren’t winning him friends in China.
The CFR Taiwan task force report: Advice and dissent
This week on Sinica, Kaiser is joined by Maggie Lewis and Paul Heer, who were members of the Council on Foreign Relations’s task force on U.S.-Taiwan policy and produced a report titled “U.S.-Taiwan Relations in a New Era: Responding to a More Assertive China.” Both also wrote dissents about some of its findings and recommendations.
Chinese queer feminists react to ‘Wave Makers,’ the show that sparked Taiwan’s #MeToo movement
Discussion about “Wave Makers” — a TV show that follows the fictitious lives of Taiwanese political staffers working on an election — has largely been censored on Chinese social media, but that hasn’t stopped some people from openly talking about it.
This week on TikTok: Wham!, Taiwan’s #MeToo movement, and China’s restrictions on key metals
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Meet the woman who launched Taiwan’s MeToo movement, Chen Chien-Jou
“I knew before I came forward that I was definitely not alone in being a survivor, there must be others out there.”
#MeToo hits Taiwan’s entertainment industry
#MeToo’s arrival in Taiwan has been a long time coming.
Editor’s note for June 14, 2023
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Honduran president in Beijing cements official ties
Xiomara Castro is the first Honduran president to pay a state visit to China, after her country switched official recognition from Taipei to Beijing.
Taiwan’s ruling DPP rocked by sexual misconduct allegations
A new Taiwanese political drama called “Wavemakers” has inspired victims of sexual harassment to come forward about their experiences, leading to a “MeToo moment” that has roiled the island’s ruling political party.
Aming Lee captures life on a Taiwanese fishing boat
In “There Is No God Here,” Taiwanese photographer Aming Lee documents the lives of these people on what he calls “a floating prison cut off from the rest of the world.”
U.S.-China chills at the Shangri-La Dialogue
China’s defense minister, Li Shangfu, and his U.S. counterpart, Lloyd Austin, had sharp words to say about each other’s countries at the Shangri-La Dialogue, dashing hopes that the two superpowers might use the opportunity to stabilize fraught relations.
Taiwan’s unrecognized indigenous tribes are reviving dead languages to achieve recognition
There are currently 16 officially recognized indigenous peoples in Taiwan. Some of the Pingpu — which comprise 10 groups on the island’s lowlands — are lobbying for recognition, and they’re doing it by reviving lost languages and culture.
The first cross-strait dispute: How the Koxinga-Qing conflict informs modern Taiwan politics
Debates about cross-strait relations tend to focus on recent history, ignoring profound cultural and historical sensitivities that underpin this complex relationship. Take the story of Koxinga, a 17th-century merchant-pirate who in modern times has been co-opted by both Beijing and Taipei.
NATO official visits Taiwan as patchwork approach to countering Beijing emerges
NATO Defense College confirmed a previously unreported meeting in Taiwan in March. It’s just one of an array of regional and global moves aimed at restraining China’s future military options.
Can Beijing influence Taiwan’s presidential election through economic coercion?
China is using an old playbook as it imposes restrictions on imports from Taiwan in hopes of pushing voters to support the KMT in the island’s upcoming election. But Beijing may be in for a rude awakening.
The KMT’s candidate for Taiwan’s 2024 presidential election
Taiwan’s opposition Kuomintang (KMT) party will announce its presidential candidate on May 17. The choice will reveal the party’s strategy for its upcoming campaign and set the tone for the entire election.
