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Irvine shooting of Taiwanese church shows the horrors of ultranationalism

In a weekend packed with racially motivated mass shootings in America, one has caught the attention of many across the Pacific here in Taiwan. A shooting at a church in Continue Reading

Posted On : May 17, 2022 Published By : Jordan F
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Ending the death penalty in Taiwan won’t be easy, but it’s necessary

Taiwan’s Human Rights Commission is currently holding a seminar to discuss and promote human rights in Taiwan. At the conference, Manfred Nowak, an Austrian human rights lawyer, spoke and encouraged Continue Reading

Posted On : May 15, 2022 Published By : Jordan F
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As COVID burns through Taiwan, the government further relaxes quarantine policies

The Taiwanese government has announced that the recently implemented “3+4” quarantine policy will be relaxed further as cases and deaths in Taiwan skyrocket. Taiwan again saw close to 70,000 local Continue Reading

Posted On : May 15, 2022 Published By : Jordan F
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US State Department modifies language on Taiwan

Amidst warming Taiwan-US relations, the American state department has modified the language describing the relationship between the two. Gone is the language that the US “does not support Taiwan independence” Continue Reading

Posted On : May 10, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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疫情回應:台灣跟上海真的能比嗎?

Charting the differences between China’s Omicron response, and Taiwan’s Omicron opening, shows how because the two fundamentally differ in terms of motives and outcomes, their state policies will of course Continue Reading

Posted On : May 10, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Taiwanese citizens begin to lose faith in CECC reports

With a critical shortage of rapid tests, combined with an impossibly high overload of PCR facilities, and government hotlines that don’t pick up the phone for days, increasing numbers of Continue Reading

Posted On : May 8, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Most Taiwanese still support lockdowns

Despite the DPP’s push to implement a largescale reopening and de-emphasize COVID, their policies are increasingly at odds with public opinion. Data from the Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation (台灣民意基金會民調) suggest Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai
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Three positive cases at the Presidential Palace

As cases explode in Taiwan while the CECC continually relaxes prevention measures, there were three new cases at the Presidential Palace in Taipei. Of the three cases, two worked for Continue Reading

Posted On : May 5, 2022 Published By : Jordan F
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The Free China Pod: Coverage of the Australian Debates

We open up with some banter about Taiwan and some local Australian politicians, and of course the debates (start with our count down at 1:01), the election in the Philippines, Continue Reading

Posted On : May 3, 2022 Published By : Jordan F
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Chinese rhetoric on Taiwan heats up

After Blinken repeated warnings that the Biden administration remained, “determined to make sure that [Taiwan] has all necessary means to defend itself against any potential aggression, including unilateral action by Continue Reading

Posted On : April 29, 2022 Published By : Ari Bai

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