Over the last few years, Taiwan has been dubbed “most progressive in Asia,” but Taiwan is actually still a relatively conservative society. However, when it comes to immigration in Taiwan, especially the debate over how to receive immigrants from Hong Kong, we do not have the luxury to be conservative.
Michelle I-jou Wu (吳奕柔) is a third-year law student who gained prominence in the media as an activist when controversy erupted over the appointment of National Taiwan University’s president. In this interview, her role and experience as a student activist in Taiwan are discussed.
Whose party is it anyway? We attended Sunday’s Han Kuo-yu rally in New Taipei as the Kaohsiung mayor fired up a crowd that has had enough of KMT orthodoxy.
The second part of a series of handy summaries profiling Taiwan’s political power players currently “in play.” In this part, we’re profiling New Power Party (NPP) legislator Huang Kuo-chang, former premier William Lai, and the newly independent Freddy Lim.
We spoke to a working professional from Hong Kong who has divided her summer between weekdays at the office and weekends on the streets as a protester.
We’re here to help you make sense of Taiwan’s political spectacle with a handy guide to the major power players who are “in play” and could disrupt this election in a big way—if they haven’t already.