The Debrief, 10/28/14
Stanford’s conference on Taiwan political polarization, Taiwan’s Gay Pride Parade, and Ukraine’s first national elections since former president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted and civil conflict broke out.
80,000 Attend Taiwan’s Gay Pride Parade
On Saturday, the 12th annual Gay Pride Parade was held in Taipei as around 80,000 from across the country and Asia participated in one of Asia’s biggest LGBT events.
KANO / 天下嘉農 (KP28)
The movie Kano is about the underdog baseball team from Chiayi Agricultural School becoming the first multicultural team from Taiwan to make it to the Japan national championships in 1931. How can it help us realize who we are?
塑造更好的台灣民主制度
台灣的民主制度還不到崩壞的地步，但離完美也還有一大段差距。良好的選制可以減緩政治人物的分化、增加選民對對代議士的信任、並減少民眾因對政府強烈不滿而走上街頭的衝突。
中國，香港，與台灣的法治
台灣與香港有許多人對於中共在法治上的承諾抱持著懷疑的態度，認為中國政府官員只把法律當成鞏固商業利益與限制小市民的工具。在中國的觀點，只有中國共產黨能最終決定哪方利益須被保留。也就是這樣的觀點，使得中國和香港與台灣之間眾多阻礙的原因。