2022/12/16 |
What Tsai Ing-wen’s Resignation From DPP Leadership Means
With the 2024 DPP nomination favored to go to Vice President Lai Ching-te, attention is now on whether he will deviate from President Tsai’s cross strait policy.
2022/07/01 |
Taoyuan Mayoral Race Illustrates Hypocrisy in DPP and KMT Strategies
The Taoyuan mayoral race has featured hypocritical partisan attacks that speak to real problems in Taiwan’s democracy.
2020/08/25 |
OPINION: Does the DPP Victory in Kaohsiung Mark a Return To Normal?
The by-election has brought a few aspects of Taiwanese politics into focus: party domination, the KMT's failed choice in choosing a candidate, and the high expectations that Mayor Chen will be facing.
2020/08/24 |
The Sexist Media Coverage of Jane Lee
There is no doubt that sexism was driving a media narrative to gin up attention and web traffic for an undramatic race.
2020/08/20 |
Splits Emerge Among Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Parties Over Boycott Pledge
Hong Kong has offered to extend pan-democratic lawmakers' current terms until September 30, 2021; it appears more moderate lawmakers prefer to stay, while younger lawmakers argue for boycott.
2018/05/17 |
When Dictators Fall, Who Replaces Them?
A global glance at the future of authoritarianism.
2017/10/28 |
President Tsai's Ballot Box Balancing Act
Like most incumbents, Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen is experiencing mid-term polling blues, but the erosion of identification with either of the two major parties should be greater cause for concern.
2017/09/25 |
Peering into Taiwan's Post-Blue Political Future
Politics abhors a vacuum, and with the KMT struggling for support there is scope for a new opposition to mount a challenge to the DPP's grip of Taiwan's national politics. But who will lead it and where will they come from? Courtney Donovan Smith forecasts Taiwan's political future.
2017/09/14 |
India vs China: Who Really Won at Doklam
Unless China brings back the bulldozers soon, India will have won this round. And it did so without substantial involvement by the US.
2017/09/14 |
This is the End: Thailand's Shinawatras Era Draws to a Close
The political transition brought on by the end of the Shinawatra era could be more important for everyday Thais than the royal transition.
2017/09/07 |
As KMT Digs Its Own Grave, DPP Plans Its Burial
Will the DPP try to take over, co-opt or replicate the KMT patronage networks?
2017/09/04 |
Cambodia's Hun Sen Cracks Down on Press Ahead of Elections
So while the CPP rails against its ‘enemies’ and seeks to redress the balance of youth support that was evident in the 2013 elections, it has to confront what still seems the unlikely possibility that next year it could lose.
2017/08/28 |
CARTOON: Taiwan Shines, Despite Universiade Disruption
The Universiade is a rare chance for Taiwan to shine on the international stage.
2017/08/25 |
'Xi-ism' and Deepening Institutional Decay in China
The relevant question is no longer whether the 19th Party Congress will see Xi elevated above Jiang and Hu. Rather, it is: how far will this go?
2017/08/17 |
BREAKING: Hong Kong Jails 'Political Prisoners' Wong, Law and Chow
Joshua Wong, Alex Chow and Nathan Law are being described as Hong Kong’s ‘first political prisoners’ after being sent to prison for actions in the days before the 2014 Umbrella Movement.
2017/08/15 |
Abe No Longer Invincible: Dissecting Japan's Cabinet Reshuffle
Abe has lost his aura of invincibility and the real question is whether he will ever be able to regain it.
2017/08/15 |
Can Bangkok Wean Itself Off Beijing?
It is still unclear whether Thailand will be able to easily re-adjust its strategic position between the two regional powers
