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The Four Critical Junctures of Taiwan DPP's Transformation from Democratic Reformers to US Client

Fang — 2025-11-29T15:49:07Z

Taiwan's social and political structure are facing greater division and confrontation as the US-China conflict intensifies. During the course of this confrontation, the successive administrations of Tsai Ing-wen and Lai Ching-te of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), along with various groupings in its camp, have increasingly bent to the US anti-China strategy, and are calling for “defending democracy” against the looming threat from China. As part of this, the DPP regime has made several moves to tighten control on the society, like the Anti-Infiltration Act, the proposed Digital Media Services Act, and the All-out Defense Mobilization Readiness Act.

- Features / China, Taiwan

Preliminary Theses on the Taiwan Strait Crisis and Taiwanese Self-Determination

Worker Democracy — 2025-11-26T11:51:48Z

Editorial of Worker Democracy, a Chinese socialist journal. It has been translated by the authors.

- Features / China, Taiwan

“Opposing US militarisation in the Asia-Pacific should not mean remaining silent on China's emerging imperialism“

Au Loong-Yu — 2023-12-09T06:07:00Z

“Genuine socialists should be people-centred. If someone refuses to see how the CCP treats Chinese working people, and is content with repeating Beijing's propaganda or refuses to listen to the voices of working people, then I would say they are not genuinely socialists.”

- IV587 - December 2023 / China, Taiwan, Imperialism

War Clouds Thicken Over Taiwan, What Should the Left‑wing Standpoint be?

Liu Xiang — 2023-04-25T22:21:09Z

“The left in the Chinese-speaking world should take a principled stand on the Taiwan issue, based on the principles that Taiwan should never be ruled by the CCP, war should be avoided whenever possible, and Taiwan has the right to defend itself militarily.”

- IV579 - April 2023 / China, Taiwan

A Rightful Place for Taiwan on this Planet

Au Loong-Yu — 2022-11-15T07:25:13Z

“Who should be our first concern in this triangular relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington? I argue that it is neither Beijing nor Washington, but the Taiwan people.”

- IV574 - November 2022 / United States (USA), China, National question, Taiwan

The Taiwan Strait Crisis: Geopolitical Conflicts and the Right of the Taiwanese to Self-Determination

Pierre Rousset — 2022-09-09T10:42:01Z

“The Taiwanese are today hostage to a geopolitical conflict that is beyond them. The recent Strait crisis is not the cause of the rise in geopolitical tensions between the United States and China, but rather its consequence.”

- IV572 - September 2022 / United States (USA), China, Taiwan

Taiwan Strait Crisis: for the right to peace and security in East Asia

Karen Yamanaka — 2022-08-18T05:16:29Z

“We must break the vicious cycle of provocations and stop the nuclear arms race in the East Asian region by tenacious anti-war resistance to the remilitarization. ”

- IV571 - August 2022 / United States (USA), China, Taiwan

Defend abortion rights and abolish anti-abortion law in East Asia

Karen Yamanaka — 2022-06-08T14:58:55Z

“Protection of women's rights by law is also important from the historical perspective related to women's fighting for their welfare in many East Asian countries.”

- IV569 - June 2022 / South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, North Korea, Mongolia

New president, old elite – assessing Taiwan's forthcoming 2016 election from a working class viewpoint.

Mao Yi Yu — 2016-01-19T05:50:44Z

There will be three presidential candidates competing in Taiwan's 2016 presidential election. They are Tsai Ying Wen the leader of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Eric Chu who represents the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) and James Soong from the People First Party (PFP). According to pre-election opinion polls, Tsai Ying Wen's popularity rating is the highest, much greater than that of Eric Chu and his party that is currently in power. The third competitor James Soong's influence is relatively insignificant. Therefore, people are expecting that the opposition party, the DPP, will defeat the KMT. The result of this ongoing campaign seems quite predictable.

- IV492 - January 2016 / Taiwan

Beyond Fear and Complacency: Critical Remarks on Taiwan's Democracy and Its Aporia

Poe Yu-ze Wan — 2015-08-14T09:08:09Z

Both inside and outside Taiwan, the research on Taiwan's democratization has been overwhelmingly dominated by Western liberal discourses. In the mainstream liberal view, to the extent that the “most powerful collective decision makers are selected through fair, honest, and periodic elections in which candidates freely compete for votes and in which virtually all the adult population is eligible to vote” (Huntington, 1991: 7), Taiwan was no doubt democratic by 1996, a year marked by the first direct election for president (see e.g., Rigger, 1999).

- Features / China, Taiwan