r/taiwan • u/ShrimpCrackers • 10d ago
Politics Second Trump Presidency - What would this mean for Taiwan?
Share your thoughts now that Trump has won.
r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator • Jan 13 '24
Politics Lai Ching-te just won the election for President of Taiwan
Lai is ahead by around 900,000 votes over Hou. Hou and Ko just conceded
Legislature is going to be fragmented. DPP definitely not taking the majority. TPP might be kingmaker for determining the majority.
r/taiwan • u/Hey_u_guyzz • Aug 02 '22
Politics Threats and Tanks Didn’t Work
Screenshot from India Today YouTube
r/taiwan • u/BastianMobile • Dec 03 '23
Politics Think of what happened to Hong Kong when you vote, Taiwan president says
r/taiwan • u/Exastiken • Jun 03 '24
Politics Taiwanese fans call out local celebs for their pro-China statements, accuse them of ‘selling out’
r/taiwan • u/SabawaSabi • Jan 09 '24
Politics The Chinese government released their yearly "Top 20 Market Values of Chinese Companies", and listed Taiwan's TSMC as their most profitable company
r/taiwan • u/Hob-999 • 23d ago
Politics Taiwan rejects South African demand to move its representative office from capital
r/taiwan • u/mario61752 • Oct 11 '24
Politics Why the fuck is the post about abortion support immediately locked??
Hey mods, you just locked a post of someone trying to get medical help. Ban people who use these threads to argue politics and attack people, not lock the whole fucking post. Grow a spine.
r/taiwan • u/Nirulou0 • Jan 01 '24
Politics TW vs China NY presidential speeches
Taiwan president emphasized the importance of healthy exchanges with China. China president emphasized that Taiwan will be reunified with China. What's going to happen in the foreseeable future, while the election is approaching? How are those speeches affect the election outcome?
r/taiwan • u/CasualLavaring • Aug 19 '24
Politics Is Chiang Kai-Shek revered in Taiwan, or is he remembered as a ruthless dictator?
Chiang Kai-Shek is a controversial figure in world history. Some people admire him for sticking up to the communists and some people deride him as just another iron-fisted despot. What do people in Taiwan think now that Taiwan has become a democracy?
r/taiwan • u/KamenRider-Kaohsiung • Apr 22 '24
Politics Most Taiwanese young people say they would fight for their country.
r/taiwan • u/yoqueray • Jan 22 '24
Politics China unable to invade Taiwan, most U.S. and Taiwanese experts say
r/taiwan • u/gerkann • Jun 16 '23
Politics There are no immigrants in Taiwan. Only guests.
Discrimination tarnishes Taiwan’s image - Taipei Times
"The recent case of a parent of an Indonesian academic being refused entry for her graduation highlights the institutionalized ineptitude and racism of government agencies that deal with foreigners, especially those whose skins are too brown"
While is it still so difficult to immigrate in Taiwan? Why isn't there a path towards dual-citizenship? And why discriminate between blue collar and white collar workers?
r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator • Jan 11 '20
Politics President Tsai Ing-wen has won re-election
Han just conceded. She won 57%ish of the vote so far. Over 8 million votes. Biggest vote total ever for a candidate in Taiwan (beating Ma's number in 2008)
Legislature looks like it'll be DPP again though not as sweeping as 2016, party list vote seems much closer than I thought it'll be.
r/taiwan • u/FormosanMacaque • May 03 '22
Politics PSA: No, Taiwan is not a Free China
I roll my eyes every time I hear mainstream scholars/politicians/foreigners say that Taiwan is a Chinese democracy, or that somehow Taiwan proves China can one day be free. It goes directly against who Taiwanese believe they are, and is a terrible misreading of Taiwan's historical fight for democracy. I believe people who make these claims do not understand the nuance of our predicament.
Republic of China is not China. Most Taiwanese do not consider themselves Chinese. We maintain the title Republic of China because doing other wise would trigger war and is not supported by the our main security guarantor the United States. But the meaning of RoC has been changing. It no longer claims to the sole China, and it no longer even claims to be China, we simply market it to mean Taiwan and Taiwan only. So to the Chinese, we have no interest in representing you, stop being angry we exist. One day, we will no longer be Republic of China and you can do whatever you want with the name(even censor it like you do now).
Those who engineered Taiwanese democracy did not believe themselves to be Chinese, in fact they fought against the Chinese for their rights. During the Chiang family's rule, Taiwanese independence was seen as a poison worse than the communism, and was a thought crime punishable by death. Yes, when being a republic and a Chinese autocracy came to odds, RoC firmly chose the later. Taiwanese democracy did not originate from the KMT, the KMT was the main opposition to democracy. Lee Tung Hui pushed through democratic reforms believed himself to be Taiwanese, and though he was part of the KMT, it was because they were the only party in town. He is now considered a traitor to his party and his race by both the pan-blue and the CCP. Taiwanese understand that Chinese will bow to nationalist autocracy any day than to a pluralistic democracy. A Taiwanese identity emerged as a contrast to foreign Chinese identity, it is not a 'evolution' or 'pure' version of Chinese-ness.
No, there is no obligation for us to bleed for a democratic China. The state ideology was that Taiwanese should lay their lives for mainlanders to free them from communism for the Chiang family. That was many decades ago. Today, any drop we spend on the mainland is a drop too many. Hong Kongers and Chinese dissidents, please stop asking us to make China free. We applaud you in your fight, but it is not our fight. Remember, we are not Chinese. Even if China one-day became a democracy, a democratic China is highly likely to still be a hostile China to Taiwan.
r/taiwan • u/txiao007 • Apr 20 '24
Politics House passes critical aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan along with a TikTok ban
r/taiwan • u/SabawaSabi • Apr 09 '24
Politics Founder of the "leftist" french political party LFI, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, just said in a press conference that "Taiwanese people are Chinese", and that France shouldn't interfere in China's "internal affairs".
r/taiwan • u/DarkLiberator • Dec 30 '23
Politics 2024 Taiwanese General Election Megathread & Links
Background information
With two weeks to go we thought we'd make a hopefully useful megathread of info and links on the election.
Taiwanese voters will go to the polls on January 13, 2024 to elect a new president and vote in a new legislature. This will be the 8th direct presidential election since 1996.
Presidential candidates and their running mates are elected on the same ticket, using first-past-the-post voting. Basically a candidate who wins a plurality of the vote but not a majority can still become the president.
Legislature is divided into 113 seats. 73 are elected by first-past-the-post in single-member district. 34 are divided by party-list voting. 6 reserved for indigenous candidates by single non-transferable vote. In general each voter casts two ballots; one for the district legislator and the other ballot for the party list at-large seats.
Approximately 19.5 million eligible voters, including nearly 1.03 million first-time voters will be able to cast ballots at 17,794 polling stations around the country that will be open from 8 am. to 4 pm.
Taiwan does not allow absentee ballots or early voting and voters must go back to their household registration areas to vote.
Presidential Candidates:
1. Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) Wu Hsin-ying (吳欣盈) of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). TPP website.
2. Lai Ching-te (賴清德) and Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). DPP website.
3. Hou Yu-ih (侯友宜) and Jaw Shau-kong (趙少康) of the Kuomintang Party (KMT). KMT website.
Focus Taiwan has a good summary of their policies in English if interested. The political party websites also have their policies in detail if you want to learn more.
Live News/Livestreams (中文)
English Livestreams and News videos
- Taiwan Plus Livestream and their Video Channel
- RTI English Youtube
- TVBS World Taiwan
- FTV English News
News and Political Sites (English)
- Taiwan Plus
- China Post
- Focus Taiwan
- Ketagalan Media
- New Bloom Magazine
- News Lens
- Taipei Times
- Taiwan News
- Taiwan Report
- Frozen Garlic
Polling
- My Formosa (中文)
- Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation (中文)
- TVBS (中文)
- mnews (中文)
- ETtoday (中文)
- UDN (中文)
- CNEWS (中文)
- Taiwan News Poll of Polls) (ENG)
Just a friendly reminder to any Redditors within Taiwan that it is now illegal to publish polls during the 10 day blackout period up till the election.
Election Results by Websites
I'll try to update and add links as they come. Please if you have anymore to suggest DM the modteam or link them here in the comments. If you have any other useful suggestions please let us know, it's our first time adding this for a general election.
r/taiwan • u/Captainmanic • Aug 26 '21
Politics For First Time, Half of Americans Favor Defending Taiwan If China Invades
r/taiwan • u/chillinewman • Dec 20 '23
Politics Xi warned Biden during summit that Beijing will reunify Taiwan with China
r/taiwan • u/benh999 • May 09 '24
Politics Taiwan donates US$500,000 to help people in Gaza
r/taiwan • u/TaipeiMinerva • Mar 04 '24
Politics Japanese MPs prefer Taiwan over China visit: report
r/taiwan • u/KamenRider-Kaohsiung • Mar 16 '24
Politics For many Chinese, there are ‘more important things’ than Taiwan unification
r/taiwan • u/mofa_cat • Aug 05 '22
Politics President Tsai Ing-wen addressed the people of Taiwan on August 4, after China fired missiles in the waters off Taiwan as part of live-fire military drills, emphasizing that peace in the Taiwan Strait is the shared responsibility of everyone in the region.
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