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Cross Strait

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Why voters punished Taiwan’s ruling party
Nov 30, 2018 (WiC 434)

If you are looking for an insight into Taiwan’s midterm election results last weekend, nothing speaks louder than the victory of Han Kuo-yu. He became the first Kuomintang (KMT) candidate in 20 years to win the mayor’s office in Kaohsiung, a ...

Why Ruby Lin’s TV series was axed by Tencent
Jan 19, 2018 (WiC 394)

Foreign travellers to Beijing might have come across the Gongzhufen underground station. Its name literally means “Tomb of the Princess” – and according to Beijing folklore it was the grave of a Han girl who’d been the adopted daughter of ...

Hon Hai move to the US proves controversial
Sep 1, 2017 (WiC 378)

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker said it was a case of “the eagle has landed” when Donald Trump and Hon Hai’s founder, Terry Gou, signed a memorandum of understanding for a $10 billion LED panel plant in Walker’s home state at the end of ...

Panama ditches diplomatic ties with Taiwan
Jun 16, 2017 (WiC 370)

Taiwan has endured “all kinds of humiliation” because of the island’s diplomatic ties with Panama, China Times reported this week. A Panamanian foreign minister once called up Taiwan’s ambassador at 3am, the Taipei-based newspaper said, ...

Noodle king closes its Taiwanese business but says it’s no big deal
Jan 13, 2017 (WiC 351)

In China’s lingua franca, Putonghua, the term for instant noodles translates as “convenient noodles”. In Taiwan such phrasing might elicit a titter or two because local nuance conflates the word “convenient” with going to the ...

Beijing turns the screw on Taiwan’s tourism trade
Sep 23, 2016 (WiC 340)

In January 2012 the Kuomintang’s Ma Ying-jeou won a second presidential term in Taiwan. Investors seemed happy to see closer economic ties across the Taiwan Strait too. Just a month before the KMT’s victory, Want Want China and Tingyi, two of ...

Beijing wants Taiwan’s new president to clarify her stance on ‘1992 Consensus’
May 27, 2016 (WiC 326)

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan arrived at Taipei’s zoo as gifts from mainland China in 2008, when Ma Ying-jeou had just become Taiwan’s president. The two pandas were named in tribute to tuanyuan – meaning reunion – an allusion to China’s ...

Mainland reacts to Taiwan’s elections
Jan 22, 2016 (WiC 310)

The last time that Taiwan’s independence-minded Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won a presidential election, it took an assassination attempt to swing the result. Hours before the 2004 election, DPP incumbent Chen Shui-bian was shot. The ...

A film studio faces scrutiny – despite goodwill in Taipei over spy exchanges
Dec 11, 2015 (WiC 307)

In May 1960 an American U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union. The aircraft’s pilot was later allowed to return home in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a KGB agent captured by the US. The story will be familiar to those who have seen ...

Historic meeting a litmus test for cross-Strait relations
Nov 13, 2015 (WiC 303)

In August 1945 Mao Zedong boarded a plane for the first time in his life. The Chinese Communist Party (CPC) leader was flying to China’s wartime capital in Chongqing to meet Chiang Kai-shek, the head of the nationalist Kuomintang ...

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