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New Bloom is an online magazine covering youth culture and politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific.
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We are launching the New Bloom Newsletter on Substack today! . If you want to know the latest political events in Taiwan, engage with the New Bloom community online, and keep up with what we are doing at DAYBREAK, our newsletter is for you.
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"Immigration Authorities Enter National Taiwan University Campus for Arrests" by @brianhioe.
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National Taiwan University students protested earlier this month against the National Immigration Agency for entering the university campus to arrest a migrant worker…
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🗓️📢We now have an "events" page on our website 🥳
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Saturday! Join us for a talk on the state of politics around nuclear energy in Taiwan with Wei Yang.
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The short story reading group is back next month! This time we will be reading Spent Bullets by Terao Tetsuya, translated by Kevin Wang.
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"'How Taiwan Lost Trump' Proves a MAGA Fever Dream That Does Not Reflect The Realities of Trumpism" by @brianhioe .
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A recent Substack post by Christian Whiton, an advisor to the Bush and Trump administrations, proves an odd fever dream about Taiwan. Even if not framed in such terms, the gist of Whiton’s argument…
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"Hong Kong Heist Movie 'Smashing Frank' Delivers Hackneyed Take on Social Inequality" by @brianhioe .
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Hong Kong’s first crowdfunded movie “Smashing Frank” has an intriguing premise but less impressive execution
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"Chris Horton's 'Ghost Nation' Examines Taiwan's Neglected History" by @brianhioe.
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Chris Horton's Ghost Nation is a comprehensive take on Taiwan’s history from a pan-Green perspective. In this sense, the book can be situated alongside other histories of Taiwan published for a...
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"Incident Highlights Loophole Regarding Chinese Lobbying in Taiwan" by @brianhioe .
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A recent incident involving legislative assistants of Han Kuo-yu and Johnny Chiang, as president and vice president of the legislature, has led to increased focus on the issue of Chinese lobbying…
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Next Saturday! Ahead of the referendum later this month on the Ma-anshan nuclear reactor, join us for a talk with Wei Yang of the Taiwan Climate Action Network on nuclear energy in Taiwan.
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"Demonstration Against Genocide in Gaza Outside of the Israeli Representative Office in Taipei" by PS.
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Today, we bring you photos from last Wednesday’s demonstration against the genocide in Gaza outside of the Israeli representative office in Taipei…
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"What Does Boris Johnson Traveling to Taiwan Accomplish?" by @brianhioe .
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Boris Johnson is the latest conservative political has-been to travel to Taiwan. In this, Johnson joins others such as Liz Truss, Mike Pompeo, and John Bolton in traveling to Taiwan after the end of…
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"National Taiwan University Students Protest US Tech Entrepreneur for Alleged Complicity in Gaza Genocide" by @ginollopez .
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Students rallied Monday at National Taiwan University to denounce a talk by U.S. defense-technology entrepreneur Palmer Luckey, accusing him of being a “radical Zionist” whose company profits from…
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"Scooter Murder Case Returns to Familiar Causes" by @brianhioe.
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A recent murder case involving a woman and her sister being stabbed to death by her husband while on a scooter in New Taipei proves familiar. Namely, there are a number of cases in past years of...
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"Rally Criticizes Taiwan's Plans to Aid Israeli Settlement in the West Bank" by @brianhioe .
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A demonstration took place in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today, criticizing Taiwan for its plans to aid Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The aid is currently framed as for a medical…
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"KMT Alleges Illicit Ties to Solar Project by Tsai Administration" by @brianhioe .
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The KMT has hit out against former president Tsai Ing-wen, claiming that green energy investments by the Tsai administration were due to illicit ties between Tsai and green energy companies…
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"Splits Visible in DPP After Defeat of Recalls" by @brianhioe .
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The DPP’s internal tensions are suddenly visible in contention following the defeat of Taiwan’s “Great Recall Movement…
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"Pan-Blue Camp Resumes Legislative Offensives After the Failure of the Great Recall Movement" by @brianhioe .
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With the defeat of the “Great Recall Movement” last week, some have asked the question of whether the DPP and KMT will seek to make amends. After all, it now seems clear that the pan-Green camp will…
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On Friday! We will host the co-founders of Dzyga’s Paw Charity for a discussion on how the lives of many ordinary people have been transformed by wartime in Ukraine, and how Ukraine has sought aid abroad.
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Check out the latest New Bloom Substack! With our recent events, updates on the Great Recall Movement, and more!.
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"Does Elbridge Colby Hope to Refocus the US on China? Or To Justify Isolationism?" by @brianhioe.
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Elbridge Colby, who is currently Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in the Trump administration, is again in the news. In particular, Colby has come under scrutiny as the responsible party for…
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