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Defying Foreign Interference Means Taking an Independent Stance on Taiwan
- Analysis
- January 29, 2024
As Canada begins a public inquiry on foreign interference this week, the behaviour of China’s diplomats may come into the spotlight in ways that Canada’s Ambassador to China Jennifer May describes as “deeply uncomfortable.” Just a fortnight after Taiwan’s presidential and legislative elections, Chinese interference in people-to-people relations with Taiwan constitutes unwelcome foreign interference. How
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Myths about the Sustainable Development Goals
- Analysis
- January 18, 2024
As we head into the last half of the UN’s Agenda 2030, my progressive friends and colleagues continue to denounce the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as “neoliberal” or even “the continuation of coloniality and a legitimisation of a global capitalist system”. Students tell me that the SDGs are a “Western” or a “Northern” agenda, imposed
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Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan’s Election: Voices from Orchid Island
- Analysis
- January 17, 2024
On January 13, the Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan) held presidential and legislative elections, keeping the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in the presidency with 40.05% of the vote going to incumbent vice-president William Lai. Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) candidate Hou Yu-ih obtained 33.49% of the vote. Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) candidate Ko Wen-je
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Elections in Taiwan: Some Surprises
- Analysis
- January 15, 2024
The latest Taiwanese elections constitute a fine example of democratic success that must be celebrated at a time when liberal democracies are threatened more than ever from within by populist movements and from without by authoritarian regimes. The vigor of the electoral campaign, the results obtained by the opposition parties, but above all the attitude
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