Monthly Archives: May 2017

Taiwanese tycoons now shun Tsai government Several Taiwanese tycoons who do big business on the Chinese mainland refused to attend the annual Dragon Boat Festival banquet held by Tsai Ing-wen’s government of the Democratic Progressive Party on the evening of … Continue reading →

Aimlessness and suicidal politics According to a survey of 1,067 responses by the Labor Development Administration of the Ministry of Labor on February 6-28, 2017, 64.95% of Taiwan’s desk job workers have no career goals, and only 35.05% have.  There … Continue reading →

Tasi’s IQ problem A professor and frequent guest on Taiwan’s political talk shows mentioned President Tsai Ing-wen’s “IQ problem” and “trustworthiness problem”.  He is not a psychologist nor a psychiatrist, and he gave no explanation of these “problems” he cited. … Continue reading →

Good examples of linguistic nativization Here are several good examples of linguistic nativization. A Taiwanese headline praised Hon Hai/Foxconn’s Terry Guo saying literally:  郭猴賽雷 “Guo ho sai ley!  He wants to eat them (US, Japan, India) all”. Properly put, it … Continue reading →

Bleak outlook for Tsai’s government Several articles of political analysis have now come out about what has gone wrong and what might go wrong with President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) government. The Taiwan Public Opinion Foundation … Continue reading →

Tsai’s balls and chains President Tsai Ing-wen’s balls and chains are Taiwan’s balls and chains that are hindering progress on all fronts. President Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have been in office for only one full year, … Continue reading →

Do you speak Paiwan? On May 26, 2017, Taiwan’s Legislature passed on third reading the “Original Residents’ Language Development Law”, stipulating that all “languages of original inhabitants” are now “national languages”. This is linguistic nativism at work. Expressing her support … Continue reading →

International role and challenges of the Kuomintang Now that former Taiwanese vice president Wu Dun-yi has been overwhelmingly elected to be the next Kuomintang chairman, he and the party face three challenges:  (1)  to win back majority support and confidence … Continue reading →

How Taiwan will achieve a nuclear-free homeland by 2025 Over half a dozen political pundits on one of Taiwan’s most popular political talk shows “explained” how Taiwan will achieve a nuclear-free homeland by 2025. Taiwan will achieve a nuclear-free homeland … Continue reading →

Victorious day for same sex marriage At 4:00 p.m. on May 24, 2017, Taiwan’s chief justices, 15 of them, issued their constitutional interpretation No. 748 entitled “freedom of marriage between two persons of the same sex” saying that stipulations of … Continue reading →