MEDIA
- Telegraph on three women who inspired Tsai Ing-wen
- BBC's Cindy Sui on Tsai as a person
- TIME: Tsai Ing-wen now most powerful woman in the Chinese speaking world.
- AFP on the election, with quotes from Jon Sullivan at U of Nottingham
- NYTimes: Tsai faces weak economy, Beijing
- NHK: Discusses outcome, identity
- USA Today
- Philippines Kicker News
- The Independent
- Daily Mail: Voters turn their backs on closer ties
- WashPost: Onus on China to respond
- WashPost: Stunning electoral victory
- Straits Times: 10 things you should know about Tsai Ing-wen
- Dennis Engbarth for DPA on economic fears driving Tsai win
- Bloomberg: Tsai elected in Landslide
- CSMonitor from Beijing, with the usual commenters
- CSMonitor from reporter in Taipei
- Committee to Protect Journalists on China journos reporting on Taiwan
- What Happened in China? Nothing. No election reporting...
- WSJ's Andrew Browne with solid piece on how vote changes calculus in DD
- China tells Taiwan to abandon independence hallucination
- Gulf News with positive report
- Quadrangle Online
- BBC cites China's Global Times as actual source, claims Tsai Ing-wen's rhetoric has hardened
- SCMP's longtime pro-KMT Lawrence Chung says cabinet resignation is a crisis for Tsai ing-wen
- Reuters interview with Dr Dafydd Fell on future of Taiwan-China relations
- VOA on Tsai Ing-wen's landslide victory
Local
- Canada, Australia congratulate Tsai Ing-wen
- Tsai to start FTA talks with Japan
- China Post: KMT ends with 35 of 113 seats
- Executive Yuan resigns en masse following election
- New Faces to enter legislature
- Premier resigns despite President's objection
- Mayors call for relocation of government to center and south
- KMT news organ on Tsai's victory
- CNA report on the visit of US officials to Taipei
COMMENTARY
Good- Eroding the Iron Votes from Taiwan's Old Soldiers (CPI)
- Dan Blumenthal in Foreign Policy asks will the One China Policy survive?
- Don Rodgers at Thinking Taiwan on the election
- Joseph Wu of the DPP on Taiwan after the KMT
- Wen-ti Sung on the avalanche as a consolidation of the voter base
- Ketalagan by Solidarity: Eight Reasons the DPP fell short in Taipei
- Looking forward to deepening Canada-Taiwan ties
- John Bolton says US can play the Taiwan card
- Brian H at New Bloom on the Fall of the KMT?
- Brian H at New Bloom: Tsai and the Sunflowers
- Solidarity: Resignation Week on all the resignations
- Frozen Garlic: low turnout exists, but doesn't account for outcome
- Frozen Garlic: some KMT losses so great, they won't get their security deposits back
- Frozen Garlic: DP alliance strategy really didn't help
- Frozen Garlic: Decades of LY Seniority wiped out by election
- Frozen Garlic: The Humiliation of Hau
- Ketagalan: there is no Third Force
- Taiwan Law Blog: what did each political party get out of proportional representation votes
- Now you know the terror on the Chou Tzu-yu case
- Why the US should care with excellent comments from longtime US Taiwan expert Shirley Kan
- Paul Monk in SMH with great piece accurately identifying Beijing as source of tension
- Ankit Panda in the Diplomat correctly understanding the Taiwanese identity
- Video: Ketagalan Media panel
- New Bloom: what to expect from a Tsai Ing-wen presidency
- New Bloom: When heavy metal meets activist politics
- Jonathan Manthorpe in Facts and Opinions: Taiwan set to complete the transition to democracy
- Even the New Yorker has a thing on Taiwan's youth
- Lowy Interpreter tells us three things to watch for
- Jerome Cohen's take in Council on Foreign Relations
- Bonnie Glaser and Jacqueline Vitello at CSIS
- The News Lens: KMT fall
- Robert Ross *sigh*
- News Lens: Will time reveal Ma's legacy or... nah forget it?
- Peng Ming-min in Taipei Times. Truly silly.
- WSJ on the probable loss of its assets
- Brian H at New Bloom on the Fall of the KMT?
- UDN: how will rootless KMT revive itself?
- Straits Times: KMT needs fresh talent
- China Post: Voters hand KMT devastating message
- ETaiwan News: KMT faces post election struggle
- Taipei Times: KMT gives little hope it will change
- Taipei Times: Chu: do not blame KMT
- Taipei Times: Pro-Green Think Tank urges KMT to become more localized
- KMT chair election on Feb 27. Nope, Mar 26.
- KMT Youth demand reform debate
- KMT news organ reports on Chu resignation
- Taipei City counciler Lee Hsin announces campaign for KMT Chair
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8 comments:
Really sad to say that it had to take the coercion of a 16 year old girl for the world to discover Chinese barbarity. Her case has garnered the attention of the global Kpop fandom, and it's interesting to see them so bewildered by something we Taiwanese are so used to.
Let's hope that the word spreads further, and that no one should suffer the same fate that Tzuyu did ever again.
On 01/18/2016 the BBC reported amongst other stories covered in summary form that:
"On Monday, a Global Times report said it wasn't Ms Tsai's pro-independence views that won her the vote but the "dissatisfactory performance of the incumbent Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou and his ruling KMT"."
What was delusional about that? The Global Times exists - no dilution there? The BBC didn't make any qualitative assessment of the GT's analysis. On balance this report as a whole was factual and balanced under a photo of Tsai with US Deputy Sec of State and others - or was that a delusion or perhaps an illusion!
Election result good for Taiwan - excellent!!
It wasn't her pro-independence views that won? Delusional.
The thing is a hit piece on Tsai, claiming she's becoming hardline. It's laying the ground for the coming anti-Tsai campaign. The BBC loves China.
"Before her win Ms Tsai said she wanted to maintain the "status quo".
But some analysts say her rhetoric has hardened somewhat in the wake of her victory, when she said that "any forms of suppression will harm the stability of cross-strait relations"."
Before and after she wanted to maintain the status quo. Her rhetoric hasn't changed. But BBC finds "some analysts". Whoa! SOME ANALYSTS. Who are these mysterious analysts? Can you think of a single other analyst who has stated that.
BBC simply invented these people.
Michael
To the BBC, lying is like breathing; they are "institutional liars".
57:36 - 58:01 of Joseph Wu's discussion
Talk about a loaded question from Eric Gomez (CATO Institute, what a surprise):
"During election campaigns, parties tend to make a lot of promises that may not be able to be fulfilled for whatever reason and I was wondering if Taiwan...or the Tsai Ing-wen administration...is faced with situations where it has to walk back on some of its campaign promises, which policy positions do you think will get walked back and why?"
Michael,
Thanks for your great site keeping track of overseas media coverage on Taiwan, and your high quality running commentary on overseas reports. Great stuff and very helpful. Also it's helpful to reference someone with similar perspectives parsing through the reports for bias to identify which reports are worth examining!
FYI there was a good article in the Nikkei Review written by an AEI fellow yesterday, worth noting. (http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20160121-TSAI-S-TAIWAN/On-the-Cover/Election-presents-a-chance-to-lessen-Taiwan-s-international-isolation?page=2)
Separately I noticed the Economist corrected a glaring mistake in its pre-election primer report's reference to 1992 consensus published last week ... it took about 3 days for an editor to notice and correct it (oddly, without an editor's apology for making a doozy error unworthy of the Economist).
It's interesting to see the world media quickly boning up on the details of Taiwanese politics and diplomacy since the elections raised Taiwan's global media profile substantially.
It's also fun to see the running tally of UK citizen interest in the grass roots "recognize Taiwan" petition. It may be an exercise in futility, but the support and profile are helpful to keep Taiwan on the radar screen there: in 3 days they've got it approaching 20,000, enough to require a (surely lame) response from the UK government and a ways to go for the threshold of UK parliamentary debate. (https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/118713)
The Taiwan elections to be transparent, clean, mature, and free. In contrast to what I saw previously in Hong Kong and Beijing - particularly in contrast to Hong Kong's gradual loss of freedom of speech etc after their 2014 movement - it was deeply moving to watch Taiwanese go dutifully to the polls, observe local citizens keeping tabs on the ballot counting process at a local voting station, and note that everyone accepted the result maturely regardless of their "color". It demonstrated that the quality and depth of democracy in Taiwan is truly world-class.
Keep it up!
Michael, great blog btw.
I think you'll like Professor Jacobs's piece: http://www.theage.com.au/comment/taiwan-signals-its-readiness-to-join-the-worlds-democratic-powers-20160121-gmbk9b
RE: The Beeb "quoting GT as an actual source" - they pretty clearly refer to it as Chinese state media.
"Chinese state media lashed out swiftly in the wake of the victory, saying that Taiwan should abandon its "hallucination" of independence.
On Monday, a Global Times report said it wasn't Ms Tsai's pro-independence views that won her the vote but the "dissatisfactory performance of the incumbent Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou and his ruling KMT"."
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