PEACE in TAIWAN: A Conversation on the Current Situation of Taiwan
Taiwan faces a critical resilience gap, having limited stockpiles of essential medicines and medical resources, a need for hardened communications systems, weakened information integrity with media organizations lacking resources for fact-checking; all this as tensions in the Taiwan Strait remain high and unstable. A recent meeting between Taiwan’s opposition leader, Cheng Li-wun, and China’s President Xi Jinping in Beijing drew criticism from the ruling party as Taiwan continues its assertion of independence. And the recently concluded Balikatan military exercises between the U.S., the Philippines, and Japan took place near the South China Sea and Taiwan.
There is a need to amplify calls for neutrality as militarization in the region continues and rivalry between the U.S. and China persists.
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About the Speaker:
Brian Hioe (丘琦欣) is a writer, editor, translator, activist, and DJ based out of Taipei. In 2014, he was one of the founders of New Bloom Magazine (破土), an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and the Asia Pacific that was founded after the Sunflower Movement, which he participated in as a student activist. In his capacity as such, he helps run the community space for events that New Bloom runs in Taipei, DAYBREAK (破曉咖啡).
*The Sunflower Movement was a coalition of students and other civic groups that opposed the passage of the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. They used the sunflower as a symbol of hope.
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