FOW044 - Presidential Elections in Taiwan (with Lev Nachman) [EN]

Fernostwärts

• “FOW027 – Taiwan’s New Labour Law & Taiwanese Politics” (our first general episode on Taiwanese politics with Brian Hioe, good supplement to this one)
• Ma Ying-Jeou
• Lee Teng-Hui
• WatchOut graph on Han Kuo-Yu’s airtime: Each column is one media outlet, red is their proportion of Han Kuo-Yu (KMT) coverage

• Financial Times (paywalled) on Chinese government calls to WantWant media offices
• Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO)
• Han Kuo-Yu vs. Huang Jie (the “eye roll queen”)
• Kaoshiung
• Terry Gou
• Mazu
• William Lai
• Formosa Alliance (NewBloom / Taipei Times)
• Ko Wen-Je
• KMT primary results
• Freddy Lim
• Book: “The Taiwan Voter” (2017)
• Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA)
• Sunflower Movement
• Facebook groups run by people in China
• NCCU Poll on Taiwanese identity
• Taiwanese media along the blue/green spectrum
• People/Sources to follow:
  • Christ Horton (Twitter / FOW036 with him on Transitional Justice in Taiwan)
  • William Yang (Twitter / Contently)
  • Daphne K. Lee (Twitter / News Lens)
  • Brian Hioe (Twitter / New Bloom / FOW027)
  • Taiwan Sentinel
  • Nick Aspinwall
  • Michael J Cole
  • Jessica Drun
  • Maggie Lewis (Twitter / FOW37 on Taiwan’s Legal System & Reforms)

If you want to support us in purchasing some better recording equipment to avoid distracting background noises in the future, we’d be thankful for small donations via paypal.me/fernostwaerts.

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