Taiwan This Week: That escalated quickly!
Listen to the broadcast Friday June 17th during the 8 o’clock hour on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. We discuss the ongoing China Airlines strike, which has managed to attract activists of many stripes, the controversial transitional justice bill...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: Travel plans
Listen to the broadcast Friday June 17th during the 8 o’clock hour on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. We discuss the week’s top political news including the Presidential Office’s decision to deny former President Ma Ying-jeou permission to...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: So, I know they SOUND angry …
Listen to the broadcast Friday May 27th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. Despite China’s strident criticism of President Tsai Ing-wen’s omission of the 92 Consensus in her inaugural address, many analysts predict that Beijing is unlikely to...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: US-Taiwan ties under the Tsai administration
Now that US policy makers have gotten their first glimpse of the Tsai Ing-wen presidency in action, we invite back to the show Rupert Hammond-Chambers of the US-Taiwan Business Council to get his take on where Taipei-Washington relations are headed. Listen to the podcast version of the show at the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: Rubber hits the road
Listen to the broadcast Friday May 20th at 8:30pm on ICRT FM 100, or stream the broadcast here. Or, listen to the extended podcast show on the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE. In this edition of Taiwan This Week, we dedicate the entire program to discussing the inauguration of President Tsai Ing-wen. During our...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Facing history with “transitional justice”
We speak to Dr. Ernest Caldwell of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) School of Law in London about President Elect Tsai Ing-wen’s pledge to confront Taiwan’s authoritarian past by pursuing a program of transitional justice. Listen to the podcast version of the show at the ICRT website, on iTunes, or DOWNLOAD IT HERE....Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: Taiwan mourns together
ICRT News and guests discuss the week’s top stories including this Monday’s tragic killing of a four year old girl and the public response, Hung’s ascension to the head of the KMT, the Ma-Tsai meeting, new warnings about the spread of terrorist ideology in Taiwan, and more. Listen to the show on the ICRT website,...Continue reading
Taiwan This Week: April Week 3
Welcome to Taiwan This Week, a roundup of the top news stories from around the island over the past seven days. Listen in every Friday at 8:30pm for the must-know news that is happening in Taiwan now, with our host ICRT’s Keith Menconi, as he sits down with Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club president Jane Rickards,...Continue reading
Taiwan Talk: Freezing the DPP’s Taiwan Independence Clause
Listen Episode Description Some members of the Democratic Progressive Party are making a push to freeze a portion of the party’s charter known as the Taiwan Independence Clause which calls for the establishment of a Republic of Taiwan. Supporters of the freeze say doing so could help the DPP’s chance to become the ruling party...Continue reading
Tsai Ing-wen Leading DPP Again
Tsai Ing-wen took office Wednesday as DPP chairperson after a two-year break. Speaking during a handover ceremony in Taipei, her predecessor Su Tseng-chang urged party members to support Tsai – saying she is taking on a “difficult job.” Tsai, who held the DPP chairmanship for two terms from 2008 to 2012, thanked Su for his...Continue reading
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