Taiwan Elections Archives | Talking Taiwan Podcast https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/category/taiwan-elections/ Talking Taiwan is a podcast about the interesting people who are connected to Taiwan and what they are doing. Mon, 17 May 2021 19:32:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Libsyn-PODCAST-Page-Favicon-300-X-300-1.png Taiwan Elections Archives | Talking Taiwan Podcast https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/category/taiwan-elections/ 32 32 Outcome of the 2020 Taiwan Presidential Election: Perspectives by Gerrit van der Wees Ep 62 https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/perspectives-on-the-2020-taiwan-presidential-election-ep-62/ https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/perspectives-on-the-2020-taiwan-presidential-election-ep-62/#respond Sat, 25 Jan 2020 01:28:29 +0000 https://staging.talkingtaiwan.com/?p=909 A Note from Talking Taiwan host Felicia Lin:   I recently invited Gerrit van der Wees, to share his perspectives on the outcome of the recent 2020 Taiwan presidential election. Gerrit is the former editor of the Taiwan Communique, a publication that was dedicated to the human rights and democracy of Taiwan. He has also worked […]

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I recently invited Gerrit van der Wees, to share his perspectives on the outcome of the recent 2020 Taiwan presidential election. Gerrit is the former editor of the Taiwan Communique, a publication that was dedicated to the human rights and democracy of Taiwan. He has also worked for FAPA as a senior policy advisor and currently teaches the history of Taiwan at George Mason University. He’s also a former Dutch diplomat.

 

Gerrit has provided a very concise analysis of how the DPP and Tsai Ing-wen have come back after the disastrous results of the 2018 local elections. He also offered some insight into the reforms that the Tsai administration will now be able to carry out upon re-election and with a DPP majority parliament.

 

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

 

  • How the protests in Hong Kong played a role in the outcome of Taiwan’s 2020 presidential election
  • What led to the poor results for the DPP in the 2018 local election results and how Tsai Ing-wen was able to turn that around and make a comeback
  • The unprecedented news coverage of the 2020 presidential election
  • The high voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election
  • The reforms that Tsai Ing-wen initiated in her first term and will now be able to move forward with, including the transitional justice reform urging investigation into many of the political murders that happened during the martial law period and White Terror era of Taiwan
  • Tsai Ing-wen’s economic initiatives and reforms
  • China’s carrot and stick approach in dealing with Taiwan
  • How Tsai Ing-wen was able to attract businesses in China back to Taiwan

 

Related Links:

 

The Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA): http://fapa.org/wp/

 

Taiwan Communique: https://www.taiwandc.org/twcom/

 

1992 Consensus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus

 

Washington Post Editorial by George Will: Time is on Taiwan’s side, as long as the U.S. is, too: https://wapo.st/2uxVK3B

 

228 Incident (1947): https://www.taiwandc.org/228-intr.htm

 

The Kaohsiung incident (1979): https://www.taiwandc.org/hst-1979.htm

 

Lin Yi-hsiung murder case (1980): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yi-hsiung

https://tw.forumosa.com/t/1979-lin-family-murders-a-first-hand-account/50007

 

Death of Professor Chen Wen-chen at the National Taiwan University (1981): https://www.taiwandc.org/twcom/tc05-int.pdf

 

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 With the Taiwan Presidential Election of 2020 coming up in Taiwan on January 11th, I thought it would be a good idea to do a podcast about this particular topic. Recently I spoke with Chieh-Ting Yeh, the Editor-in-Chief of Ketagalan Media, Vice-chairman of the Global Taiwan Institute and longtime watcher of Taiwan politics.

This episode should give you some interesting perspectives if you aren’t up on what’s going on with the upcoming presidential election in Taiwan.

 

Here’s a little preview of what we talked about in this podcast episode:

 

  • How the presidential elections in Taiwan work
  • The three presidential candidates: Tsai Ing-wen, Han Kuo-yu, James Soong
  • What’s been the theme of Taiwan’s presidential election?
  • China’s influence on Taiwan’s presidential election
  • Domestic issues being overshadowed by the China issue during the presidential election
  • The influence of Hong Kong’s protests on Taiwan’s presidential election
  • The province of Taiwan under the Republic of China
  • Taiwan’s first peaceful transition of power from the Kuomintang to the Democratic Progressive Party
  • Why the presidential election in Taiwan was moved from March to January
  • How Taiwan’s presidential elections have changed or not over the years
  • What it’s like on presidential election day in Taiwan

 

Related Links:

 

How Does Taiwan’s Parliamentary Election Work: http://www.ketagalanmedia.com/2015/12/26/how-does-taiwans-parliamentary-election-work/

 

It’s the Constitution, Stupid:

http://www.ketagalanmedia.com/2015/11/14/its-the-constitution-stupid/

 

Taiwan’s Household Registration System Disenfranchises Its Young Voters

http://www.ketagalanmedia.com/2020/01/06/taiwans-household-registration-system-is-disenfranchising-young-voters/

 

Ketagalan Media

http://www.ketagalanmedia.com/

 

Global Taiwan Institute

http://globaltaiwan.org/

 

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