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

A close look at what's at stake in the upcoming presidential election in Taiwan.

„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)

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Photo: CC BY-NC 2.0 by Richy! (via Flickr)