Published since 2019 by the Fair Winds Foundation and Association of Foreign Relations, Taiwan Weekly provides in-depth report and analysis of the major issues facing Taiwan.
Human Rights Day: Has Taiwan "Upgraded" Human Rights Protections or Violations？
December 10 is Human Rights Day. President Tsai Ing-wen attended an activity organized by the National Human Rights Commission, Control Yuan, with the body’s president Chen Chu.
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Stay Alert on the U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations Next Year
The big data of the traditional Chinese calendar seems to have borne out the legend that the year of Gengzi, every sixty years, has always proven to be eventful.
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This Week in Taiwan 1206-1212
December 7: The Central Bank has announced the strictest housing credit controls in a decade. From now on, companies are limited to a loan limit of 60 percent and individuals 60 percent beginning with the third housing mortgage. Furthermore, mortgages for purchasing land and residual units of real estate developers will be capped at 50 percent. The policies hope to release available housing to the market from developers, reduce hoarding, increase supply, and guide the rationalization of housing prices.
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70 Pork Import Firms Sign Petition Not to Import Ractopamine Pork
Taiwan will begin importing American pork containing ractopamine next year.
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After Ractopamine Pork, Radioactive Food Also Coming to Taiwan
While the controversy of lifting import restrictions on pork containing ractopamine has not been resolved, the timing to lift the ban on food from Japan's Fukushima has become the focal point recently.
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Honorable to Block TV, Ban Children's Book, and Inspect Water Meters？
A picture book for children, Waiting for Dad to Come Home, depicting a child who misses his father, a doctor saving people and cannot return home during the pandemic, was banned in Taiwan.
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The Blind Spots in DPP Foreign Policy
In the spring of 2008, Taiwan had a close call with disaster.
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This Week in Taiwan 1129-1205
November 30: The number of additional external coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on this day spiked to 24, including 20 Indonesian migrant workers. Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung, who heads the Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC), announced that effective December 4, Taiwan will suspend Indonesian workers from entering Taiwan for two weeks, affecting about 1,350. To date, of 107 confirmed cases which involve foreign migrant workers, Indonesian workers account for 83.
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Opposition to "Ractopamine Pork" Turns Legislature into Chaos
As Taiwan's import restrictions on United States pork containing ractopamine are expected to be lifted "as scheduled" on January 1, 2021, ruling and opposition party legislators fought all out in the chambers of the Legislative Yuan.
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Amid Protest, Premier Su Finally Addresses Legislative Yuan
Under the protection of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) legislators, Premier Su Tseng-chang of the Executive Yuan has finally completed his policy report at the Legislative Yuan—in a mess of raw pork viscera.
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