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Panama Splits for Beijing: Cash for Diplomacy Isn’t working for Taiwan

  News broke recently that Panama was ditching Taipei for Beijing. The simple fact is, Taiwan is not big enough to buy it’s diplomatic relations much longer. While 20 sovereign nations still solely recognize Taiwan as the official China over the People’s Republic of China, it must be said, how long can this last? The […]

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Gentrification in Taipei: Kick out the old, bring in the new

Taiwan, like many countries in the 1980s, pursued an economic model of neoliberalism. This was a time when Reaganomics and Thatcherism were in full swing. Many economies were turning away from a Keynesian approach for a more market-oriented economy that would meet its demand with the supply at hand. Like all economic models, it was […]

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Interview with Anna Lo: Her experiences as an MLA in Northern Ireland

Last year I had the pleasure of interviewing Anna Lo in her constituency office. I am still waiting on my travel expenses to be reimbursed by the radio station though. Anna has since left politics, but is still very much active in social issues in Northern Ireland. I interview her on her experiences in Northern […]

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