April 3 began as a typical day for the people of Taiwan. Workers and students set out on their usual commutes as cities across the island bustled with the usual activities of daily life. At 7:58 a.m. local time, during the peak of morning rush hour, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the east coast of … Read more
On January 13, the citizens of Taiwan took to the polls in a presidential election bombarded by the full coordinated force of information manipulation and influence operations directed by the People’s Republic of China. Disinformation spikes by some 40 percent ahead of elections in Taiwan, according to Billion Lee, the founder of Taiwan fact-checking organization … Read more
In late summer, I joined fellow Doublethink Lab (DTL) co-founder and now Democratic Progressive Party legislative candidate Puma Shen in visiting Ukraine. In doing so, DTL became the first Taiwanese civil society organization (CSO) to act on a seeming truism in international relations analysis and related media commentary: that Taiwan should learn from Ukraine’s experience … Read more