Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 is a Taipei-based editor and writer. He is one of the founding editors of New Bloom Magazine, an online magazine covering activism and youth politics in Taiwan and Asia Pacific. He is a non-resident fellow at the University of Nottingham’s Taiwan Studies Programme, as well as a freelance journalist and translator. He also writes regularly for The Diplomat on Taiwan.

He tweets on all things Taiwan, sometimes by the minute,  @brianhioe.

In this episode, Brian talks about how people in Taiwan experience the rise and fall, but mostly rise, in cross Strait tensions – which have been a given on the island for decades now. And he looks ahead at the upcoming presidential election. While the world sees Taiwan mainly as a powder keg in the midst of China / U.S. strife, many voters also look at domestic issues like lackluster economic growth.

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STATE OF ASIA is a podcast from Asia Society Switzerland. 
Season 4, episode 4 - Published: June 6, 2023
Host and Producer: Remko Tanis, Programs and Editorial Manager, Asia Society Switzerland