MEDIA
Normal
- Telegraph on three women who inspired Tsai Ing-wen
- BBC’s Cindy Sui on Tsai as a person
- TIME: Tsai Ing-wen now most powerful woman in the Chinese speaking world.
- AFP on the election, with quotes from Jon Sullivan at U of Nottingham
- NYTimes: Tsai faces weak economy, Beijing
- NHK: Discusses outcome, identity
- USA Today
- Philippines Kicker News
- The Independent
- Daily Mail: Voters turn their backs on closer ties
- WashPost: Onus on China to respond
- WashPost: Stunning electoral victory
- Straits Times: 10 things you should know about Tsai Ing-wen
- Dennis Engbarth for DPA on economic fears driving Tsai win
- Bloomberg: Tsai elected in Landslide
- CSMonitor from Beijing, with the usual commenters
- CSMonitor from reporter in Taipei
- Committee to Protect Journalists on China journos reporting on Taiwan
- What Happened in China? Nothing. No election reporting…
- WSJ’s Andrew Browne with solid piece on how vote changes calculus in DD
- China tells Taiwan to abandon independence hallucination
- Gulf News with positive report
- Quadrangle Online
Delusional:
- BBC cites China’s Global Times as actual source, claims Tsai Ing-wen’s rhetoric has hardened
- SCMP’s longtime pro-KMT Lawrence Chung says cabinet resignation is a crisis for Tsai ing-wen
Video:
- Reuters interview with Dr Dafydd Fell on future of Taiwan-China relations
- VOA on Tsai Ing-wen’s landslide victory
Local
- Canada, Australia congratulate Tsai Ing-wen
- Tsai to start FTA talks with Japan
- China Post: KMT ends with 35 of 113 seats
- Executive Yuan resigns en masse following election
- New Faces to enter legislature
- Premier resigns despite President’s objection
- Mayors call for relocation of government to center and south
- KMT news organ on Tsai’s victory
- CNA report on the visit of US officials to Taipei
COMMENTARY
Good
- Eroding the Iron Votes from Taiwan’s Old Soldiers (CPI)
- Dan Blumenthal in Foreign Policy asks will the One China Policy survive?
- Don Rodgers at Thinking Taiwan on the election
- Joseph Wu of the DPP on Taiwan after the KMT
- Wen-ti Sung on the avalanche as a consolidation of the voter base
- Ketalagan by Solidarity: Eight Reasons the DPP fell short in Taipei
- Looking forward to deepening Canada-Taiwan ties
- John Bolton says US can play the Taiwan card
- Brian H at New Bloom on the Fall of the KMT?
- Brian H at New Bloom: Tsai and the Sunflowers
- Solidarity: Resignation Week on all the resignations
- Frozen Garlic: low turnout exists, but doesn’t account for outcome
- Frozen Garlic: some KMT losses so great, they won’t get their security deposits back
- Frozen Garlic: DP alliance strategy really didn’t help
- Frozen Garlic: Decades of LY Seniority wiped out by election
- Frozen Garlic: The Humiliation of Hau
- Ketagalan: there is no Third Force
- Taiwan Law Blog: what did each political party get out of proportional representation votes
- Now you know the terror on the Chou Tzu-yu case
- Why the US should care with excellent comments from longtime US Taiwan expert Shirley Kan
- Paul Monk in SMH with great piece accurately identifying Beijing as source of tension
- Ankit Panda in the Diplomat correctly understanding the Taiwanese identity
- Video: Ketagalan Media panel
- New Bloom: what to expect from a Tsai Ing-wen presidency
- New Bloom: When heavy metal meets activist politics
Meh
- Lowy Interpreter tells us three things to watch for
- Jerome Cohen’s take in Council on Foreign Relations
- Bonnie Glaser and Jacqueline Vitello at CSIS
- The News Lens: KMT fall
- Robert Ross *sigh*
Delusional
- News Lens: Will time reveal Ma’s legacy or… nah forget it?
- Peng Ming-min in Taipei Times. Truly silly.
KMT Problems
- WSJ on the probable loss of its assets
- Brian H at New Bloom on the Fall of the KMT?
- UDN: how will rootless KMT revive itself?
- Straits Times: KMT needs fresh talent
- China Post: Voters hand KMT devastating message
- ETaiwan News: KMT faces post election struggle
- Taipei Times: KMT gives little hope it will change
- Taipei Times: Chu: do not blame KMT
- Taipei Times: Pro-Green Think Tank urges KMT to become more localized
- KMT chair election on Feb 27. Nope, Mar 26.
- KMT Youth demand reform debate
- KMT news organ reports on Chu resignation
- Taipei City counciler Lee Hsin announces campaign for KMT Chair