Jordyn Haime is a freelance journalist based in Taipei, Taiwan writing about Taiwanese democracy and society and Jewish affairs in Asia. Her work has appeared in The China Project, Al Jazeera, Haaretz, The Jewish Telegraphic Agency and more.
Israeli cross-party delegation meets representatives of island’s current and incoming governments, visits science park and attends Holocaust Memorial Day event.
Independence-leaning DPP and other parties that rose out of the 2014 protests are losing popularity, but youth increasingly drives the island’s politics.
Taiwanese legislative speaker Han Kuo-yu of the KMT is expected to become chair of the Beijing-sanctioned Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, but some in the ruling DPP are concerned he could use the group to advance cross-strait ‘integration work’.
China told Hague court Palestinians have a right to self-determination ‘by all available means, including armed struggle’ – to the dissatisfaction of Israelis.
No one in Taipei knew much about Nathan Rabinovitch when he died there in 1985. Yet the Russian Jew who claimed to have known Al Capone was a Shanghai gangster who spied for the city’s Japanese occupiers.