The News Lens
Date: 2019/12/30
By: Brian Hioe

New Bloom is an online magazine featuring radical perspectives on Taiwan and the Asia-Pacific, founded by a group of students and activists after the 2014 Sunflower Movement in Taiwan. We seek to provide a space that fosters political and intellectual transnational dialogues in the Left.

What you need to know

The only presidential debate for 2020 election was held on Sunday, December 29. KMT candidate Han Kuo-yu lashed out at the media for alleged defamation.

Compared to the three policy presentations that have taken place to date, the presidential debate held yesterday allowed for more substantive exchanges between the three presidential candidates who will be running in Taiwan's 2020 elections: Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party, Han Kuo-yu of the Kuomintang, and James Soong of the People's First Party. It was the only presidential debate scheduled for this election cycle. 

The increased exchanges were likely due to the format of the debate, which required more engagement between the candidates as well as outside experts. But for the most part, the candidates repeated many of the same talking points from their previous policy presentations. 
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