In The News: Department of Political Science

Common Wealth Magazine

As the voter turnout rate in university student union elections has continued to drop in recent years, more and more people have questioned whether university student self-government is necessary. Taiwan is proud of its democracy. Why do college students feel less and less interested in participating in student self-healing?

Las Vegas Review Journal

Republican April Becker is accusing her potential 2024 Democratic opponent, Clark County Commissioner Ross Miller, of numerous campaign finance violations, according to a complaint filed with the Nevada secretary of state’s office Wednesday.

Voice of America

Austin Wang, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, believes that in order to stabilize the US-China relationship and get it back on track, Washington is not without demands on Beijing.

Taipei Times

John Bolton said in January that he might run for the Republican US presidential nomination next year against former US president Donald Trump, telling the New York Post that “Trump’s support within the party itself is in terminal decline.”

Las Vegas Review Journal

Imagine: It’s 2028, and it’s time to go vote in the primary. You check your phone to see how long the wait time is at your nearest polling site. You’re a nonpartisan, but you wait with Republicans and Democrats to get the same ballot and vote for your favorite candidates, some red and some blue.

Radio Free Asia

The former Trump national security advisor will be hosted by pro-independence groups in Taipei.

World Journal

The Politics Department of Duke University in North Carolina (Duke) recently invited a professor from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) to give a lecture on "The Impact of the Ukraine War on Taiwan and the World", and also to analyze and reflect on the crisis in the Taiwan Strait.

Epoch Times

Taiwan will hold elections in January next year, and the election campaign is unprecedentedly fierce. Michael McCaul, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, issued a warning on this a few days ago, saying that the CCP may influence the election and control Taiwan without firing a single shot, which is more influential than the threat of force.

CNN

Defying Beijing’s repeated threats, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen and US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy presented a carefully choreographed united front in California on Wednesday against an increasingly powerful and aggressive China.

The New American

Taiwan’s military is ramping up preparations for a possible future war with China by planning an unprecedented military drill that will take place at a civilian airport in July this year, the island’s official Central News Agency (CNA) declared in a statement.

Radio Free Asia

It’s probably no coincidence that former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou landed in Shanghai just a day before his successor, Tsai Ing-wen, took off for a two-night visit to New York on Tuesday.

Taiwan News

Taiwanese internet users appear more interested in Taiwan's NT$6,000 tax rebate and saga of an escaped baboon, than former President Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) trip to China, based on Google Trends.