On May 21 and again on May 24, ten of thousands of Taiwanese joined demonstrations to protest a controversial new bill, which is being pushed through the Legislative Yuan with limited scrutiny or discussion by an alliance of opposition parties: the Kuomintang and the Taiwan People’s Party. What is the bill, why is it controversial, and what’s at stake?
Chiang Min-yen, a non-resident fellow at the Taiwan Economic Democracy Union – one of the groups organizing the current protests – joins The Diplomat’s Shannon Tiezzi to discuss the concerns over the bill, the China factor, and what comes next.