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Dateline Taipei features editorial and opinion pieces from the Taipei based United Daily News and China Times, translated into English by Bevin Chu, author of The China Desk.

Dateline Taipei will critique some of these Pan Blue media editorial and opinion pieces. Dateline Taipei’s criticisms may not always be kind to the authors of these pieces, because even the Pan Blue media has begun to buckle under relentless pressure from the ruling DPP’s “soft dictatorship.”

Externally, this pressure manifests itself in the form of intimidation by the ruling DPP’s “Anaconda in the Chandelier.”

Internally, this pressure manifests itself in the form of gradual indoctrination by Taiwan independence Political Correctness.

The Pan Blue media’s surrender, fortunately, is not complete, at least not yet.

Some Pan Blue media editorial and opinion pieces may reflect continued allegiance to the cosmopolitan Pan Blue values of political liberty and free trade. Those pieces will receive The China Desk’s enthusiastic affirmation.

Other pieces may reflect pusillanimous surrender to the self-hating racism of the Pan Green camp’s “Taiwanese, not Chinese” identity politics and nation building. Those pieces will receive Dateline Taipei’s unflinching opprobrium.