This week Michael Turton (麥哲恩) is on vacation (but still is with us this week with a new article on Report.tw). Courtney Donovan Smith (石東文) is joined by Scott Ellinger (陳鷹), a former US military and AIT official. The recall campaign by Han fans against Kaohsiung NPP city councilor Huang Jie passes signature count to move to stage two, Yu Shyi-kun is the new legislative speaker and Vice President-elect William Lai is going to America to join the Congressional Prayer Breakfast, an event President Trump attended last year. Controversy surrounds Taiwan and the WHO, and a petition for the White House to get Taiwan into the WHO has passed the threshold. The US State Department issues a strongly worded rebuke to the ICAO over blocking Twitter accounts. The KMT chair candidate and former Taipei Mayor, Hau Lung-bin, makes some strong statements on PRC relations and sounds more traditional deep-blue anti-communist than red.

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