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Taiwan Report News Brief – Tsai makes a big, risky bid for a trade deal with the US.
15 minutes Posted Aug 30, 2020 at 8:40 am.
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Holger Chen has been shot. The NPP gets a new chair. The charges have been dropped on the author who claimed Ko P trafficked organs. The Constitutional Court rules that the KMT's ill-gotten assets are indeed ill-gotten. A proposal to replace the "92 consensuses" with an "ECFA consensus" surfaces. President Tsai makes a big bid for a trade deal with the US. But up first, headlines.


As always, all English articles used in the report are linked to on our website Report.tw.


Taiwan Report News Brief is a daily show of news with analysis and context, providing the listener with a better understanding of Taiwan, especially in politics and foreign affairs. This show intends to bring the listener up to speed on the week's events for our weekly analysis show, Current Affairs Taiwan (CAT).