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Taiwan cooking oil scandal: Why Isn’t Beijing Adding Fuel to the Fire? • Isabelle Feng

31 July 2026 No Comments

In this new piece, Isabelle Feng looks back at the tainted cooking oil scandal that has affected Taiwan for several weeks, and at Beijing’s measured response to the affair. She examines the protests held in Taipei on 25 July, the coverage of the event by Chinese state media, and reactions observed on Chinese social media. She puts this episode in perspective alongside the history of food safety scandals in mainland China and the question of freedom to protest on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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JA 11 – March 2008

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Summary

– ANALYSIS OF CURRENT AFFAIRS –

The renewal of the fuel-tax bill in question

International and local negotiations regarding the cost and reorganisation of US bases in Japan

Reforming the ministry for Defense

– PERSPECTIVES ON CURRENT AFFAIRS – 

Kōno Tarō, Mizuno Ken’ichi, Shibayama Masahiko, Yamauchi Kōichi, Mabuchi Sumio, Hosono Gōshi, Izumi Kenta, “Eight propositions to remedy the Diet’s malfunction”, Chūōkōron

Kōno Tarō, Mabuchi Sumio, “A divided Diet provides a unique opportunity”, Chūōkōron

Kitagawa Masayasu, “For a People’s movement of the Heisei era”, Chūōkōron

Koamitsu Nobuharu, “Civil servants are partly to blame, politicians as well”, Chūōkōron (interview)

Asō Tarō, “Let’s set VAT at 10% and integrate the basic pension scheme into the national budget”, Chūōkōron

Yamaguchi Jirō, Miyamoto Tarō, “What socio-economic system do the Japanese want?”, Sekai

by Guilbourg Delamotte

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