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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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Good for China, Good for Hong Kong? The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link and the Joint Checkpoint Controversy – Pierre Delbosc and Lingyue Tang

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The opening at the end of 2018 of a high-speed railway linking Hong Kong to Guangzhou has constituted the cause of a public outcry in Hong Kong, as part of the West Kowloon railway station is about to be leased to the central government of the People’s Republic of China. Mainland laws will be applicable to this area, thus creating, according to certain Hong Kong lawyers, uncertainty about the stability of the “one country, two systems” principle which rules the Special Administrative Region.

  • A breach against the Hong Kong legal order?
  • A “legal and pragmatic” choice
    • The “firm legal basis” of the co-location plan
    • A necessary adaptation of the “one country, two systems principle“ to the current development
    • A solution in the interest of both parties?
  • A political decision, more than a legal one
    • A display of authority against a rebellious city
    • A “devil plan” to fully control Hong Kong?

 

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