In July Puma Shen (沈伯洋) who’s currently a Legislator in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan came to the U.S. for an eight-day trip. Puma is an Associate Professor at National Taipei University’s Graduate School of Criminology, Co-Founder of Doublethink Lab, Co-Founder of Kuma Academy, and this year’s Taipei City mayoral candidate for Democratic Progressive Party.
It’s been nearly 30 years since Taipei has elected a DPP mayor and Puma most definitely has an uphill battle because Taipei voters usually vote for politicians from the Chinese Nationalist Kuomintang. According to a poll released by Taiwan Brain Trust in May, the incumbent Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) led DPP Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen (沈伯洋) by more than 20 points.
Puma gave a talk when he was in New York on July 24th and many people showed up to hear him speak. We were at his talk and wanted to share some translated highlights from it. We recorded Puma’s entire talk on July 24th and it’s on Talking Taiwan’s YouTube channel if you’d like to watch it. Incredibly the video now has over 60,000 views!
More exciting news for us…
I’ve been following Puma’s career since he founded Doublethink Lab in 2019, so I was excited to finally have a chance to sit down with him for an interview just 2 days after he officially registered as the DPP candidate for Taipei Mayor. We will share a short clip from the interview at the end this episode before we release the entire interview soon.
Related Links:
Puma Shen (沈伯洋):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_Shen
Puma Shen on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pumashen
Puma Shen on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pumashen/
Puma Shen on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@pumashen
Puma’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PumaShen
Puma Shen 沈伯洋 Taipei Mayoral Candidate – Talk in New York City: https://youtu.be/fqAfkAFAPB0?si=tIvOLivQUrtAys0r
Doublethink Lab: https://doublethinklab.org/
Kuma Academy: https://kuma-academy.org/about?lang=en
Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Yuan
https://www.ly.gov.tw/EngPages/List.aspx?nodeid=345
https://english.president.gov.tw/POP/244
https://www.ly.gov.tw/Engpages/index.aspx
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Progressive_Party
Chinese Nationalist Party/Kuomintang (KMT): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuomintang
China Index: https://china-index.io/
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