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Wow, this hits home. I lived in Taichung for 4 years about a decade ago. I've actually been to this bar a few times, but never had issues there. There is definitely a weird vibe in Taichung bars, for some reason. I always heard stories about gangsters taking offence that some white guy had tried to dance with one of their girlfriends and beating the hell out of every foreigner in the bar as a result. "White guys cause problems" might be the other side of the story, though. I doubt the bar will be able to get away with this for long.
Generally the solution to problem customers is bouncers and in more serious cases police, sounds suspicious. >

There's an upper-limit to the number of bouncers you can hire before it starts being unprofitable, and from the article it appears that -- even when they charged a cover -- they hit that limit.
It sucks when a bunch of violent white thugs spoil it for everyone else, but then again, maybe if the violent white thugs weren't tolerated by other white people (i.e.self-policing), then white people wouldn't be excluded en-masse. >

The bar itself said it had inadequate security, so that's an easy problem to fix. People of all races can cause trouble when drunk. Are they saying black American males are welcome, but not white. What about Hispanic male Americans?
This isn't good PR for a country that relies on Western defence agreements. It's also clearly illegal, so a weird policy. >

Don't think the US doesn't have an ulterior motives for the "defense".  Oil or geopolitical power is the name of the game.  If you don't have either, you're SOL.  Just ask Myanmar. >

Yes, Taiwan is well known for its vast oil fields and geopolitical power.