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Will Buckingham | 白忠修 @willbuckingham.com · 19h

It was so good to be up at 梓書房 / paperbooks in Taichung yesterday to attend this event with writers Naomi Sím and Kiú-kiong, talking about their writing, our @windandbones.com book, Tâigael: Stories from Taiwanese and Gaelic, and the challenges of translating between minoritised languages.

Two women sitting in front of a laptop, holding microphones. Both have short hair and glasses, and have the air of being writers — which indeed they are!

Shop sign with hand drawn image of two women's faces and a cat's face. Sign reads 梓書房 PAPERBOOKS. In the background is a lamppost.

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 11h

Taiwanese naval officer indicted for selling missile manuals to Chinese agent – Focus Taiwan

Naval officer indicted for selling missile manuals to Chinese agent - Focus Taiwan

The Taichung District Prosecutors Office has indicted a naval officer on corruption charges after he allegedly sold sensitive but unclassified operational manuals for Taiwan's domestically developed H...

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 11h

Taiwan’s interior ministry to tighten citizenship rules for public office – Taipei Times: ‘requiring them to declare that they do not hold a Chinese household registration or passport, and that they possess no other foreign citizenship.’

MOI to tighten citizenship rules for public office - Taipei Times

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

www.taipeitimes.com

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 11h

Beijing has found a new pressure point in trade talks: Batteries, which the US is heavily reliant on as it aims to stabilise the grid and support explosive data centre power demand – Bloomberg

China’s New Weapon in US Trade Talks: Batteries

The US is heavily reliant on Chinese batteries as it seeks to stabilize the grid and support explosive data center demand for power.

www.bloomberg.com

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Astrosoup Dumpling @heybrendan.bsky.social · 10h

Finally back after a 4 hour scooter drive from Smangus. Man, that place is so remote.
It also got hit really really hard by the typhoon rain I think. So many really old trees were completely washed out. This clearing used to be forested from what I remember. The oldest ones are still there though.

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 10h

Shortages of things like tax accountants. And Japan's TFR is much higher than Taiwan's.
www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/j...

Commentary: Japan has an ‘enshortification’ problem

An ageing workforce is affecting all sorts of professions, says Leo Lewis for Financial Times.

www.channelnewsasia.com

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 14h

What do you think happens to your exports when the PRC invades Taiwan? Of your top 6 export destinations, 4 will be fighting each other, and the other 2 prolly inaccessible. 13 of your top 15 export destinations are Asian. What will your democracy and economy look like with 20-25% job losses?

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Thorsten Benner @tbenner.bsky.social · 15h

It‘s useful these days to pay attention to where UK China policy goes awfully wrong.

This is a prime example. The plan to rely on Ming Yang for critical energy infrastructure (the UK‘s largest wind farm) is reckless. Especially since there are European alternatives.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Chinese firm planning £1.5bn turbine plant in Scotland

Ming Yang says up to 1,500 jobs could be created if plans for the facility at Ardersier go ahead.

www.bbc.com

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Xander ✺ @spectralcodex.com · 1d

Taiwan is a terminal society, one that is doing far too little to avert the coming demographic collapse. David Chang, founder of Crossroads, brings receipts and makes the case for more serious efforts at internationalization in this Commonwealth Magazine op-ed. english.cw.com.tw/article/arti...

Rethinking immigration to halt a growing economic security crisis｜Politics & Society｜2023-09-25｜web only

In this op-ed, David Chang tackles Taiwan's imminent demographic challenge, a matter of urgent concern. They delve into the aging population issues in Taiwan, dissecting the factors that underlie this...

english.cw.com.tw

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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.bsky.social · 1d

“I think they've been very explicit about not wanting to give away core technologies,” said @ilariamazzocco.bsky.social, senior fellow focused on the Chinese clean energy industry at the @est.csis.org “I think they really are angling to become the leading power in this industry for decades to come.”

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Han Yang 杨涵 @hanyangsydney.bsky.social · 20h

My conversation with @beijingpalmer.bsky.social on Trump's trade war with China, Taiwan, AUKUS and his time spent in Beijing

youtu.be/p1eQYmfwhlM

EP24 对话外交政策杂志副主编James Palmer

YouTube video by 涵瞰世界 Devil's Advocate

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 21h

This is good work. Comprehensive.

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 1d

my sister wrote a thing about taiwan’s silicon shield

Why Taiwan Fears ‘America First’ Risks Eroding Its ‘Silicon Shield’ • Stimson Center

U.S. efforts to onshore advanced semiconductor manufacturing are raising concerns in Taiwan about the strength of its “silicon shield”.

www.stimson.org

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Mг Oгcinatoг 🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 @mr-orcinator.bsky.social · 1d

China’s authoritarianism is likely to intensify in the coming years. The international community cannot remain passive and wait for #Taiwan to face a crisis similar to #Ukraine. #Beijing has demonstrated a willingness to use force before, and history suggests it may do so again

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 1d

Incoming Japanese PM sends handwritten letter to Lai

www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

Takaichi’s letter delivered to Lai: Japanese MP - Taipei Times

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www.taipeitimes.com

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 1d

And yet the president's national speech said nothing about demographics or immigration.

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Klaus Bardenhagen @taiwanreporter.bsky.social · 1d

"Taiwan is finding itself at a crossroads:

- Open up, become an internationally connected, engaged country with diverse, inclusive, equal society for the long-term

- Close up, maintain status quo. Protect local identity, culture, and interests for the short-term
english.cw.com.tw/article/arti...

Rethinking immigration to halt a growing economic security crisis｜Politics & Society｜2023-09-25｜web only

In this op-ed, David Chang tackles Taiwan's imminent demographic challenge, a matter of urgent concern. They delve into the aging population issues in Taiwan, dissecting the factors that underlie…

english.cw.com.tw

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Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 1d

China-Taiwan Weekly Update, October 10, 2025
@thestudyofwar.bsky.social
understandingwar.org/research/chi...

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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 1d

China issues bounty for Taiwan PsyOps unit for 'separatism'

Chinese police on Saturday offered rewards of $1,400 for information about 18 people it said were Taiwanese military psychological operations officers spreading "separatist" message

archive.is/2025.10.11-0...

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 1d

Will flattery work when it comes to Trump? Lai has to tread carefully domestically to avoid the perception that he is just giving the US what it wants at Taiwan's expense, however

New Bloom @newbloommag.net · 3d

"Why Would Lai Claim that Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for Resolving Cross-Strait Tensions?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Why Would Lai Claim that Trump Deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for Resolving Cross-Strait Tensions? | New Bloom Magazine

In a recent interview, President Lai Ching-te raised eyebrows with a claim that US president Donald Trump would “surely win the Nobel Peace Prize” if he were able to convince Chinese President Xi…

newbloommag.net

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Sense Hofstede @sensehofstede.nl · 1d

KMT heavyweight and media personality Jaw Shau-kong urges Beijing to stay out of party chair race – Focus Taiwan: ‘The remarks came after Hau [Lung-bin] on Oct. 9 accused both “foreign forces” and “fellow party members” of spreading false online content to smear him during the campaign.’

KMT heavyweight urges Beijing to stay out of party chair race - Focus Taiwan

Kuomintang (KMT) heavyweight and media personality Jaw Shau-kong (趙少康) on Saturday called on Beijing to stop any interference in the party's upcoming chair election, warning that online disinformation...

focustaiwan.tw

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hush @hush-ndb.bsky.social · 1d

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwane...

This photo is from the Japanese colonial period, with the Rising Sun Flag and the Japanese Rising Sun Flag displayed between the building and the person.
The sign reads, "Taiwan Minpo Publishing House, the only media outlet for Taiwanese people."

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Michael Turton @michaelturton.bsky.social · 1d

"The principal guns are the five new Armstrong muzzle-loading 7-inch guns. Though the Japanese shots had left marks upon every part of the fort, the guns are mostly still serviceable.
The warship anchored on the right is the German man-of-war “Arcona” which entered port on the day of the attack."

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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter.bsky.social · 2d

Just got settled in today and will be the writer-in-residence at Taiwan Literature Base for the next 3 weeks! Sign up for all three of my events are already full (thank you folks for the enthusiasm), but I will also be doing some additional events in Oct/Nov which I will post about.

A photo of Yilin wearing glasses and smiling, with her hand pointed at a poster in Traditional Chinese (Mandarin) about her residency events.

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J. Martin @gyokusai.bsky.social · 2d

Cutaway, Taipei, Taiwan

April 2025, Canon PowerShot

#Taipei #Taiwan #Photography

Facade with open stairs and sheet-iron containers.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: The PRC may have provided targeting intelligence via satellite to support a recent, large-scale Russian strike on Ukraine. This support could provide the PLA with some critical operational experience that it currently lacks. (🧵1/2) 

Read more: isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU...

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