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Das Tokio Team der ARD hat einen sehr sehenswerten Beitrag zur Energiewende und Atomausstieg im Zusammenhang mit der militärischen Bedrohung durch eine Seeblocke seitens der Volksrepublik China.
#ardtokio #taiwan #energiepolitik #atomausstieg2025 #energiealswaffe

Taiwan-Lithuania ties have a solid foundation. They must now adjust to political realities.

What’s needed: fewer grand gestures, more robust cooperation across political parties and across society.

My take on why Tsai Ing-wen’s visit matters.

🙏🏼 @demesdavid.bsky.social

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👀🇨🇳 "With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply." By Didi Kirsten Tatlow:

Wer sollte zentrale chinesische Parteitexte ins Deutsche übersetzen? (Bevor jetzt jemand sagt, Englisch reicht - der Bedarf ist im Bundestag und Ministerien da, denn nicht alle Fächer und Berufe arbeiten gleich intensiv in Englisch).
Ein kurzer 🧵 (zum Parteitagsbericht 2022)

#China #Chinakompetenz

The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club will host a discussion about the crisis for Taiwan’s judiciary and legal profession on Jan 9. We’ll be joined by ex-grand justice Su Yeong-chin and reps from the Taiwan Bar Association, Taipei Bar Association, Academia Sinica and Judicial Reform Foundation.

Vielen Dank für die detaillierte Rezension! 🫶🏻

In „Taiwan: Asiens erstaunliche Demokratie“ (bpb) beschreiben @demesdavid.bsky.social & Frédéric Krumbein die Geschichte Taiwans sowie die gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche & demokratische Entwicklung des Inselstaats. Eine Rezension von Josie-Marie Perkuhn.

Polisky

Taiwan's government plans to replace language in Civil Code permitting parents to "inflict punishment upon their children" with a prohibition on "violent conduct that harms mental and physical health." Far-reaching implications for Taiwanese society. A big deal.
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Chinese customs seizes Taiwanese textbooks over ‘incorrect maps’ – Focus Taiwan: ‘A total of 5,570 students were enrolled in the three Taiwanese schools in China in the first semester of the 2024 school year’

North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank have concluded, based on satellite images.

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Governments adopting a China hedging strategy will seek to squeeze out Taiwan from the international system.

Taiwan’s ex-President Tsai Ing-wen (DPP) in Canada says US should prioritise assisting Ukraine – Focus Taiwan: ‘at the annual Halifax International Security Forum’

Taiwan just defeated Japan in the WBSC Premier12 finals!

Captain Chen Chieh-hsien: “Thank you to our team for making the world see Taiwan!”

#TeamTaiwan 🇹🇼⚾️

My publisher has sent over promotion for my upcoming book, and I have to say I am digging the Marimekko vibes the amazing cover artist went with.

“Chinese state media has sunk considerable resources into Twitter, via unlabeled state-sponsored influencers, huge bot networks, the famous 50 cent army, … The Twitter bird, they thought, had finally been caged.”Then comes Bluesky. toosimple.substack.com/p/bluesky-ta...

Warum plant Taiwan seinen Windenergie-Markt weiter für ausländische Anbieter zu öffnen? Wie versucht das Land seine ambitionierten Klimaziele zu erreichen?

Diese und weitere Fragen beantworte ich in @table.media. Mit exklusiven Zitaten von Taiwans Umweltminister.

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