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I don’t appreciate LTN’s sexist framing but some more details on the context here
news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
May 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I don’t appreciate LTN’s sexist framing but some more details on the context here
news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
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China’s PLA conducts amphibious landing drill in Strait as Taiwanese president marks first year – SCMP
PLA runs amphibious landing drill in strait as Taiwanese leader marks first year
The 73rd Group Army exercises tactics and skills of near-shore driving and landing operations with armoured amphibious vehicles.
www.scmp.com
May 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
China’s PLA conducts amphibious landing drill in Strait as Taiwanese president marks first year – SCMP
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What’s important is to note that the DPP’s stance on nuclear energy has shifted, in light of energy concerns because of invasion, but the DPP still needs to please supporters in light of its traditional antinuclear position
"Nuclear Debate Likely to Continue After Shutdown of Ma-anshan Nuclear Reactor" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Nuclear Debate Likely to Continue After Shutdown of Ma-anshan Nuclear Reactor | New Bloom Magazine
With the shutdown of the Ma-anshan nuclear reactor, it can be expected that partisan contention regarding nuclear energy will continue rather than stop…
newbloommag.net
May 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
What’s important is to note that the DPP’s stance on nuclear energy has shifted, in light of energy concerns because of invasion, but the DPP still needs to please supporters in light of its traditional antinuclear position
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🇹🇼🛰️ My video explainer looking at Taiwan's mission to be more satellite self-reliant (i.e., avoid Musk's Starlink) if China ever invades and cuts undersea cables. We visited Taiwanese defense startup Tron Future, part of the new satellite supply chain:
Taiwan seeks satellite independence as it plans for a China invasion | DW News
YouTube video by DW News
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🇹🇼🛰️ My video explainer looking at Taiwan's mission to be more satellite self-reliant (i.e., avoid Musk's Starlink) if China ever invades and cuts undersea cables. We visited Taiwanese defense startup Tron Future, part of the new satellite supply chain:
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Recall tsunami: How Taiwan’s KMT faces its biggest crisis in years – Ho Ming-sho for ThinkChina: ‘While it is still too early to predict the outcome of the recall elections or their political aftermath, the campaign has already reinvented political activism in Taiwan.’
Recall tsunami: How Taiwan’s KMT faces its biggest crisis in years
Analysing Taiwan’s “recall politics” and the grassroots challenge to KMT lawmakers currently underway, Taiwan academic Ho Ming-sho explains why Taiwan’s political identities are undergoing a profound ...
www.thinkchina.sg
May 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Recall tsunami: How Taiwan’s KMT faces its biggest crisis in years – Ho Ming-sho for ThinkChina: ‘While it is still too early to predict the outcome of the recall elections or their political aftermath, the campaign has already reinvented political activism in Taiwan.’
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#TaiwanWordoftheDay is the #BluebirdMovement #青鳥運動, in which 30,000 people gathered in #Taipei on May 21, 2024 — #Taiwanese who support the legislators opposing the abrupt expansion of legislative power w/o room for deliberation. This ignited the current wave of recalls.
medium.com/@wordsfromta...
medium.com/@wordsfromta...
Taiwan Democracy: What’s happening in the Taiwanese parliament?
Primer to the 2024 legislative brawls that gave rise to the Bluebird Movement
medium.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is the #BluebirdMovement #青鳥運動, in which 30,000 people gathered in #Taipei on May 21, 2024 — #Taiwanese who support the legislators opposing the abrupt expansion of legislative power w/o room for deliberation. This ignited the current wave of recalls.
medium.com/@wordsfromta...
medium.com/@wordsfromta...
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CCTV anchor accidentally refers to Taiwan and China as two countries, lol
May 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
CCTV anchor accidentally refers to Taiwan and China as two countries, lol
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Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic – CNN: ‘Officials are concerned not just about the lack of vessels leaving China, but the speed at which that number dropped.’
Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic | CNN Business
On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t ...
edition.cnn.com
May 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic – CNN: ‘Officials are concerned not just about the lack of vessels leaving China, but the speed at which that number dropped.’
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Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them.
The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...
www.propublica.org
May 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com
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ICYMI: The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files, by @aliceysu.bsky.social:
The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files
Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear society apart
www.economist.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
ICYMI: The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files, by @aliceysu.bsky.social:
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China to crack down on rare-earth materials ahead of US trade talks – WSJ: ‘Authorities pledged to step up the enforcement of export controls on strategic mineral resources’
China to Crack Down on Rare-Earth Materials Ahead of U.S. Trade Talks
China has announced a crackdown on the smuggling of critical minerals, coming just one day before trade talks with the U.S., in which rare earth restrictions could be on the table.
www.wsj.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
China to crack down on rare-earth materials ahead of US trade talks – WSJ: ‘Authorities pledged to step up the enforcement of export controls on strategic mineral resources’
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Willy Wo-Lap Lam for Jamestown’s China Brief: ‘the assumption has been that Xi has been steering the housecleaning to get rid of real and potential enemies among the top brass. The recent spate of personnel changes, however, has lent credence to the argument that Xi’s military foes are gunning …’
Personnel Problems Are Becoming Personal Problems for Xi Jinping
Executive Summary: A lack of viable challenger suggests that Xi Jinping will remain in power, even if he is more vulnerable today, and his power more curtailed, than in years past. Personnel purges of...
jamestown.org
April 24, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Willy Wo-Lap Lam for Jamestown’s China Brief: ‘the assumption has been that Xi has been steering the housecleaning to get rid of real and potential enemies among the top brass. The recent spate of personnel changes, however, has lent credence to the argument that Xi’s military foes are gunning …’
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Former intel chief says China likely has over 5,000 spies in Taiwan. Liu Te-liang says actual number of Chinese agents could be higher www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6093148
Former intel chief says China likely has over 5,000 spies in Taiwan | Taiwan News | Apr. 24, 2025 11:32
Liu Te-liang says actual number of Chinese agents could be higher | Apr. 24, 2025 11:32
www.taiwannews.com.tw
April 25, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Former intel chief says China likely has over 5,000 spies in Taiwan. Liu Te-liang says actual number of Chinese agents could be higher www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6093148
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UDN claims 90% of council speakers back Lu Shiow-yen for being KMT party chair. I generally think Chu is on the way out, but I suspect he won't go down without some fireworks
udn.com/news/story/6...
udn.com/news/story/6...
9成議長支持盧秀燕選黨主席 新北市議長蔣根煌：決策圈要改革 | 聯合新聞網
國民黨主席之爭各界關注，除了現任主席朱立倫，包括台中市長盧秀燕動向，還有已表態的彰化縣前縣長卓伯源。傳出藍營9成議長都支...
udn.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM
UDN claims 90% of council speakers back Lu Shiow-yen for being KMT party chair. I generally think Chu is on the way out, but I suspect he won't go down without some fireworks
udn.com/news/story/6...
udn.com/news/story/6...
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Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China’s not happy, reports Nathaniel Herz of Northern Journal, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/19/a...
Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China's not happy. | Alaska Beacon
An expert on Taiwan and China said there’s nothing unusual about an American governor or legislator traveling to Taiwan.
alaskabeacon.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China’s not happy, reports Nathaniel Herz of Northern Journal, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/19/a...
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For the third month in a row, a U.S. warship or that of a U.S. ally has transited the Taiwan Strait.
Trump sends US warship to China's coast
www.newsweek.com
April 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
For the third month in a row, a U.S. warship or that of a U.S. ally has transited the Taiwan Strait.
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"Taiwan is the West Berlin of this century"
Find out more in the latest episode of my podcast ESCALATION, this time with @_JakubJanda, Czech expert on the Indo-Pacific region. Full episode linked below.
Find out more in the latest episode of my podcast ESCALATION, this time with @_JakubJanda, Czech expert on the Indo-Pacific region. Full episode linked below.
April 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
"Taiwan is the West Berlin of this century"
Find out more in the latest episode of my podcast ESCALATION, this time with @_JakubJanda, Czech expert on the Indo-Pacific region. Full episode linked below.
Find out more in the latest episode of my podcast ESCALATION, this time with @_JakubJanda, Czech expert on the Indo-Pacific region. Full episode linked below.
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The Taiwan Army Lanyang Regional Command 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion conducted combat patrols on 4/21 in northeastern Taiwan.
April 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The Taiwan Army Lanyang Regional Command 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion conducted combat patrols on 4/21 in northeastern Taiwan.
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Sharing a timely new interview I just completed with Senator Chris Coons. He's back from a trip to the Philippines and Taiwan and we discuss the extraordinary damage Trump is doing to our national security and standing in the world.
Watch and share 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-damage...
Watch and share 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-damage...
The Damage Trump Is Doing To America's National Security - My Conversation With Senator Chris Coons
“We are creating a Trump sized hole in our national security that the Chinese are walking through. And frankly, it is the dumbest, most self-destructive, most foolish thing I can imagine”
www.hopiumchronicles.com
April 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Sharing a timely new interview I just completed with Senator Chris Coons. He's back from a trip to the Philippines and Taiwan and we discuss the extraordinary damage Trump is doing to our national security and standing in the world.
Watch and share 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-damage...
Watch and share 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-damage...
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Good to see Taiwan developing domestic USV capability. @covertshores.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Wx...
【Thunder Tiger 雷虎科技】海鯊號 SeaShark800 USV
YouTube video by Thunder Tiger 雷虎科技
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Good to see Taiwan developing domestic USV capability. @covertshores.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Wx...
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seen a lot of daft hippie bullshit in my day, but this might take the cake kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...
CIA deputy director’s son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claims
Michael Gloss studied Human Ecology at Middlebury College in Vermont and was described by friends as an eco-activist, women’s rights supporter, and anti-fascist.
kyivindependent.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
seen a lot of daft hippie bullshit in my day, but this might take the cake kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...
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The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to review the military’s physical fitness standards.
U.S. Army rolls out ‘sex-neutral’ fitness test for some combat jobs
Female soldiers serving in combat-related roles must meet the same physical standards as their male counterparts in events such as the two-mile run and deadlifting.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to review the military’s physical fitness standards.
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Breaking news: FBI Director Kash Patel said that the bureau arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest
Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering on immigration enforcement.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Breaking news: FBI Director Kash Patel said that the bureau arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.