Gary Sands
@yangguizi.bsky.social
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Taiwan-based Senior Analyst (China, Taiwan) at Wikistrat. Former US diplomat. Op-eds: Forbes, National Interest, Newsweek, SCMP. Lived in China 2006-2012, Vietnam 2013-2018.
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The Big Ask: "Should President Trump persuade Xi Jinping to permanently abandon any military aggression against Taiwan, President Trump would undoubtedly be a Nobel Peace Prize laureate,” Lai said. www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
Xi could be key to a Trump Nobel: Lai - Taipei Times
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Japan is back? Let us not tempt fate. Instead, with the nation having been ignored for so long, let us be content to say that Japan is here. www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...
Is Japan back? That is the wrong question - Taipei Times
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The inconvenient facts — that the KMT bore the brunt of the fighting, and that Mao privately thanked Japan — are erased from the story. www.taipeitimes.com/News/editori...
Mao thanked Japan, the CCP does not - Taipei Times
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The ruling is the latest to use Decree 54, a law that makes it illegal “to produce, spread, disseminate, send or write false news ... with the aim of infringing the rights of others, harming public safety or national defense or sowing terror among the population.” apnews.com/article/tuni...
A court in Tunisia sentenced a man to death for Facebook posts seen as insulting to the president
A court in Tunisia has sentenced a 51-year-old man to death over Facebook posts deemed offensive to the president and a threat to state security.
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Trump is “the one president that I’ve seen in my lifetime [who] has the ability to hit him in the face, yet turn around, put an arm around him and really begin to negotiate,” Perdue said, referencing the TikTok deal and an upcoming Boeing aircraft deal. www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/a...
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The administration of US President Donald Trump has told Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) “we don’t want any coercion, but we want [the Taiwan dispute] resolved peacefully,” US Ambassador to China David Perdue said yesterday. www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
Trump firm on Taiwan, US ambassador to China says - Taipei Times
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A new Gallup poll found that 43 percent of participants think the current Supreme Court is “too conservative,” 36 percent of participants believe the court is “about right,” and 17 percent said it’s “too liberal.” www.newsweek.com/record-amoun...
Record amount of Americans see Supreme Court as "too conservative"—Poll
Over 40 percent of Americans find the Supreme Court "too conservative," according to a new Gallup poll.
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The report named Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (FPCC) as "the largest known buyer of Russian naptha in the world."

"Continued purchases could compromise Taiwan's image and undermine diplomatic relations with strategic allies," the Finnish think tank report said. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...
Guardian report prompts Taiwan to admit private imports of Russian light oil - Focus Taiwan
Taiwan's government responded Thursday to a Guardian report that named Taiwan the "world's biggest importer" of Russian naphtha, saying that although Taiwanese state enterprises no longer import the l...
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"If The Taiwan Tinder Box suffers other faults, the analysis is a bit vanilla and lacking in on-the-ground observations, which is odd, as Cole lives in Taipei." www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Book review: Living in the shadow of China’s new military dominance - Taipei Times
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"it is hard to fully believe Cole when he writes, without supporting evidence, that the KMT’s behavior 'is not the result of ideological alignment with the CPP… but rather from a desire to defeat one’s principal enemy [the DPP] at any cost.'” www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Book review: Living in the shadow of China’s new military dominance - Taipei Times
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"if you’ve been reading the Taipei Times op-ed page, Foreign Affairs and similar sources, you won’t find much new. Also, as 200 pages of dry-as-toast think-tank-ese, this is hardly a pleasure read." www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Book review: Living in the shadow of China’s new military dominance - Taipei Times
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Most netizens posted messages to support the young man, saying it was “a kick of justice.” (how do "most netizens" justify kicking an annoying elderly person?) www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
Police arrest woman after Taipei Metro altercation - Taipei Times
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Audrey Tang, a programmer from Taiwan who was the country's first minister of digital affairs from August 2022 to May 2024,
was honored for "advancing the social use of digital technology to empower citizens, renew democracy and heal divides." www.dw.com/en/alternati...
'Alternative Nobel Prize' goes to Pacific climate activists – DW – 10/01/2025
A student group that took the issue of climate justice to the world's top court has received a prestigious award for its work. Activists from Myanmar, Sudan and Taiwan were also honored with the Right...
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