German freelance journalist based in Taipei | @TaiwanFCC VP | Field producer for @DasErste ARD public television | Words in @TableBriefings, @tagesspiegel, etc.
Taipei City, Taiwan
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Nach fast zwei Jahren Arbeit ist unser Taiwan-Band für die @bpb_de endlich da!
Auf 190 Seiten haben mein Co-Autor Frédéric Krumbein und ich versucht, Taiwans bewegte Geschichte, geopolitische Lage und nationale Identität für ein breites Publikum verständlich zusammenzufassen.
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BREAKING Lin Yu-ting wins Taiwan’s second gold medal at the Paris Olympics! 🏅️The presenter on Taiwanese sports broadcaster ELTA said: “Beat magic with boxing! See @jk_rowling, you shouldn’t bully our daughter of Taiwan!” #台灣的女兒
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How is Chinese media reporting on the #BuchaMassacre? A short thread 🧵:
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Very unfortunate to see German public broadcaster @ZDF amplify Russian disinformation by calling Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting an “intersexual m… female”. To be clear, the IBA has been discredited and it’s unclear what they tested. Lin is female and competing as such
@sportstudio
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BREAKING Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an was just heckled by a large group of protestors at the 228 memorial event in the capital. Chiang claims to be the great-grandson of Chiang Kai-shek, who ultimately signed responsible for the 228 Incident and the March Massacre.
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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te: “The People’s Republic of China has no right to represent Taiwan”
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BREAKING In a major diplomatic breakthrough, #Taiwan’s Vice-President @ChingteLai has travelled to #Japan to pay his respects at #ShinzoAbe’s home in Tokyo. He was seen entering the house together with Taiwan’s representative in Japan Frank Hsieh. Source: udn.com/news/story/122936/64…
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BREAKING Taiwan's Presidential Palace has just announced that all government agencies and public schools in #Taiwan will fly the national flag 🇹🇼 at half-staff for one day on June 11 to honor #ShinzoAbe's "outstanding contributions to Taiwan."
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A temple in New Taipei City’s Lujhou District has issued this poster for the upcoming Ghost Festival 中元普渡 mocking China’s recent propaganda campaign that forced celebrities to choose sides and retweet their "There’s Only One China" poster.
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Two years into this pandemic, the Minister of Health of this country of 23M is still holding daily press briefings talking about individual(!) cases. Each case has its own case number! Can you imagine?
Sometimes we forget how truly amazing #Taiwan’s pandemic response has been.
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Historic moment in Taiwan’s presidential her-story: President Tsai @iingwen welcomes @RuPaulsDragRace winner @66wind99 to the Presidential Office.
Pres. Tsai: Nymphia’s story will give many Taiwanese youngsters the courage to fearlessly be themselves and be true to who they are.
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FUN FACT During the medal ceremony, the song of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee was played, but the Taiwanese in the audience were signing the ROC’s National Flag Anthem. While the two songs share the same melody, the official lyrics are different.
BREAKING Taiwan wins its first gold of the Paris Olympics. Badminton Men’s Double Wang Chi-lin and Lee Yang successfully defend their gold medal against China. #麟洋配
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If you believe that those protesters are self-organized, I have a bridge to sell you. 🇨🇳🇨🇳🇨🇳
Over 200 protesters gather outside where @iingwen is expected to stay in New York City. They are supporters of peaceful unification between China and Taiwan.
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BREAKING Taiwan wins its first gold of the Paris Olympics. Badminton Men’s Double Wang Chi-lin and Lee Yang successfully defend their gold medal against China. #麟洋配
They've done it!
Lee Yang/Wang Chi-Lin go into the record books with this victory. 🥇
#Badminton #Paris2024 #Olympics
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Watching the ballot count in a polling station near the presidential office building.
Results are being read aloud and ballots shown to the public, a procedure called chang piao 唱票 and liang piao 亮票 in Mandarin. 🗳️🇹🇼
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A significant step for freedom of navigation: For the first time in 22 years, two German navy ships are transiting the Taiwan Strait, underscoring Germany’s commitment to safeguarding open trade routes.
Genau richtig. Danke @BMVg_Bundeswehr @AuswaertigesAmt @Bundeskanzler @deutschemarine #Taiwanstrasse
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The video of #PengShuai was recorded at the Yibin Guest House 宜宾招待所 in Beijing that is part of Sichuan govts’ representative offices in the capital: It’s govt property. The office’s regular responsibilities include "stability maintenance", a euphemism for crushing dissent.
I acquired two video clips, which show Peng Shuai was having dinner with her coach and friends in a restaurant. The video content clearly shows they are shot on Saturday Beijing time.
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🇨🇳 Ambassador Huang Xilian: "Philippines is advised to unequivocally oppose ‘Taiwan Independence’ rather than stoking the fire by offering the US access to the military bases near the Taiwan Strait if you care genuinely about the 150,000 Overseas [Filipino] Workers" [in Taiwan].
Like a boss ... a mafia boss, that is:
"A nice little overseas Filipino worker community you have there. It would be a shame if something unfortunate were to happen to it ..."
shar.es/afDypN via @gmanews
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CCTV-4 (中文国际) intl news broadcast that is available on YouTube ran a report on killings in #Bucha. It spend 90% of the time regurgitating Russian state talking points: “Ukraine put on a show for western media”, “another provocation”, “not a single civilian was hurt”, etc.
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In less than 200 days, Taiwanese will flock to the polls to elect a new President and Parliament. As an avid viewer of Taiwan’s political talk shows, I thought I’d compile a vocabulary list for anyone wanting to better understand the country’s political jargon.
Let’s dive in…🗳️
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DPP candidate Wu Szu-yao hits
back at fmr KMT minister of
health Yang Chih-liang, who yesterday criticized her for not
having children. Wu says, “in democratic and free Taiwan we have 100% bodily autonomy” and “my uterus is none of your business”.
🌈星果汁🍹Taiwan Forever！
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Candidate Ko Wen-je all but admitted that the KMT got the better of him during negotiations:
"Next time, I definitely won’t negotiate on my own. (laughs) Because I say 'Okay, okay, okay' too easily. That catchphrase of mine was used by the other side to deceive me." #被人家誆了
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Yesterday evening’s main CCTV newscast (新闻联播) only mentioned the fact that the Ukrainian army had regained control of the Kyiv oblast, including Bucha. However, the report made no reference to the atrocities witnessed there. No central propaganda directive issued yet?
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Now that the backstory of Chiang Wan-an (#蔣萬安) has come under scrutiny once again, I thought I'd make a thread detailing some of the questions that have been raised with regard to his Chiang family pedigree. Buckle up!
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It’s past 7pm in Taipei. DPP legislators just struck up the sunflower movement protest song《島嶼天光 Island's Sunrise》inside the legislative chamber. In response, KMT legislators raised patches of the ROC national flag, which includes the KMT party emblem.
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Wow, I think that's the first time I'm seeing framing like this: "China is provoking Taiwan" Right on, @TheLeadCNN ! 👏
China is provoking Taiwan in response to its president’s trip to the U.S. by flying and sailing over the Taiwan strait. @willripleyCNN reports.
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If you search for #Bucha on the People’s Daily website, you get no relevant results for either 布查 or 布恰 spellings. The People’s Daily is the communist party’s main propaganda mouthpiece and the newspaper of record in China.
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A Taiwanese woman has publicly accused @PLinTaiwan's ex-deputy head of sexual assault. The diplomat has denied the accusations on Facebook and Twitter, urging people not to share her story for the sake of his family's "harmony". #metoo
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Unsurprisingly, former President Ma Ying-Jeou (KMT) uses the memory of June 4th to lash out at the DPP. Under the leadership of @iingwen, Taiwan was on its way to becoming an "unfree democracy" and even an "electoral dictatorship". In contrast, Ma praises China’s Xi Jinping.
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The 7pm 新闻联播, China’s most important newscast of the day, decided to ignore the #BuchaMassacre altogether. Instead, the report focused on successful Russian military strikes, the unreliability of the US, escalatory shipments of US weapons, and EU dependence on Russian gas.
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Foxconn founder and KMT presidential hopeful Terry Gou #郭台銘 is on Kinmen to promulgate a "Declaration of Peace" #和平宣言. Link to the livestream:
facebook.com/TerryGou1018/vi…
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Taiwanese democracy activist and former DPP chair Shih Ming-teh (施明德) died this morning on his 83rd birthday. Shih spent 26 years of his life in prison for advocating for democracy and Taiwan independence.
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Beijing continues to rewrite the rules: China has reportedly denied Taiwan’s Secret Service’s request for Ma Ying-jeou’s protective detail during his upcoming trip to China to take 6 handguns, 180 rounds of ammo, and 7 bulletproof vests (incl. one for Ma). They only approved half
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Today is "Retrocession Day" #光復節 and the @MoNDefense wants you to know about it, calling it the day when Taiwan "broke away from Japanese colonial rule and returned to the embrace of the Republic of China". Mind you, when Taiwan was ceded to Japan in 1895, there was no ROC.
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This is what China’s state-run broadcaster CCTV imagines "precision strikes against key targets on Taiwan and in its surrounding waters" would look like.
Animation from today’s 新闻直播间 17:00
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According to Cheng Ming-Dean, Head of #Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau, two balloons similar to the one currently crossing the US were detected in Taiwanese airspace in Sep 2021 and Mar 2022, with the latter even hovering over Taipei's Songshan Airport.
cna.com.tw/news/ahel/2023020…
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The KMT continues to push its controversial bills expanding the LY's power through parliament. To prevent the DPP from blocking the procedures, the KMT has fortified itself on the podium and is reverting to voting by show of hand. Meanwhile, protesters keep gathering outside.
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Read all about Taiwan’s treatment at the Paris Olympics, the disinformation campaign against gold-medalist Lin Yu-ting, and small acts of resistance by Taiwanese fans in today’s @TableBriefings. Featuring analysis by political scientist @FangYu_80168
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Search results on Baidu show some other media reports on the “killing of civilians” in #Bucha. Most articles invoke the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman’s denial and accusations of “yet another provocation” by Ukraine.
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Many mention the statement by UN general secretary Guterres calling for an “independent investigation”. Will be interesting to see whether China will support such an investigation in the UN security council.
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BREAKING: Taiwan's Judicial Yuan paved the way for same-sex marriage between its citizens and spouses from countries that don't recognize same-sex marriage themselves. A relevant Amendement has been sent to the Executive Yuan and will later be reviewed by the legislature. (1/2)
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HAPPENING NOW In #Taipei, the annual march in memory of the victims of the 1947 #228Massacre is underway. Organizers are calling it a "disgrace" that with Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an a "descendent of the main culprit of 228" is hosting this year’s official memorial.
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In the face of China’s ongoing provocations, Taiwanese have been calm and levelheaded. While Taiwan’s military is monitoring the situation closely, there is no panic or sense of imminent doom. Many believe China is mostly flexing its muscles to appease the nationalists back home.
Update on what’s (also) happening in #Taiwan - between midday and 5pm on Sunday, bubbles and bubble guns were spotted in abundance. And much joy and love ✌🏼
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Today, the main newscast at 12 noon on CCTV-13, the most important news channel in China, also did not mention the #BuchaMassacre.
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Being able to stand your ground in closed door negotiations seems like an important quality of a potential future president, no?
Candidate Ko Wen-je all but admitted that the KMT got the better of him during negotiations:
"Next time, I definitely won’t negotiate on my own. (laughs) Because I say 'Okay, okay, okay' too easily. That catchphrase of mine was used by the other side to deceive me." #被人家誆了
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After Foxconn founder and KMT presidential contender Terry Gou accused President Tsai of interfering with his purchase of Biontech vaccines in 2021, several media outlets published a private email from an investor in which Gou is informed that BNT can’t sell to a private entity
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The TPP-KMT joint presidential ticket is over before it started. Ko Wen-je just declared:
"I will show the greatest goodwill and unite all forces that can be united, but I will continue to fight to the end as the presidential candidate of the Taiwan People's Party!"
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Heute Früh ist eine hochrangige @fdpbt-Delegation in Taiwan eingetroffen. Im @China_Table sagte Co-Delegationsleiter @johannesvogel vorab, der Westen müsse sich so positionieren, dass er einen Krieg auch durch Abschreckung unwahrscheinlich mache.
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DPP Presidential candidate @ChingteLai just announced on facebook that he is inviting Hsiao @bikhim to be his running mate: "I believe this is the decision that many expected and the best decision."
A more formal announcement will follow later today.
🇹🇼🗳 Hot off the press from @MOFA_Taiwan: Taiwan's de facto U.S. ambassador Hsiao @bikhim officially resigned from her post. Her formal resignation comes as Taiwan's presidential frontrunner @ChingteLai is expected to announce his running mate today at 3pm mofa.gov.tw/News_Content.asp…
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Taiwan Vice-President William Lai (@ChingteLai) exits the Zōjō-ji Temple in Tokyo after attending the family funeral for the late #ShinzoAbe. Linking arms with Lai is Taiwanese political activist and Japanese citizen Birei Kin (金美齡). Source: mirrormedia.mg/story/2022071…
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At Hunan University, Taiwan’s fmr President Ma Ying-jeou explained to Chinese student representatives that "according to our definition, our country has two parts: one is called the Taiwan area, and the other the mainland area. Both belong to our… the Republic of China."
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This has been part of the Tsai govt’s official narrative for years. In 2020, Tsai told the BBC that 🇹🇼 is an independent country called the Republic of China Taiwan. MOFA reiterated this stance in 2023, saying that the ROC Taiwan is “without a doubt a sovereign independent state”
@EmilyZFeng says Lai’s “inaugural speech did not stray from an unofficial ‘status quo’ that keeps Taiwan’s sovereign status ambiguous.” But Lai stated clearly that Taiwan is a sovereign independent state. He left no ambiguity. npr.org/2024/05/22/g-s1-138/…
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I'm not sure this longer version of @EmmanuelMacron's interview is any better, especially on the question of Taiwan. He manages to compare European unity to China's desire to annex a sovereign and democratic neighbor. The two are not equivalent at all.
🧵 Macron’s *actual* interview is in French outlet @LesEchos
No paywall: lesechos.fr/monde/enjeux-int…
In Politico however… I don’t know what train wreck of an article that is.
You have actual quotes mixed up with Politico’s analysis for this reason 🔽
Thread on those “cuts” 1/
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I wish we would stop talking about Taiwan (especially if its only with PRC govt representatives) and start listening to Taiwanese voices.
Spicy exchange between Lars Klingbeil co-chair of German SPD, and ex Chinese vice-foreign minister Fu Ying
LK: You said Taiwan & Ukraine are different questions, and I would agree, but... Is it normal to change borders with military action? That has to be a clear no, it's not OK
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China just released the first footage from today‘s military exercises around Taiwan. The video mentions some of the assets involved: #GroundForce rocket launchers, #Navy destroyers and missile speedboats, #AirForce fighter, bomber, interference, and refueling aircraft, etc.
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Just watched CCTV4 to check whether there were any changes in official Chinese discourse on the war in Ukraine. The guest “expert” explained why Russia had encircled Mariupol: “The city is full of nationalists who have continually attacked the Donetsk region,” he proclaimed.
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China continues its dangerous maneuvers around Kinmen: This afternoon, Fujian coast guard personell boarded a Taiwanese yacht for a 30 min “inspection”. Kinmen dispatched two coast guard vessels to escort the ship and its scared passengers back to safety.
chinatimes.com/realtimenews/…
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Former President Ma Ying-jeou just announced that he will skip next week's National Day celebrations, protesting the term "Taiwan National Day" over "Republic of China National Day". He accuses President @iingwen of pushing "Taiwan independence through the back door".
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BREAKING DPP candidate Frida Tsai (#蔡培慧) wins the by-election for the parliamentary seat Nantou II. Some good news for the DPP after a string of defeats since last November.
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JUST IN According to @MOFA_Taiwan, Taiwan and Germany signed an "Agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters" today. Both Minister of Justice Tsai Ching-hsiang and Deputy Foreign Minister Tien Chung-kwang attended the signing ceremony in Taipei.
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During today’s press briefing, @Beijing2022 organizing committee spokeswoman Yan Jiarong reiterated that China opposed any politicization of the games. Yet, she made a point of reading off her script saying "there is only one China and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China."
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Chiang Wan-an apologized for the "historic pain caused by the 228 Incident all over Taiwan that was precipitated by the seizure of contraband cigarettes". Yet, he apologized only in his capacity as Taipei Mayor and did not address the personal responsibility of his family.
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I can’t with this!
After the President of Greece @PresidencyGR reportedly apologized and promised a correction, former #Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is now referred to as "Former President of the Kuomintang party - Chinese Taipei" by the @delphi_forum. Ma is set to speak tmrw…
This is getting ridiculous.
Organizers of the @delphi_forum have yet again changed the title of fmr Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou. This time, he’s called “Former Leader of Taipei”. Ma is scheduled to speak on the 28th. @MOFA_Taiwan has asked him to reconsider his appearance.
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Wang Dan’s accuser Li Yuan-jun just held a press conference at Taipei City Council. Li repeated his earlier accusation that Wang assaulted him on 6/6/2014 in a hotel room in Flushing, New York and provided more evidence from his trip to the US and his connection with Wang.
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China has just published a new video of today’s drills. But so has Taiwan. You can even hear a Taiwanese soldier issue a warning to a PLAN ship to "leave immediately" for "seriously damaging peace, stability, and security in the Strait".👇
Video courtesy of the @MoNDefense
New video on the first day of PLA encirclement drills around the island of Taiwan includes participation of:
-J-16 fighter jets
-Y-8 anti-submarine aircraft
-H-6K bombers
-Type 054A frigates
-DF-15 conventional ballistic missiles globaltimes.cn/page/202304/1…
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BREAKING Ko Wen-je and the KMT were unable to reach a consensus on how to determine who should lead their joint presidential ticket. The talks broke down when the KMT insisted on using a 6% margin of error instead of 3%, which Ko’s camp refused. mirrormedia.mg/story/2023111…
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Gosh, Taiwan’s media really needs some media literacy training. This is not a 美國資深記者 reporting the news, but a political pundit’s failed attempt at irony. Every retweet of this ludicrous statement is playing into the PRC’s attempts to undermine Taiwan’s morale. Do the work!
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Statement by @MAC_Taiwan: "The Beijing authorities have no jurisdiction over Taiwan, and the CCP's so-called laws and regulations have no binding force on our citizens. The govt urges the public to remain calm and not be intimidated by the CCP's threats and intimidation."
China's supreme court has a new opinion of China's anti-secession law that would allow Chinese courts to try people supporting Taiwan independence in absentia, with the maximum sentence being the death penalty.
politics.people.com.cn/n1/20…
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#BREAKING The Taipei High Administrative Court just ordered the Household Registration Office to facilitate the same-sex marriage of a Taiwan-Macao couple. 🇹🇼🇲🇴🏳️🌈 Taiwan currently prohibits marriages if the foreign partner’s country does not recognize same-sex marriage.
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BREAKING Taiwan’s Constitutional Court has just ruled that the "Status Act For Indigenous Peoples" is unconstitutional as it excludes certain indigenous communities (i.e., plains tribes 平埔族).
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When allegations of attempted rape first surfaced against former Tiananmen student leader Wang Dan, my colleagues at @dw_chinese and I embarked upon a month-long investigation to uncover the truth.
This is what we found:
dw.com/en/metoo-accusations-…
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Is Taiwan changing its long-standing 漢賊不兩立 policy? During today’s presser, when asked whether Taiwan could accept simultaneous recognition of both the PRC and Taiwan, FM Joseph Wu said Taiwan "would not rule out" any situation. His comment comes after similar statements by…
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Today, #Taiwan’s Minister of Health Chen Shih-chung revealed for the first time how (seemingly bowing to Chinese pressure) Germany’s @BioNTech_Group ghosted Taiwanese authorities after a procurement contract for lifesaving vaccines had already been agreed upon. 1/5
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🇨🇳 state media CCTV continues to push 🇷🇺 disinformation re alleged 🇺🇸 bio weapons facilities in Ukraine. "The US treated Ukrainians as human guinea pigs" and of course Hunter Biden had a hand in all of it.
You can’t make this stuff up.
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The 5pm news on CCTV-13 (targeted at a domestic audience) used the same transcript as the noon broadcast and did not mention the massacre. The focus was on the Ukrainian attack on a fuel depot in Belgorod, quoting a local as saying that “everything in its vicinity was bombed”.
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This is getting ridiculous.
Organizers of the @delphi_forum have yet again changed the title of fmr Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou. This time, he’s called “Former Leader of Taipei”. Ma is scheduled to speak on the 28th. @MOFA_Taiwan has asked him to reconsider his appearance.
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「郭台銘在去年7/12的臉書發文裡，頗不尋常地公開感謝🇨🇳政府『能讓（疫苗）採購行為歸諸商業條件談判的本質進行』。一件其他國家與台灣之間的民間交易採購案，為什麼要特別強調🇨🇳當局『沒有任何指導或干涉』？因為，真正『恩准』郭台銘買BNT疫苗的不是蔡英文，而是🇨🇳政府。」 upmedia.mg/news_info.php?Typ…
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A Taipei Elementary School has come under fire for allowing its student choir to participate in a 🇨🇳 state TV production singing the propaganda song #我们同唱一首歌. The song that features both Mandarin and Minnan states that "Both sides of the strait have always been one family"
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Let me get this straight: Germany stopped Taiwanese #GlobalWafers from buying #Siltronic because Berlin fears Taiwan could be taken over by China at some point. Yet, they readily sell #Elmos to Chinese #SaiMicroelectronics? What is wrong with Scholz? app.handelsblatt.com/politik…
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Taiwanese businessman Lee Meng-chu (李孟居) has finally been allowed to leave China. Arrested on national security charges, he spent almost 2 years behind bars. Post-release, China held him for an extra 2 years. Now, in an exclusive BBC interview, Lee shares his story from Japan
台湾商人李孟居于2019年8月从香港入境深圳后失踪，引发台湾社会关注。中国当局后来指他涉嫌危害国家安全而被逮捕，他随后被判入狱1年10个月，另有两年不得离境。
几天前，李孟居重获自由。BBC中文纪录了他离开中国大陆的时刻。他在访问中讲述了被捕过程和这期间的生活。
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Taiwan’s Presidential Palace is flying the national flag 🇹🇼 at half-staff today to honor late Japanese Prime Minister #ShinzoAbe for his "outstanding contributions" to #Taiwan. #台灣有事即日本有事 #安倍元首相
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This morning, Taiwan’s former President Ma Ying-jeou and his four sisters paid their respects at their paternal grandfather Ma Li-an’s grave in Hunan Province. Ma read out a statement in Hunanese, the dialect his grandfather would have spoken, narrating the history of his family.
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At an event later today, Ko Wen-je was asked by a student: "In the past you said you hated nothing more than cockroaches, mosquitoes and the KMT. Today you chose to cooperate with the KMT. What has changed? You, or the KMT?"
Ko’s response: "I hate the DPP even more."
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On Chinese social media platform WeChat, KMT legislator-at-large Weng Hsiao-ling called yesterday’s win by Taiwan’s Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin the “pride of the Chinese people”. Asked to clarify, she told a SETN reporter “We’re all Chinese, …” 1/2
誰來告訴她錯在哪!!!
【稱麟洋配奪金是中國人的驕傲 翁曉玲高喊「本來就是」：我沒有錯啊！】
#2024巴黎奧運 #巴黎奧運 #TheOlympicGamesParis2024
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Taiwanese media continue to push disinformation and clickbait on vaccines. After stories about dead toddlers foaming at the mouth, now they‘re implying that the WHO is planning to discard the AstraZeneca and Johnson&Johnson vaccines (which is btw not what the report is saying).
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Just as the opposition cut US$6M of @TAIWANmoda's budget, both undersea communication cables to the outlying Matsu Islands have reportedly been "disconnected". Communication now relies on satellite and microwave transmission. Source: cna.com.tw/news/afe/20250122…
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“the foreign minister of Taiwan sat flanked on one side by the foreign minister of Japan and the other by the MoS of India in full view of the cameras as they chatted warmly and animatedly.” by @CleoPaskal pacificislandtimes.com/post/…
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German activist @DavidJRMissal was just refused entry to Hong Kong SAR, arriving from mainland China.
Missal had been expelled from China in 2018 and finished his MA in journalism at the University of Hong Kong in 2019.
HKSAR now officially more restrictive than the mainland.
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On January 5th, the founder of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist order and one of the most well-known Buddhist teachers in Taiwan, Master Hsing Yun 星雲法師 died at the age of 97. He was widely respected for his religious contributions, but politically he was somewhat controversial. 🧵
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According to @MOFA_Taiwan, the government of Fiji 🇫🇯 has agreed to rename Taiwan’s 🇹🇼 local representative office to "Trade Mission of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the Republic of Fiji". After Chinese pressure, the fmr govt had changed the name to Taipei Trade Office in 2018
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Over on Facebook, Taiwanese netizens are reimagining their country’s flag using the digital image of the winning #Badminton ball hitting the line that was challenged by the Chinese team but later declared in. Image credit: Fan Sandoz facebook.com/1259563376/post…
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And here it is: After @vonderleyen and French President @EmmanuelMacron left China, the PLA's Eastern Theater Command has announced three days of combat-readiness patrols and so-called "joint sharping the sword" military exercises encircling #Taiwan starting today.
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