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We have a new show!
#DispatchFromTaiwan
with
@USIP
looks at how Taiwan is dealing with pressing challenges of defense, disinformation, tech, and trade. 5 episodes coming your way throughout January. Subscribe on Apple/Spotify/Amazon, or stream on
🎙️
#NEW
: We are excited to launch
#DispatchFromTaiwan
, a podcast series by USIP and Taiwan-based
@ghostislandme
, that delves into the policy debates within
#Taiwan
that could have implications for the region and beyond.
Tune in to episode one:
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Plot: a homophobic cop gets into a ghost marriage with a gay man. He now must help his (dead) husband so he can get out of the marriage. This is one of the best Taiwanese films I've seen in recent years. It's funny, it's stylish, it's culturally relevant.
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I cannot overstate what it means to see my President
@iingwen
speaking and engaging here with such dignity - and normalcy that which most other world leaders enjoy on a regular basis.
Here at the
@Reagan_Library
, exhibits show Reagan’s belief in democracy and commitment to the ideas of peace and freedom.
Those values serve as the bedrock of our friendship with the people of Taiwan. And they are more important now than ever before.
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@Tokyo2020
@Judo
24 July -
#Judo
/ Men's -60kg
🥇TAKATO Naohisa🇯🇵
🥈YANG Yung Wei 🇹🇼
🥉Yeldos Smetov🇰🇿
🥉Luka Mkheidze🇫🇷
Congratulations
#Tokyo2020
#UnitedByEmotion
|
#StrongerTogether
|
@Judo
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US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar arrived in Taiwan today. This is the highest level-1 visit by an US official in decades, and the 1st cabinet-level official since EPA administrator in 2014. Friend snapped this photo when playing baseball:
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Speaking of statues, here's what Taiwan did with statues of our ex-dictator: put them in one creepy park. Video:
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A cold, strong, and complicated afternoon at the Ukraine-Taiwan solidarity rally
@stwithukrainetw
in Taipei. A child stole our hearts as he came out of the flag and started dancing to Stefania by
#KalushOrchestra
. To the children who had their childhoods robbed bc of this war.
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It gives me great confidence in my country, to see the normalization of our interactions with democratic partners from around the world. Welcome to Taiwan, Speaker Pelosi. I wish for a day when a visit like this is so normal that, it's routine, and borderline boring.
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Kind reminder it's "unification" not "reunification." The PRC had never held power to Taiwan, so it's inaccurate to use REunify. This poll also uses "unification". Unclear why "re" was added when citing this.
We know that despite all of the Chinese influence operations, recruitments of agents in Taiwan and economic/military pressure, the Taiwanese people overwhelmingly reject reunification, with fewer than 6% desiring it as soon as possible and only 12% wanting it at all
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The only status quo is that Taiwan & China are separate nations w/ each's own constitution, jurisdiction, president, gov, military, currency, law, passport, economy (we can go on & on.) By "yet to reinify" China means they plan on continuing the threat to attack/invade Taiwan. ☮️
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Going around on Taiwan's social media today is this pro-Ukraine 🇺🇦 shirt from NET, a Taiwanese fashion brand known for its philanthropy work. 💙💛
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"We don't have a need to declare ourselves an independent state,"
@iingwen
. "We are an independent country already."
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In Taipei tonight - a talk by Taiwanese rights worker Lee Ming-Che who returned home in April this year after serving 5 years in China for 'subversion of state' as charged by the CCP.
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When Apple removed the HK mapping app, a friend and I joked casually... "Shouldn't Tim Cook be reporting to Tsinghua soon?"
Today: Tim Cook announced as new chair of Advisory Committee of the management school (SEM) at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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3 things:
- This line, "Even as Ms. Tsai defied warnings from Beijing against high-level meetings..." ➡ The Taiwanese president does not *defy* anyone. It is China that *sends provocative threats* to its neighbor.
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Taiwan has the same population as Australia. Would you describe AUS as "Tiny Australia" ? Also, Taiwan economy is 7th in Asia and 20th in the world. Not exactly tiny either.
As China challenges the global dominance of the U.S., Taiwan finds itself stuck — rather uncomfortably — smack dab in the middle of the conflict between the two international giants.
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Will you please include Taiwan in your reports on women in politics? Women make up 40% of our parliament here. AND our head of state (the president) is a woman. It's not perfect yet, but we're leading progress. Thanks! Girl power ❤️🔥!
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Ooo great shirt!!
Taiwan is NOT China!!!
The friendship between America and the people of Taiwan has never been stronger.
Taiwan is a vibrant democracy that deserves to be protected and respected on the global stage. With its innovative economy, vibrant culture, and free society, Taiwan has much
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As Hong Kong public libraries pull books on Tiananmen and works by pro-democracy figures, a HK professor in Taiwan says he is creating an archive in Taiwan. Post-Umbrella books have been added to the Social Sciences Library at National Taiwan University:
Hong Kong public libraries pull books related to Tiananmen Square crackdown
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This massive Formosan Blue Magpie who's highly defensive of its nests (and happens to be our national bird) is ready to take down any giant foreign balloons in the sky. Happy lantern festival from Taiwan!
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Taiwan baseball is the only pro-league in the world that's still playing. Season began today to a stand of robots 👾🤖 and a handful of journalists.
Nothing can stop Taiwanese cheering up for
#BASEBALL
#StayHome
and watch
#CPBL
#OpeningDay
#CTBros
#RakutenMonkeys
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95% of
#SquidGame
viewers are outside of Korea. Looks like
@netflix
investments are paying off. They're spending $0.5B for Korean content this year - a sharp increase from the ~$700M that was over 5 years from 2015-2020:
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HK Apple Daily website, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram. It's been so heartbreaking watching this unfold.
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Remember when breakthrough covid was a surprise? I'm three jabs in. Here's my COVID diary 😭 beginning when daily cases was just past 1,000 🧵
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I'm waiting for mine to arrive!! I managed to place an order before it was sold out basically right away!
People in Taiwan are rushing to buy patches being worn by their air force pilots that depict a Formosan black bear punching Winnie the Pooh – representing China’s leader Xi Jinping – as a defiant symbol of the island’s resistance
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Korea. Taiwan. Japan. At the 🥇🥈🥉 medals ceremony for Men's Archery! Awww! 🥳🎉🎊
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China's total ban of Mongolian language in all schools in Southern (Inner) Mongolia to begin in September. This is cultural genocide, says
@ETogochog
at
@freedomhouse
round table on dissent in China:
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The autonomy of Taiwan is not China's to 'grant'. The 23 million citizens of Taiwan *have* autonomy - its thriving democracy has/wants nothing to do with China and its CCP.
China has withdrawn a promise not to send troops or administrators to Taiwan if it takes control of the island, an official document showed, signaling a decision by President Xi Jinping to grant less autonomy than previously offered
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Hello
@SouthwestAir
- heads up, your pulldown menu is outdated and incorrect. "Chinese Taipei" isn't a country. You mean "
#TAIWAN
". Your developer can make the update using this CLDR territories data instead:
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The impossible balance of being Taiwanese: "The more ambiguous we are about our sovereignty, the more ground we will lose." At the same time, the more clear one speaks about Taiwan as a country, the more provocative, radical, and even nationalistic one is deemed.
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COMING SOON - a
@chthonictw
and
@ghostislandme
co-production:
@FreddyLim
and I co-host a new podcast 🔥
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For a decade we've been told "no one cares". And yet so many continue to work tirelessly to raise Taiwan's visibility and make our voices heard. These
@LastWeekTonight
moments brought me to tears.
Thank you
@iamjohnoliver
+
@mariancw
for making this segment.
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"This movie is very much a love song to our Taiwanese parents." - Jonathan Wang, Producer,
#EEAAO
winner of Best Picture.
Daniel Kwan and Jonathan Wang explain how
#EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce
is a tribute to their Taiwanese parents.
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It has "everything that defines Taiwan's youth culture today -- social justice, the environment, gender and women's rights, the generational divide and learning to deal with the differences within society," I tell
@tchau01
for this piece. Go see "Marry My Dead Body" if you can!
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For those covering the meeting, this isn't a "presidential-level" meeting. It's one between a private citizen of Taiwan and a sitting president of China. One Taipei resident tells me today, "it's just a spectacle. Ma is just a private citizen 平民 and doesn't represent anybody."
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Thank you for standing with Taiwan.
I also can't wait to see that powerful image of you with
@iingwen
. The first female US House Speaker & the first female President of Taiwan.
By traveling to Taiwan, we honor our commitment to democracy: reaffirming that the freedoms of Taiwan — and all democracies — must be respected.
Read my opinion piece in the
@washingtonpost
on why I’m leading a Congressional delegation to Taiwan.
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Roger Walters needs to listen to
#MetalheadPolitics
. One comment pointed out that Pink Floyd has become a Little Link 小粉紅 🤭
@CNN
if you want a rocker's opinion, here's one: metal band co-founder who can actually speak to Taiwan/China geopolitics. He's an MP,
@FreddyLim
.
Musician Roger Waters: "They're not encircling Taiwan, Taiwan is part of China, and that's been absolutely accepted by the whole of the international community since 1948, and if you don't know that, you're not reading enough. Go and read about it."
This is where we are.
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A 20ft (6.1m) shipping container holds 1,800 cases of I-Mei mini puffs. That's 21,600 boxes and roughly 432,000 puffs of mini puffs 😍😍😍
"I-Mei Foods sends a container of cream
#puffs
to
#Lithuania
in return for vaccine
#donation
."
I-Mei's cream puff is one of the collective food memories among
#Taiwanese
. It's great to see that I-Mei's cream puff is popular in
#Lithuania
.
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Photo 🧵 of Friday's demonstrations across the island, in Taipei, Taoyuan, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Hualien, Taitung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Penghu.
台灣近年難得一見的大型社會運動 ——「我藐視國會」抗議活動，在今年5月24日以台北市的立法院周邊為首，橫跨台中市的台中火車站、彰化縣的彰化火車站、嘉義市的嘉義文化公園、台南市的台灣文學館、高雄市的中央公園、台東縣的南京路，群眾上街遍地開花，甚至有額外縣市加入響應，本文以下簡易統整。
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"China is not just Taiwan's problem. It's not only US's problem. It's the world's problem."
@Kolas_Yotaka
says calmly. She's so good in this clip, as always.
Former Taiwan Presidential Spokesperson
@Kolas_Yotaka
calls China's actions "ridiculous & predictable'
"I hope that China can calm down. Because obviously Taiwan is a sovereign & independent country. And China has no right to interfere in anything related to Taiwan."
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@WilliamHOverhol
Cyberattacks and military exercises have been happening long before this. Finally you're paying attention. Also, no one uses Weibo here.
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Happy birthday,
@audreyt
!!
Happy birthday to
#Taiwan
's Digital Minister Audrey Tang
@audreyt
, who came of age together with Taiwanese democracy and the internet! 🧁🥳
Hear her unconventional life story, we had so much fun making this episode!
Listen to
#TheTaiwanTake
now:
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"My generation is bound together by a collective identity forged on the basis of freedom of expression and the ability to shape our own future." New op-ed by Fei-fan Lin #林飛帆, student leader of the 2014 Sunflower Movement.
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One is a sitting legislator. Three are city/county counselors. Another was a spokesperson for a political party. Young doesn't mean inexperienced. In this case it means they had an early start and they're in it for the long haul.
Wanhua billboard featuring young legislative candidates from the Taiwan-centric side of the political spectrum
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「Taiwan 水！Taiwan 讚！」says the very-helpful man from Luftsansa at the Berlin Airport this morning after seeing my luggage tag. He's stayed 2 weeks in Kaohsiung and really loved the experience. He's from southern Poland. Love these #❤️Taiwan travel moments!
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Former Taiwan president Lee Tung-Hui passed away tonight at 7:24pm. He was 98 years old.
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Where do I get one?!?!
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You can't reunite with something that was never a part of you. If China attacked Taiwan, then it's an invasion.
China's Ambassador tells
@PressClubAust
"once Taiwan is reunited, coming back to the motherland, there might be process for the people in Taiwan to have a correct understanding of China about
the motherland."
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China Daily dude to Greta Thunberg on her support of HK and Joshua Wong.
@GretaThunberg
@joshuawongcf
@Luisamneubauer
@NakabuyeHildaF
@Jamie_Margolin
@save12hkyouths
Someday it will be revealed who is manipulating this kid. The climate cause is good but getting her into political issues that she has zero knowledge is pathetic. A violent mob sympathizer. Next time violence takes place in Europe, I will remind her. Blood on her hands
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Uh-oh, the inflated
#Tiananmen
#tankman
in Taipei broke early this afternoon. Unclear whether the installation was vandalized, or if the wind got to it. The Man was down. The Tank was collapsing.
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Heartwarming. Taiwan’s Ministry of Education asking all schools to be proactive about caring for students who might’ve been impacted negatively by the anti-LGBT referendum result. A reminder that schools need to be a safe space:
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69.24% voter turnout today, says FTV citing Central Election Committee.
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Macron on Taiwan: This is of great concern. We've spoken to China, and we will be talking to Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, and many others.
There's ONE very obvious important player missing from this that leaders engaged in the region should really talk to.
Transcript for France Macron’s “words of wisdom” on
#Taiwan
Strait: “Peace and stability, no confrontation, without being naive”.
@60Minutes
, Dec 04th.
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Congratulations
@SLeoChiang
! No longer short-listed, this documentary on Kinmen just got nominated for the Oscars!!!
📣So thrilled that our film
#IslandInBetween
made the shortlist for the BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
#Oscars
!!! Excited that more folks around the world will watch & learn about Kinmen & Taiwan.
Watch on
@nytopinion
YouTube Channel HERE & share:
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Whoa. We just got nominated for a #卓越新聞獎 (Taiwan's Excellent Journalism Award) for
#TheTaiwanTake
in the inaugural podcast category. Congratulations to the team JR Wu (at
@INDSRTW
),
@helloitisSam
,
@aGuavaEmoji
, and contributor
@WilliamYang120
!!!
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"Beijing’s gaslighting must not distract Taiwan’s partners from the realization that the fight over Taiwan’s future is already well underway."
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No biggie. Just me reading this China war book while enjoying looking out to this pretty Taiwan scenery and listening to beautiful people playing in the water.
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I was incredibly honored to emcee the Human Rights Press Awards last night where President Tsai gave a keynote speech. We heard from winners who flew in from abroad, as well as speeches by
@hrw
's
@PearsonElaine
, UMC Founder Robert Tsao, and TFCC President
@tchau01
.
Last night, I was honored to congratulate the recipients of the Human Rights Press Awards, which were hosted in Taiwan for the first time. As the democratic world faces increasing threats,
#Taiwan
will continue to stand up for media freedom & human rights.
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Taiwan the cat nation, where mathematical units are measured in lengths of cats.
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Hope the young athletes had a great time in Taiwan this year!! Random fact for Americans: Tainan (the host city) is sister city to New Orleans!
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Omg. There's a tiny island on
@googlemaps
Canadian/USA border that looks exactly like Taiwan, and it's called Provence Island. 🤯🤯 May need a local to verify this! (It appears to be 0.5km wide, 1km long, and occupied by one entity only.) h/t
@tuzzi
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How Kaohsiung does group vaccinations. Love this, compared to Taipei's cattle herding inside hospitals.
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The day that HK films as we know it ended. Effective immediately.
HK govt officially announces film censorship on national security grounds: “When considering a film as a whole & its effect on the viewers, the censor should have regard to his duties to prevent & suppress acts or activities endangering national security”
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I wore Ukraine colors yesterday in support of democracy worldwide. In the end we lost the election. (We = the collective we supporters. Not the campaign. I wasn't a part of the campaign) But as
@Enoch_TW
said in his concession speech: tomorrow is another day. We fight on.
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When my brother
@Enoch_TW
(aka Forward Alliance) said he wanted to record an interview talking to passengers & first responders from last year's Hualien train derailment, we got straight to work. 🧵
#emergencyresponse
#civilianpreparedness
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Reminds me of when Taipei's shared bike program U-Bike was first introduced. I had heard Taiwanese elders complain... There's no biking culture here... Waste of money... Terrible idea... TPE unfit for biking (climate too hot, roads too narrow)... Etc. Etc.
The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t.
It took leadership.
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Some exciting news to share! I've been building a podcasting company in Taiwan, and our first show just launched today! Huge congratulations to the
@wastenotpod
team
@N8MAY
and
@emilycardinali
. More shows in development (in Mandarin and in English) - stay tuned!
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Trying to register for a
@washingtonpost
LIVE speaker event - and finding out that Taiwan isn't on the Country option. (Pull down menu does include Hong Kong, the Vatican) 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤦
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It's crazy how much this scene looks like a snowy mountain landscape. It's actually just debris. Everything here used to be green.
"I'm realizing how small humans are in the face of nature."
People in Taiwan are still reckoning with the aftermath of Wednesday's deadly quake.
@joycetsengtw
reports.
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Watch all 30 episodes of my interviews with Taiwan's emerging leaders on this YouTube playlist. These are the fresh faces you must get to know!
Or, catch TV broadcast every Sat/Sun at 9:30pm on
@taiwanplusnews
for "Game Changers with Emily Y. Wu" ✊✊✊
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This is a travel diary. Why did
@TheAtlantic
re-publish as if it was a journalistic article by correspondents who have taken the time to research, report, interview, consider, quote, analyze; and by editors who have challenged, fact-checked, and refined for quality control?
Another one of these "I have been here a total of two days, Taiwanese have never thought about the geopolitical threats they have faced for decades, Taiwan is a geopolitical chess piece, it is a free rider, therefore we should abandon it" articles
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Taiwan is drafting legislation to allow IVF rights for same-sex couples and single women, and to lift ban on surrogacy.
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I'll be at Eslite Bookstore (Xinyi) in Taipei tonight from 9-10pm with
@FreddyLim
to chat about our show, "Metalhead Politics." Come hang out!
(Eslite is closed tonight for a series of "Member Night" events throughout the evening. But isn't basically everyone a member 😅)
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My new TV show premieres tonight on cable TV
@taiwanplusnews
! 30 episodes, 30 guests, 24-min episodes, 15 shoot days. This is where I interview emerging leaders - cool, young, hip people who are changing the world starting in Taiwan.
Sat/Sun 9pm:
How are YOUTHS
Advocating for CHANGE
In TAIWAN?
Catch
@taiwanplusnews
tonight at 9PM (Taiwan time) for the global premiere of our first TV show -- “Game Changers With Emily Y. Wu”
#TaiwanGameChangers
:
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While I appreciate pieces that look at Taiwan's diverse cultures/identity/groups (it's so important!), it's not correct to frame this as a response to PRC.
🇹🇼✍️ For Beijing, “
#Taiwan
is an inalienable part of
#China
”. But for the ruling progressives, a new
#nationalnarrative
giving more importance to all the Taïwan’s ethnic groups has gained traction.
From Taipei,
@bbz_lucie
and
@AdrienSimorre
report for
#FOCUS
⤵️
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This is interesting - YouTube is running a month of online film festival to screen classic Taiwanese films. Some restored. 8pm-only daily from Nov 5 to Nov 29 at "Google Taiwan" channel:
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Typhoon day.
There were no PLA aircraft or vessel detected in the waters and airspace around Taiwan by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today.
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That's 10% of Taiwan with at least 1 dose of vaccines! Keep it going, Taiwan!
💉第一劑 2,472,399 人
[#
#________________________
] 10.514%
💉第二劑 46,461 人
[__________________________] 0.197%
累計至 2021-07-04，全民共接種了 2,518,860 劑
#CovidVaccine
#COVID19
#COVID19Taiwan
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雞同鴨講
The GDP of the mainland was slightly more than twice that of Taiwan in 1989, but today it’s 23 times. Do you feel upset and hopeless because of this change?
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42% of Taiwan's parliament members are women. Our current president
@iingwen
in 2016 became the first Asian♀️head of state not related to a former male politician or head of state. We had a female VP in 2000.
"Women these days perform better than men and are getting recognition. Times have changed." - Kao Chia-yu, Taiwanese legislator.
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Spotted at Eslite bookstore in Taipei: a translation of The Little Prince in Taiwanese! cc:
@bitesize_TW
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Ma Ying-jeou goes to Wuhan and praises China's COVID control: Early responses prevented the pandemic from spreading widely. We have great admiration. This contribution was not just for China, but for the entire humankind.
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80% of world's
#Barbie
were made in Taiwan at some point! I'm now fantasizing a new podcast series that's like "Everything Is Alive", but from the perspectives of every toy that used to be made in Taiwan. Here's Buzz Lightyear:
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This is amazing: an International Space-Out Competition. I’m not sure how you win, tho you’re supposed to... just... space out.
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Hmmm...
@bookingcom
🧐 in Chinese characters we are mistaken as "Taiwan, China 中國台灣“; but in English we're rightfully just TAIWAN.
#taiwannotchina
Happy Mid-Autumn Weekend!
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