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Thrilled to say that "Revolutionary Taiwan: Making nationhood in a changing world order" by
@catielila
and me, is now available on Amazon. Heartfelt appreciation to Catherine for guiding the book to completion and her deep insights into the Taiwan story.
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A home-owner telling the 🇦🇺 prime minister and the media to move off his just re-seeded lawn is hilarious and, especially on this day and in this week, that they all dutifully did so is also deeply democratic.
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零日攻擊 Zero Day. A new Taiwanese tv series about China attacking Taiwan.
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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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"That guy, you see that guy?"
"No."
"There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it."
...
CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989.
#六四32
#Tiananmen
#天安門事件
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"That guy, you see that guy?"
"No."
"There's a guy who's running in front of the tank. He's standing right in front of it."
...
CNN raw video, Chang'an Avenue, June 5 1989. #六四34
#Tiananmen
#天安門事件
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"It would be like the Chinese saying to us, look, we think Tasmania..."
No, it wouldn't be. Former Australian prime minister Paul Keating demonstrating his historical and strategic illiteracy on Taiwan. Kudos to
@FergusonNews
for challenging him.
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Ten Thousand Men of Harvard just sitting there staring as a Taiwanese woman activist is manhandled out of event with the PRC ambassador. 😞😞
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Notable that this Netflix series about Taiwanese politics ignores 🇨🇳 completely, and is an excoriating (and recognisable in 🇦🇺) critique of gender politics in Taiwan's political and public life.
Also, the Mandarin/Taiwanese code-switching in the middle of conversations.
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"I lost my son".
Ding Zilin, from the documentary film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
For June 4. #六四34
#Tiananmen
#天安門事件
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Chung Min Lee's opening question to Admiral Dong Jun at the Shangri-La Dialogue.
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Watching 🇨🇳 mishandling COVID19 disappearing down the memory hole is quite something. Arresting doctors, ignoring warnings, suppressing information during the provincial party congress. Weeks of inaction. All vanishing and replaced with 🇨🇳 decisiveness and success.
Very interesting piece on the WHO learnings from China's response. Key takeaways for me:
1. Isolation incredibly successful.
2. Little asymptomatic transmission.
3. Unsure why kids rarely affected.
4. True mortality rate perhaps 1-2%.
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On the politics and knowledge of Taiwan in the US system.
@SpeakerPelosi
visiting the National Human Rights Museum and
@MarshaBlackburn
visiting the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial.
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Explain to me again how it's Washington that is undermining the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.
🚨China's military has announced 2 days of drills surrounding Taiwan. Here's a very hasty overlay showing where the PLA says they'll be (light red boxes), compared to Taiwan's air defense identification zone (black lines).
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"East Asia's proliferation of 7-11s has been disgracefully ignored in the West. It shows how provincial, ignorant and narrow-minded the West has become. The biggest single reason for the success of 7-11s is Confucianism. But this is never mentioned."
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"The Taiwanese have much to teach Australians if we take the time to learn."
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Distressing piece on the detention of 🇦🇺 journalist Cheng Lei in 🇨🇳.
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As a national percentage of global trade, Russia is 20th in the world.
Taiwan is 19th.
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Commentary by me, because someone has to, in response to an unedifying debate in 🇦🇺 on war and Taiwan. How Taiwan is not just a proxy for US power, how it is Beijing's war against the Taiwanese and how war would cost 🇦🇺 directly and dearly.
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Favourite example of code switching between Taiyu and Mandarin in Edward Yang's sublime 2000 masterpiece Yi Yi A One and A Two. Taiwanese for the intimate, private and personal, Mandarin for the formal and public, and to conceal the private.
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Huge win for
@DrewPavlou
. Strikes at the heart 🇦🇺 universities as instruments of a failed vision of an 🇦🇺 future in partnership 🇨🇳 that required an unseeing of the PRC party-state system impossible in the Xi era.
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An absolutely heartbreaking article that argues that the fate of 24m people and the democracy for which they fought for 100 years is of no concern to Australia. And calls it "progressive".
NEW: This article
@AustJIA
is a collaborative effort w/
@NickBisley
,
@EckersleyRobyn
,
@JessMKirk_
,
@GeorgeLawsonIR
&
@DrBeeZee
. We ask what would a progressive foreign policy look like in the 21st century? What would it look like for Australia? 1/
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"I lost my son".
Ding Zilin, from the documentary film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
For June 4. #六四32
#Tiananmen
#天安門事件
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"At 35, the legend in her home nation, Chinese Taipei, is in the second week of a Grand Slam for just the second time in her career."
Ah yes, the beautiful nation of Chinese Taipei, known throughout the world...
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Bewildering and concerning comments on Australia's Taiwan policy architecture by the prime minister
@ScottMorrisonMP
in
@SBSNews
interview with
@annajhenderson
.
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Conclusion to
@LastWeekTonight
and
@mariancw
'story on Taiwan.
"Frankly, people who aren't Taiwanese making decisions for Taiwan is a bit fucking played out historically."
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"Japan gets a new island after undersea volcano erupts"
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing said the island has belonged to China since ancient times.
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"He says Taiwan is by international agreement already a part of China."
Very depressing to see this ecology of misinformation activated in this way.
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Disturbing rhetoric on PRC state media describing "Taiwan independence forces" i.e. all of the Taiwanese people, as the "tumours" of an unhealthy Chinese nation who must be excised.
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There are no lessons for Taiwan from the catastrophe in Afghanistan.
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Pro-tip for "China" analysts doing "Taiwan":
Taiwanese people do not "increasingly identify as Taiwanese rather than Chinese".
Taiwan has had self-determination movements since the 1920s and any pathway to consenting unification was closed in the 2-28 Uprising in 1947.
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Not sure calling
@nathanlawkc
a "lackey" is fully aligned with a call to "stop anti-Asian hate".
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Hou Hsiao-hsien's 1989 monumental masterpiece City of Sadness 悲情城市 about 2-28 and Taiwan's transition from Japanese colonial rule to the ROC restored for re-release in February.
Image quality looks transformative. Tony Leung as heartbreaking as ever.
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I commend 7-11 in Taiwan for the banking, the photocopying, the train tickets, the tea eggs and spicy hotdogs, the SIM cards and the opening hours, etc. BUT, I'll damned if I fall victim to the insistence of the retail industry to brand 7-11 a convenience store.
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"Taiwan, a territory which became a so-called 'democracy' as late as 1996."
Fmr PM Paul Keating unable to separate his opposition to AUKUS from his genuine disdain for the Taiwanese people.
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Strong ad running across multiple platforms closing out the Xi Jinping 2022 campaign for the upcoming elections in China. Hard to see him losing at this point, despite Xi team's many missteps in the run-up to the vote, with such a weak opposition campaign.
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"Was Taiwan Ever Really a Part of China?"
Evan Dawley asking the question that needs to be asked.
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"Any conflict over Taiwan will be one that Xi and the CCP have chosen."
Some comments from me about Taiwan, policy analysis and the 20th National Party Congress.
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PRC state media outlet Global Times threatening Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, with death.
The many calls for "nuance" in Australia's China debate are really just calls to explain away statements like this.
Voice:Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen, who pledged deeper ties with the US at a dinner for a visiting senior State Department official,is clearly playing with fire. If any act of her provacation violates the Anti-Secession Law of China, a war will be set off and Tsai will be wiped out
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Guide to 200 years of armed conflict in Taiwan, half of which is anti-Qing, from the National Museum of Taiwan History.
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Why does the 🇦🇺 media describe Taiwan in marginalising and infantilising ways: "geopolitical absurdity", "rebellious province", "boisterous democracy"?
Because journalists have normalised Taiwan's exclusion from the international system reencode it with writerly metaphors.
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"What about any support for the Taiwanese people who say they don't want that?"
"It will get resolved socially and politically over time. That's what will happen there."
Total misunderstanding of the contemporary and historical relationship between Taiwan and China.
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"Born in Japan to Taiwanese and American parents, Hsiao’s own life reflects the desire felt by many in Taiwan to forge a distinct Taiwanese identity."
Nice profile of
@bikhim
in
@guardian
by
@amyhawk_
and
@chihui__lin
.
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"Why Australia's China strategy is dangerous"
What is dangerous is an analysis that only maintains its internal logic by eliminating the Taiwanese from its equation of regional security.
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WaveMakers (人選之人－造浪者) on
@NetflixANZ
. An unflinching examination of gender politics in Taiwan balanced by a heartfelt belief in democracy as a transformative project.
Why don't we make tv like this in Australia?
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@johnmenadue
This is embarrassingly wrong and says all too much about how much P&I actually knows about the region. Taiwan was only granted provincial status in 1885 by the Qing empire after the failed French Keelung Campaign of 1884 and was ceded to Japan as a colonial territory in 1895.
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Statement of support for Taiwanese Olympic women's boxer Lin Yu-ting from Taiwan's President
@ChingteLai
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"人選之 —造浪者Wave Makers" New Netflix comedy-drama about a fictional Taiwan election campaign. A bit Armando Iannucci, if without his jet-black sensibility.
Useful viewing for 🇦🇺 commentators on Taiwan. Would be gone, of course, along with its producers, after "reunification".
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Extraordinary call by Beijing for Australia to "stop providing a safe haven for fugitives"
@kevinkfyam
and
@tedhuichifung
.
"Stabilise" that, Canberra.
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US Secretary of State
@SecBlinken
arguing that the future of Taiwan is not just an internal matter for China, as Beijing insists, but consequential for the whole world, and that US policy has been consistent for 50 years.
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Remarkable speeches in the Australian Senate on motion affirming that UN Res. 2758 did not establish PRC sovereignty over Taiwan.
Detailed account of 2758 and 🇦🇺's One China policy from Senators
@Deborah_ONeill
and David Fawcett.
The motion passed.
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"WTA chairman Steve Simon told the BBC there will be no events in China next year without proof that Peng is safe."
The radical political act of saying no to the party-state system.
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It's hard to understand why people think Paul Keating blustering and bullying and insulting and generally demonstrating how unsubtle his thinking is on the challenges of 🇦🇺🇨🇳 relations is somehow incisive or wise or informed.
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Dispiriting demonstration of a lack of knowledge and insight into Taiwan's history, politics and international status from
@yanisvaroufakis
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This is what warmongering sounds like.
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From
@PressClubAust
,
@Greens
leader
@AdamBandt
on 🇦🇺 security.
Disappointing that he cannot conceptualise 🇨🇳's threat against the Taiwanese as a critical security issue for 🇦🇺, which makes his call here for "neutrality" on 🇺🇸-🇨🇳 relations not really neutral.
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Commentary by me on the Taiwan election this weekend, in The Australian newspaper.
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It's not a "dispute over Taiwan". It's China going to war against the Taiwanese, and what that means for Australia.
We're running along this analytical Möbius strip forever. 😞
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State-arranged activity with children to make it easier for Peng Shuai to relax and feel genuine in a photo-op.
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Remembering June 4 1989. #六四
The noise of gunfire rose from all over the centre of Peking. It was unremitting.
Kate Adie’s BBC report. 1/2
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"I lost my son". Ding Zilin from the documentary film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
For June 4 and the violence of the state it has come to represent. #六四
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Qiushi, I think you might find that you are describing authoritarianism.
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"The Taiwanese have much to teach Australians"
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Significant wins for Beijing over Taipei in the 🇨🇳🇳🇿 Joint Statement text:
"two sides reaffirmed their commitment to respecting each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity"
and "New Zealand welcomes China's application to join the CPTPP"
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Lieutenant General He Lei describing PLA plans to inflict a horror on the people of Taiwan and curse the region with unmanageable crises - economic, political and moral - for generations.
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😞
@abcnews
and the position, institutionalised in Australian public life, that the Taiwanese people are just proxies for American power. You can't make cool-headed policy from that position.
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From
@USSC
@DefenceProf
an excellent piece on Australia's dysfunctional Taiwan policy debate.
The deleterious moral and policy effect of using the Taiwanese to litigate the US alliance in Australia is something I have written about and lamented for years.
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Excellent piece from former
@AusOfficeTPE
Australian representative in Taiwan Jenny Bloomfield refuting Paul Keating's "Chinese real estate" nonsense.
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"Ridiculous", "stupid".
Preview of an interview with
@SpeakerPelosi
by
@FergusonNews
on ABC 730, in which Nancy Pelosi responds to Paul Keating's comment about the Taiwanese that "they’re sitting on Chinese real estate."
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“Chinese influence” bingo, or responding to the United Front work of the party-state of the People’s Republic of China in Australia.
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Australia is now the world's leading producer of bad op-eds about Taiwan.
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Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese on Taiwan's membership of the CPTPP.
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"Hear from our guest speaker Carl Zha about the colonial and modern history of Taiwan..."
Why would an anti-imperialist organisation ask someone who isn't from Taiwan to offer this perspective?
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Mr I'm-So-Smart-The-Rules-Don't-Apply-To-Me learns that the rules do, in fact, apply to him.
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The hate for Taiwan is so intense among PRC ultranationalist ultraleftists.
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PLA flight paths completely encircling Taiwan for the first time.
32 PLA aircraft and 9 PLAN vessels around Taiwan were detected by 6 a.m.(UTC+8) today. R.O.C. Armed Forces have monitored the situation and tasked CAP aircraft, Navy vessels, and land-based missile systems to respond these activities.
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"Is Jacinda Ardern really the future of liberal democracy?"
Sure, but if 🇦🇺's media wasn't so suffocatingly Anglocentric, it would be asking what actually is a real question, "Is Tsai Ing-wen really the future of liberal democracy?"
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Beijing showing how its "reunification" "strategy" is not a roadmap but just a tautological metaphor for CCP power and legitimacy.
It is ideologically trapped into escalating tactical threats against Taiwan.
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"There is no scenario under which Taiwan voluntarily accedes to China’s dominion. Only force can make it happen."
From the Wall Street Journal. Rare to read hard-hitting truths from a major English-language media outlet.
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