Thompson Chau
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Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club President | Myanmar, Taiwan and Asia for @NikkeiAsia @TheEconomist | Usual caveats
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Joined April 2016
🇲🇲✈️🇹🇼 Belated personal news: I left Yangon at the end of 2021 after calling Myanmar home for more than half a decade, moving to Taipei to cover news in Taiwan and Burma. Here’s my goodbye essay. 1/3
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RT @DemesDavid: "paralysis on the court could give parties with a legislative majority free rein to do as they please (…) with no constitut…
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“When I worked in Taipei, we were requested to respond to any misinformation within the first hours,” Douglas Hsu, Taiwan’s envoy to Australia, told @niccijsmith. “We have to immediately come up with a clarification to provide the right information to the general public.”
Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra talks to @thenightlyau about what Australia can learn from Taiwan’s battle on the frontlines of online disinformation
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Serious issues raised by @brianhioe about @ForeignPolicy’s recent Taiwan piece: “This very much crosses the line when it comes to cherry picking and Foreign Policy really should have done some basic fact checking here.” More details in his thread.
A number of serious issues in Hilton Yip’s recent piece in @ForeignPolicy: 1) Yip does not even mention that the issue at hand is the KMT’s attempt to freeze the Constitutional Court, as well as to freeze or drastically cut the national budget
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RT @brianhioe: A number of serious issues in Hilton Yip’s recent piece in @ForeignPolicy: 1) Yip does not even mention that the issue at h…
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RT @niccijsmith: Taiwan’s top diplomat in Canberra talks to @thenightlyau about what Australia can learn from Taiwan’s battle on the fron…
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RT @MOFA_Taiwan: Minister @chia_lung presented the Friendship Medal of Diplomacy to @UKinTaiwan Rep. @JohnDennisFCO for strengthening #Taiw…
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RT @DemesDavid: Taiwanese TV personality and singer Barbie Hsu (大S) has reportedly passed away due to influenza-related pneumonia, accordin…
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RT @FrontierMM: EDITORIAL | Min Aung Hlaing has been thrown a lifeline by China and is now under pressure to show results, but his planned…
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RT @FrontierMM: An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos…
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RT @NikkeiAsia: The Taiwan People's Party is primed for a succession race over the next two weeks, after its founder Ko Wen-je was embroile…
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RT @brianhioe: Nice to see this detailed piece by @will198574 on the civil war in Myanmar as a front page article on UDN today https://t.…
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RT @lvandenassum: Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing’s overall predicament: Too proud or blinkered to admit to a catastrophic 4 year run of mistakes…
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RT @ukinmyanmar: 📢 Four years since the coup, the 🇬🇧announces an uplift in live-saving support for #Myanmar in the face of an unprecedented…
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RT @ukinmyanmar: Today marks four years since the military regime overthrew the democratically elected government in #Myanmar. We condemn…
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RT @TaiwanFCC: The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club recently hosted @Kolas_Yotaka, @NongEnochWu and Alan Yang of @taef_tw for a discussi…
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Taiwan’s third-biggest party, the Taiwan People’s Party, is primed for a succession race over the next 2 weeks, after its founder was embroiled in a corruption scandal and resigned. We look at who the two candidates - Huang Kuo-chang and Tsai Pi-ru - are.
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RT @DemesDavid: “the foreign minister of Taiwan sat flanked on one side by the foreign minister of Japan and the other by the MoS of India…
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RT @RoryStewartUK: The attacks below seem to cease as soon as Trump says that DeepSeek is a wake-up call. It’s almost as though the rule…
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The economic ministry’s response to Trump’s tariffs remarks suggests Taiwan is still holding out hope for developing a constructive working relationship with the US. Taiwan calls US chip ties ‘win-win’ after Trump threatens 100% tariff - Nikkei Asia
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