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Michael Pettis @michaelxpettis

a month ago

1/10 "China’s high-tech sector is driving an increasing amount of demand for goods and services in the world’s second-biggest economy, and its contribution could rival real estate by 2026, according to Bloomberg Economics." bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @technology

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Grant Wyeth @grantwyeth

3 months ago

A piece of mine for @LowyInstitute on how the Taiwanese people and the world loses from Taiwan's exclusion from international organisations, and why China's power is not actually over Taiwan, rather it is over the rest of us in our submission to falsehoods lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

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Tricky Taipei @trickytaipei

4 months ago

Every election I go to the voting booths with my dad and my daughter — three generations of Taiwanese citizens. When she was 4, my daughter asked: “Why are we voting?” My answer: “We are voting because we are Taiwanese and we can vote.”

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@mhar4 @mhar4

4 months ago

Commentary by me on the Taiwan election this weekend, in The Australian newspaper.

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Michal Thim @michalthim

5 months ago

I am sorry, @BonnieGlaser, as I respect your work, but I struggle to understand what is the point of the piece. 🇨🇳will never give any assurances & assurances that you ask 🇹🇼 to make are morally corrupt and incompatible with deterrence. Piece is not making remotely convincing 1/5

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Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 🇺🇦 @BonnieGlaser

5 months ago

I am sorry, @BonnieGlaser, as I respect your work, but I struggle to understand what is the point of the piece. 🇨🇳will never give any assurances & assurances that you ask 🇹🇼 to make are morally corrupt and incompatible with deterrence. Piece is not making remotely convincing 1/5

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Michelle Kuo (郭怡慧) @kuokuomich

5 months ago

Dear @BonnieGlaser, @jessicacweiss, Tom Christensen, I ask respectfully that you retract this ideologically loaded, anti-intellectual, and factually incorrect line: “Tsai has allowed the teaching of Taiwan’s history separate from the history of China in high schools." 1/

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Blue Check Balding 大老板 @BaldingsWorld

5 months ago

There has been a lot of chatter about how bad this piece is on many levels and after skimming it the first time, I decided to go back and read it closer and slower taking notes. It is just as bad as it is being criticized for but I think.... 1/n foreignaffairs.com/taiwan/taiwan-…

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Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦 @Noahpinion

6 months ago

This is very important to understand in the context of a possible Taiwan invasion. China doesn't want to conquer the *people* of Taiwan. It just wants the dirt under their feet. It would be fine expelling all the people and replacing them with mainlanders.

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William Yang @WilliamYang120

6 months ago

This is very important to understand in the context of a possible Taiwan invasion. China doesn't want to conquer the *people* of Taiwan. It just wants the dirt under their feet. It would be fine expelling all the people and replacing them with mainlanders.

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Eliot A Cohen @EliotACohen

7 months ago

The first step towards a sound policy towards Taiwan? Stop lying, and stop letting China manipulate us. Thoughts after my recent visit there. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thocpodcast

7 months ago

Ahh, the good ol' "Since Ancient Times" argument. The last refuge of the terminally stupid. Times that Taiwan/Formosa has not been an official part of any Chinese state: - Big Bang-1668 - 1895-1945 - 1949-present Times that Taiwan has been part of the PRC: - Zero

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Ma Dashuai @machinpl

7 months ago

Ahh, the good ol' "Since Ancient Times" argument. The last refuge of the terminally stupid. Times that Taiwan/Formosa has not been an official part of any Chinese state: - Big Bang-1668 - 1895-1945 - 1949-present Times that Taiwan has been part of the PRC: - Zero

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Kharis Templeman 祁凱立 @kharisborloff

8 months ago

PSA: the U.S. one China policy ≠ strategic ambiguity. They’re different things. One is about whether the U.S. recognizes the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China (A: yes) and that Taiwan is part of China (A: no; int status is undetermined). [1/2]

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The Hill @thehill

8 months ago

PSA: the U.S. one China policy ≠ strategic ambiguity. They’re different things. One is about whether the U.S. recognizes the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China (A: yes) and that Taiwan is part of China (A: no; int status is undetermined). [1/2]

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Euan Graham @graham_euan

9 months ago

A seemingly permanent Western delusion in dealing with the CCP is the belief that relations can be stabilised by focusing on shared interests and positive outcomes. But one can’t externally stabilise an internally unstable entity.

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Drew Thompson 唐安竹 @TangAnZhu

9 months ago

Next time someone says that China’s military coercion against Taiwan is the fault of some action taken by somebody else - Pelosi, or Tsai, or whomever, ask them about big coercion missions such as this one today. China is not a victim. It is the aggressor.

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國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼 @MoNDefense

9 months ago

Next time someone says that China’s military coercion against Taiwan is the fault of some action taken by somebody else - Pelosi, or Tsai, or whomever, ask them about big coercion missions such as this one today. China is not a victim. It is the aggressor.

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Denny Roy @Denny_Roy808

9 months ago

"mutual respect" = no criticism of PRC policies and acceptance of all Chinese territorial claims. "peaceful coexistence" = no US alliances or forward-deployed military bases. "Win-win cooperation" = no restrictions on PRC access to foreign technology and markets.

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Neil Thomas 牛犇 @neilthomas123

9 months ago

"mutual respect" = no criticism of PRC policies and acceptance of all Chinese territorial claims. "peaceful coexistence" = no US alliances or forward-deployed military bases. "Win-win cooperation" = no restrictions on PRC access to foreign technology and markets.

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Lee Yian 李易安 @YianLee6

10 months ago

Just talked to a Swedish who was astonished hearing that my income tax rate is around 3 percent, including Health Insurance and pension fund. ‘How can TW maintain its infrastructure and healthcare system, which is public funded and of excellent quality?’ she asked. 🧵

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David Tobin @ReasonablyRagin

10 months ago

The last time I visited #China, I knew it would be the last time. 5 minutes after sitting down with a #Uyghur friend, she was called by her cadre 'minder' questioning her why she was talking to a foreigner. Like so many, we've never heard from her again.

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☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

11 months ago

RIP Daniel Ellsberg. When asked if he was afraid about spending his entire life in prison for leaking the Pentagon Papers and exposing the genocidal war criminals behind the Vietnam War, this was his response:

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Desmond Shum @DesmondShum

11 months ago

Penetrative understanding of China luxury market. I had a recent conversation w a leading authority of global luxury industry. His insights on China are fabulous. He said CN is the most fertile ground for luxury brands. Because CCP has destroyed tradition / religions in CN, and…

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Joshua Yang @joshiunn

12 months ago

How can the @UN ensure peace in the Taiwan Strait when they're not even allowed to say "Taiwan"? The 1971's UN Resolution 2758 was about China's seat, not Taiwan's status. Stop adhering to the PRC's misinterpretation that marginalises Taiwan & risks global peace. #IncludeTaiwanUN

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MF @[email protected] @shu_wang_gong

12 months ago

There is a pernicious myth that the benevolent Chiang Ching-kuo gifted democracy to the Taiwanese shortly before his death in 1988. Here he is announcing the end of martial law to Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. A young Ma Ying-jeou is in the background.

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