I don’t appreciate LTN’s sexist framing but some more details on the context here

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PLA runs amphibious landing drill in strait as Taiwanese leader marks first year The 73rd Group Army exercises tactics and skills of near-shore driving and landing operations with armoured amphibious vehicles.

China’s PLA conducts amphibious landing drill in Strait as Taiwanese president marks first year – SCMP

What’s important is to note that the DPP’s stance on nuclear energy has shifted, in light of energy concerns because of invasion, but the DPP still needs to please supporters in light of its traditional antinuclear position

Taiwan seeks satellite independence as it plans for a China invasion | DW News YouTube video by DW News

🇹🇼🛰️ My video explainer looking at Taiwan's mission to be more satellite self-reliant (i.e., avoid Musk's Starlink) if China ever invades and cuts undersea cables. We visited Taiwanese defense startup Tron Future, part of the new satellite supply chain:

Recall tsunami: How Taiwan’s KMT faces its biggest crisis in years Analysing Taiwan’s “recall politics” and the grassroots challenge to KMT lawmakers currently underway, Taiwan academic Ho Ming-sho explains why Taiwan’s political identities are undergoing a profound ...

Recall tsunami: How Taiwan’s KMT faces its biggest crisis in years – Ho Ming-sho for ThinkChina: ‘While it is still too early to predict the outcome of the recall elections or their political aftermath, the campaign has already reinvented political activism in Taiwan.’

Taiwan Democracy: What’s happening in the Taiwanese parliament? Primer to the 2024 legislative brawls that gave rise to the Bluebird Movement

#TaiwanWordoftheDay is the #BluebirdMovement #青鳥運動, in which 30,000 people gathered in #Taipei on May 21, 2024 — #Taiwanese who support the legislators opposing the abrupt expansion of legislative power w/o room for deliberation. This ignited the current wave of recalls.

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CCTV anchor accidentally refers to Taiwan and China as two countries, lol

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic | CNN Business On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. That hasn’t ...

Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic – CNN: ‘Officials are concerned not just about the lack of vessels leaving China, but the speed at which that number dropped.’

Taiwan at center of 'one-theater' defense concept: Former Japanese general - Focus Taiwan A former Japanese defense officer said Wednesday Taiwan is at the center of a new "one-theater" defense concept, which Japan reportedly proposed to the United States earlier this year in response to g...

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This Lender Said Its Loans Would Help Tennesseans. It Has Sued More Than 110,000 of Them. The Flex Loan, a type of payday loan pioneered by Advance Financial, has burdened low-income borrowers while generating huge profits for lenders. Tennessee lawmakers declined to rein in the lending bu...

Advance Financial’s Flex Loan charges 279.5% interest, trapping thousands of borrowers in debts that end up in court, where the company has won over $200 million in judgments since 2015.

By @friedmanadam5.bsky.social, w/ @tennesseelookout.com

Taiwan’s New Military Communications System Passes US Testing, Marks Key Step in Defense Modernization Taiwan's new battlefield comms system just passed US testing—ushering in a leap toward faster, encrypted, and mobile military ops.

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The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files Researchers have unearthed the surveillance records of Taiwan’s former dictatorship. But the revelations inside could tear society apart

ICYMI: The terrible secrets of Taiwan’s Stasi files, by @aliceysu.bsky.social:

China to Crack Down on Rare-Earth Materials Ahead of U.S. Trade Talks China has announced a crackdown on the smuggling of critical minerals, coming just one day before trade talks with the U.S., in which rare earth restrictions could be on the table.

China to crack down on rare-earth materials ahead of US trade talks – WSJ: ‘Authorities pledged to step up the enforcement of export controls on strategic mineral resources’

Personnel Problems Are Becoming Personal Problems for Xi Jinping Executive Summary: A lack of viable challenger suggests that Xi Jinping will remain in power, even if he is more vulnerable today, and his power more curtailed, than in years past. Personnel purges of...

Willy Wo-Lap Lam for Jamestown’s China Brief: ‘the assumption has been that Xi has been steering the housecleaning to get rid of real and potential enemies among the top brass. The recent spate of personnel changes, however, has lent credence to the argument that Xi’s military foes are gunning …’

Former intel chief says China likely has over 5,000 spies in Taiwan | Taiwan News | Apr. 24, 2025 11:32 Liu Te-liang says actual number of Chinese agents could be higher | Apr. 24, 2025 11:32

Former intel chief says China likely has over 5,000 spies in Taiwan. Liu Te-liang says actual number of Chinese agents could be higher www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6093148

9成議長支持盧秀燕選黨主席 新北市議長蔣根煌：決策圈要改革 | 聯合新聞網 國民黨主席之爭各界關注，除了現任主席朱立倫，包括台中市長盧秀燕動向，還有已表態的彰化縣前縣長卓伯源。傳出藍營9成議長都支...

UDN claims 90% of council speakers back Lu Shiow-yen for being KMT party chair. I generally think Chu is on the way out, but I suspect he won't go down without some fireworks

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Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China's not happy. | Alaska Beacon An expert on Taiwan and China said there’s nothing unusual about an American governor or legislator traveling to Taiwan.

Alaska’s governor flew to Taiwan to sell LNG. China’s not happy, reports Nathaniel Herz of Northern Journal, via @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2025/04/19/a...

Trump sends US warship to China's coast

For the third month in a row, a U.S. warship or that of a U.S. ally has transited the Taiwan Strait.

"Taiwan is the West Berlin of this century"
Find out more in the latest episode of my podcast ESCALATION, this time with @_JakubJanda, Czech expert on the Indo-Pacific region. Full episode linked below.

Source: Youth Daily News

The Taiwan Army Lanyang Regional Command 2nd Mechanized Infantry Battalion conducted combat patrols on 4/21 in northeastern Taiwan.

The Damage Trump Is Doing To America's National Security - My Conversation With Senator Chris Coons “We are creating a Trump sized hole in our national security that the Chinese are walking through. And frankly, it is the dumbest, most self-destructive, most foolish thing I can imagine”

Sharing a timely new interview I just completed with Senator Chris Coons. He's back from a trip to the Philippines and Taiwan and we discuss the extraordinary damage Trump is doing to our national security and standing in the world.
Watch and share 👇
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【Thunder Tiger 雷虎科技】海鯊號 SeaShark800 USV YouTube video by Thunder Tiger 雷虎科技

Good to see Taiwan developing domestic USV capability. @covertshores.bsky.social 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Wx...

CIA deputy director’s son killed while fighting for Russia in Ukraine, investigation claims Michael Gloss studied Human Ecology at Middlebury College in Vermont and was described by friends as an eco-activist, women’s rights supporter, and anti-fascist.

seen a lot of daft hippie bullshit in my day, but this might take the cake kyivindependent.com/cia-deputy-d...

U.S. Army rolls out ‘sex-neutral’ fitness test for some combat jobs Female soldiers serving in combat-related roles must meet the same physical standards as their male counterparts in events such as the two-mile run and deadlifting.

The U.S. Army is rolling out a new fitness test that will require female soldiers serving in combat jobs to be rated on the same score chart as their male counterparts, a move that comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to review the military’s physical fitness standards.

FBI arrests Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigrant arrest Judge Hannah Dugan’s arrest is the first known instance of the Trump administration charging a local official with interfering on immigration enforcement.

Breaking news: FBI Director Kash Patel said that the bureau arrested a Milwaukee judge and charged her with obstructing an immigration arrest operation last week.

Despite Russia, Israel, Iran and China’s best attempts to crush it, the Syrian revolution succeeded. Today Syria proudly flies the true flag over the UN.

Historic moment.

So we are arresting judges now.

This is a test.

With Indo-Pacific undersea cables at risk, companies tout their tech Taiwan has reported five cases of seabed cable damage this year already, compared with just three each in 2023 and 2024.

Taiwan has reported five cases of seabed cable damage this year already, compared with just three each in 2023 and 2024.

The Trump effect on public attitudes toward America in Taiwan and South Korea In South Korea and Taiwan, survey findings paint a bleak picture of America’s future relations with Seoul and Taipei.

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ICE backs down, says it will restore status of thousands of foreign students Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 visas said they were informed their SEVIS records were suddenly terminated by DHS.

BREAKING: In a sudden about-face, a DOJ attorney saiys ICE will be RESTORING the status of thousands of foreign students whose SEVIS records were terminated w/o notice earlier this month.

The move comes amid mounting losses in courts around the country.
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