Beijing suddenly realising the difference between "achieving great power status" as an ideological discourse to legitimise the party and direct development policy and actually sending the PLAN to the Strait of Hormuz.
Tell me again how Taiwan and war in the Taiwan Strait are "not a vital strategic interest" for Australia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Australian uni sector peak body Universities Australia promotes a keynote at their annual conference by PRC ambassador Xiao Qian using word-for-word CCP slogans.
Vital step in Taiwan's long journey of truth and reconciliation. Authoritarianism and historical trauma continue to shape politics, culture, identities and inter-generational relations in Taiwan very directly.
focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...
The rules-based international order really is over.
"South Australia secures Australian MotoGP, world-first street circuit announced"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Everything described here is true, as some of us had seen some years ago, but there is nothing here about what it means for Australian universities to be integrated into the PRC system in this way, just a market logic that occludes the nature of that system.
Shocking comments by the PRC ambassador to Australia about Taiwan. Disinformation, declaring that Taiwanese who oppose annexation should leave Taiwan, and directly linking Australia's sovereign national debate about regional security and Taiwan to good relations with China.
Superb analysis from @nathanattrill.bsky.social.
"Put simply, the scale and persistence of Chinese military activity around Taiwan look less like signalling and more like systematic preparation for the use of force, conducted on Beijing’s own timetable."
www.aspistrategist.org.au/that-isnt-si...
An escalation of political warfare by the PRC ambassador Xiao Qian in the national Australian media.
Disinformation, misrepresentation, and a new explicit demand to accept in silence Taiwan's annexation and its catastrophic consequences.
"...do we back the US or China in a battle over Taiwan."
As always, Laura Tingle unable to conceptualise backing the Taiwanese, so ends up grotesquely suggesting that Australia could actually support a PRC invasion of Taiwan (with troops? materiel? a UN statement?)
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Shanghai Oceans University with a leadership conference on the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, with comments by the dean of the UTAS JV Ai'en College with far-reaching implications for the Australian university sector.
www.shou.edu.cn/2025/1025/c1...
From Geoffrey Robertson, no less. You can really see where a certain block of Australian elite opinion will go in rationalising a PRC invasion of Taiwan, at least until the global economy crashes, the AUD is at USD25c and emergency interest rates are 30%.
www.smh.com.au/national/thi...
University of Tasmania and its Shanghai Oceans University JV Aien College visit the Shanghai office of US-sanctioned PRC AI company SenseTime to sign a partnership.
ien.shou.edu.cn/2025/1211/c2...
Japanese ambassador to Australia responds to PRC ambassador's attack.
As Beijing continues military threats and political warfare against Taiwan, PRC Ambassador Xiao Qian warns Australia about "appeasement" of Japan, following PM Takaichi's comments that a PRC war against the Taiwanese would threaten Japan's security.
For some reason, @abcnews reissues one of its worst reports on Taiwan, from 2005.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTtb...
Yes, that is more than a real possibility.
"To assure peace and prosperity, secessionists would be crushed, state media declared brightly. It’s obvious – Beijing just doesn’t get it.
Yes, it is. And Beijing is holding the whole world hostage with its Taiwan delusion.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Generous account of our new @aspi-org.bsky.social @defenceaustralia.bsky.social report "Australian Public and Institutional Responses to Taiwan Strait Crises" from Paul Monk in The Australian, with important insights into facing realities of Beijing's threats against the Taiwanese.
Dreadful and irresponsible from @mattbevan.bsky.social's ABC "If You're Listening" series, on China and Taiwan, blithely and glibly imagining that Taiwan has no history before 1949, so believing that China and Taiwan corresponds to the CCP and the KMT and so getting it all wrong.
"But Taiwan is a legacy from the Chinese civil war, a final bastion of the Nationalists that lost the mainland to the communists."
Please, @jamesoaten.bsky.social, Taiwan was a Japanese colonial territory from 1895, the end of the Qing, to 1945.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Good explainer on a "crisis" in China-Japan relations that has had bizarrely little coverage in Australia.
"Crisis" in quotes because obviously Beijing is using the Japanese PM's remarks as a pretext to test her government early in its term.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Nothing here that surprises anyone who has followed transnational education with the PRC, but highlights that whatever of the overheated hopes or claims by foreign universities, these partnerships are always just relationships with the state.
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
Interview with the incomparable Leona Chen, eloquent on the work of living, representing and making Taiwanese identity and politics across generations and geographies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v15T...
Honda's reusable rocket prototype.
Important piece from @heldavidson.bsky.social tracking a shift from Beijing's military warfare to political warfare against Taiwan, as military activity in the Taiwan Strait hit their current threat salience limit just short of a kinetic event.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Excellent piece.
Marshall Ye Jianying, who proposed One Country Two Systems in 1982 for Taiwan.
