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Jun 15
How do these guys ever get a platform when he is talking plain objectively factual nonsense?
Answer = Political theatre for anti-imperialists in the form of an anti-AUKUS inquiry.
Our country deserves better.
Jun 15
According to 🇦🇺’s former Deputy Ambassador to 🇨🇳 in the 1970s, 🇦🇺 ships transiting from Southeast Asia to Northeast Asia through the Taiwan Strait are undertaking “hostile provocative actions”. He also argues that the “One China Principle” is international law.
Quite what either of those claims has to do with 🇦🇺’s acquisition of nuclear-powered subs is unclear.
Interesting testimony nonetheless. A factually incorrect interpretation of international law on multiple points. Notably, none of the commissioners challenged those assertions.
AUKUS Public Inquiry. Day 1.
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The perfect celebration doesn’t exi— wait for Liam Slock 🏄♂️
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Jun 13
Your reminder that China is intentionally sustaining a war which is killing innocents, ravaging our continent, and has been given a free pass for it.
Extraordinary how Beijing keeps telling us who they are, and we keep pretending not to hear.
Jun 12
Former MI6 Chief Richard Moore: Without China, Russia would have lost war in Ukraine.
North Korean troops and Iranian drones grab headlines. But what keeps Putin in Ukraine is China — chemicals for artillery shells, components for drones and missiles.
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Jun 12
🚨 BREAKING: Governor of the Russian Central Bank Nabiullina is under de-facto house arrest according to former All-Russia State Television Editor-in-chief Dmitry Skorobutov, exiled in Switzerland.
In a heated exchange at the end of May / early June, she gave Putin an ultimatum: She will quit and leave the country if Putin starts total mobilization.
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Notably strong and elaborated on Taiwan in the AUKMIN joint statement.
🇦🇺🇬🇧#Australian and #UK Ministers have met in London for #AUKMIN 2026. Ministers reaffirmed the critical importance of peace and stability across the #TaiwanStrait and recognised that we all benefit from #Taiwan’s expertise.
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Jun 12
A 150-meter dredging hose has washed ashore in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture. Its owner has yet to be found…
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Taiwan says it won't tolerate Chinese patrols, vows expulsions reut.rs/4vdMc7t reut.rs/4vdMc7t
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Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration says five Chinese government vessels, including Haixun 06, Haixun 08, Haixun 09, Donghai Jiu 113, and CCG 2202, operated east of Taiwan and broadcast inquiries about port entry to three passing merchant cargo ships while falsely asserting jurisdiction.
According to Taiwan’s CGA, Haixun 06 queried a Singapore-flagged vessel near Eluanbi on June 7, a Liberian-flagged vessel east of Suao on June 9, and a Benin-flagged vessel east of Sandiaojiao later the same morning.
Taiwanese Coast Guard vessels warned the Chinese ships that they had no jurisdiction in Taiwan’s EEZ and told the merchant vessels to maintain normal navigation and ignore the Chinese broadcasts.
📸: Joseph Wu, Secretary-General of Taiwan's National Security Council
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Jun 11
Well worth a look. Uncomfortable for Cheng
"Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."
At a June 8 Asia Society event in New York, a mainland Chinese dissident confronted KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun live during Q&A — asking why, after her April Beijing trip to see Xi Jinping, she told Taiwanese that drones would "deliver bubble tea, not missiles."
The questioner didn't stop there: he pressed her on what Xi reportedly told Trump about a potential Taiwan invasion, then answered his own second question unprompted — "I'm from mainland China, so I know: Xi wants Taiwan because dictatorships cannot allow democracies to exist next to them."
Then came the line that stopped the room: "Embrace the CCP. Taiwan will become the next Hong Kong."
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Jun 11
His martydom is pretty epic signal.
It has to be consequential given their fundamental policy clash over national survival vs. fiscal austerity.
Maybe, its the move that triggers a backbench revolt, break the Treasury’s austerity grip, and forces No. 10 to properly fund UKDef
Jun 11
John Healey was a solid UK defence secretary.
His resignation only heightens concerns about British defence.
Exactly the wrong time for AUKUS.
Awkward, to say the least, for meetings with Richard Marles and Penny Wong in the UK this week.
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Jun 11
MotoGP riders standing out as complete professionals and good guys.
Post race banter is often very entertaining.
Typical blokes riding motorbikes
Jun 10
Really nice words from Pedro Acosta about his respect for Marc Márquez on the Gypsy Tales podcast.
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Jun 11
I still love the ‘death penalty ruled totally badass by supreme court’ segment youtu.be/Hyph_DZa_GQ?si=bxUQ…
Jun 11
Kids today have no idea how good The Onion was, like when Autistic Reporter Michael Falk delivered this news package, “Train Thankfully Unharmed In Crash That Killed One Man”
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Jun 10
In October 2012, two brothers from a Bulgarian village went out at night to guard their crops from thieves. What they found instead were French commandos on a secret exercise.
They beat them up, tied them with bungee cords, and only then learned who they really were.
Peak 🇧🇬
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Fuck you, @washingtonpost . Amal did not ‘die,’ she was deliberately targeted and murdered after receiving threats from the Israeli army. She was in touch with us, her colleagues, during this situation. We all know exactly what happened. Shame on you for intentionally diminishing the criminality of the actions of the Israeli army with this headline. Shame on all of you and your correspondents in Beirut.
I hope to see you on trial for your propaganda in my lifetime.
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Jun 10
I increasingly find that my primary role in the "China influence" space these days is to debunk a lot of very, very poor quality "China influence" research reports that have been coming out.
I don't think it would be an overreach to call this slate of reports "China influence slop." But such a term is too kind, because it fails to indicate that these reports are primarily motivated by the desire to delegitimize grassroots American organizating by attempting to associate them with "hostile foreign forces" — a tactic widely used by the CCP to delegitimize grassroots Chinese civil society whenever it finds such movements inconvenient.
Let me start with a couple recent ones:
— The reports from Bitcoin Policy Institute and Power the Future which have led House reps to call for an investigation into anti-data center organizing
— And this latest one about how China is supposedly bankrolling climate activism at the University of California system and thereby acting to "shape California’s climate and energy policies."
I can demonstrate, very easily, that these reports are
1) exceedingly poor quality as China influence reports go
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2) primarily and overwhelmingly motivated not by a desire to uncover China's influence (and thus to preserve the integrity of US civil society), but rather to delegitimize what are very obviously organic US movements (and thus to compromise the integrity of US civil society)
Reports like these represent an anti-democratic abuse of the concept of China influence research, which denies agency to real Americans.
These reports, given both their methods and their political goal, are also a form of disinformation and propaganda, very similar to how China paints Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters as stooges of America.
And finally, these reports make a mockery of actual, high-quality China influence research.
This must stop now — and journalists reporting on this style of report should do so with the highest degree of journalistic professionalism and scrutiny.
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Jun 11
A catastrophe that isn't explored enough
I had hoped the viscerally felt economic fallout from US/Israeli strikes on Iran would help understanding.
Why many don't think Taiwan is in our vital national interest - a great topic
Jun 9
Do people really still think this is not in our ‘vital national interests’?
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Jun 10
Cheng
1st invokes the fiction of the 92 consensus and is fated by Xi
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Jun 9
KMT Party Chair Cheng Li-wun casually dropping the anti-semitic trope of Jewish control of the United States government during her speech in the US:
"如果猶太朋友可以對美國有怎麼關鍵的影響力, 我們華人的智慧,華人的努力,華人的平德, 絕對不輸給他們."
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Jun 10
Wow.
Speaking Chinese on the streets of Seoul right now can instantly draw a hostile crowd. During recent high-tension election protests, a Taiwanese news crew was surrounded by over twenty furious South Koreans who suspected they were mainland Chinese, exposing the raw street-level friction currently gripping the city.
Taiwan's Mirror News anchor Chang Pei-tzu and cameraman Wang Geng-chen were reporting live outside the Olympic Park arena when speaking Mandarin on camera triggered immediate alarm. In an atmosphere pushed to the brink by protests over local ballot shortages, the emotional crowd trapped the journalists in a tight circle, aggressively demanding to know their nationality and ordering them to stop filming. The standoff only broke when Chang presented her press credentials, clarifying that they were from Taiwan, not China.
The result was a stunning, instantaneous flip in human emotion. The intense suspicion vanished, replaced by deep bows and profuse apologies. One local resident even rushed over to hand-write a protective sign reading "No to China, Taiwan Media" and pinned it directly to the cameraman’s back to shield the crew from further hostility. The very people who had just blocked them suddenly began clapping and chanting "Taiwan! Wan sui!" in a spontaneous display of democratic solidarity.
This dramatic turnaround underscores the incredibly fragile social climate in South Korea right now. The public mood is so raw that anyone speaking Mandarin is heavily scrutinized amid anxieties over regional interference. While Taiwanese identity is embraced with warmth due to shared democratic values, the deep-seated resentment toward Beijing means that navigating these crowds requires extreme caution, where a single spoken word can spark a massive misunderstanding.
#KoreaProtests #Seoul #AntiChinaSentiment #Taiwan #Journalism #Geopolitics #SouthKorea #MediaFreedom
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