"If the KMT can regain power in 2028, it will fully restart exchanges with mainland China in all fields." This promise, made by KMT legislator Cheng Li-wen during her June 2026 US tour, has triggered a diplomatic disaster in Washington. What was meant to reassure American allies quickly devolved into a high-profile failure. Alarmed by her overtly pro-Beijing rhetoric, the US National Security Council abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Cheng on short notice. Relegated to lower-level staff at the AIT Washington headquarters instead of the White House, Cheng faced a brutal diplomatic snub rarely seen for visiting Taiwanese officials. The fallout goes much deeper than bad optics; US officials are deeply unsettled by Cheng’s defense of the KMT’s recent legislative maneuvers. The KMT recently used its majority to slash Taiwan's vital NT$1.25 trillion special defense budget. Adding fuel to the fire, Cheng publicly criticized US arms sales as a corruption-prone "blank check" and dismissed the strategic importance of the First Island Chain as a mere "Cold War mentality." Coming just months after her April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping, these remarks have sparked intense backlash at home, with critics accusing the KMT of being completely absorbed by Beijing's influence. While the KMT frames the trip as a pragmatic push for peace via the 1992 Consensus, Washington clearly sees a dangerous gamble. By trading Taiwan's defensive resolve for Beijing’s favor, the opposition has alienated its most critical international ally. This diplomatic fracture leaves a sobering reminder that Taipei's fierce internal political divides may now be its greatest national security vulnerability. #Taiwan #KMT #USPol #CrossStrait #TaiwanPolitics #NationalSecurity #China #ForeignPolicy

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For two years, Israel struck or raided hospitals in Gaza, claiming Hamas operated from inside them. Each strike produced a global outrage cycle: images of dead patients, condemnations from the UN, the WHO calling Shifa a “death zone,” genocide accusations at the ICJ. Israel’s counter-claim,that Hamas had embedded its military inside the medical system was ignored. Almost every institution positioned to verify it, aid groups, UN agencies, much of the press,either stayed silent or actively disputed Israel’s version. MSF repeatedly said it had “seen no evidence” of Hamas using hospitals , while accusing Israel of attacking healthcare. When the IDF raided Shifa and the early evidence looked thin, outlets ran fact-checks mocking the rifle count, and the skepticism hardened into a settled narrative that Israel had lied. Then in February 2026, the least Israel-friendly credible witness imaginable,a Nobel-winning aid group that had accused Israel of genocide, documented armed men, patient arrests, and weapons movement at Nasser from the inside. Did anyone really cover the correction? No. No they did not.

Hezbollah official: “We are currently investing in protests and demonstrations in Western countries, especially among college students. We already have Muslim students agitating, but it’s the Western students themselves who will destroy their own countries.” This is the decade-old plan by Hezbollah and the Iranian regime to destroy America and Europe.

This Chongqing dog abuse incident is massive and I’m going to cover it properly in the coming weeks

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Grecia anuncia que cerrará 60 mezquitas en el país y deportará a quienes continúen creando ilegalmente espacios religiosos islámicos. Grecia se moviliza contra la islamización de Europa… ¿Lo apoyas?

This is the real China 🇨🇳, which has spread this propaganda that it is 30 years ahead of World.

我諗起幾年前有人講過 一句 如果個世界都係冇變好 咁點啊？ 7年 見唔到個世界有變好過

Don’t rent your house to a Chinese person. 😩 If you do, they will turn it into a pile of garbage, just like the house in this video. 😱

China banned Gilberto Teodoro Jr. and his family from entering China because he continuously exposed Beijing's documented aggression against Philippines in its own waters Being sanctioned by China means the message landed exactly where it hurts most Congratulations, Teodoro jr!

轉：12岁，他为了自由而来；78岁，他为了自由而去 12岁以前，黎智英在广州火车站靠帮人搬行李、卖黑市香烟和糖果为生。有一次，一位香港旅客给了他一块巧克力，那是他从未尝过的美味。那人告诉他：“如果你去香港，那里的东西都这么好吃。” 黎智英在庭审中曾说：“我12岁来到这里，我拥有的一切都是香港给的。”为了他心中那个“自由且甜”的香港，他选择了不再逃跑，留下来“背负自己的十字架”。 20年重刑！心中说不出的难过... 一个人的向死而生，一个时代的无声落幕！

Propaganda: World is living in 2026, Chinese 🇨🇳 are living in 2050 with technology. ​Reality: World is living in 2026, while the Chinese are living in toilets.

7 years ago today, I was monitoring the situation in #HongKong. Suddenly, witnessed this in front of me. Like many others at the scene, we couldn’t have imagined that police fired tear gas again….Will never forget what happened in Hong Kong in that summer and ever since.

Two schoolgirls were caught trying to throw another girl off the roof in China…

Chinese EVs doing their thang!

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

大邱爱国市民游行太震撼了…!! 选举舞弊 重新选举！ 当日投票 重新计票！ 看看韩国人对民主自由的维护，这样才能阻止中共独裁外部势力与其内部代理人对民主自由的渗透颠覆，韩国🇰🇷加油！

🇯🇵 Japan is facing the kind of violent crime story that feels shocking because it happened in one of the safest countries on Earth, in broad daylight. A 20-year-old woman was stabbed in the chest after leaving a bathroom in Osaka’s Abechika underground mall, near Tennoji Station, and had her bag stolen. Police are treating it as robbery and attempted murder, while reports say two men of “foreign appearance” fled the scene. Japan still has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world, around 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 people, which is almost unthinkable compared to most countries. As Japan’s foreign population doubled past 4 million, crimes involving foreigners have surged sharply. Even with one of the world’s lowest crime rates, theft, fraud, and violent incidents are rising in line with mass immigration. Writer: Sol x.com/hide_Q_/status/2064729…

Muslims went crazy after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said this: "Radical Islam doesn’t want just a small caliphate in Iraq or Syria. They see the United States as the greatest evil on Earth and seek to dominate the entire West. Radical Islam is revolutionary, it wants endless expansion, terrorism, assassinations, and total control. They hate America, Europe, Israel, and every Muslim nation that partners with us. Orlando, Pensacola, and domestic attacks prove it. Radical Islam is a clear and imminent threat to the world." I agree with every single word he said.

Why is it always CHINA? See how casually the China Coast Guard intrudes into the Philippines' lawful waters, threatening the Philippines sovereignty & literally h@rming its coast guard & local fishermen @SteveYates @WarrenPlatts @poyjampoy @rs015dbph @geotact