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Thanks for making Revolutionary Taiwan by @catielila and me the number 1 book about Taiwan this week.
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Three of the speakers at the anti-AUKUS public inquiry have recently been on multi-week tours of China and went to the PRC consulate in Melbourne to give an account of the trips and it was written up in PRC state media.
Ok.
global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/2…
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Trailer for the documentary In the Making: An Australia–Taiwan Indigenous Art Exchange 生成之間: 澳洲與台灣原住民族藝術交流
An account of the extraordinary multi-year project of exchange and learning between Australia and Taiwan indigenous artists.
youtube.com/watch?v=AYT0_rKc…
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Disinformation aired at the risible anti-AUKUS inquiry.
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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An important piece from @johncoyne14, esp. given the deep integration between Australia and China in mining and earth science research.
There’s value in supply-chain knowledge. China wants to control it | @johncoyne14 | bit.ly/4uDqOHL
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Complex issues well articulated by @joannachiu and @isaacstonefish.
All engagement with China is mediated by the state, even if it is presented as authentic to activate liberal beliefs, so a precondition of engagement is always a clearly defined purpose.
Jun 14
Hear @joannachiu (@nuoraglobal) and @isaacstonefish clash over a question at the center of global politics: Should cooperation with Chinese state institutions continue, or is it time to draw a harder line?
Recorded live at @OsloFF and produced in partnership with @hrf, this debate is now available to watch on our Open to Debate YouTube channel.
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e.g. this exhibition currently in Tasmania sponsored by the 上海市对外文化交流协会, a bureau of the Shanghai city branch of the CCP established in the 1980s for united front work.
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Jun 14
Great art challenges, provokes, inspires.
It forces us to confront contradictions, empathise, explore.
Open your window
Find new bearings at 42° Sth.
7 extraordinary contemporary artists from Shanghai.
11 June — 19 July
@TheHenryJones
Hobart
#DarkMofo #ContemporaryArt
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Those who don't actually know anything about Taiwan and its history often mistake Beijing blockading Taiwan in order to trigger a crisis it hopes it can win by extracting concessions from the Taiwanese for "bloodlessly take Taiwan".
Jun 14
In a likely scenario China could bloodlessly take Taiwan simply by imposing a customs regime around goods and people going and coming from Taiwanese ports and thereby asserting control over its economy.
This would dare the U.S. to initiate an actual war which seems like an increasingly unattractive option as time goes on and as recent events have revealed the inability to protect overseas bases from missile attacks by much smaller powers.
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The Australia-Germany Joint Statement also notable for its addition of a prepositional phrase "by force or coercion", making a stronger statement about agency for changing the status quo lying with Beijing, instead of the usual equivocation between Beijing and Taipei.
🇦🇺🇩🇪Also see the Joint #Statement with #German Foreign and #Defence Ministers: auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsr…
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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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👇There hasn't been nearly enough attention to the comprehensive plan Beijing has to remake in the international system normatively rather than institutionally.
Han Zheng, the ceremonial vice-president, who met Trump upon his arrival in Beijing, attended the plenary session of the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. His speech was about implementing the Global Governance Initiative (in other words, the China-led global order).
The Chinese global order has recently dominated the speeches of the Chinese top officials.
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On @abcnews #insiders, @DavidShoebridge unable to conceptualise the region outside of US power even as he insists Australia do so, therefore unable to see that it is the PRC's invasion of Taiwan that would shut down the sea lanes linking Australia to China.
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"I lost my son".
Ding Zilin, from the documentary film "The Gate of Heavenly Peace".
For June 4. #六四37 #Tiananmen #天安門事件
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@mhar4 retweeted
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The real threat of war across the Taiwan Strait is not that XJP green lights an invasion on a given date, but that Beijing climbs up the ladder of escalation to military force because it has no effective non-coercive options to realise its ‘reunification’ goal.
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I guess the ABC including 2-28 in a Taiwan explainer is step forward but this is still fixated on "explaining" Taiwan through the CCP-KMT lens, and the jokey tone is a bad Australian habit that needs to die.
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"同时，我们将积极配合中国驻悉尼总领馆等外交机构，在澳开展形式多样的反“独”促统活动，坚决维护国家主权和领土完整。"
All Australia Council for the Promotion of the Peaceful Reunification of China targeting Taiwanese-Australians, supported by PRC consulate.
web.archive.org/web/20260527…
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Speech from the PRC consul-general in Melbourne claiming that in a phone call between PM @AlboMP and FM @SenatorWong and Li Qiang and Wang Yi, the PM said "We uphold a One China policy and we do not support Taiwan independence". A shift in language.
mfa.gov.cn/zwbd_673032/wjzs/…
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