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Interview with Cosette Wu, a Taiwanese-American student at Harvard and co-director of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP. The Coalition is made up of Tibetan, Taiwanese, Uyghur and Hong Kong students working in solidarity toward their collective liberation
https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202404260024
#Taiwan #Tibet #Hongkong #Uyghur #China #activism
A discussion with Cosette Wu, the woman behind the Harvard speech disruption - Focus Taiwan
"You robbed Hong Kongers of the most fundamental freedom and devastated their democracy. Now in my country Taiwan, you sought to do the same.Focus Taiwan - CNA English News
The U.S. House delays on the foreign aid package to #Ukraine and #Taiwan, now passed by the Senate, helped Russia by among things giving Putin time to move forward with plans to purchase ballistic missiles from Iran.
And it sent the wrong geopolitical message to #China, too, according to an international relations scholar:
https://theconversation.com/senate-approves-nearly-61b-of-ukraine-foreign-aid-heres-why-it-helps-the-us-to-keep-funding-ukraine-228344
#UkraineRussiaWar #USPolitics #BreakingNews #News
Senate approves nearly $61B of Ukraine foreign aid − here’s why it helps the US to keep funding Ukraine
President Joe Biden is expected to soon sign the total $95 billion foreign aid package that covers Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.The Conversation
Optimists: The glass is half full
Pessimists: The glass is half empty
Taiwanese: The water in this glass is shaking!
Hoping my friends and family in Taiwan stay safe tonight. They’ve had over 30+ earth quakes today, ranging between 3.2 - 6.3.
Taiwan president lauds Nymphia Wind’s win on RuPaul’s Drag Race | Taiwan | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/taiwan-president-lauds-nymphia-winds-win-on-rupauls-drag-race
#LGBTQ #DragRace #RuPaul #Taiwan
Taiwan president lauds Nymphia Wind’s win on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Tsai Ing-wen congratulates and praises drag star, who drew massive support in her home country, for ‘living fearlessly’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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The $95bn in total funding includes roughly $61bn for Ukraine with some of the funding going towards replenishing American munitions; $26bn for Israel; $8bn for US allies in the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan; and $9bn in humanitarian assistance for civilians in war zones, such as Haiti, Sudan and Gaza.
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#USA #war #Ukraine #Israel #Taiwan
House approves $61bn aid for Ukraine – what we know so far, and what happens next
US funding package has cleared its biggest hurdle, the House of Representatives. What comes next in the Senate, and how has the world responded?Yang Tian (The Guardian)
Order ab Chao - Vox Popoli
All of the economic crises since 1989, and the economic crises to come, are quite literally created in order to weaken the natural resistance to the structural globalization sought by Clown World.VD (Vox Popoli)
The Shifen waterfall is a wide waterfall cascading over rocky cliffs into a serene pond, surrounded by lush greenery with spectators on an observation deck to the left.
#throwbackthursday #taiwan #shifen #waterfall #WaterFeature #FlowingWater #Splashing #Tree #travel #photography #slow_shutter #photosonmastodon #マスト写真部
The most accepted theory about migrations in Southern and Eastern #AsiaPacific is #Austronesian.
From #Taiwan, to the #Philippines, and then the rest of #SouthEastAsia, #Micronesia, #Melanesia, #Polynesia, and as far as #Madagascar.
If I'm going to interpret this, the natives of Taiwan survived as the primary people in what we know today as the Philippine archipelago. From the Philippines, they spread everywhere.
In other words, they're all #Filipino! ᜑᜑᜑᜑ 😹 (Or, native Taiwanese to be exact.)
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Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chronological_dispersal_of_Austronesian_people_across_the_Pacific.svg
Licensed under #CCBySA 4.0 by Pavljenko.
#TootSEA #T2pub #Asia #Oceania #Pilipinas #Pilipino
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...collapse, IMO, not on other signifcant factors (escape clause: if #China were to be engaged in a war with the West regarding #Taiwan at that point in time, its resources might be overstretched.)
That said, find your hypothesis regarding a better availability about information on the "outside world" in #Russia intriguing. I've begun asking around about it.
I see the initial problem that discussing that kind of sensitive information would chiefly...
A giant "wind damping ball" in Taipei's biggest skyscraper, helped protect the building from this week's earthquake.
The massive ball is suspended from cables, with hydraulics around the base to soften the swaying.
Follow the link, scroll down, then click Learn More for a page with an embedded video showing the ball in action.
https://www.taipei-101.com.tw/en/observatory/feature/scenery
#Earthquake #Taiwan #Science
9 DEAD | 800+ INJURED!
Nine people have been confirmed dead and more than 800 are injured as a search and rescue operation continues after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Taiwan’s east coast.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #BreakingNews #Breaking #Taiwan
Taiwan earthquake – latest news: Dozens trapped in tunnels as nine dead and more than 800 injured
Japan issues evacuation alert after tsunami slams parts of Okinawa following earthquake in TaiwanShweta Sharma (The Independent)
Threads has become popular in Taiwan with a mixture of politics and less serious content. The 2024 elections provided a boost to the platform with many pan-green politicians joining
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/02/1090518/threads-taiwan-election-politics-popular/
Why Threads is suddenly popular in Taiwan
During Taiwan’s presidential election, Meta’s social network emerged as a surprise hit.Zeyi Yang (MIT Technology Review)
