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“To be clear: Any attempt by Communist China to conquer Taiwan by force would result in devastating consequences for the Indo-Pacific and the world,” Hegseth said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, a security conference. wsj.com/politics/natio…

Nous parlons à nouveau cinéma dans le podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises" - cette fois en compagnie de Wafa Ghermani, professeure et autrice. "Histoire du cinéma taïwanais avec Wafa Ghermani": ghostisland.media/zh/shows/franc…

Wafa Ghermani raconte Taïwan, sa société, ses conflits internes, ses paradoxes à travers des films rares, en abordant aussi bien le cinéma populaire que les œuvres de propagande ou les films d’auteur.

Avis donc aux amateurs d’aventures ferroviaires et aux cinéphiles curieux ! À écouter ici (et sur toutes les plateformes de podcast) : ghostisland.media/zh/shows/franc…

Ma off to China yet again. I like this photo of him wearing a Nike hat focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2…

45.4% of incoming first-year college students in Taiwan (total of 44,025) will be in tech and engineering. A quarter in management/finance. The least popular studies are humanities: law/politics, foreign languages, literature/history/philosophy: cna.com.tw/news/ahel/2025…

We caught up with Michael Caster and Liu I-Chen 劉以正 of ARTICLE 19 on their 2025 report on China's Digital Digital Silk Road: "Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics". We talked about UN, ASEAN, the upcoming Hanoi Convention. Have a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=0t5arR…

Very honoured to write and edit of this “special edition” of Apple Daily for RSF, marking the 4th anniversary of its forced closure. Remember the journalists & press freedom defenders still in jail - some may be out next month, some will take a few more years.

Hong Kong diaspora news outlet The Points has quite a few previously unpublished photos from inside the Apple Daily headquarters during its last days: points-media.com/%e6%9c%80%e6%9…

My new op-ed: "Today was the day Apple Daily died...Let it be a day of action — to free those who founded, created and so courageously sustained it, and to work towards a day when #HongKong and all of #China can be free." #FreeJimmyLai #HongKong ucanews.com/news/world-lea…

Longtime TFCC member and former VP Chris Horton 何貴森’s new book Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and its Struggle for Survival will hit shelves in mid-July. The TFCC is organizing a group pre-order for Taiwan residents. Secure your copy here: forms.gle/SPGtMVEhtvoSS7…

This week marks the 4th anniversary of the forced closure of Apple Daily in Hong Kong. We recently spoke with Mark L. Clifford of The Troublemaker as he remembers this video clip from Jimmy Lai from November 2020, one month before Lai's arrest:

The last edition of Apple Daily (HK) was printed on June 24th, 2021. This week RSF & former Apple Daily employees led a global campaign to remember the 4th anniversary of the forced closure of the paper: x.com/krislc/status/…

Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats said on Sunday that it would disband amid "immense political pressure" from a five year-long national security crackdown, leaving the China-ruled city with no formal pro-democracy opposition presence. w/James Pomfret reuters.com/world/china/ho…

Really sad to hear of the shutdown of Pineapple Street Studios. They (and Gimlet ) were two important inspirations for us in starting Ghost Island Media back in 2018.

53 sorties of PLA aircraft and 8 PLAN vessels operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 37 out of 53 sorties crossed the median line and entered Taiwan’s northern and southwestern ADIZ. We have monitored the situation and responded accordingly.