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Rather extraordinary speeches from Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin. Fully appropriating the history of the Republic of China and much else. en.kremlin.ru/events/preside…

Wonderful to be here in Vilnius sharing a meal & excellent conversation with firm friends & supporters of #Taiwan from the #Lithuanian parliament. I’m deeply grateful to you all for standing with Taiwan & standing with democracy.

New podcast🎙️ What kind of external pressures and foreign interference is Taiwan facing? 🇹🇼 Ketty W. Chen and @mhar4 join Susan Dietz to unpack Taiwan's national security challenges, focusing on the influence of China and the complexities of Taiwan's domestic politics.

A commentary from me on recent developments in Taiwanese politics. aspistrategist.org.au/the-lai-ching-…

The Lai Ching-te government shifts gears | @mhar4 | bit.ly/3F5yjUc

An essay by me on the death of Chinese Studies in Australia. asaa.asn.au/on-the-decline…

"The Beiping model is not a certainty. Taipei is not Beijing, and 2025 is not 1949." This piece, by not accounting for Taiwan's unification with the ROC in 1945 and the 1947 2-28 Uprising, is a grave misreading of Taiwan's relationship to China. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

Warmest thanks to James Baron from me and Catie Lilly for this generous review of our book "Revolutionary Taiwan: Making nationhood in a changing world order." Cambria Press taipeitimes.com/News/feat/arch…

Great and sobering reporting from Kathleen Calderwood. "...a pirate warlord named Koxinga, who drove out Dutch colonists in the 1662 siege of Fort Zeelandia..." abc.net.au/news/2025-05-1…

The video version of Kathleen Calderwood's ABC News report from Penghu and southern Taiwan. Outstanding work of critical importance to Australia. youtube.com/watch?v=1XS4eQ…

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CHTHONIC's Freddy Lim Appointed As Taiwan's Ambassador To Finland. metalinjection.net/news/chthonics…

The United States puts Australia on notice for deterring China in the Taiwan Strait.

Largely straight from Australia Institute, and good to see an account of Beijing's misrepresentation of Australia's One China policy, but disappointing that Beijing's Taiwan propaganda ("separatism" "reunification" etc.) simply reported without critique. australiainstitute.org.au/post/a-new-und…

Bearing in mind, this report is from an organisation that in 2021 described Taiwan as a "democratic province of the People's Republic of China", so at least some progress.

Incredible call to arms to defend democracy by Mantas Mantas Adomėnas, chair of CoD, in his introduction to the speech in Denmark by Tsai 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen. youtube.com/watch?v=qX6IH4…

Dreadful piece that ignores everything that has happened in Taiwan in defence, resilience and preparedness (because the author seems unaware of it all) to argue that the Taiwanese people are morally unworthy of support. lowyinstitute.org/the-interprete…

"Facing the threat from China, Hegseth said many countries were 'tempted by the idea of seeking both economic co-operation with China and defence co-operation with the United States'." 🤔 ft.com/content/bee0be…

Comments on Taiwan from Laura Tingle on ABC News Insiders, about the US ramping up tension in the Taiwan Strait and suggesting that the US can't defend Taiwan anyway, although not following up on the implications of that view of the Taiwanese people. youtube.com/watch?v=iP6-e3…

Jennifer Parker Susannah Patton "First, what does the administration see as the legitimate role of China in Asia?" Exactly. But this is also a question for China. e.g. what really are its Taiwan plans? if it is a military occupation and Xinjiang-style reeducation (spoiler: it will be), is that legitimate?