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Relevance: 55% Posted on: March 14, 2022
“You are living proof of this nation’s democracy,” former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently told his hosts in Taipei, Taiwan, accepting an award honoring his work to strengthen relations between our two countries. He was referring to a small group of protesters outside his hotel. “And,” Pompeo added,…
Relevance: 52% Posted on: November 16, 2022
No sooner had President Biden shared his somewhat soothing takeaway from a three-hour meeting with Chinese ruler Xi Jinping — Joe doesn’t think there is an “imminent” threat of China invading Taiwan — then here comes a report that Russian missiles have killed two people. Not in Ukraine, where Russia…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: October 31, 2021
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Relevance: 51% Posted on: March 18, 2021
Just seven years ago today — March 18, 2014 — Taiwanese students began a 23-day occupation of the country’s legislature, in what became known as the Sunflower Student Movement. They were protesting the rushed and opaque passage of a Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement with China. Trade deals usually aren’t so…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: July 29, 2022
“WARNING,” it began, “THIS VIDEO MAY BE UPSETTING TO SOME VIEWERS.” Just the all-caps was upsetting, I thought to myself. Still, I was all ears and eyes for Johnny Harris’s “Here’s What Happens If China Invades Taiwan,” which garnered seven million views since February. Harris was “a little bit conflicted…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: September 18, 2024
Paul Jacob extrapolates the consequences of China’s growing South China Sea criminality.
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 18, 2022
March 18 marks the 8th anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, wherein students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 27, 2020
Which country has handled this worldwide pandemic best? The question was asked on Facebook, by one friend, and answered this way by another: “Government: South Korea; People: Japan.” My response? “Combo of people and government: Taiwan.” There is a lot in the Taiwanese response to explore. “The first cause of…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: March 18, 2021
March 18 marks the 7th anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, wherein students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: March 18, 2023
March 18 marks the ninth anniversary of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement, wherein students occupied the Taiwanese legislature to block a trade agreement between Taiwan and China, which the public came to believe gave too much economic leverage to China, a power that regularly threatens to invade the free and…