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Relevance: 100% Posted on: March 17, 2022
Our Taiwan road is “a road of democracy, a road of freedom, a road of human rights, and a road of peace for Taiwan.” Taiwan is our country. Our country should not be bullied, dwarfed, marginalized, and localized.Speech (August 5, 2002), by Chen Shui-bian, former president of Taiwan (2000-2008).
Relevance: 74% Posted on: January 20, 2024
Paul’s weekend podcast has been discontinued. But he still has something to say — from the streets of Taipei: https://soundcloud.com/thisweekincommonsense/keep-taiwan-free
Relevance: 71% Posted on: January 13, 2024
Paul Jacob is in Taiwan right now, so the question is on his mind. He has a few answers. And you have a few options: Listen to his talk on SoundCloud (where his podcasts were hosted). Watch the talk on StoptheChinazis.org. Go to Facebook to watch the video or chat…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: October 28, 2021
“Two words from Taiwan’s leader threaten to upend U.S.-China ties,” headlined The Japan Times’ story. Weeks ago, China’s totalitarian leader Xi Jinping mentioned his itch for peaceful “reunification” with Taiwan.* Or else. No pause in his warplanes crossing into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone, nor withdrawal of the continual threat…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: October 30, 2021
Paul Jacob is on something like a diplomatic mission in London. He explains all, and covers the biggest story of last week in this latest episode of This Week in Common Sense. We are presenting the video first — on Rumble, of course — because of, well, technical difficulties. (Most…
Relevance: 66% Posted on: October 28, 2023
On Wednesday, Paul Jacob introduced his new project, StopTheChinazis.org. Yesterday, Paul provided, on that site, a special feature, an extensive guide to Taiwanese history. Here is an outline of it: “It might be time for the rest of us — like Nixon did in 1971 — to recognize reality: there…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: September 22, 2022
“Yes,” President Joe Biden stated unequivocally in answer to an October 2021 CNN townhall question on whether he would “vow to protect Taiwan.” Biden repeated that “yes” three more times in his full reply. Months earlier, this president spoke of democratic Taiwan as one of our key allies that we…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: November 17, 2022
Is Taiwan, the island democracy of 24 million, really caught in the nation-state equivalent of a lovers’ triangle? “Taiwan is caught in the middle of escalating tensions between the U.S. and China,” is how National Public Radio headlined its recent story about Communist Party-ruled China “speeding up its plans to…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: February 22, 2024
“The passengers later told local media they feared for their lives,” Newsweek reported. Those 23 tourists, along with 11 crew members, were traveling from Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, located just six miles off the Chinese mainland, back to the big island of Taiwan, when a Chinese Coast Guard vessel stopped and…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: March 11, 2022
Last week, when I heard about a power outage across Taiwan, my first thought was the possibility of a Chinese cyberattack which might precede a military attack. It was not that. Thank goodness. But what if it had been? Many have speculated that the Russian invasion of Ukraine might distract…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: October 12, 2021
“China vows ‘peaceful reunification’ with Taiwan,” was The New York Post’s takeaway from Chinese ruler Xi Jinping’s speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing over the weekend. What fantabulous news! Peace for our time . . . in Asia. That same message was echoed by The Washington…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 3, 2020
“You may not like Donald Trump,” argues Dr34mLucid in his latest video on YouTube and Facebook, “but he is the most vocal and has taken the most action in containing China. That is a fact.” Dr34mLucid is Christopher Raymond Hall, who claims to be “made in Britain, schooled in the…
Relevance: 57% Posted on: August 1, 2022
Be strong or be gone. America must choose one of these two options in East Asia. China insists. Let’s note at the outset that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did not “directly” threaten to shoot down House Speaker Pelosi’s plane on her possible upcoming visit to democratic and free Taiwan.…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: December 28, 2023
“America just needs to sit back,” insists Joseph Solis-Mullen, author of The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Dangers. This, he says, is the best reaction to an admittedly aggressive China. On his podcast, Tom Woods asserted that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan would be “a net-negative for the…
Relevance: 56% Posted on: January 15, 2024
“Are you a journalist?” asked the woman in an overflow crowd of thousands, who, like me, couldn’t fit into the packed stadium for a Democratic Progressive Party rally on the eve of Taiwan’s election. “Or do you just love Taiwan?” With a broad smile, I told her: “I love Taiwan.”…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 25, 2021
With Joe Biden now in the White House, will the U.S. continue former President Trump’s hardline toward China? Especially regarding Taiwan, regularly threatened with invasion by Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Or will President Joe Biden — dubbed “Beijing Biden” by some Trump supporters during the campaign — return to the…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: July 25, 2022
What’s more provocative: visiting friends or threatening a military invasion? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is rumored to be visiting Taiwan in August, to see our friends who have made the most miraculous political advances of the last half century, from a repressive authoritarian society through four decades of martial law…
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: 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…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: March 18, 2024
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…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: January 13, 2023
In merely the last month . . . Belligerently attempting to enforce China’s illegal claim to virtually the entire South China Sea, a People’s Liberation Army jet intercepted a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft over international waters, coming within 20 feet, forcing the U.S. pilot to take evasive action to…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: February 27, 2022
Paul Jacob talks about the biggest political issue: real democracy, where politicians aren't allowed to manhandle and tyrannize citizens. Watch this weekend’s episode of This Week in Common Sense on Rumble: https://rumble.com/embed/vtccaq/?pub=rnuf4 Or watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/jqM4SnTaTJA Because Paul is on the road this weekend, the main feature of this…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: January 10, 2020
How much longer does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have to put up with freedom-loving loudmouths? Thoughtful Party rulers can’t even entertain their subjects with NBA basketball or English Premier League soccer without fear that Chinese fans will then discover the tweet of some busybody droning on against Chinese repression…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: October 11, 2022
Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, has often been lauded in this commentary — regarding SpaceX and the growth of private space travel, and recently for providing crucial internet access through his company’s Starlink satellites first to Ukraine and now for Iranian protesters. I like that. But the Chinese Communist…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: August 5, 2021
The term “Shanghaied” dates back to the 1850s, referring to Americans being kidnapped, sneaked onto ships, and transported across the Pacific Ocean, often to Shanghai, China. Doesn’t happen so much anymore. Unless you’re Taiwanese. The subject came up on a just released Common Sense podcast featuring Joseph [last name withheld…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: August 18, 2022
“Today, I confess, I am proud — proud of my profession.” Sky News host Andrew Bolt was referencing the tough questions posed to Xiao Qian, China’s ambassador to Australia, following the ambassador’s speech last week to journalists at the nation’s Press Club. After Xiao talked about “a possible opportunity to…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: November 19, 2021
Weeks ago, the U.S. military confirmed that China tested a hypersonic missile last summer capable of speeding around the globe with a nuclear payload. Top generals called it “a Sputnik moment.” Speaking of Sputnik, on Monday the Russians blew up one of their own orbiting satellites with a missile test…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: December 31, 2019
Legislation introduced last April to allow the extradition of criminal suspects from Hong Kong to mainland China motivated millions into the streets in protests that have not yet ended . . . . . . including a major pro-democracy rally scheduled for tomorrow in Causeway Bay. Traveling to Hong Kong…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: April 14, 2020
When times get tough, you learn who your friends are. Take the United States’ relationships with Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. The island nation sports a population roughly the size of Australia’s, about 24 million; just across the Taiwan Strait, what we used to call “Red China” holds…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: June 4, 2022
Paul is on the road, so it is time to reminisce — about a previous trek of his, to Hong Kong and Taiwan. https://rumble.com/embed/v14nofn/?pub=rnuf4
Relevance: 37% Posted on: August 16, 2023
“Do not mess with Taiwan before 2028,” Vivek Ramaswamy instructed translators to tell Chinese ruler Xi Jinping, “before the end of my first term, okay?” Responding to a question from Hugh Hewitt on his radio program, Ramaswamy — the entrepreneur, author, and GOP presidential candidate — urged a “move from…
Relevance: 37% Posted on: July 31, 2022
Paul defends Taiwan. Won’t you? https://rumble.com/embed/v1bm3g9/?pub=rnuf4
Relevance: 35% Posted on: March 13, 2024
Has DEI “killed the CHIPS Act”? The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 created a giant package of subsidies that shouldn’t exist to begin with and is made even worse by all the strings attached. The Act authorizes giving $52 billion of taxpayer money to microchip manufacturers to make chips…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: September 4, 2023
“China warns US Has Crossed Red Line” began Newsweek’s headline to a report that the Chinese state-run Global Times threatens a “brewing and imminent storm of lethal consequences for Taiwan” in retribution for the U.S. recently providing $80 million in military assistance to the island nation. China claims Taiwan and…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: February 26, 2022
Paul Jacob is on the road, so this week he speaks from . . . the past! The year 2019, to be exact, and from Taiwan, to be geographical about it: https://soundcloud.com/thisweekincommonsense/citizens-in-charge
Relevance: 35% Posted on: May 10, 2023
The China problem is “not just a distant ‘over there’ problem,” Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) recently argued. “As the spy balloon incident as well as the illegal CCP police stations on American soil illustrate, it’s a ‘right here at home’ problem.” It’s also a just-north-of-us problem. Canada is currently expelling…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: September 27, 2019
Alex Ko is “exactly the kind of person China is worried about,” informs the BBC. Described as “soft-spoken” and “bespectacled,” the 23-year-old Ko lives in Taiwan, hundreds of ocean miles away from Hong Kong, where for months the streets have been consumed in protests demanding simple but difficult things: freedom,…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: February 17, 2020
Anyone knowledgeable about medicine — or history, for that matter — is taking very, very seriously the coronavirus outbreak in China, and its subsequent spread across the globe, including to the U.S. More than 70,000 Chinese have been diagnosed and over 1,700 have died, along with one death in each…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: June 5, 2023
Yesterday marked the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Not in China, where the Communist Party (CCP) has always clubbed down any public remembrance of the thousands murdered on that day by the bullets from the so-called People’s Liberation Army. While Hong Kong long witnessed massive June 4 vigils…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: April 15, 2020
China and its lapdog, the World Health Organization (WHO), face increasing global anger over having initially hid the person-to-person spread of coronavirus, which has killed a staggering 126,000 people worldwide. So far. Still unrepentant, Beijing and the WHO have continued to butcher the truth — even in petty ways. Late…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: December 26, 2023
“Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace.” — Patrick Henry The 2023 Chicago Council Survey shows 58 percent of us view China as “a critical threat” and a “plurality of Americans (46%) say that US leaders are not paying enough attention to the issue of US competition…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: December 27, 2013
Why so many things are made in China, or Taiwan, Singapore . . . or Mexico? I have no beef with foreign trade, mind you. Just as I don't want government to favor one business over another here in the U.S., I don't really want that to happen across borders,…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: January 10, 2000
Looks like our presidential candidates keep flunking their foreign policy exams. Question is, how much do we care? Weeks ago, Governor George Bush failed a reporter's pop quiz. He could name the leader of Taiwan but not the leaders of Chechnya, India, or Pakistan. More recently, a reporter tripped up…