#Beijing

1. Saying that Chiang Kai-shek was the "founder of Taiwan" is historically inaccurate and insulting. Taiwan is the name of the island and has been called that for 4 centuries.
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China's 100-day push near Senkaku Islands comes at unsettling time for Sino-Japanese ties | This is a very good albeit rather long article. It has comments from lots of your
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This notion of "China's version of freedom" is old news for this Singaporean. I've been told this my whole life as a kid aspiring to live/work in the US. That
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Breaking: China will 'no longer recognise' UK-issued BNO passport for Hong Kongers -- @AFP This is a big development. Back in July China warned it might make this move. Officials
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1/ Standing up to China is worth the price. “When our sovereignty, national security, and safety of our citizens are at stake, Canada must take a stand.”Thank you to the
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In the latest issue of the @globaltaiwan brief, I wrote about #Taiwan’s opposition party @kuomintang’s attempt to launch a series of fundamental reform, including its four proposals to revamp the
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Since 2018 I have warned multiple times that Hillary and Bill were trying to get Kamala Harris into the @WhiteHouse. Then, when she polled at what, 2% I thought it
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If the Chinese have Sun-Tzu, we also have our own Nitishastra and Arthashastra.Everything fundamental about human attitude to war has been explained in texts like Shantiparva.Chinese take recourse to their
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(THREAD) The new report from the Trump administration's intelligence apparatus—a report focused on 2020 election interference—is misleading in ways U.S. voters desperately need to understand right now. I hope you'll
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Inadvertently Arming China? @RadoTylecote and I for @Civitas_UK investigated the links between UK universities, research institutions, & industry partners, & Chinese military universities & arms manufacturers.A thread.https://ci
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1/11 Rumors COVID was engineered appeared immediately on Weibo. Within 3 mos they had taken root in millions of people’s minds. Conspiracy believers were less likely to wear masks, socially
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A thread on Azerbaijan’s victory in the second Nagorno-Karabakh war in relation to geopolitical questions around the Caucasus’ other breakaway states. As this is Twitter, let me state the obvious
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Part 1 of historian Xiao Gongqin’s take on the Lin Biao incident. Scared by Mao’s manoeuvring against his dad, and aiming to ensure the family’s eminence post Mao’s death, son
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AP sources: Biden to pick Katherine Tai as top trade envoy -CA Dem Rep. Judy Chu, Chair of thé Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, praises Tai’s “experiences & diplomatic abilities”https://www.nbc15.com/2020/12/09/ap-sou
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weird how every person clutching physical or local copies got lambasted as overthinking it then turned out they were all right on a timescale long enough that everyone can just
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1. THREAD: No Hong Konger is under the illusion that Beijing has any intention to respect our basic rights and honor its promises to us. Mass arrests have already begun
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