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quotesfrommyreading · 10 months

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In 1949, General Chiang Kai-shek moved his Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang (KMT), to the island and established the Republic of China there. Ever since, the People’s Republic of China has seen Taiwan as its ideological enemy, an irritating reminder that not all Chinese wish to be united under the leadership of the Communist Party.

Sometimes Chinese pressure on Taiwan has been military, involving the issuing of threats or the launching of missiles. But in recent years, China has combined those threats and missiles with other forms of pressure, escalating what the Taiwanese call “cognitive warfare”: not just propaganda but an attempt to create a mindset of surrender. This combined military, economic, political, and information attack should by now be familiar, because we have just watched it play out in Eastern Europe. Before 2014, Russia had hoped to conquer Ukraine without firing a shot, simply by convincing Ukrainians that their state was too corrupt and incompetent to survive. Now it is Beijing that seeks conquest without a full-scale military operation, in this case by convincing the Taiwanese that their democracy is fatally flawed, that their allies will desert them, that there is no such thing as a “Taiwanese” identity.

Taiwanese government officials and civic leaders are well aware that Ukraine is a precedent in a variety of ways. During a recent trip to Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, I was told again and again that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was a harbinger, a warning. Although Taiwan and Ukraine have no geographic, cultural, or historical links, the two countries are now connected by the power of analogy. Taiwanese Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told me that the Russian invasion of Ukraine makes people in Taiwan and around the world think, “Wow, an authoritarian is initiating a war against a peace-loving country; could there be another one? And when they look around, they see Taiwan.”

But there is another similarity. So powerful were the Russian narratives about Ukraine that many in Europe and America believed them. Russia’s depiction of Ukraine as a divided nation of uncertain loyalties convinced many, prior to February, that Ukrainians would not fight back. Chinese propaganda narratives about Taiwan are also powerful, and Chinese influence on the island is both very real and very divisive. Most people on the island speak Mandarin, the dominant language in the People’s Republic, and many still have ties of family, business, and cultural nostalgia to the mainland, however much they reject the Communist Party. But just as Western observers failed to understand how seriously the Ukrainians were preparing—psychologically as well as militarily—to defend themselves, we haven’t been watching as Taiwan has begun to change too.

Although the Taiwanese are regularly said to be too complacent, too closely connected to the People’s Republic, not all Taiwanese even have any personal links to the mainland. Many descend from families that arrived on the island long before 1949, and speak languages other than Mandarin. More to the point, large numbers of Taiwanese, whatever their background, feel no more nostalgia for mainland China than Ukrainians feel for the Soviet Union. The KMT’s main political opponent, the Democratic Progressive Party, is now the usual political home for those who don’t identify as anything except Taiwanese. But whether they are KMT or DPP supporters (the Taiwanese say “blue” or “green”), whether they participate in angry online debates or energetic rallies, the overwhelming majority now oppose the old “one country, two systems” proposal for reunification. Especially since the repression of the Hong Kong democracy demonstrations, millions of the island’s inhabitants understand that the Chinese war on their society is not something that might happen in the future but is something that is already well under way.

Like the Ukrainians, the Taiwanese now find themselves on the front line of the conflict between democracy and autocracy. They, too, are being forced to invent strategies of resistance. What happens there will eventually happen elsewhere: China’s leaders are already seeking to expand their influence around the world, including inside democracies. The tactics that the Taiwanese are developing to fight Chinese cognitive warfare, economic pressure, and political manipulation will eventually be needed in other countries too.

— China’s War Against Taiwan Has Already Started

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meta-knight-fanfiction · 1 year

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***ATTENTION ALL KIRBY LOVERS AND WRITERS.***

Starting today, I am hiring writers for the fanfiction I'm writing. I really need help.

Currently, there will be 107 episodes for this fanfiction project. As of now, I'm almost finished with the 5th episode. So I need at least a few people to help out. And if you want to, you can do multiple episodes.

Gmail me at: [email protected] if you have any questions on some characteristics or anything in general. Also so I can hire you.

You can find the Wattpad and the Google Doc I'm using on the pinned post.

I didn't know writing 107 episodes would be difficult.

For each episode, there will be one KMT' solder with a different technique each episode. That's what they will be fighting for the episode.

Sorry for the lack of information, I really recommend you to read the fanfiction inorder to fully understand.

ALSO PLEASE DONT HESITATE TO TELL ME IF THE FIRST FEW EPISODES ARE BAD. POINT OUT ANY MISTAKES FOR ME TO FIX.

This will be in a style of a "Tokusatsu". Look it up.

I'll be waiting/working on the fifth episode. (If this is crossed out, I'm finished.)

Also sent me the finished episode on a Google Doc. I will copy and paste it to Wattpad. And let me know what episode number it is.

Thank you.

-MikeIRL

***New discord. Please help.***

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 6 years

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Propaganda posters in Wuhan, mid-1938. Found in an album that had belonged to Leslie Reginald Frederick Shrimpton RN (1910-1964), who served on the gunboat HMS Falcon in China waters from 1937 to 1939. All photographs and descriptions with translations from University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China.

1) The banner depicts Nationalist forces attacking the Japanese. The Chinese text on the banner urges viewers to join the military, fight the Japanese, and thereby defend China. Bi-s168

2) Anti-Japanese public hygiene banner. The slogans on the lower banner (depicting a fly with a Japanese Rising Sun Nisshōki emblem) read: 'We need to knock down our enemies with the world's sympathy on us'. 'We need to prevent cholera and kill flies; and if you want to survive, kill the Japanese soldiers'. 'If you don't kill it, it's going to kill you'. The higher banner depicts Japanese bombers attacking a train. A wall poster on the left reads: 'Build a new Great Wall with our heads'.

3) Banner by L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS (France, Belgium and Switzerland Returned Students Association), Hankow (Hankou). The banner text provides explicit details that accompany the image of 'cruel massacre and rape never before heard of'. Bi-s163.

4) Propaganda banner featuring Chiang Kai-shek. The slogans on the banner read: 'War of Resistance to the end!' and 'Support the leader'. Chiang Kai-shek is depicted beside Hankou (Wuhan) on the map of war-torn China. This photograph was taken in Wuhan.

5) The banner slogan reads: 'We demand that the Japanese repay their blood debt!' Photograph taken in Wuhan. Bi-s164. Photograph 3 shows the same building in a different location.. The actual term used here for 'Japanese' is 倭寇 'Dwarf pirates'. Bi-s167.

6) The main banner, showing charging soldiers and workers, bears the slogan: 'Defend Wuhan!' The Hankou (Hankow) bund is depicted in the banner - the clock tower is part of the Custom House. The banner was made by the 'Korean Youth Wartime Service Corps' (朝鲜青年战时服务团), founded in Wuhan in December 1937 by leftist Korean nationalists. Bi-s166.

7) Banner outside the headquarters of "L’Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS", Wuhan. The banner was made by L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS (France, Belgium and Switzerland Returned Students Association). The banner slogan reads 'Mobilize the power of the masses to defend Wuhan'. Sign on the window of the L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS headquarters building at 69 Jianghan Road (江漢路六十九號) in Hankow (Hankou), in French: BUFFET & BILLIARD. Sign on the window in Chinese: Cold drinks / Coffee. Bi-s162

8) Remarkably, famed war photographer Robert Capa took this photograph of the street from inside of 69 Jianghan Road. This was identified by the excellent Visualizing China blog, and the image is marked from the International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos, who published it with other photos in 2018.

#wuhan #武汉市 #hankou #war propaganda #propaganda #propaganda posters #black and white photography #sino-japanese war #sino japanese war #kuomintang #L'Association des Etudiants Chinois de Retour de FBS #朝鲜青年战时服务团 #royal navy #republic of china #patriotic resistance #resistance to japan #japanese aggression in china #robert capa

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gdmdocs2 · 1 year

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Final campaign eveing in Taiwan, election day is tomorrow Saturday 26th November 2022. Candidates with the Kuomintang (KMT) party Yao Ching-ling, Magistrate of Taitung County, center, with Chen Ming-feng, Taitung City Councilor, left, parade with supporters throughout downtown Taitung City.

#taitung #taiwan #kmt #kuomintang

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mike-irl · 1 year

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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Today I just teamed up with a huge artist to create a HUGE mega project along side with my fanfic I'm writing. You can see the announcement video here.

Thanks for everything!!!

-MikeIRL 🙏

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aldi-grocery · 1 year

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What pride flag is that??

#pride #pride flag #gay pride #bi pride #kuomintang

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panicinthestudio · 3 months

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Further reading:

HKFP: Taiwan election 2024: Ruling DPP fails to retain legislative majority after winning presidential race, January 13, 2024

#democratic progressive party #Taiwan #Lai Ching Te #elections #news #Hong Kong Free Press #Kuomintang #Taiwan People's Party #Legislative Yuan #Tsai Ing Wen #politics

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generallemarc · 4 months

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Taiwanese conservatism is dead as long as the Kuomintang is alive. We're so far outside the realm of doing what's best for their people that it's no longer cringe for a foreigner like me to pray that they don't win, because if they do that's 23 million people one step closer to living under communist tyranny.

#china #taiwan #communism #kuomintang #kmt #dpp #tsai ing wen

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chinemagazine · 6 months

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Qui est candidat à la tête de Taïwan ?

Les habitants de Taïwan vont voter le 13 janvier pour les élections présidentielles et parlementaires, qui ont lieu tous les quatre ans.

Les habitants de Taïwan vont voter le 13 janvier pour les élections présidentielles et parlementaires, qui ont lieu tous les quatre ans. Voici la liste des candidats à la présidence et leur position sur les relations avec la Chine : Lai Ching-Te du parti de Tsai Ing-wen Lai Ching-te, également connu sous son nom anglais William, se présente pour le Parti démocrate progressiste (DPP) au pouvoir.…

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#Chine #chine-magazine #Hou Yu-ih #Kuomintang #Lai Ching-te #parti democrate et progresssite #Taïwan #Tsai Ing-wen

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kneedeepincynade · 11 months

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The capitalists love to talk about the victims of Communism, but is capitalism ever brought on the same trial? How many martyrs,how many deaths never accounted for? And for what for? To preserve a system that is almost dead? To preserve an honor that never was?

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⚠️ L'EROICO SONG ZHENZHONG, TRUCIDATO DAI REAZIONARI DEL KMT A SOLI OTTO ANNI ⚠️

Oggi, 01/06, è la Giornata Internazionale dei Bambini. Ringrazio il Compagno Liu per aver ricordato un eroico bambino Cinese: Song Zhenzhong, ricordato con il buffo e tenero soprannome "Carota" ❤️

⚔️ Durante la Guerra di Liberazione della Cina, dal 1927 al 1949, tra il Partito Comunista Cinese e il KMT, i Nazionalisti Cinesi - fortemente anti-Comunisti - istituirono un campo di concentramento sotto il nome di "Istituto di Cooperazione Sino-Statunitense" a Chongqing, per detenere e torturare i membri del CPC catturati 😡

😭 Zhenzhong, che aveva solo otto mesi (❗️), fu imprigionato in questo campo di concentramento insieme ai suoi genitori, membri del CPC 🚩

😭 In questo brutale campo, i membri del CPC furono torturati e maltrattati in ambienti chiusi, bui e umidi. Il piccolo Song visse in prigione fino all'età di otto anni. A causa della malnutrizione, era molto magro, e mai nella sua breve vita poté assaggiare lo zucchero 😭

La madre, in prigione, intinse il dito nel sale e glielo fece assaggiare, dicendogli che era zucchero, per farlo felice. Iniziò anche a studiare in segreto, grazie al Compagno Luo Shiwen, Ex Segretario del Comitato Provinciale del Sichuan, arrestato dal KMT. Purtroppo, fu fucilato dai reazionari nazionalisti 😡

🇹🇼 I funzionari della prigione tentarono molte volte di indurre il piccolo Zhengzhong a tradire i suoi genitori, cercando di corromperlo col cibo, ma lui non si fece mai tentare ⭐️

😭 Nel 1949, un mese prima della fondazione della RPC, i reazionari del KMT uccisero il piccolo Song Zhengzhong, che morì quindi a soli otto anni ❗️❗️❗️

😭 Divenne il più giovane martire della Rivoluzione e del CPC 🚩

🤮 Le autorità del KMT, che fuggirono a Taiwan, e fondarono il regime-fantoccio, non hanno mai sostenuto realmente i Tre Principi del Popolo, non hanno mai difeso la Democrazia in Cina, e hanno le mani sporche del sangue delle persone 😡

🐰 Mai dimenticare 🫡

🌸 Iscriviti 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

⚠️ HEROIC SONG ZHENZHONG SLAUGHTERED BY KMT REACTIONARIES AT ONLY EIGHT YEARS OLD ⚠️

Today, 01/06, is International Children's Day. I thank Comrade Liu for remembering a heroic Chinese child: Song Zhenzhong, remembered with the funny and tender nickname "Carrot" ❤️

⚔️ During the War of Liberation of China, from 1927 to 1949, between the Communist Party of China and the KMT, Chinese Nationalists - strongly anti-Communist - set up a concentration camp under the name of "Sino-US Cooperation Institute" in Chongqing, to detain and torture captured CPC members 😡

😭 Zhenzhong, who was only eight months old (❗️), was imprisoned in this concentration camp together with his parents, who were CPC members 🚩

😭 In this brutal camp, CPC members were tortured and abused in closed, dark and humid environments. Little Song lived in prison until he was eight years old. Due to malnutrition, he was very thin, and never in his short life could he taste sugar 😭

The mother, in prison, dipped her finger in salt and made him taste it, telling him it was sugar, to make him happy. He also began to study in secret, thanks to Comrade Luo Shiwen, former secretary of the Sichuan Provincial Committee, who was arrested by the KMT. Unfortunately, he was shot by nationalist reactionaries 😡

🇹🇼 Prison officials tried many times to induce little Zhengzhong to betray his parents, trying to bribe him with food, but he never let himself be tempted ⭐️

😭 In 1949, a month before the founding of the PRC, KMT reactionaries killed little Song Zhengzhong, who then died at the age of eight ❗️❗️❗️

😭 he Became the youngest martyr of the Revolution and the CPC 🚩

🤮 The KMT authorities, who fled to Taiwan, and founded the puppet regime, have never really supported the People's Three Principles, have never defended democracy in China, and have people's blood on their hands 😡

🐰 Never forget 🫡

🌸 Subscribe 👉 @collettivoshaoshan

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your-fav-is-kmt · 7 months

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Hong Lu from Limbus Company is a Member of the Kuomintang!

#hong lu #limbus company #limbus #project moon #your fav is #ur fav is #your fav blog #kmt #kuomintang #gmd #guomindang #tridemism #your fav #republic of china #china #lbc #hong lu lbc

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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“Sault Moulds the Alien Into Good Canadian; Clubs, Lodges and Churches Help,” Sault Star. December 12, 1932. Page 3. ---- Italians Lead Numerically Those of Foreign Extraction; Finns Next ---- That the west end of the city is progressing from a social standpoint is amply demonstrated by a review of the various organizations existing in that section at the present time. Church, club and commercial enterprise have done a great deal in transforming he west end district from a sparsely settled shrub covered country of 20 years ago into the prospering, pleasant locality which it is today. With churches numbering in the neighborhood of 20, attended by residents of the west end to a great extent, clubs and lodges with an almost exclusive west end membership. numbering eight, not including those. with church connections and business establishments which compete with the average of any community, the residents of that part of the city are due to a great portion of the credit for the making of a thriving and friendly Sault Ste. Marle

Unlike the eastern part of the city, the west end is divided to a great extent into small communities, each populated by people of a certain nationlity. The new Canadians, consisting of people of Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Fincish, Ruthenian and Croatian stock, occupy the greater part of the section generally referred to as west. Each one of these small communities has its own churches, clubs and to some extent business establishments, but despite this fact the new Canadian resident cannot be termed clannish, for at all times he is willing to mingle and enjoy himself with the crowd.

There are several institutions which have done a great work in moulding the character of the people from the old land and their children, in such a manner as to render them first class Canadians, but probably the most outstanding of these are the All Peoples' United Church, the St. Mary's School and the McFadden School. In cases where the parents were poor and terribly busy in the grind and rush of earning a livelihood in a strange land, the three named institutions are deserving of every commendation for instructions and care rendered to the children along religious, social and physical lines.

The two leading Italian organizatlons are the Marconi and Sons of Italy Societies. The Marconi Society, which was established in the Sault in 1912, with only a few members, has now over 225 on the roll. Having been incorporated in 1917, it carries a sick relief fund, practically guaranteeing the members from financial distress on account of illness. The president of the Marconi Society is Mr. A. Candelori. The organization met for some time in the Sons of Italy headquarters, but last year built and opened their own hall on Albert Street West, on November 25. Their hall is located just opposite the St. Mary's School. The Sons of Italy, who for several years met in their hall en Queen Street, West, built a new hall on Cathcart Street which was opened September 21, of this year. The combined value of these two new buildings is estimated at about $30,000 and emphasises in a way the progress of the Italian people in the Sault. Mr. L. Pasquantonio Is the president of the Sons of Italy. There are sister lodges of these two organizations, the Princess Marie Jose Lodge of the Sons of Italy and the Electra Marconi Society, the ladies' lodge of the Marconi Society. There is also the Fratellanza Calabresía, a brotherhood society of the Italians. The Italians too. are artistic by nature and there are several musical groups, orchestras and bands, that give good entertainment. There is this year also a good dramatic club, that under the auspices of the Sons of Italy produces very creditable plays and concerts.

The Italians rank first as far as population is concerned among the New Canadian classes. There are 4,500 people in this city who are Italian by birth

Next to the Italians come the Finnish who in the past three or four years have come to the Sault in great numbers. The climate of the Sault is similar to that in Finland and the Finnish people favor the cold of the north country. Since 1928 the number has grown from nearly 1,000 to about 1,800. They are, to a considerable extent, the types that are known as seasonal workers, doing bush jobs in the winter and construction work in the summer. Owing to this fact the Finnish population of the Sault fluctuates with the seasons, there being twice as many here in the summer then there are in the winter. There are two distinct groups of Finnish people, the members of the Finnish Organizations, the official headquarters of which is on Thompson Street, and the Hussey Hall Group. They are ardent physical culturists, going in for wrestling and discus throwing a great deal.

Two nationalities that have close to the same population in the Sault, are the Ukrainians and the Croatians The Ukrainians number about 1,800. A great many of them reside in Bay View. They have two branches of their cultural organizations here, the Ukrainian Labor Farmer Temple and the Workers' Benevolent Society. Headquarters of both organizations are situated in Winnipeg. Two schools are maintained here, one in the city and one in Bay View, the purpose of which is to teach the children the language of their forefathers and to train them along musical lines. They have a keen sense of the artistic, and among them are some fine musicians. They have had a mandolin orchestra of 50 places, practically all children taking part. As these have grown older they have taken places in other orchestras. At the All Peoples' church there is a very good orchestra of Ukrainians, under the direction of Mr. D. Bondur. There is also an exceptional Croatlan orchestra under the direction of S. Bosnakovich, who is a composer as well as leader, and their music is full of lilting melody. The Ukrainians have the third largest language group in Canada, there being 300,000 in all from coast to coast. They come to a great extent from a state called Eastern Galicia, where land is scarce and the farmer (and Ukrainians are farmers by choice), has a hard time making his living.

The Croatians number about 100 families, and a population including single men, of about 1,500. They are not all west end residents. They have two local societies. the Croatian Fraternal Union and the Slavonian-Croatian Union.

The Poles and Russians in the city number less than is generally supposed, there being no more than 150 Poles and 100 Russians, though they have no classified organizations a number of them belong to the Ukrainian groups.

The Jewish group is the smallest yet most interesting body in the city. There are only 14 families, who have a 100 per cent organization in the Zionist Society, and who maintain a school to teach their children the Jewish language.

Other groups in the city of foreign stock are the Chinese, numbering 100, who have a society of 75 members known as the Kuo-min-tang, the Serbians numbering 100, the Czecho-Slovaks 150. Then there are several other nationalities represented by from 10 to 30 people. Among them are the Rumanian, the Bulgarian, German, Swede, Norwegian, Armenian, Syrian, Greek, Spaniard. Danes and White Russians, a nationality distinct from the Russian.

#sault ste. marie #immigration to canada #canadianization #immigrant canadians #immigrant social clubs #finnish immigration to canada #finnish canadians #italian canadians #italian immigration to canada #yugoslav immigration to canada #ukrainian canadians #ukrainian immigration to canada #chinese canadians #kuomintang #great depression in canada #northern ontario

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biglisbonnews · 1 year

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Apple supplier Foxconn’s founder is once again running for president in Taiwan Billionaire Terry Gou is running for president—again.Read more... https://qz.com/apple-supplier-foxconn-s-founder-is-once-again-running-1850302211

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mike-irl · 1 year

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

(and the fifth episode is being delayed 😭)

#kuomintang #nintendo #meta knight #kirby #bandana waddle dee #magolor #fanfic #fanfiction #really sorry to those still waiting for episode 5 Sorry #sorry

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