#taiwanese politics

[quotesfrommyreading]

Fate has placed Taiwan and Ukraine in similar positions. Both have giant neighbors who once ruled them as imperial possessions. Both have undergone democratic transformations and have thus become an ideological danger to the autocrats who covet their territory. Just as Putin has made the erasure of Ukraine’s sovereignty central to his political project, Xi has vowed to unify China and Taiwan, by force if necessary. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned in October that China may be working on a “much faster timeline” for dealing—somehow—with Taiwan. U.S. military and intelligence leaders have pointed to 2027 as a potential time frame for an invasion, believing that China’s military modernization will have advanced sufficiently by then.

  —  Taiwan Wants China to Think Twice About an Invasion

#ben rhodes #taiwan wants china to think twice about an invasion #current events #politics #taiwanese politics #chinese politics #imperialism #intelligence #russo-ukrainian war #2022 russian invasion of ukraine #taiwan #ukraine #china #russia #antony blinken

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Taiwan Foreign Ministry condemns Brazil’s pro-China statements

The Foreign Ministry has condemned Brazil’s statements regarding Taiwan’s sovereignty as aiding China in escalating cross-strait tensions. The ministry published its report on Monday, less than a week after Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva arrived in China for an official visit.

During his visit, Lula affirmed the “one China” policy and Beijing’s sovereignty over Taiwan. But Taiwan’s Foreign Ministry responded that Taiwan is an independent country that has never belonged to the People’s Republic of China. 

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#brazil #politics #taiwan #china #taiwanese politics #brazilian politics #international politics #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[lordhuachengzhu]

All the Americans amazed at the representatives fighting each other would shit themselves if they knew what the Taiwanese legislative Yuan got up to

#american politics #taiwanese politics #us politics #peak entertainment #taiwanese politicians are next level

[confusedbyinterface]

Taiwan’s inchoate and contested statehood renders it a site of intense debate (and military posturing) over the nature of its identity. A decade or so ago what ostensibly began as a split over views of same-sex marriage has developed into a contentious politics of Chinese versus Taiwanese national identity and the country’s future.

Turns out in Taiwan even same sex marriage is actually about cross-straits relations

These decontextualised framings have discursively functioned for many years to cast ‘mainstream’ tongzhi who support same-sex marriage as irreparably assimilationist and posits a false choice between either being a ‘queer sex radical’ or a ‘homonormative liberal’ tongzhi. Moreover, the latter are deemed to be colluding with the state apparatus to foment what these scholars interpret as pesky Taiwanese nationalism—now seemingly cloaked in ‘queer liberalism’—that perpetuates political independence from China.

OK I am kind of tickled by the idea that some Taiwanese leftists will call you "comrade" and mean "a fucking lib"

#taiwanese politics #Adam Chen-Dedman #queer theory #homonationalism

[packerfansam-blog]

https://us.blastingnews.com/world/2023/01/taiwan-former-vice-president-chen-chien-jen-to-become-the-new-premier-003633317.html

#Taiwanese politics

[ammg-old2]

For years, China has sent naval and air forces into the southwest corner of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone as a way to test and wear down the island's resolve against a possible military offensive. The air defense identification zone, or ADIZ, is larger than the sovereign airspace claimed by Taiwan, and serves as a unilaterally declared area in which the island’s authorities claim special rights to tell aircraft to identify themselves.

China’s military flights around Taiwan have increased following Ms. Pelosi’s visit, a trip that reinforced suspicion in Beijing that the United States has loosened its commitment to a “one China” policy. Under that policy, Washington acknowledges, but does not endorse, Beijing’s position that Taiwan is part of China. Washington also says that settling Taiwan’s status must be done peacefully, and a 1979 law asserts that the United States may intervene if Taiwan is attacked. Chinese officials and experts say that successive American presidents have tilted toward Taiwan, while American officials say that Beijing has destabilized cross-strait relations through bellicose acts and rhetoric.

The latest military exercise was notable for breaking a single-day record, both in total number of aircraft deployed as well as the number that crossed the so-called median line, an informal boundary between the two sides. Forty-seven out of the 71 aircraft crossed that line, according to the Taiwanese defense ministry. Passing over the line is seen as more provocative, because the aircraft would be on a straight course over Taiwan if they did not veer away.

In a statement on Monday, the defense ministry said that the Taiwanese military was monitoring the situation and tasked its combat air patrol, Navy vessels and land-based missile systems to respond.

“What the Chinese Communist Party has been doing has once again highlighted its mentality of using force to resolve differences and undermine regional peace and stability,” the Taiwanese defense ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

#current events #politics #taiwanese politics #chinese politics #american politics #taiwan #china #tsai ing-wen #xi jinping

[downstairsbar]

old article from 2020. was feeling very disillusioned earlier but came across this and its important to consciously and deliberately reject this scapegoating. this is just another angle of white supremacists using asians and other predominantly-immigrant groups as the comic book villains to justify their racism

#that said we need to move beyond the model minority thing like that cannot be where the conversation begins and ends every single time #we can't act as if this is isolated from the geopol pacific stuff or that indian ams have similar experiences to cambodian ams #or that taiwanese american experiences or politics are parallel to filipino ams #idk! sorry if im overstepping and feel free to let me know if so #la luta a continua para sempre :(

[zhuhongs]

just found out the lead singer of taiwans biggest death metal band is also an active parliament member since like 2015.... and is still active as a death metal singer. he's a pretty standard taiwanese center left anti communist from what i could gather. which like as a leftist i dont really agree with but i also dont know enough abt taiwanese politics to like make a full judgement. though he seems to be a standard liberal nothing remarkable, radical, or new, not overtly horrible but just bland. but that was something i definitely did Not expect. apparently he's very pro indigenous rights and self determination for indigenous people but being in a centre left mega party like the DPP does not seem like the best way to achieve that. But yea, just thought I'd share

#chthinic collabed heavily with collage last year and ik natsuki (lead singer of collage) is very pro indigenous rights and posts abt it a #lot of instagram and i really appreciate the amount of political stuff on her platform. its all very progressive tho v much limited to tw #so idk. i kind of got the cibe of some groups that see taiwanese indigenous issues as seperate to the larger issue of colonialism and #indigenous rights all over the world to conflicts such as palestine. where some other groups have a lot more of the collective consciousnes #and idk. my view is limited and i didnt see that much but when i go back i def wanna look for more political groups in tw and learn about #the political landscape there for leftism. theres a lot of potential in tw imo #chthonic* natsuko** #edit: overall i think that like.. i get the spirit but i feel like for many taiwanese the identity of tw has been everyone united agaisnt #china which i can understand from the perspective of the indigenous ppl that had their land colonized by the japanese then had to share with #the fleeing kmt settlers. but like i dont think that its the best approach to say only china bad rather than big governments threatening to #take your land by force is bad. because idk my take on china and tw is that regardless of the historical claim or wtv. taiwans indigenous #people have been there long before the han ever stepped foot. and china isnt all good as seen in its treatment of the uyghers and tibetans #but is overall not nearly as bad as the west paints it to be. china is neither fully a communist paradise. and has many capitalist undertone #s influence the government ever since deng xiaoping came to power. personally i never fully agreed with mao. i think mao was a necessary #figure in the beginning and let power go to his head and i believe zhou enlai always shouldve been the founder of the PRC #fuck the kmt.. never liked the kmt and it seems as they are also slowly losing favor in tw also. and like... hmm #i need to do more reading tho. none of this is like 100% set in stone how i feel bc theres a lot i dont know

[aliaoftheknives]

funniest statement of the night was the kuomintang rip-ing kissinger. Every hotel got the cuck chair!

#neil.txt #CHIANG KAI SHEK CELS SEETHING #it blew up on lefty twitter and people were like dude what the hell the kmt still exists and it’s like dude you don’t even know about the #absolute state of taiwanese politics

[quotesfrommyreading]

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

#anne applebaum #china's war against taiwan has already started #history #current events #military history #politics #taiwanese politics #chinese politics #communism #propaganda #psychological warfare #culture #identity #chinese civil war #china #taiwan #republic of china #hong kong #chiang kai-shek #kuomintang #democratic progressive party

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Taiwan Foreign Ministry investigators Brazil bound as probe into diplomat's death continues

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) announced Tuesday it will send a seven-person team to Sao Paulo, Brazil to investigate claims a Taiwanese diplomat took his own life after being pressured to approve a US$400,000 refurbishment of his boss' official residence.

MOFA spokesman Jeff Liu (劉永健) said the team, which includes civil servants from the ministry's ethics and budget and accounting departments, would depart on April 23 and spend seven to nine days questioning related personnel regarding the apparent suicide of Felix Wang (王之化).

Wang, a section chief at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in Sao Paulo, fell to his death from his 16th-floor residence on March 10.

After the team returns to Taiwan, it plans to release the results of its probe within a month to the public and Wang's family members, Liu added.

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#taiwan #brazil #politics #taiwanese politics #international politics #felix wang #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[purecommemasolitude]

scrolling through the taiwan tag here as i sometimes do before i inevitably get too stressed and/or furious. anyway i'm so glad i didn't follow the elections live i would've genuinely melted into a puddle of stress over the kmt being in the lead at one point

#meg purecommemasolitude political alignment drop. ig #i don't follow taiwanese politics super closely but i know enough to know i don't want the kmt in charge #og #taiwan

[birdmenmanga]

im just like hugo shinji murakami fr but I don't think it's a good thing...

#just thinking thoughts... #sorry some of the stuff he said about japanese brazilians is exactly how I feel about taiwanese americans... #why do you guys get together like this. you dont speak japanese you only know like. jpop. what are you getting out of this #I wondered this myself at those taiwanese american dinner family-friend gatherings #it just felt like they were proud of their heritage because if they weren't they would be crushed and erased #but at the same time they're not willing to put in the effort to say #learn mandarin chinese #like I'm reading his words and it all seems very gatekeepery but also. I have also had those thoughts #I don't necessarily agree with all of it anymore but like. I get him. #my sister says it's impossible to date someone taiwanese because it's impossible for them to understand american politics #(like racism. I think racism against black people is especially hard to comprehend. like 'why don't they just x about it???' #(I don't think you understand what systemic means.) #but like. I dunno. I'm not sure I could date someone who isn't taiwanese. how would they ever understand THAT?? #you will never 'lose' american politics the way you can lose taiwanese culture... #uh like it sounds like she wants someone who understands her suffering. while I want someone to understand my ideals. you know

[dawei-s]

languages are soooo cool

#*p #had rlly interesting discussion today abt the differences between hong kong cantonese taiwanese mandarin and chinese mandarin and even how #each one is typed on electronics which was cool #each person i was with did it in a different way #very large discussion abt politics like we literally hung out to go discuss politics #wish my brain could comprehend learning languages it would be so fun

[ammg-old2]

The incident was notable not because it was entirely new or unexpected but because it was another battle in a long-term campaign that arguably dates back to the founding of modern Taiwan. 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.

#current events #history #politics #taiwanese politics #chinese politics #journalism #disinformation #propaganda #chinese communist revolution #taiwan #china

[hua-fei-hua]

i love to spend an hour composing a message in chinese to the people in genshin impact who see the name 小白雪花 on the north america server and believe me to also be living in mainland china, explaining that although i am but a lowly american-born taiwanese and therefore almost functionally illiterate, i know enough to respond to a request for help and also be able to kill things in two hits

#it is now an hour past my bedtime but it'll be fiiiine #something i do notice when sitting down to compose chinese messages is that. there DOES SEEM to be some sort of improvement going on #like the brain will start pulling up phrases i didn't previously know how to use n i'll look em up to make sure they're right #i think it's a side effect of both playing gnshn cn dubbed and also the retranslation work i do on the game sometimes #when studying its lore/for nat when she is studying its lore #it never feels like anything sticks no matter how often i see the words tho. i'll be like 'oh i recognize that word.' #but i won't know how to say it or what it means so that's embarrassing #花話 #anyway. at least if any of them ask why i chose the name 小白雪花 it's an easy explanation. '因為我最喜歡化學' lol #很喜歡花花;最喜歡化學;就感覺'雪花'就是很可愛的名字 #i also suspect that my frequent avoidance of 'i' when speaking will make me sound extremely formal and/or polite #or maybe it will make me sound old. i don't know. i suspect that i speak in a way that's at least influenced by my mother #like i was composing the thing right. and i was like 'i already used this word. we need to find a synonym or else we'll die' #'we need it to be a fancy synonym. mom used a fancy synonym one time two years ago. let's find that one.' #funny enough this is also my thought process when writing fic in english half the time #idk if i mentioned this before. but my writing process and style feels very chinese to me #it is also important to me that i specify to these people that i am a ~taiwanese~ #i have no idea how this makes them feel. but it is my way of signalling 'i do not read simplified well n hope you can read traditional' #and also for cultural heritage pride reasons too