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American leadership from the executive branch seem to be taking their cues for outreach and negotiation from the plot and dialogue of every cliche tough guy movie from the 1980s.

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The paradox of the 228 memorialization is that it was suppressed for decades, and through its suppression and erasure under the KMT government, it accumulated an incredible amount of symbolic power. 1/5

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"the U.S. technology introduced at Dake Mountain was simply transplanted without taking into account the local environmental conditions. The result was ecological devastation, " masticadorestaiwan.wordpress.com/2025/02/27/m...

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'To study Taiwan on its own terms...is to engage with its unique history, identity, and sociopolitical trajectories. Ignoring this perspective not only distorts Taiwan’s reality but also contributes to broader misunderstandings in international relations and regional dynamics.' Absolutely!!

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I mean… you wouldn’t want to give kids autism…. They might do Nazi salutes and motivate the MAGA base…..

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www.mlb.com/news/taipei-... We did it!!!

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Let’s face it. This is not about meritocracy. That’s a convenient smoke screen for racists. 1/3 www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

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My friend and mentor Orville Schell puts very clearly what many people with experience in 20th century China are thinking: The parallels with the nihilism and chaos-for-its-own-sake of the Cultural Revolution years. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

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Thinking of Taiwan in terms of a cultural archipelago instead of an island. So many different forces that have come to bear on the lifeways of each island to inform how they relate to each other and the terms of their relationship with “Taiwan” as a whole.

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“He said, you Americans are so naive. He said, you think that evil is going to come into your houses wearing big black boots and climb up the stairs—it begins in the language. Look to the language.” -Joseph Brodsky, as recounted by Marie Howe themillions.com/2018/01/tk-t...

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Elon just stole 80 million of your dollars from FEMA. How can you guys stand all that freedom? comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/sta...

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A private message from November 5, 2024:

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'[This episode] dispels the myth that the Taiwan independence movement was somehow invented by Japanese imperialists and government officials that is propagated by pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) mouthpieces.' h/t @davidonformosa.bsky.social www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

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David Horsey, The Seattle Times

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www.npr.org/2025/02/07/n... 1/ This piece of news reminds me of the following excerpt on another authoritarian from Theodore White’s book, Thunder out of China (1947): “No one knows how many positions Chiang kai Sheck held during the war years.

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Sixty oil paintings by the indigenous Taiwanese Bunun-Tsou artist Ebu Estandar are being shown at The Robert Cripps Gallery in Magdalene College at Cambridge. This one is called 'Dream of the Soul'. Ebu is from Namasia, a magically remote part of Kaohsiung. art.ltn.com.tw/article/pape...

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#OldieButGoodie: Crows understand the concept of zero. https://buff.ly/3yuMOs4 #science! #biology #cogsci #birbs

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Oh wow. Musk and his ally US Attorney Martin are going to get even more bent out of shape. But it won’t be discovered on Twitter due to its suppression of news links in posts. Here is the full report. And then please donate to ProPublica. #THANKYOUPRESS projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

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