30 PLA aircraft, 7 PLAN vessels and 4 official ships operating around Taiwan were detected up until 6 a.m. (UTC+8) today. 20 of the aircraft crossed the median line and entered Taiwan's northern, central, southwestern, and eastern ADIZ. We have monitored the situation.

Our Taiwan Strait Security Index indicates we’re in a new, elevated stage of Chinese military activity around Taiwan. Since President Lai’s inauguration, ADIZ or centerline crossings have risen to an average of 18.7 a day, up from 7.5. Tracker & chart credit to Nick Hallmark

We haven’t seen a corresponding increase in Beijing’s warning rhetoric toward Taiwan, according to our speech index. That suggests this isn’t a response to a specific trigger & it’s instead a decision by Beijing to take its pressure campaign against Taiwan to the next level.

Pleased to see Jifeng Bookstore, forced to shut down in Shanghai 6 years ago, reopened in Washington DC. "I wish not just to build intellectual and spiritual connections within the Chinese diaspora community, but also to contribute to the local community." - Founder 于淼

This summer at CDG airport in Paris, I was pushing 2 suitcases and in line for taxi... right behind a Caucasian family with young child. (There was a reasonable distance between us.) Staff asked if it was one car for *all* of us - they thought I was the Asian nanny.

Former NY state govt official Linda Sun secretly added Chinese diplomats to internal New York State govt conference calls about pandemic response, prosecutors allege.

Former Hochul staffer Linda Sun excised a mention of China’s abuses against Uyghurs from the NY governor’s Lunar New Year message in 2021, per indictment. Hochul’s speechwriter had put it in a draft, but Sun told a Chinese diplomat (Chinese consul general Huang Ping) that she

In 2019, Taiwan officials invited Andrew Cuomo and Linda Sun to a banquet during 蔡英文 Tsai Ing-wen's stopover in NYC. Cuomo never saw that invitation. “I already blocked it,” Sun wrote to a PRC official. And on day of banquet, here's Sun protesting against Tsai: nytimes.com/2024/09/03/nyr…

We're at ContentAsia Summit GagaOOLala forum this morning. Founder Jay Lin opens with an update of LGBTQ TV content from Asia: shows are getting bigger, better, with more engaged fans and more international co-productions. There are challenges, but the trends are exciting.

LGBTQ programming is declining globally, but it's on the rise in Asia. There's a surge of productions coming from Taiwan, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and China. Stories have matured beyond simple romance. And they all benefit from high online engagement by fans.

One of the pernicious things about the Linda Sun case, is how she acted as a community liaison for the NY governor's office -- claiming to represent the Asian American voice. The Chinese gov't has shown its ability to co-opt U.S. domestic issues apnews.com/article/linda-…

China jails Taiwanese activist to nine years for "separatism". This verdict from Wenzhou, China marks a two-year hold since YANG Chih-yuan (楊智淵)'s detention in 2022. (Thread) bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Meanwhile, in June 2024 China releases a set of guidelines against "diehard" Taiwanese "separatists". Known as the 22 Articles, punishments include death. This triggers a round of discussions here on the safety of *all* Taiwanese living/working in China: dw.com/zh/%E4%B8%AD%E…

International pushback against the 22 Articles includes members of the US House of Representatives’ Congressional Taiwan Caucus Ami Bera, M.D. Rep. Gerry Connolly Andy Barr and Mario Díaz-Balart: taipeitimes.com/News/front/arc…

On September 5, news broke in Taiwan that YANG Chih-yuan had been sentenced to nine years in jail. In response, Taiwan gov 大陸委員會 Mainland Affairs Council, ROC (Taiwan) calls on China to release verdict papers and evidence against #YangChihYuan: cna.com.tw/news/acn/20240…

This is reminiscent of the case of LEE Ming-Che, a Taiwanese rights worker who spent 5 years in jail in Hunan, China for subversion of state. In 2017 Lee was detained in March, tried in September, and sentenced in November. He returned to Taiwan in 2022. #LeeMingChe

In an interview with LEE in the Liberty Times, Lee spoke of a key difference: strong advocacy for him at the time by civic society had pressured China to be (semi)transparent about process. This here is not the same. LEE worries the well-being of YANG: news.ltn.com.tw/amp/news/polit…

We will continue to update when more information becomes available. To read more about China's political jailing of Taiwanese, see this talk by #LeeMingChe after his return in 2022. He reflects on the importance of advocacy for political prisoners: x.com/emilyywu/statu…

A heavy day here today as news spread of Yang's 9-year sentence in China. Background is that the 2017 jailing of #LeeMingChe is still fresh in our minds. China has continued to step up its aggressive measures towards Taiwan (and too many others.)

🇹🇼 Taiwan has to endure a lot of arbitrary bullying and exclusion. But these obstacles can and must be overcome. I’ll propose some ideas at this event, alongside experts. Register below if interested. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…