Taiwan’s top intelligence official Tsai Ming-yen said the main focus of #China ’s policy toward #Taiwan is to double down on engagement and exchanges with legislators, local politicians and different kinds of organizations. cna.com.tw/news/aipl/2024…

With its poison-pill provisions, passage of pending bills in Taipei pushed by the opposition to the government could offer a backdoor for Beijing to erode #Taiwan ’s freedoms & impinge on core pillars of its democracy, we argue in ⁦The Diplomat⁩ thediplomat.com/2024/05/in-law…

Cambodia designates Phnom Penh's third ring road as Xi Jinping Boulevard

Ko Wen-je praises the legislative expansion of powers as historic and achieving congressional reform

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Gathering the best and brightest minds to debate whether or not this was an acceptable number of displaced children burned alive in their tent camp axios.com/2024/05/27/raf…

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64% of Taiwanese surveyed by TVBS support Lai Ching-te’s “ROC and PRC are not subordinate to each other” statement in his inaugural speech. (22% do not support and 14% no opinion.) TVBS World Taiwan news.tvbs.com.tw/politics/24989…

'The Taiwan Bar Association and Taipei Bar Association have separately criticized the proposals, which protesters and critics have branded a 'power grab.''

More excellent Taiwan coverage by Thompson Chau

Funny how Claude by Anthropic won't give me an argument for Taiwan independence b/c it is too controversial, but it will give me one against Taiwan independence without any fuss.

.Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club (TFCC) has issued a statement regarding the exclusion of Taiwanese journalists from the World Health Assembly👇

It shouldn't be controversial to call the Chinese Nationalist Party a Chinese nationalist party

Would absolutely watch a Netflix series about whoever saved this banyan tree's life by arguing it could be a good broom closet

This banyan tree clearly intends to eat this bench

So what's the actual content of the laws that were debated in Taiwan's parliament yesterday, while a huge demonstration gathered outside? And how far in the legislative process are we?
CNA does a good job here. buff.ly/3KfdIvp

Chris Horton 何貴森 Actually, the older ones were not happy to be on the streets AGAIN. We just got some sense of humor.