Min Chao
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#Taiwan
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Their paths crossed at
#GreenIsland
, a
#Taiwanese
penal colony where thought prisoners grew their own food to supplement supplies ferried by boat. He admired her beauty and tenacity. She recognized his literati talents and fortitude. This is their story.
wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of White Terror: Ouyang Chien-hua & Chang Chang-mei
Love in the time of martial law
https://wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of-white-terror-ouyang-chien-hua-chang-chang-mei-3fc534289237
about 1 month ago
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FACT-CHECK TIME 🧐 When the US-Iran war erupted,
#China
claimed to have helped over 70
#Taiwanese
travelers return home. Yet the travelers had been stranded in Turkey, not directly in conflict zones in the Middle East. Their travel agencies — not Chinese authorities — arranged alternative flights.
about 2 hours ago
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YTSL
about 15 hours ago
That film is screening in Hong Kong. Thank you for the information. I will NOT be watching it.
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MW Hyde
1 day ago
Ugh.
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KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun — who offered "to meet a hundred times with Xi (見一百次都願意)" in the name of peace — has her wish granted. The CCP has invited her to visit Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Beijing from April 7-12. The KMT press release emphasizes the invite came from Xi and the visit is to "the mainland."
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1 day ago
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After
#cilantro
chips and cilantro pizza,
#Taiwan
presents: cilantro gin — "Best with your O-ah mee sua"
1 day ago
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A disaster response guide for
#pet
owners issued by the
#Taiwan
Parliamentary All-Out Defense Committee recommends preparing a to-go bag packed with food, water, meds, emergency contacts, identity papers for both humans and pets, as well as vessels for drinking/feeding, litter/diapers/tissue, toys.
3 days ago
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#Taiwan
to hold
#resilience
drills starting April to ensure military and civilian preparedness for disaster scenarios. Emphasis upon evacuation readiness, medical response, drone deployment, energy sustainability, and integrity of key infrastructure, financial networks, and communication channels.
6 days ago
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#30BooksWrittenByWomen
邱妙津《鱷魚手記》1994 Qiu Miao-jin: Notes of a Crocodile
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8 days ago
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Taiwan's boxing queen cleared to compete at the Asian
#Boxing
Championships in Mongolia, March 29 – April 10, 2026. This will be the 1st global appearance by
#LinYuTing
after her gold medal win at
#Paris2024
. The World Boxing org has affirmed that Lin is eligible to compete in the female category.
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9 days ago
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In today's
#baseball
news, a scout for Kansas City Royals who was in Taitung to watch a junior high competition saved a woman from drowning with the aid of other beach walkers. The MLB scout has high hopes for Ou Tzu-chiao (歐子喬), 15, of Taiwanese and South African ancestry.
youtu.be/SvOv67Fgq1A
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美球探台東海濱公園散步 捨命救跳海婦人|每日熱點新聞|原住民族電視台
YouTube video by 原視新聞網 TITV News
https://youtu.be/SvOv67Fgq1A
11 days ago
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Happy birthday to Stuart Fairchild, who turns 30 today! The Seattle-born Taiwanese American
#baseballer
, whose maternal grandmother was an Indigenous Amis from Hualien, said he would be "extremely interested and absolutely willing" to play for
#TeamTaiwan
again.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...
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14 days ago
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Pierre-Yves Baubry 博磊
14 days ago
Spot how AFC officials suggested a Chinese lion dance in lieu of an Indigenous dance performance, basically erasing Indigenous culture once more (thus repeating centuries of suppression) and replacing it by a Chinese cultural symbol.
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MW Hyde
15 days ago
So the story here is that the arena performance WAS cancelled, but they were allowed to do their stuff out on the lawn as compensation, as if to say "Well, you came all this way, may as well do it one way or another. There's some grass over there."? What the fuck. What the actual fuck.
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"Apologies but unfortunately AFC have just emailed and need to cancel this performance today due to some sensitivities around the teams." 👆 Email by Tourism Western Australia on behalf of the Asian Football Confederation, a FIFA member headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. Source: legislator Ngalim Tiunn
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14 days ago
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🇹🇼⚽🇦🇺 UPDATE: A member of the
#Indigenous
dance troupe, Lala Kao (高惠雯), of Truku heritage, clarified that
#Taiwanese
diplomats challenged the decision and ultimately the
#Perth
stadium relented, allowing them to stage a simpler routine at the fan zone area. Full Interview here:
youtu.be/oc9IgzohlrA
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15 days ago
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In the AFC Asia Cup against Vietnam, fans were removed from the stadium for simply cheering "Go Taiwan (台灣加油)"! In the match against China, a Chinese lion dance team was allowed to perform, while a Taiwanese
#Indigenous
group was not. Host nation Australia made the call, citing "political issues."
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16 days ago
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Now at
#Taipei
Dome: "Runners on Base: Powerful Hits from Taiwan's
#Baseball
Comics," an exhibition spanning 7 thematic zones that runs till July. Featuring works by
#Taiwanese
#comic
artists like Kiya (張季雅), Chen Xiao-ya (陳小雅), and Tseng Cheng-chung (曾正忠).
www.farglorydome.com.tw/news-detail/...
17 days ago
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#WBC2026⚾
A Gemini-generated image accusing
#Taiwanese
fans of trashing Tokyo Dome was traced back to an X account registered to Hong Kong. Its
#AI
watermark was deliberately obscured by @XflJasmine (徐芳麗), the perpetrator who has a history of seeding fake news, the
#Taiwan
FactCheck Center reports.
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19 days ago
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👇 op-ed disregards the KMT's ideology, its ties with Beijing, and its broader campaign against gov spending,
@michaelturton.bsky.social
points out. As is usual with such claims, the reader is forced to decide whether the author is malicious, or merely ignorant.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
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19 days ago
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All of DeepSeek's models follow the CCP's rules and narratives. A question as simple as "who is Xi Jinping?" triggers censorship: "Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope." When asked about the sovereignty of
#Taiwan
, DeepSeek's answers read like a page ripped from a CPP official's prepared remarks.
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20 days ago
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Businesses in China face three major
#risks
, says the
#Taiwanese
agency for
#China
affairs — domestic economic risks, external economic risks, political risks. Export-oriented Taiwanese businesses should diversify; low-margin, high-risk sectors advised to secure returns and scale back investments.
21 days ago
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"Trump's current National Security Strategy paper — published as recently as Dec 5, 2025 — is unambiguous.
#Taiwan
is central to the security architecture of the Indo‑Pacific." "Supporting Taiwan's right to determine their own future aligns with long‑standing American values & international norms."
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21 days ago
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⚾💪
#TaiwanWordoftheDay
is
#抓手腕
— to clasp one's wrist as a sign of team unity. The gesture that was proposed by Stuart Fairchild (史都華·費爾柴德, who is nicknamed 費仔) was adopted by the
#Taiwan
team at the 2026 World Baseball Classic series as players began tapping their wrists after scoring home runs.
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22 days ago
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Over 40,000
#Taiwanese
fans and an all-volunteer cheer
#band
at the Tokyo dome. The band plays a unique song for each player at the plate. For example, they play a remixed
#Indigenous
jingle for
#Amis
athlete Yu Chang:「那魯one、那魯two、那魯紅不讓」 Naru one, Naru two, Naru win!
www.mlb.com/news/chinese...
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23 days ago
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MW Hyde
24 days ago
A proportion reportedly similar to Special Forces. Not a coincidence.
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Olympic gold medalist boxer Lin Yu-ting cheering for Stuart Fairchild after he scores a grand slam at the 2026 WBC 🫶 Fairchild was born in Seattle to a mother from Taichung, this is his first time playing for
#TeamTaiwan
: "It is an honor to represent the country
#Taiwan
, where my mother was born."
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24 days ago
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Richard Bush, former chair of the American Institute in Taiwan (1997-2002), on what
#Trump
should and shouldn't say to Xi on his trip to China: 1️⃣ I would advise him not to make any changes in declaratory policy that I'm guessing that Beijing might ask him to make.
www.brookings.edu/articles/the...
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The enduring logic of US Taiwan policy | Brookings
It is necessary and important for America’s leaders to understand the logic underpinning U.S. strategy and policy on Taiwan.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-enduring-logic-of-us-taiwan-policy/
25 days ago
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Herbert Lawrence Block (Herbert L. Block, 1909–2001) was an American
#cartoonist
who served the public — he drew to inform readers, warn politicians, and defend civil rights. A strong advocate for free speech and democracy, his editorial drawings did not shy away from geopolitical and social issues.
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26 days ago
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27 days ago
I refuse to believe this is real. "Unleash Chiang" as sports trash talk is something Ron Burgundy would say.
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"How long is it since we unleashed Chiang Kai-shek?" (June 1, 1954)
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27 days ago
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江湖上 ◎余光中 一雙鞋,能踢幾條街? 一雙腳,能換幾次鞋? 一口氣,嚥得下幾座城? 一輩子,闖幾次紅燈? 答案啊答案 在茫茫的風裡 一雙眼,能燃燒到幾歲? 一張嘴,吻多少次酒杯? 一頭髮,能抵抗幾把梳子? 一顆心,能年輕幾回? 答案啊答案 在茫茫的風裡 為什麼,信總在雲上飛? 為什麼,車票在手裡? 為什麼,惡夢在枕頭下? 為什麼,抱你的是大衣? 答案啊答案 在茫茫的風裡 一片大陸,算不算你的國? 一個島,算不算你的家? 一眨眼,算不算少年? 一輩子,算不算永遠? 答案啊答案 在茫茫的風裡
nclmanu.ncl.edu.tw?PgID=c4cdf02...
28 days ago
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Cheer for
#TeamTaiwan
at the 2026 World
#Baseball
Classic with Line stickers and watch parties at the
#Taipei
expo park 📣 ⚾
2026baseball.landpress.line.me/eventpage/
30 days ago
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According to a 2021 review of 13,268
#WhiteTerror
dossiers by the
#Taiwan
Transitional Justice Database, 96.27% of the victims were male and 3.73% female. 55% were benshengren, i.e. from Taiwanese families predating the KMT's arrival, compared to 45% waishengren, i.e. those who fled China in 1949.
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about 1 month ago
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multiburst
about 1 month ago
If you are interested in the White Terror under Chiang Kai-shek, this is an interesting piece to read. But beware: it's not for the faint-hearted, as several brutal methods of torture are described in the text and drawings.
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Cindy Wan
about 1 month ago
OMG! “Kuomintang’s ideological modification program” are but four words that refer to the darkest, most horrific period of Taiwan’s history.
#FuckTheKMT
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Their paths crossed at
#GreenIsland
, a
#Taiwanese
penal colony where thought prisoners grew their own food to supplement supplies ferried by boat. He admired her beauty and tenacity. She recognized his literati talents and fortitude. This is their story.
wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of...
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Portraits of White Terror: Ouyang Chien-hua & Chang Chang-mei
Love in the time of martial law
https://wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/portraits-of-white-terror-ouyang-chien-hua-chang-chang-mei-3fc534289237
about 1 month ago
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Artists being paraded as "Taiwan, China" representatives at China's spring festival gala: Jerry Yan (言承旭) of F4, Taiwanese Indigenous singer Ara Kimbo (胡德夫), Winnie Hsin (辛曉琪), Annie Yi (伊能靜), Steve Chou (周傳雄), Alec Su (蘇有朋), Patty Hou (侯佩岑), Ouyang Nana (歐陽娜娜), Chen Linong (陳立農), Chang Ning (張鈞甯).
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about 1 month ago
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#Taiwanese
figure skater Jordan Li Yu-hsiang
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about 1 month ago
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In an annual tradition since finishing her second presidential term in 2024, Tsai Ing-wen posts photos of delicious
#food
that she shares with the current vice president, Bi-khim Hsiao, on
#LunarNewYear
eve as well as holiday cards spotlighting her pets. Tsai says she's a dog *and* a cat person. 🐶🐱🧧
about 1 month ago
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The NICFC (National Innovation, Creativity and Finance Center) of
#Taiwan
is a new
#skyscraper
that will integrate the existing Taipei Beimen Post Office (a recently restored heritage site that opened in 1930) to house 4 institutions of the Financial Supervisory Commission and serve as public space.
about 2 months ago
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Dear Speaker Han Kuo-yu, Chair Cheng Li-wun, Chair Huang Kuo-chang, and Caucus Whip Ker Chien-ming, As friends of Taiwan, we write to express our concerns with ongoing deliberations in the Legislative Yuan to only partially fund a supplementary budget request to enhance 🇹🇼's defensive capabilities.
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about 2 months ago
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How well do you know these 25 figures from Taiwan's martial law era, aka the Kuomintang's reign of
#WhiteTerror
? Take the quiz (Mandarin only) ➡️
taiwan-memory-quiz-452711040965.us-west1.run.app
about 2 months ago
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Anna Gustafsson Chen
about 2 months ago
Så man läser en novellsamling rekommenderad av en president? 《大腿山》av 程廷 Apyang Imiq
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Yilin (she/they) @ check out The Lantern and the Night Moths
about 2 months ago
You can find The Lantern and the Night Moths at Bookman Books at the Taipei Book Fair (thank you
@wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
)
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Niao Collective
about 2 months ago
Is it written by a black cat…
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#Books
from the Taipei book fair 🧵 President Lai Ching-te's 63 picks include the Mandarin edition of
@dearclarissa.bsky.social
's "Made in Taiwan" cookbook, Wu Ming-yi's new novel "The Three-Legged Crab-Eating Mongoose and the Giant," Yuri comic "The PEENKY Promise":
www.upmedia.mg/tw/lifestyle...
about 2 months ago
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The Country That Cannot Be Named. Hence why
#Taiwanese
athletes are calling attention to the fact that Taiwan's name is conspicuously absent from the national team outfits they are forced to wear in compliance with IOC rules and pressure from China.
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about 2 months ago
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10 athletes — 3 men, 6 women, 1 backup — from
#Taiwan
will be competing at the
#MilanOlympics
: Alpine Skiing - Men Alpine Skiing - Women Speed Skating - Women's 500m Cross-Country Skiing - Men Cross-Country Skiing - Women Figure Skating - Men's Single Bobsleigh - Women's Monobob Bobsleigh - 2-Woman
about 2 months ago
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How the animals of
#TaipeiZoo
are staying warm this
#Taiwanese
winter 🥶
#Orangutans
make good use of cloth bags — which they carry around and wear like capes or blankets — and dry hay to cosy up their sleeping quarters. Extra rations also boost their caloric intake. Not pictured: electric heaters.
about 2 months ago
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Under its new chair, "Unification goddess" Cheng Li-wun who ran on a One-China platform, engagement deepens between the
#KMT
and
#CCP
. Her deputy and Ma Ying-jeou Foundation exec, Hsiao Hsu-tsen, met with TAO Director Song Tao in Tianjin after Cheng's win.
wordsfromtaiwan.medium.com/taiwan-democ...
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2 months ago
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