Si vous ne connaisez rien à Taiwan hormis les gros titres de la presse et les déclarations de politiciens n'ayant jamais mis le pied à Taiwan mais affirmant avec applomb qu'il n'existe pas de peuple taïwanais, écoutez les magnifiques discours des deux lauréates du prix Booker International 2026.

🚨 Mieux qu'un starter pack "parlementaires", @mael.kont.me a mis à jour sa base "Politix.top" 👏 et 🙏 politix.top/parlement

À quoi bon faire la chasse au mensonge si l'on continue de légitimer, en l'utilisant, l'une des plateformes les plus toxiques d'internet ? Je signe avec @robin.berjon.com cette tribune dans Le Monde qui appelle le gouvernement à réduire sa dépendance aux grandes plateformes pour sa communication.

'What happened to me is proof that Hong Kong is no longer Hong Kong': Antoine Védeilhé

The problem is not whether Xi would negotiate over Taiwan (unlikely), it is that Trump is saying out loud that he perceives changing US Taiwan policy to be a bargaining chip. His clarity here is exactly what both politicians and civil society in Taiwan did not want to hear.

Rédactions parisiennes, c’est le moment de commander à vos pigistes à Taïwan des reportages sur la manière dont l’opposition KMT est en train de se déchirer en public au sujet du budget de la défense. C’est un tournant/clarification dans la vie politique taïwanaise et ça mérite + qu’une dépêche AFP.

Depuis 2020,la justice israélienne n’a prononcé aucune condamnation à de la prison ferme contre les colons juifs responsables de la mort de civils palestiniens, alors que le nombre et la gravité des crimes qu’ils commettent ne cessent de croître. Par Isabelle Mandraud www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Here are some more photos taken by the Jesuits in Taiwan, ca. 1960s. #photography #Taiwan

KMT's Cheng Li-wun has redefined the so-called "1992 Consensus" from "One China, different interpretations" (the initial KMT stance that Beijing never confirmed) to what amounts to "One Country, Two Systems", the very outcome the DPP has been warning about for years.

CNN: US intelligence indicates that China is preparing to deliver new air defense systems to Iran within the next few weeks, according to three people familiar with recent intelligence assessments. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/11/p...

A “Neural Computer” is built by adapting video generation architectures to train a World Model of an actual computer that can directly simulate a computer interface. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.06425 Code: github.com/metauto-ai/N... Cool work led by Mingchen Zhuge et al. from Schmidhuber’s lab!

Spécial Chine ce soir dans "L'échappée" sur @mediapart.fr à 19 h : le sinologue Jean-Philippe Béja raconte la longue durée de l'espérance démocratique chinoise. Dans cet extrait, il revient sur la tension entre développement économique et autoritarisme politique. 👉 www.mediapart.fr/studio/video...

[Dans les médias] 📻 RFI x Programme DÉCRIPT @jfhuchet.bsky.social, professeur spécialiste de la Chine et président de l'Inalco, et @agandil.bsky.social, politiste et postdoctorant du programme DÉCRIPT, étaient au micro de "Géopolitique" pour discuter des récits civilisationnels de la Chine.

"One day, everyone will have always been against this" Poster spotted in Toronto, Canada

The war with Iran has been put on pause, but the bombardment of Lebanon has only escalated. Yesterday, 254 people were killed in massive strikes by the Israeli army in Lebanon. Over 100 airstrikes were carried out in just 10 minutes. The loss of life is staggering. (1/2)

This is real

Hugging Face is distributing hundreds of thousands of documents protected by copyright

Great to garden against the Default Trajectory at the #CivicAI Conference by @ox.ac.uk Institute for Ethics In AI.✨ Gratitude to fellow changemakers for working to #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together! ▶️ www.linkedin.com/posts/instit... Democracy Needs Civic AI! ▶️ civic.ai/democracy-ne... ▶️ civic.ai

China asked researchers to stop submitting to NeurIPS and has removed it from its list of top-tier (A-ranked) conferences, in response to the exclusion of papers affiliated with Huawei (that is in the list of US-sanctioned institutions).

Just for physics & metaphor studies ⚛️

⚫ L’ancien Premier ministre Lionel Jospin est mort à 88 ans ➡️ bit.ly/3PrVVaf

And new data release: French-Science-Commons, the largest scientific corpus in French in open access including 1.25 million documents/42 million pages re-digitized with VLM (dots ocr). huggingface.co/datasets/Ple...

It would be pretty funny if Taiwan went around making up pet names for every country that gives in to Chinese irredentism.

In 2025 Asian economies absorbed 86% of LNG passing through Hormuz • South Korea, Japan and Taiwan rely on LNG imports to meet nearly all of gas demand • Thailand, Bangladesh rely less on LNG imports to meet gas demand, but gas accounts for ~70% of electricity mix www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Un lieu qui offre une respiration pour imaginer autre chose

Quand la France invente la ségrégation extrême, financée par l'argent public: la part des enfants de 6e scolarisés dans le privé atteint 39% à Paris en 2025, avec des écarts hallucinants entre classes sociales www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

New working paper on @wid.world Bottom line: Had mining prices followed fuel prices over 1970–2025, Sub-Saharan Africa would own the world. Bargaining power and institutions matter.

Combien de "fans de la République populaire de Chine mais vue de loin" connaissent cette statistique?

Sabra : a palestinian magazine in Hebrew

Visitors often notice it immediately: Taiwan runs on scooters. Taiwan has 14.3 million registered motorcycles. This map shows how many there are per 100 residents across the island, with the highest numbers in southern Taiwan.

Just for Sunday dreams metaphor studies

A diverse set of views from a bunch of smart folks here: Taking the Pulse: Is France’s New Nuclear Doctrine Ambitious Enough? carnegieendowment.org/europe/strat...

First, Korea-based THAAD and now this: "The Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East" www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Ukraine ou Iran ? Les Ukrainiens constate avec dépit que les armes de défense aérienne, qui leur sont comptés malgré la menace russe, sont utilisées sans compter au Moyen Orient. La volonté d’un homme, Trump. Ma chronique géopolitique du 7/10 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...

Du 1er au 10 avril, la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, l’un des cinémas d’art et d’essai les plus emblématiques de la capitale française, accueillera l’édition 2026 du Festival du film taïwanais à Paris.

Rogue Agents

By restricting minority language education for most subjects, the new law ensures that "Uyghurs, Tibetans, and Mongolians will no longer be entitled to use their native languages for subjects in schools and universities. [...]", the Campaign for Uyghurs wrote... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK position on Taiwan's status: undetermined www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

(he mentioned the word "Taiwan" during a Taiwan match)

Just for cuneiform metaphor studies 🤓

Open event in Oxford on Wednesday 25 March🤩

This is a superb review of the issue of Taiwan's sovereignty by 3 writers with longstanding expertise and experience. www.realcleardefense.com/articles/202...

According to a DPP-sponsored public opinion poll, two-third of Taiwanese voters support expediting the review and passage of the Special National Defense Act.

⚡️ Zelensky says 11 countries have asked Ukraine for help with interceptor drones, electronic warfare. "Ukraine is ready to respond positively to requests from those who help us protect the lives of Ukrainians," he said.

Un 8 mars résolument anti fasciste à Paris

This is a real video from the official White House account on a war that is currently killing people. I don’t know how the US is going to come back from this. The post was “JUSTICE THE AMERICAN WAY. 🇺🇸 🔥”

It may sound counterintuitive, but it's good for Bluesky if Eurosky is strong and doing well -and vice versa. The same applies of course for blacksky.community, northskysocial.com, gander.social... It takes more than one to build a world!

Knuth on Claude: www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

The center of gravity in NLP is shifting. 🌍 This year's #EMNLP2026 Special Theme is "New Missions for NLP Research." We welcome empirical, theoretical, or position and survey papers that reframe our collective research goals. Find out more: 2026.emnlp.org/calls/main_c...