Zero-based Mobilization: A Rapid Assessment of the Recent Hualien Flood Disaster and the Modernization of Taiwan’s Mobilization Systems blog.schee.info/2025/10/12/z...

My column this week on migrant labor, the US move against Giant, etc www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Congratulations to @audreyt.org for being one of the recipients of the 2025 Right Livelihood Awards rightlivelihood.org/the-change-m...

Civicus Monitor – China: Regime continues to criminalise activists, increase digital restrictions and deploy transnational repression against protesters monitor.civicus.org/explore/chin...

US Customs has issued a ban on the import of products from Giant Bicycles Taiwan factory citing the use of forced labour. Giant also manufacturers bicycles for other brands including the major US cycling brand Trek www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat...

The landslide overflowed due to rain from Typhoon Ragasa causing flooding in Guangxi Township, Hualien www.cna.com.tw/news/asoc/20...

Why #Taichung folks were trying to recall #KMT legislator Yen Kuan-heng (顏寬恒): the 47-year-old son of a prominent #gangster was sentenced to 8 years and 4 months for crimes including embezzlement, falsifying transaction records, and occupying state-owned land. He purchased a Maserati w/ those funds.

Statement by @amnestyuk.bsky.social supporting Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Thailand’s first conscientious objector www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... cc @marcusrediker.bsky.social

An excellent feature on the wansei, Taiwan-born Japanese who were expelled after World War 2. Although the word "repatriation" is used, for some wansei the outbound trip from Keelung was the first time they had left home. Not all were able to integrate into post-war Japan.

Michelle King on two accessible new books on Taiwan that, fittingly, treat its history as of great interest for its own sake lareviewofbooks.org/article/one-... ...read the essay along w/this lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-de... & this lareviewofbooks.org/article/move... work well as a Taiwan trilogy

#HongKong: 72 rights groups urge the UK Prime Minister to secure the release of imprisoned writer & publisher Jimmy Lai, as his health deteriorates. #FreeJimmyLai Read more ⬇️ www.pen-international.org/news/china-h...

Please read the full statement on our website: taiwanfcc.org/20250819-gaz...

Important piece on the abuse of migrant fishers in Taiwan by @michaelturton.bsky.social, who argues that the government has the power to do something about it—if they wanted to.

As someone who does occasional travel writing and acts as an unofficial tour guide to friends and family visiting #Taiwan, I have some thoughts. laorencha.substack.com/p/is-interna...

Brookings just published my analysis of Taiwan politics after the first wave of recalls. The main point: the recalls have resolved some remaining political uncertainty, & all 3 political parties have some incentives to tack towards the middle. www.brookings.edu/articles/tai...

China Dissent Monitor, a project of @freedomhouse.bsky.social, has documented over 10,000 protest actions covering every region of China over the past three years freedomhouse.org/article/prot...

It’s been eight long years since human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng was taken away by China govt officials. He hasn’t been seen since. Hard to take Xi Jinping’s claims of adherence to rule of law—or decency—seriously. www.nchrd.org/2025/08/chin...

Hm, the second episode of Zero Day was significantly better than the first. Which I guess is what happens with anthology works. The focus is a sympathetic, humanistic character study of a young man who ends up becoming part of a pro-China gang group

China’s most expensive state-building infrastructure project is rising in Tibet: the Lower Yarlung Tsangpo hydropower dam. @stellahongzhang.bsky.social explores how this dam—framed as green progress—advances with little public scrutiny despite huge environmental, technical, and geopolitical stakes.

In comparison to Ukraine, Taiwan’s civil society is not ready for war "...one glaring lesson remains unheeded in Taipei: civil society must be battle-ready before any conflict begins." thediplomat.com/2025/08/taiw...

Construction on Tibetan Megadam Fuels Ecological and Social Concerns "Reports show that the construction of almost 200 dams in Tibet is causing 'irreparable damage' to Tibetan communities, downstream countries, and the environment."

The drama of the country’s divided government just played out in a failed, high-stakes vote to recall two-dozen opposition legislators. How both sides respond could determine the fate of Taiwan’s democracy. www.journalofdemocra...

The first solo exhibition by Australian artist @badiucao.bsky.social in his home country will open next month www.badiucao.com/disagree-whe...

So pleased to read this piece from @kerim.one on Taiwan's support for Israel and its erasure of Palestine

Good analysis of the build up to the Thailand-Cambodia border conflict by @nrg8000.bsky.social

Political scientist Nathan Batto (aka Frozen Garlic) made a list of the multiple reasons why the 1st round of the civil #recall movement against 24 KMT lawmakers failed on July 26 in #Taiwan: "Each one is probably somewhat right and somewhat incomplete." frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/t...

The problems in Taiwan's politics will continue after the failed mass recall elections (大罷免). In particular, the KMT using the legislature to block parts of the budget & undermine the executive and the freezing of the Constitutional Court caused by the KMT/TPP rejecting the DPP's nominees

Interview: @badiucao.bsky.social and @melissakchan.bsky.social on Their Graphic Novel, You Must Take Part in Revolution

Documentary about China's 709 Crackdown on human rights lawyers "The film also explains the intrinsic logic of the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression of lawyers and rights defense citizens against the backdrop of a rapidly changing China in recent decades." chinachange.org/2025/07/25/7...

Three big takeaways from Taiwan's recalls: 1. Even though the pro-recall movement was highly mobilized, and the KMT efforts to recall DPP legislators flopped, blue voter networks are not dead or apathetic. KMT voters can and will still mobilize for their party when need be.

We’re thrilled to see "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan" by Christopher Joby reviewed in the Taipei Times! “...a fascinating new work…” – Steven Crook 📖 Review: www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar... 📘 Book: brill.com/display/titl... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social

Nice piece elaborating the recall as an emergency mechanism in Taiwan’s checks and balances, as a constitutional right taken up at a time when efforts are made by the KMT-controlled legislature to overturn such traditional checks and balances verfassungsblog.de/taiwan-recal...

Key point: Taiwan will resist

The Taiwan Scenarios 1: Subversion, Quarantine, Blockade, Invasion. ASPI has wargamed President Xi Jinping’s options for subjugating Taiwan. We tried four scenarios, the details of which will be presented in this and three more daily articles this week. www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-taiwan-s...

👏🏼 Han supremacy is a Han problem As beneficiaries of Han supremacy and settler colonialism, it must be the responsibility of Han people to dismantle Han supremacy and end Sinicization. If you haven't already, you should be subscribed to my blog ⬇️ konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/han-supremacy/

Taiwan’s current support for Israel harkens back to a darker time in history when it supported brutal right-wing dictatorships in Latin America. Back then, Taiwan was also a brutal right-wing dictatorship. Now it is not, and its insistence on self-determination and liberal ideas should reflect it.

Some commentary by Frozen Garlic about the recall elections in Taiwan. 24 KMT legislators will have recall votes on 26 July, and a further 7 KMT legislators will face recall votes on 23 August frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/m...

Massive rally in Taipei, Taiwan right now to campaign for the recall of pro-CCP KMT legislators, and to remove them from Taiwan's legislature—so that they will stop creating chaos to destabilize Taiwan, and stop enacting policies to enable CCP infiltration into Taiwan.

Taiwan has dramatically stepped-up efforts to address what authorities describe as a growing espionage challenge linked to China. In 2024, 64 individuals were charged with espionage-related offences—more than in the previous two years combined. www.aspistrategist.org.au/how-taipei-i...

A great review of @heguisen.bsky.social's new book about Taiwan, titled Ghost Nation topics.amcham.com.tw/2025/07/a-gh...

Peng Lifa (彭立發) was disappeared by Chinese authorities after hanging banners critical of CCP policies from a bridge in Beijing in October 2022 He was recently sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges including “arson” and “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” www.nchrd.org/2025/07/chin...

Beijing’s coercion campaign against Taiwan is entering a more litigious phase. While military drills and cognitive warfare remain staples of its coercive playbook, China is now intensifying the systematic use of law to target Taiwan’s democracy. www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-taiwa...

'The Dalai Lama on Sunday was seen wearing a cap embroidered with the word, “Team Taiwan” while watching a modern neo-techno performance of the traditional San Taizi (三太子) dance, as he celebrated his 90th birthday in Dharamsala, northern India.' www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

#709crackdown targeted lawyers who defended rights activists, Tibetans, Falun Gong, feminists, LGBTQ+, Christians, stat corruption victims. #China govt repaid courage with persecution. 💡 www.nchrd.org/2025/07/chin...

The Xi Jinping government has sought to eradicate the influence of lawyers who defend people’s rights while compelling the rest of the legal profession to serve the Chinese Communist Party’s political agenda. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

In recent months, we have lost a significant portion of our funding. Yet we remain committed to helping the world better understand China at this critical juncture in global politics. We are asking for your help to keep our websites up and running. giving.chinadigitaltimes.net/page/serverc...

NEW: A ChinaFile investigation into China's powerful, but leaky, internet censorship system at locknet.chinafile.com 1/21

There's a lot I want to talk about, but first let's talk about what makes good vs. bad #Taiwan boilerplate in 2025. laorencha.blogspot.com/2025/07/lets...

Fantastic from @nathanattrill.bsky.social, putting away one of the hoariest and most nonsensical clichés of Taiwan analysis, that a Taiwanese government could suddenly "declare independence". www.aspistrategist.org.au/every-day-is...

Catherine Shu, a Taiwanese American, always thought of herself as American, but there were times when she felt sad to be missing the Taiwanese part.