🇨🇳 China's new Ethnic Unity law claims power to hold people abroad liable for "undermining ethnic unity." Rights groups warn this could expand China's transnational repression of diaspora communities, including Uyghurs. (@reuters.com) www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Job opportunity: @freedomhouse.bsky.social is hiring an analyst for their China Dissent Monitor project. The position is Taiwan-based chinadissent.net/en/blog/deta...

📝New UHRP report by Elijah Pockell-Wilson finds that 🇦🇺Australia and 🇯🇵Japan remain vulnerable to Uyghur forced labor imports. Forced labor risks are not being eliminated from global supply chains – they are being redistributed to markets without effective import controls. uhrp.org/report/redir...

And hot off the presses: "What is a Left Position on Taiwan?" "A common feature of debates over Taiwan policy is that they take place without any understanding of the real Taiwan, and without any input from the Taiwanese themselves." (@kerim.one/Positions) 🧋 positionspolitics.org/what-is-a-le...

Reporters Without Borders (@rsf.org) urges democratic leaders around the world to secure the release of Apple Daily publisher Jimmy Lai Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in Hong Kong for 2,000 days. There are serious concerns about his health rsf.org/en/2000-days...

Why do we have to keep correcting this, year after year, story after story? When does it stop? The US "acknowledges" but DOES NOT recognize the PRC claim to Taiwan. AP is wrong here (and in the next sentence as well). apnews.com/article/taiw...

Here's the report that #China tried to stop us publishing. Behind Bars surveyed more than 80 former detainees to reveal a grim picture of conditions in detention facilities across the country. Get your copy here: 👇 safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/behi...

"A Foggy Tale"《大濛》appears to be finally on Netflix worldwide, with English subs (www.netflix.com/title/82687356). If you love devastatingly acted dramas and are curious to learn #Taiwan history, set aside some emotional space to watch this film. My essay for context: nomanisanis.land/a-foggy-tale...

Lest We Forget 🕯️ "NORMALITY HAS BEEN RESTORED..." A comic by Australian artist Peter Nicholson published in The Age on June 5, 1989, mocking China's coverup of the Tiananmen Massacre that saw the Chinese Communist party use tanks and machine guns to crush the Chinese people's democracy movement.

Four New Zealand MPs banned from China, Hong Kong and Macau after Taiwan trip

Members of the Chinese, Hongkonger, Tibetan, Uyghur and Taiwanese communities in Sydney commemorated the 37th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre outside the Chinese Consulate

I'd like to recommend Dr. Sarah Plovnick's new YouTube video"This coffee costs $95. So I flew to Taiwan to find out why" youtu.be/WRMDam8-yvY?...

37 years on, the Chinese government is intensifying efforts to erase the memory of the Tiananmen Massacre while strengthening social control throughout the country. By burying the past, Beijing is also burying respect for fundamental rights in the future. www.hrw.org/news/2026/06...

Mei-fen Kuo captures the strange disconnect between the reality of Taiwan - a nation with a rich history, unique culture, and diversity of voices - and the way in which Taiwan is treated as a geopolitical abstraction by much of the world.

The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has issued a statement supporting Taiwan's democracy and right to self-determination The statement was signed by 42 members of IPAC who are elected members of parliament from around the world www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6366181

A Taiwanese novel has won the International Booker Prize!!

Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to @amnesty.org Iran and China were the worst perpetrators www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

"Trump Comments Alarm, Through Echoing of China's Language on Taiwan" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

Three "fun facts" about Taiwan: #1 Chinese first settled Taiwan in the seventeenth century. Before that it had belonged to the island's Indigenous population for thousands of years. The reason the Chinese came over was because the Dutch East India Company needed farmers for their new colony.

Our May–July 2026 issue is now available online! If you subscribe to our newsletter, you should have received the email announcement that you can use as a digital contents page: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/2318...

"For Taiwan's civil society, being suppressed by China at int'l conferences or excluded from the United Nations system is nothing new, but this must never be normalized. This is not just Taiwan's problem—it is a challenge facing global civil society as a whole." www.techpolicy.press/rightscon-or...

As President Trump heads to #China, the agenda should go beyond trade and Iran. 3 things to raise: 1. Transnational repression - incl #Xijinping's links to CCP agents in U.S. 2. Political prisoners with U.S. family. 3. Large-scale AI distillation. underreportedchina.substack.com/p/three-thin...

"Despite Taiwan being excluded from many formal international institutions due to geopolitical pressure, Indigenous communities from Taiwan continue to engage in global forums and dialogues in innovative ways."

IPAC Statement on President Lai's Cancelled Visit to Eswatini: China's coordinated coercion of African nations [Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar] to block Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te's flight path reveals a relentless drive to isolate Taiwan, now extending to an attempt to control the skies.

Officials from the government in #China have been praising the countries which have denied flyover permission for the plane carrying the President of #Taiwan, causing him to cancel his trip to Eswatini. The government in #Taipei has blamed #Beijing for pressuring countries into doing this.

What is the State of the World’s Human Rights today? Our report examines 144 countries and paints a picture of States playing with a fire that threatens to scorch the future for generations to come. Read more: amn.st/63321B6A1y7

Cartoon on China's Xi met with Cheng Li-yuan, chair of Taiwan's main opposition Kuomintang 漫画《鄭麗文與習近平會面》

Cheng Li-wun's startled response to a CCP official's comment on having "viewed her vids" led netizens on a mad scramble to uncover her past — from being an activist denouncing the KMT's inhumane treatment of the #Taiwanese in 1989, to dressing up as a #bunny for Lien Chan's farewell banquet in 2005.

🚨 NEW REPORT 🚨 In ‘Taiwan matters’, Joe Keary, Nathan Attrill, Mark Harrison and Marc Ablong warn that even a limited Taiwan Strait disruption could trigger a global shock far exceeding recent crises, including the Middle East conflict, with direct consequences for Australia. 🔖: bit.ly/4sUcx9p

"Hundreds Demonstrate Against the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial's Commemoration of a Dead Dictator" by @brianhioe.bsky.social

A recent trending hashtag in Taiwan has been #補課 (bu-ke) or #台灣史補課 (Taiwan li-shi bu-ke)—roughly “make-up class” or “make-up homework”. Writing for the Taiwan arts and culture feed of @newbloommag.net, I review "A Foggy Tale"《大濛》in the context of my own bu-ke: nomanisanis.land/a-foggy-tale... 🧋

The best cycling site in Taiwan. Now updated. Absolutely lovely. taiwancycle100.com

Huge breaking news: Ko Wen-Je sentenced to 17 years in prison. This will have huge implications for the future of Taiwan’s domestic politics.

Small thread. This latest survey is is line with previous similar polls: - a wide majority of Taiwanese people identify as Taiwanese only (61%), - a wide majority (59%) say they would resist Chinese invasion even without US help, - a clear majority (54%) agrees with raising the defense budget. 1/3

A book review of Revolutionary #Taiwan by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison laorencha.substack.com/p/book-revie...

The latest issue of @freedomhouse.bsky.social's China Dissent Monitor reports that protest activity in China increased significantly in 2025 freedomhouse.org/report/china...

This is a very interesting new paper in Nature about the role that feed algorithms on X play in influencing political attitudes. No paywall: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The story of a Malaysian student who was imprisoned in Taiwan for 12 years on false charges during the White Terror period [Warning: descriptions of torture] mekongreview.com/cautionary-t...

BREAKING: Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, is sentenced to 20 years in prison in one of the most prominent cases prosecuted under a China-imposed national security law.

New report on Australia-Taiwan relations by @usstudiescentre.bsky.social advocates for Australia to deepen its relationship with Taiwan www.ussc.edu.au/australia-ta...

I am thrilled to share our newest peer-reviewed work, "Feeling Blue: Public Support for Taiwan’s Bluebird Movement and Legislative Reform" with @poscwty1.bsky.social & Hannah June Kim, out now at China Quarterly! A🧵on Taiwanese public opinion & independent voters: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Two books on civil society & how change will likely happen in China, and why advocates for human rights and democracy shouldn't lose hope. Imprisoned organizer of the Citizens Movement, Xu Zhiyong, is an eloquent writer whose book will soon be released in English. chinachange.org/2026/01/31/o...

Op-ed by Taiwan's representative in Australia Douglas Hsu, in response to PRC ambassador Xiao Qian: www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/u...

The China Dissent Monitor, a project of @freedomhouse.bsky.social, is the only public database of protest events in China. It helps to explain economic, social, and political trends in China freedomhouse.org/article/qa-a...

2025’s Top Ten Taiwanese films, as selected by the editors of New Bloom and Cinema Escapist! nomanisanis.land/the-10-best-...

Japan: “military exercises” “increase tensions” “dialogue” Philippines: “coercion” “intimidation” “distorted rule of international law” “fragile geopolitical environment” The Philippine text names the pathology, not just the symptom.

A good example of how "lefties" are totally down for imperialism and war, if the PRC is doing it. The US isn't trying to pry Taiwan from China, because China doesn't own it. Rather, the Taiwanese don't want to be annexed to the PRC, and nations around them are supporting them.

My column for today on the illiberal ASPI piece on the possibility of erosion of liberal democracy by the Lai administration. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

My column today on Okinawa and Taiwan www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

The fall of civil society in #HongKong is chilling. SD's earlier study on how NGOs, unions, media, and religious groups were shut down in 2021 reveals the earlier steps, with the recent closure of its main opposition continuing the fall of free HK. safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/ccp-...