結束今天上午國防委員會行程和工作…

Taiwanese military to establish HIMARS army unit next month – Taipei Times

Evening at Dongmen, Taipei 🇹🇼

If it can breach Fordow it can breach Chiashan, and even if China lacks a similar MOAB (and plane) it may be able to use repeated runs with 5-10K lbs bombs.

Taiwan's new attack submarine ROCS Hai Kun began sea acceptance tests on 6/17, sailing under its own power from the Port of Kaohsiung, southwestern Taiwan, at around 0800.

Was incorrect on point #1. Trade deal incoming due to G7 bonhomie.

Might be a good time for Taiwan to throw its weight behind Israel right about now. Pick up some nuke tech. Or Iran for that matter, I guess.

Extra cute Taiwan blue magpies.

Taiwan today is far better armed and can hope for help from the outside world unlike these brave Hakka militias. Taiwan can also equip its people to make Taiwan ungovernable after any invasion. This is why the CCP wants you and the Taiwanese to believe that all resistance to their might is futile

Step one in the long game of retaking the rogue provinces on the Mainland. (Step two is to re-install Bo Xilai in Chongqing)

Controversial take Hot milk tea is a better comfort drink than a hot chocolate ☕️✨️

Taiwan’s population density can be simply divided into three areas:

i liked the new light rail! we rode it in a big loop today

The streets of Kaohsiung, Taiwan

A recent ad for Taiwan Beer references the viral hand gesture national team captain Chen Chieh-hsien made after winning the Premier12 championship in late 2024. (It’s meant to highlight the absence of “Taiwan” on the jersey; the team must compete as “Chinese Taipei”.)

Xi Jinping’s call with Trump has introduced Taiwan ‘prudence’ in US-China trade negotiation language. Beijing was really upset the US State Department removed ‘does not support Taiwanese independence’ from its website. Will it want to hear DC now ‘opposes Taiwanese independence’ as a concession?

The view from a small boutique café hidden in a side alley in Taipei's Tianmu region. The reddish hue is a main characteristic of this "experimental" film stock. Harman Phoenix@100, Rolleiflex T Model 2.

Ad for new Starlux Seattle-Taipei routes at SeaTac

Foggy forests in Hsinchu’s Wufeng Township this afternoon. #Taiwan

China Airlines (CAL) announced a partnership with Southwest Airlines to set up a transfer network for trans-Pacific routes. CAL's flights to Los Angeles (LAX), Ontario (ONT), San Francisco (SFO), and Seattle (SEA), will offer seamless transfers to Southwest Airlines’ extensive network.

Lots on the to-do list this week... Here's one of the cute teahouses in Tainan where we'll be fuelling up on caffeine and ticking off tasks 😆☕

Collection of old maps and illustrations of Taiwan. archive.org/details/imba...

Looking towards Jiufen from Badouzi Taiwan North Coast 🇹🇼

Taiwan’s new ambassador to Finland? A heavy metal musician who’s released four albums with a Finnish record label and played Ozzfest. Suitable choice of envoy to a country with “the most metal bands per capita.”

Taiwan street scene background art 🖼️ @ellie5756milky.bsky.social

ETFs are fast becoming the most favored asset class in Taiwan’s market, which is unique in that >50% of investments are held by individuals not institutions.

Surprised that 40% of transactions involve cash, also that Taiwan is “one of the most heavily insured markets in the world” (ranking 4th according to the Insurance Information Institute)

Not the type of headline you want to see “Asia boosts weapons buys, military research as security outlook darkens”

Taiwan regulators are greenlighting under new rules actively managed ETFs as retail investors in Taiwan broaden appetites beyond equities and savings or insurance-underwritten products -Bloomberg

Taiwan street scene background art 🖼️ @ellie5756milky.bsky.social

There’s at least 52 current and incoming Taiwanese students enrolled in Harvard, according to the education ministry.

I believe that this is the first whiskey I have ever tasted whose branding is of an indigenous Austronesian community in Taiwan. (It's fantastic.)

Against this backdrop, Lai gave a conciliatory anniversary speech “most notable for its softer tone toward Beijing” as he caps a year in office.

wait what the CEO of Bluesky follows me

New from Computex, Acer TransBuds require “connecting to a smartphone or tablet via a plug-in receiver” but allow live translation.

Good morning, Kaohsiung.

Computex isn’t just brown computer fans, you’ve also got PCs selling in handheld formats, themed graphics cards, and even a laptop with a craftsman-made Japanese lacquerware back.

Computex Taipei is so cool ⚡️ Got myself a craft beer paper notebook made by Kitafuku in Yokohama — the company upcycles malt waste, which is typically discarded by breweries, into usable & beautiful paper.

Do you think Jensen Huang feels hot wearing a leather jacket in this weather?

The God of War gets a proper bath for the first time. This statue of Guan Gong in Hsinchu is 120m high. In the past, the only way to clean him was to wait for a hard rain. But with funds donated by the devout, the temple has deployed a drone for the first time to wash him. udn.com/news/story/7...

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang spotted meeting with Trump on sidelines of UAE visit.

Street signage in Taipei 📸 @gyokusai.bsky.social

Good blog providing a sense of one DPP perspective on cross-strait relations. Author is right about a lot, but paints the DPP as dogmatic and inflexible. No one needs negotiate with China this year or next, but it seems the DPP lacks a framework for diplomatic de-escalation.

Best way to remove stinky tofu stains from jeans? (Asking for a friend)

Quite the quirk, but shouldn’t they let in the under-fives (or, say, up to 4) because they’ll have childhood amnesia and not remember anything anyway?

More #Taiwan for your feed 🇹🇼

Foxconn’s goal of becoming a white-label EV maker progressing, and the cars will be built in Taiwan with assistance from local firm Yulon Motors.

高雄市鳳山區鳳山車站 #taiwan #kaohsiung

Meanwhile, President Lai has gathered on May 8 with representatives of the European Union and 17 countries to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of WW2. Hard not to see KMT chairman's rhetorical entrenchment as a total diplomatic and political disaster.

Explanation: KMT called DPP “Nazis” prompting tweets from German Institute Taipei and other de-facto embassies.