Academica Sinica survey shows most Taiwanese support defense spending, defense of Taiwan. www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6319206

Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."

So much for not applying NSL retroactively

“.. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. told staffers in Dubai to stay away from their offices. That came after the Associated Press reported that Iran’s joint military command said banks and financial institutions are now targets ..” @bloomberg.com #$GS #$C www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New phone wallpaper just dropped

I'm beating a dead horse but it's not that there was "no plan," it's that there isn't a military solution period if Iran has been provoked into going big, short of "invade Bandar Abbas" The plan is -don't do a war with Iran if you don't have to -if you do then terminate it as quickly as possible

A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.

Meanwhile, on private credit in advanced economies, this from Bloomberg. Judging by the “most read” metrics, it's attracting attention this morning. The proliferation of such headlines increases the risk of what I call the "ATM" scenario: investors forced to liquidate other healthy funds simply...

An offensive war waged by both the US and Israeli militaries as equals, but with Israel consistently taking the lead and dictating timing and tactics, is according to several current and former officials of both countries, without parallel. How did the alliance take shape — and can it last?

Iran is among the world’s leading state sponsors of terrorism, and following decades of U.S. intervention, it has conducted numerous covert operations on American soil. buff.ly/dFeeaTr

“In an era of real-time information and global mobility, geopolitical crises demand careful and responsible communication to help the public navigate uncertainty and understand rapidly evolving events.”

Prediction markets create vast new opportunities for insider trading while lowering the friction of doing it to near zero. I think this is rather baked into the model.

Worryingly now starting to feel less like a Pottery Barn rule situation and more like a Crips vs Bloods situation. Left intact, the IRGC will now have the deepest possible incentives—existential, political, geopolitical—to inflict an extreme act of pain (or several) on the US and Israel.

“There is no easy way out of this once we’ve started it,” said Marc Sievers. “Iran lost a lot of its military capability—not all of it clearly. If they are left standing, they will do everything they can to rebuild, and to do once again all these things that they were doing that triggered this.”

This is basically Colonialism 101, but we can expect the campists and tankies to, uh, well

Bluesky: “While the US wastes time on AI, China is …” State media: “… adopting AI faster than you thanks to the far-sighted leadership of the Party!”

👇 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...

Turton actually offers Cunningham some praise here – faint praise – then damns him with it all the way to hell. Where do these think tanks/academic islets find these people?

It’s extremely pathetic to see Australia acting this way, especially when they’re kicking out a former Taiwanese men’s coach for simply chanting “Taiwan.” Team Taiwan is NOT Chinese!

"By trumpeting unachievable objectives—unconditional surrender, regime change—as his war aims, Trump has given his enemies the opportunity to claim survival as victory. He’s left with no end point to a “short-term excursion.” - Frank Foer www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Charlie Rose interviews Amos Yadlin 👇

Sen John Cornyn has an op-ed in Rupert Murdoch's NYPost, arguing that reducing the number of voters in the midterms is essential to GOP success at the polls. This is the GOP success formula in Texas, which has the lowest voter rates in the entire developed world—by design.

The Chinese Navy is moving toward an all-nuclear-powered submarine fleet, U.S. naval officials say, a monumental shift that will give ammunition to proponents of Japan developing its own nuclear subs — at least on the surface. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/03...

Targeting and tactics surely facilitated by the PLA right here...

"Chen Kuei-jen escorted out of stadium by (AUSTRALIAN) police for referring to Taiwan"

Sorry folks, obligatory post.

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

In contrast, Japan recently let Taiwanese fans express themselves at the WBC (the team was competing under the name Chinese Taipei but ROC-Taiwan flags (of small dimensions) and Taiwan banners and slogans were everywhere.

Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success

Knowing Trump's style, you wonder how this will play out: will the international community lean on Trump to stop—which as we all assume and presumably the rest of world also knows by now will only make him dig in deeper—or will they otherwise rally around somehow defeating the regime?

It saddens me that a surprising number of people in the West do not seem to care about the political censorship built into Chinese AI models, considering that is irrelevant to their usage. www.chinafile.com/reporting-op...

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.

"Ukraine will not be mass-producing drones with no Chinese components anytime soon, because it’s still much cheaper to use them. Given 🇨🇳’s dominance of global manufacturing, it is hard to define any drone as truly “🇨🇳-free.” Many components made outside still contain Chinese parts or raw materials."

That’s a rare downbeat note from Kudlow.

‘Beijing now recasts past Hong Kong political mobilizations as national security threats, even including those that were seen as legal under the Basic Law at the time, providing justification for its hardline turn’.

旅日的香港學者潘嘉偉則認為，保外就醫就是讓像中國這樣的極權國家，在面對政治案件時，有政治考量或是國際壓力下而出現的一個制度，因此即使香港沒有保外就醫的法律，黎智英案仍有可能成為香港第一宗保外就醫的案件。 但他提醒，依照中國過去的做法，前提就是要當事人認罪，因此黎智英最後能否保外就醫，恐怕仍有待觀察。 他說：『當然往好的方向去想的話，當然希望他真的能夠獲得釋放，但是保外就醫的那個說法在中國大陸裡面來講的話，也就是說要求他承認有犯罪，有罪才能夠有給他這個條件，是給他保外就醫的，所以是不是真的能夠發生， 我們還是要進一步的觀察。』 tw.news.yahoo.com/%E4%BA%BA%E8...

I think what's particularly striking is that Japan still has remembered the contributions that Taiwan made to it after Fukushima and this still contributes to positive views of Taiwan in Japan after all this time focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

Seemingly Trump had no plan beyond bombing Iran; killing its current leaders; and then hoping something good would happen. Harold Meyerson @prospect.org discusses the "Keystone Cops" aiming to shape Iran's future from DC – on 'Living in the USA' @kpfk.bsky.social bit.ly/4stUbLO

Fantastic performance, crystal clear messaging, chief 💪 👏 👌👍 Once again the GOP's Frank Luntz strategy confounds the Democratic party. In case anyone is wondering why China is absolutely destroying us in the cognitive warfare domain, it's because our leaders talk (and think) like this:

Trust me, you do not want declarations of war. They give the president imperial powers you cannot even imagine, and then stay in force until peace is declared. In general, AUMFs suck, but we need something in between an AUMF and "war." And it ain't the War Powers act.

@Joel_P_Atkinson Korea THAAD episode expert here. THAAD is not being removed, one/ some launchers are (THAAD is comprised of a radar & multiple launchers). China was upset about THAAD's radar, which remains. As does the site. No one will probably even notice when the US brings the launcher back

Looks like AI is coming for me, without my consent or knowledge. Lots of others too. @niemanlab.org explains. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/a-lo...

Pro regime lobby says what?

Newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai was just sentenced to twenty years in prison. His persecution offers a window into how freedom has been undone in Hong Kong. It should be a warning to us all.

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.

Always good to see Nikkei publishing comedy writing.

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