The Foreign Correspondents’ Club, Hong Kong is deeply concerned by the confirmation that @bloomberg.com journalist Rebecca Choong Wilkins has had her visa renewal application denied. Full statement: www.fcchk.org/visa-denial-...

New on #TheTaiwanTake pod: I spoke with the producer of "Zero Day Attack" TV series about an imagined Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Hsin-mei CHENG talks about what it's like developing this series: Listen: Spotify: gimpod.me/zero-day-spo... Apple Pod: gimpod.me/zero-day-apple

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

Here's a look at the recall thresholds for this Saturday's recall referendum in Taiwan. Listen to our interview with political scientist Nathan Batto on Great Recall - available on "The Taiwan Take" wherever you get your podcasts.

We caught up with political scientist Nathan Batto on Taiwan's upcoming recall referendum. Listen to "The Great Recall of 2025": gimpod.me/recall-listen The Taiwan Take podcast: Apple Pod: gimpod.me/recall-apple Spotify: gimpod.me/recall-spotify YouTube: gimpod.me/recall-youtube

I caught up with @mcaster.bsky.social and I-Chen Liu of @article19.bsky.social on their 2025 report on China's Digital Digital Silk Road: "Cybersecurity with Chinese Characteristics". We talked about UN, ASEAN, the upcoming Hanoi Convention. Have a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5a...

Nous parlons à nouveau cinéma dans le podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises" - cette fois en compagnie de Wafa Ghermani, professeure et autrice. "Histoire du cinéma taïwanais avec Wafa Ghermani": ghostisland.media/zh/shows/fra...

🥳 Z GREEN PARTY our pod on feminism & gender has been nominated for an International Women's Podcast Awards! Congratulations to hosts Dr. Rita Jhang and lawyer Zoe Lee.

Today marks 1,601 days in prison for Jimmy Lai. I recently spoke to @thecfhk.bsky.social 's Mark L. Clifford on his Lai biography, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic". Watch here: youtu.be/nBOfFkXU9XQ?...

We first interviewed Jessica J. Lee in 2020 for "Waste Not Why Not" podcast. Five years later we finally got to meet her in person. Thank you @yehaoqin.bsky.social at the Czech Hub in Taiwan for co-organizing this great talk. Moderated by the amazing Esther Kim.

Join us for a talk this Friday, April 11, with British-Canadian-Taiwanese author Jessica J. Lee, whose works offer one of the most unique reading experiences about Taiwan. RSVP: gimpod.me/LeeApr11

Kaitlyn Chen is the first Taiwanese American to win an NCAA basketball championship! She was previously the captain at Princeton where they won the 2024 Ivy League tournament. 🏀🏆

We sat down with Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Taipei this week for a conversation on support for Taiwan, warning against collective failure, and a new world order. Rasmussen is chairman @aodemocracies.bsky.social, former NATO Sec Gen, and former PM of Denmark. Listen: ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai...

Earlier this week, Mariia Makarovych of Liberal Democratic League of Ukraine joined me in a podcast to discuss peace negotiations, role of CSO the past three years, society preparedness pre-2022, Russian propaganda, and China. Listen on Spotify/Apple/YouTube: ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai...

My latest for The News Lens on Danish former diplomat and analyst Jonas Parello-Plesner's recent discussion of his book 'The Battle for Taiwan' and Taiwan's relations with Europe and the US, hosted by @europeanvalues.bsky.social: international.thenewslens.com/article/187410

I caught up recently with Jonas Parello-Plesner (Executive Director of Alliance of Democracies Foundation) on his book "The Battle for Taiwan". Published first as “Kampen om Taiwan” in 2023, this was the first book on Taiwanese politics aimed at a Danish audience: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uL...

Happy 2025 from Taipei!!

For those looking for translations of the Abe Shinzō memoir, a Mandarin version was published by 八旗文化 in Sept 2024. I hear an English translation is underway: www.bookrepclub.com.tw/index.php?md... www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Just heard about this Taiwanese tennis player 🎾 Ranked 75th in the world by ITF for junior boys (#1 in Taiwan), 陳冠守 CHEN Kuan-Shou is qualified for the Australian Open (Jan 12, 2025) but he needs funds to travel. Chen started playing at age 5 in Tainan. Campaign: www.gofundme.com/f/empower-ku...

In this Aug 2024 survey on French attitudes on international conflicts, respondents are on ave responsive to Taiwanese narratives (vs China's). W/ higher sensitivity from politically center, consumers of national/reg media, environmentalists, or aged 65+: www.fondationdescartes.org/2024/11/pene...

Agreed and the same story every year. A trade agreement between EU and Taiwan is an obvious choice but historically both sides see problems in e.g. financial services.

Great visualizations by @asiasociety.org Asia Society Policy Institute. Compiled from near-2,500 survey results over the years 2000 to 2024. View by territory/GDP/population. Toggle between map/table modes. Filter by BRI/Global South. Track changes over time: asiasociety.org/policy-insti...

Taiwan is EU’s 13th largest trading partner. EU is Taiwan's 4th largest trading partner (after China, US, Japan) and the largest source of Foreign Direct Investments (w/ majority in offshore wind). Summaries: EU: policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-rel... Taiwan: www.trade.gov.tw/english/Page...

Merci, Pierre-Yves!

A must visit if you're in DC! Really impressed by the scale of JF Books at Dupont Circle. Closed in Shanghai in 2018, 季風書園 reopened here in 2024. There's a great selection of history, politics and literature books in English, complex Chinese, and simplified Chinese.

Thank you! And we're really loving our mini interview-series on Netherlands, Taiwan, and South Africa - each country is the first of its continent to legalize same-sex marriage. Featuring so far NL senator Boris Dittrich & TW former legislator 尤美女: zparty.tw

And for more Taiwnsese literature happenings in France, choose "文學" from this list from Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris: fr.taiwan.culture.tw/ch/News_Phot...

Merci @emilyywu.com! Thanks to Ghost Island Media for providing the opportunity of this in-depth exchange (in French) with Aurélien Rossanino on Taiwan literature and its French translations!

Bravo @pybaubry.bsky.social ! cc @emilyywu.com

New podcast episode 🚨 ! We spoke to @pybaubry.bsky.social about Taiwanese literature in this French-language podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises". I'm told this is the most comprehensive interview in the French language on Taiwanese lit past and present: ghostisland.media/en/shows/fra...

Some great contributors here like Harry Wu and @chongjaian.bsky.social.

I learned from @audreyt.org's profile that we can set our own domain here as handles. Thanks, Audrey! =D

"100 years ago we learned baseball from Japan. Today, we won global championship at Tokyo Dome," said the Taiwanese commentator. #Premier12 "We have all read so much Japanese comics about baseball. We have learned so much about this sport from Japanese."

Another first for Taiwan 🥎 Congratulations to Taiwanese baseball for this epic win at WBSC #Premier12!!! As Taiwanese commentators keep saying, "November 24, 2024, this is a date that will be in Taiwan's history books forever!"

This will be at fembooks near NTU.

"I write in order to answer the question of: What is a Taiwanese person. I write about Taiwan’s past as a step into its future," says Yáng Shuāng-zǐ in her acceptance speech the 2024 National Book Award ceremony.

Ecrivaine et actuelle directrice du Centre Culturel de Taiwan à Paris, Hu Ching-Fang 胡晴舫 (Lolita Hu) est interviewée par Aurélien Rossanino pour le podcast "Balades Culturelles Franco-Taïwanaises" de Ghost Island Media, réalisé par @emilyywu.bsky.social. ghostisland.media/en/shows/fra...

Powerful statement from journalist turned activist Gwyneth Ho on her FB, published after she was sentenced to 7 years in prison by a Hong Kong court today: "we rose above fear and emerged as a genuine civil society."

These book covers are amazing.

Just bought the complete set of these wondrous looking things. And you should probably do the same. For the next month, I’ll be waiting by the mailbox with feverish anticipation. #Taiwan #literature #translation

Excited to see this beautiful collection of new Taiwanese literature by UK's Strangers Press. English translations by Jenna Tang, Lin King, Yu Teng-Wei, Shengchi Hsu, Wen-chi Li. Stories by Qiu Miaojin, Sabrina Huang, Lâu Tsí-û, Lamula Pakawyan, and Lulyang Nomin: www.strangers.press/k%C3%A1-si%C...

Taiwan's former legislative speaker Wang Jin-pyng embarked on an ancestor-worshiping tour in China over the weekend and is to meet with the Taiwan Affairs Office today: www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/...

Taiwan is considered 'patient-zero' of PRC information operations. In this interview, election observer Ben Graham Jones spoke about his 2024 @doublethinklab.bsky.social report “Taiwan POWER" on learned lessons that may be applicable to the world. 🎧 Listen : ghostisland.media/en/shows/tai... /1

What’s up Taiwan! Here’s who I have found so far; who am I missing? @brianhioe.bsky.social @emilyywu.bsky.social @lnachman32.bsky.social @emilyzfeng.bsky.social @ryanhk.bsky.social @kerim.oxus.net @tculpan.bsky.social @rikglauert.bsky.social @bingwang.bsky.social

Welcome @brianhioe.bsky.social and @emilyywu.bsky.social nice to see some familiar Taiwan faces here!

welcome emily y wu to bluesky! great to see the taiwan presence expanding here. <3

Hello. Bluesky. Big bluesky.