Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

If sanctions worked, China would have unified Taiwan with press releases, not missiles. LOL China: threatens invasion Taiwan: buys defenses China: sanctions the suppliers — that’s blaming the smoke alarm for the fire. If Beijing wants fewer sales, the solution is simple: stop planning war.

Saine réaction de la @cncdh.fr qui rappelle au droit B. Haddad, mis en avant dans l'article de Marianne qui ouvre ce fil.

Il y a un fonctionnement dans beaucoup de #médias (et ici nous parlons du service public, sensé montrer le bon exemple) qui favorise la mise en avant des experts de plateaux TV toujours disposés à ouvrir leur gueule sur tout, sans souci de la qualité de l' #information. 2/

Les grosses théories sur la "lutte contre la #désinformation" ne seront que du blabla pour se donner bonne conscience tant qu'on ne s'intéressera pas sérieusement à ce genre de problèmes.... 1/3

Si l'on faisait passer ce test à tous les Français, combien échoueraient? Devraient-ils eux-aussi suivre des formations payantes pour se préparer au test? Faire parfois des centaines de kilomètres pour le passer?

Good morning, Taiwan 🎞️: Yes! Star 200

Incredible what you find when you start looking for data on the "white men can't get jobs anymore" phenomenon www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/12/17/w...

Taiwan🇹🇼 & Japan🇯🇵 are eyeing an East Asian AI governance sensation.✨ Local Kamis, as promoted in the 6-Pack of Care, can put Skynet & Terminator AI fears to bed — forever!🕊️ ▶️ 6pack.care My gratitude to the Diet delegation for the delicious dialogue.🙏 #LLAP🖖

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

“We as female players have to keep pushing for new paths, or the doors that open for boys will stay shut for us.” 👉 ebx.sh/qScli4

potential EME alert 🚨- apparently the Japanese are signing up to bluesky in droves. If you check the newskies feed 99% of posts are now Japanese cc: @surfdude29.ispost.ing @laurenshof.online

Frozen Garlic discusses the Constitutional Court's decision to make a ruling on the legislation that had effectively frozen the court. Now that the court is operating again, its decisions are likely to be respected, he argues […]

Lettres de Taiwan et @lettresdemalaisie.bsky.social vous souhaitent de très bonnes fêtes de Noël!

#CalendrierDeLAvent 24 décembre "Peut-il exister un cinéma national pour une nation qui n’est pas reconnue comme telle ? C’est la question à laquelle cet ouvrage se propose de répondre, dans le cas de Taiwan." "Le Cinéma taïwanais. Fictions d'une nation", de Wafa Ghermani, Editions Mimesis, 2024.

#CalendrierDeLAvent 23 décembre Jeune trentenaire solitaire, Hsia-t’ien a une passion: la danse de salon latino-américaine. Immersion dans ce monde très hiérarchisé, aux interactions codifiées par le genre. "Le Bal des sirènes", de Li Wei-jing (李維菁), trad. : Lucie Modde, Mercure de France, 2024.

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

Bari Weiss: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..." Viewers: "Transparency comes first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."

“People in Taiwan are naive about the super-rich and tech firms. They don’t see how harmful these people are,” laments Academia Sinica's Lu Chien-yi. “They don’t consider the cost in terms of land, water and energy.” www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

Congratulations to our respected colleague Bari Weiss on finally becoming a real journalist.

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

"Dans un message publié dimanche sur son compte X, Jeff Landry a remercié Trump. "C'est un honneur de vous servir bénévolement pour faire du Groenland une partie des États-Unis", a-t-il écrit ". Et donc, comme ça, il est revenu, le temps des colonies. www.france24.com/fr/am%C3%A9r...

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

#CalendrierDeLAvent 22 décembre "Longuement, elle m’a décrit ses magnifiques paysages, les montagnes sauvages, la côte ciselée, et ces villes lumineuses qu’elle me souhaitait, un jour, de découvrir." "Taiwan en 4 éléments", de Ségolène Girard, Elytis, 2023.

Bien dit, @olivierfaure.bsky.social !

Vladimir Putin wanted useful idiot Steve Witkoff to represent the US because he targeted him as someone whose greed would be easy to exploit. And when it comes to the Trump admin, Putin gets what he wants. www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

“Dips to 67.5%” is a headline most if not all democratically elected government leaders in the world would dream of.

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

Maybe they have good journalistic reasons to do so. Maybe orders came from the top. There is no way to know and no way not to doubt. The break of trust following the Trump settlement will have lasting impact.

Do I really need to explain why the #Taiwan legislature are doing a "nuh-UH I'm rubber and you're glue and I locked the principal out of the classroom" strategy? laorencha.substack.com/p/for-the-ta...

Taiwan will purchase 60 more M109A7 self-propelled howitzers with its annual defense budget, sources tell Liberty Times. Taiwan made its first purchase of 60 M109A7s, which the U.S. notified Congress of on 12/18, through its US$40-billion special budget.

“The use of transnational repression demonstrates a symptom of the underlying structure of the Chinese government’s influence operations around the world,” Ms. Wang said. “It has marginalized voices critical of Beijing and elevated those who are friendly to it.”

“Multiple Taiwanese businesspeople have said that the Chinese government is pressuring KMT lawmakers to stop Taiwan’s NT$1.25 trillion (US$39.6 billion) special defense budget and national security law amendments via go-betweens in the business community.”

Get ready for the “Trump was a young playboy” propaganda even though he was 50 and the girls were 14.

How bad has 2025 been? We broke time.

#CalendrierDeLAvent 21 décembre "80 mots qui sont autant d’histoires qui racontent Taiwan et sa diversité culturelle et qui racontent le lien particulier qu’entretient l’auteur avec Taiwan, ses habitants et leurs langues." "80 Mots de Taiwan", d'Aurélien Rossanino, @asiatheque.bsky.social, 2025.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

They're so transparent they're removing photos of Donald Trump. And now I'm getting an "access denied" message when I go back to look.

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Police concludes the subway attack was most likely a lone wolf attack, even though there may be online disinformation to the contrary focustaiwan.tw/society/2025...

Police seize suspect's laptop, old cellphone after Taipei stabbing spree

Foreign offices in Taiwan express condolences over deadly Taipei knife attack

Foreign missions and diplomats grieve with #Taiwan over a mass stabbing spree that led to 4 dead (including the lone, 27yo attacker) and 6 injured. #UK Representative Ruth Bradley-Jones: "What a shocking sadness. #Taipei, tonight we grieve together."

Taiwan's Constitutional Court holds that last year's amendments to the Constitutional Court Procedure Act are unconstitutional. www.cna.com.tw/news/asoc/20...

I wasn't expecting this move anymore. The Constitutional Court on Friday struck down opposition-backed legislation that had effectively paralyzed the operations of the Taiwan's top court for nearly a year, clearing the way for it to resume hearings and rule on cases.

#CalendrierDeLAvent 20 décembre "Révélé au grand public avec Yi Yi, Edward Yang, chef de file du Nouveau Cinéma taïwanais, a marqué durablement le cinéma de l’entre-deux siècles." "Le cinéma d'Edward Yang", de Jean-Michel Frodon, @carlottafilms.bsky.social, 2025.