I'd like to try to bring a little attention to an even better reading of the “Shell” video by @joshuamwilkes.bsky.social and @imtienyikrislih.bsky.social over at Domino Theory. They discuss things I missed or didn't know. Bravo! dominotheory.com/china-milita...

Drills are over, we can have our lives back now

Originally from Myanmar, Midi Z is considered among the rising generation of Taiwan's filmmakers focustaiwan.tw/culture/2025...

The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment will be celebrated in Beijing & Moscow. This little-known but enormously consequential 50 year-old institution actually thought long-term. It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions in warfare.

Sanctioned ship slowed down over subsea infra, immediately got Dutch intel up their stern.

3 things: (if one still has bargaining chips): 1. Be like Mexico, agreed to secure border. 2. Be like Poland, bump up defense spending. 3. Be like Abe/ Netanyahu, shower Trump with praises in public, give him the proper respect he thinks he deserves. Let the negotiation be done under the table.

ミャンマーで日本人の男子高校生2人保護 特殊詐欺に加担か http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250218/k10014725751000.html

Interesting list of Chinese entrepreneurs that attended a symposium chaired by Xi Jinping, even Jack Ma attended (Alibaba co-founder) x.com/DominoTheory...

Factually justified

Our newsroom still can't get an answer from AIT Taipei and the AIT HQ in Virginia. My observation: probably a result of Trumps's decision on $identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration" dominotheory.com/ait-chair-fi...

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

I'll summarize the whole podcast genre: " If you are entertaining, people will listen to you and buy what you are selling. Including politics " They will not check your background, your education or fact check you It's a podcast. They are trying to kill time. Entertainment sells.

More on today's undersea #cable incident: #Taiwan's Digital Ministry said there have been four such cable “disruptions” in 2025, compared to three both in 2023 and 2024 dominotheory.com/taiwan-inves...

Who knew even the "old friend" of China got snubbed by Xi? dominotheory.com/carters-comp...

Just my unscientific observation: X is good for hardcore political content; Bluesky is good for content that focuses on humanity

After #Taiwan president Lai Ching-te spoke about the #motherland on October 5, all eyes were on the National Day event five days later. Why did he say something else controversial? dominotheory.com/president-of...

You always learn something from the person you work with - my colleague Josh proposed the idea to cover Taiwan's biggest space conference called TASTI. I learned a ton about the satellite industry, Taiwan's effort, and a dream to launch rockets... dominotheory.com/taiwan-slowl...

China's Finance Ministry had just issued Christmas presents for everybody. On 12/24's National Finance Work Conference, China's Minister of Finance Lan called for: - "increase fiscal deficit rate & issue ever greater govt bonds" - to "stimulate consumption and optimize expenditure structure".

Published this with my wonderful colleague Josh Wilkes and Stella Robertson (great people as well) right after the orange man won the election and everyone was still trying to grasp what a second term means to... TAIWAN dominotheory.com/what-does-tr...

Stop weighing and do it. And formalize citizenship for their undocumented children. It's only just. The kids did nothing to deserve their stateless status. taiwannews.com.tw/news/5991264 I wrote on the undocumented children problem here. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

One minute apology and wouldn't step down...

How does the world view China? Kudos to Andrew Chubb on his new @asiasociety.org product Global Public Opinion on China As China rose, its average favorability in worldwide opinion polls fell, and faster in recent years 2002: +33 2007: +22 2012: +14 2017: +8 2022: -10 But... 1/20

Useful article depicting KMT's identify crisis as it loses relevance. Useful summary of KMT's attempts at centralizing power in legislature, and to pass laws to enable China to infiltrate into and take over Taiwan—clearly KMT has pivoted towards subservience to CCP. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Po...

#JimmyLai trial in #HongKong dominotheory.com/is-jimmy-lai...

What's up Bluesky? I'm Kris Lih 酈天翊, a reporter for Domino Theory. I cover #geopolitical and #military stuff in #Asia dominotheory.com/author/kris/