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"LNG Storage Development Threatens White Dolphin Habitat" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
CRIT is a bilingual space where casual and serious writers can submit in-progress work, or finished pieces to get feedback from other writers/readers. Participants are required to submit a piece of writing to attend this event. Writers of all levels are encouraged to join!
Calling on all writers! Do you have a short story, poem, zine, chapter of a book, or any other writing that you would like feedback on? Join us for the first meeting of Constructive Reading in Taipei- or CRIT, on Thursday, March 19, 2026.
"Why Did Chinese Air Incursions Decrease to Zero Earlier This Month?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
The bake sale is back!
Palestine is still facing an ongoing genocide from Israel, and Sudan from U.A.E. This fundraiser is for lifesaving aid for people in Gaza and Darfur.
Pen Club still going strong twice a month! Come by to have a drink and doodle.
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Seeing posts like this reminds me how much I want a future with electric cars *and* human rights.
Language exchange is back 語言交換回來了～
03/18 (Wed三）19:00 - 22:00
Crocheting and Knitting for Palestine
Calling all crocheters and knitters! Join us for a knitting and crocheting session organized by Fighting with Fiber!
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
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Will they? Won't they? Or will they have another embarassing fight on live television?
"'Zero Day Attack' is in Final Evaluation a Mixed Bag" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Tomorrow! Join us for the third session of our five-part reading group on Taiwanese History 101!
"Look at what it means to Chinese Taipei"
Now imagine this ten-fold and you know what it means to Taiwan.
Richard Bush: That’s a really tough one. But I certainly hope for an outcome that is not the result of war or prolonged PRC coercion of Taiwan designed to sap the confidence of Taiwan’s leaders and people. It would be an outcome where Taiwan democracy is genuinely preserved. Beijing used the same formula for Hong Kong that it’s proposing for Taiwan, and all it was willing to offer Hong Kong politically was partial democracy. So, under “one country, two systems,” would Taiwan have to go back, rather than continue the system that it has? I hope for a future outcome that occurs through gradual convergence based on the shared interests of the two sides—a process where different ultimate outcomes are considered instead of just focusing on one that is defined by one of the parties to the dispute. And it’s an outcome where neither side fears that the other is threatening its fundamental interests.
I certainly hope for an outcome that is not the result of war or prolonged PRC coercion of Taiwan designed to sap the confidence of Taiwan's leaders & people.
An outcome where Taiwan democracy is genuinely preserved.
Where neither side fears that the other is threatening its fundamental interests.
Also, I think that a lot of analysts do not recognize what China’s actual policy is right now. It’s not simply to prepare for war and to go to war when they think they’re ready, or when Taiwan so provokes them that they need to. They are pursuing a policy of coercion that doesn’t involve violence. It involves different aspects of Taiwan society. It’s not just a military strategy; it’s a political one. It’s a cyber policy. It has the virtue of being low risk but also has the potential for succeeding in getting Taiwan people to decide, “we can’t continue sort of living in this situation, let’s just try and get the best deal we can.”
Also, I think that a lot of analysts do not recognize what China's actual policy is right now. [...]
They are pursuing a policy of #coercion that doesn't involve violence. It involves different aspects of Taiwan #society. It's not just a military strategy; it's a political one. It's a cyber policy.
![On a scale of one to 10, if one was a near-term cataclysm and 10 was a peaceful resolution of cross-Strait differences, where do you find yourself today on that scale?
Richard Bush:
I am going take the easy way out and say I’m in the four to six [laughs]. On the one hand, I don’t believe that there’s a cataclysm in our near-term future. There’s been a lot of talk about when China is going to war to seize Taiwan. A lot of that talk is ill-informed. Our military leaders have now made clear that what they’re talking about when they think about the future is when China would have the capabilities to take Taiwan, not whether it will or not, and that’s good.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ql6xoc2ldggspigh5uscs65/bafkreidx7flr77uf3zoqw3vz5n4rpyjhsmxjxtxcki5nka3casyyzlr2ny)
On a scale of one to 10, if one was a near-term cataclysm and 10 was a peaceful resolution of cross-Strait differences, where do you find yourself today on that scale? Richard Bush: I am going take the easy way out and say I’m in the four to six [laughs]. On the one hand, I don’t believe that there’s a cataclysm in our near-term future. There’s been a lot of talk about when China is going to war to seize Taiwan. A lot of that talk is ill-informed. Our military leaders have now made clear that what they’re talking about when they think about the future is when China would have the capabilities to take Taiwan, not whether it will or not, and that’s good.
I don't believe that there's a #cataclysm in our near-term future.
A lot of that talk is ill-informed.
Our military leaders have now made clear that what they're talking about when they think about the future is *when* #China would have the capabilities to take #Taiwan, not whether it will or not.
Richard Bush: The American position on Taiwan, as we’ve stated it since June 27, 1950, was that Taiwan’s status was undetermined. We fundamentally changed our view on what was going to happen to Taiwan. We didn’t say it wouldn’t be returned to China, but we indicated that it would happen at a later time, under better circumstances. At the time of the San Francisco Peace Conference, we insisted that the treaty say that Japan renounced sovereignty over Taiwan, which had been a Japanese colony for 50 years, but the treaty did not say to whom Japan was transferring sovereignty. The United States and its allies could not agree, moreover, on which Chinese government should attend the San Francisco Peace Conference, the Republic of China on Taiwan or the People’s Republic of China on the mainland. So, there was no Chinese government at the San Francisco Peace Conference. Instead, we engineered a separate bilateral peace treaty between Japan and the Republic of China. And in that treaty as well, Japan renounced sovereignty over Taiwan, but didn’t designate to whom it would be transferred, which was a tad annoying to the Republic of China.
So, this has been our stated position for a long time. It was essentially reconfirmed in the normalization communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China in 1979, where we said, the government of the United States acknowledges the Chinese view that Taiwan is a part of China. In other words, we made clear that China’s view was not our view. There are practical reasons why this was important. If we recognized that Taiwan was a part of China, that would mean that it really was China’s internal affair, as Beijing was saying, and that what existed between the two sides of the Strait was a civil war. According to international law, the United States shouldn’t be in the business of providing arms to one side in a civil war, nor should the United States be intervening militarily to defend one side in a civil war against another. A late friend of ours, Alan Romberg, studied this issue very carefully and came to the conclusion that, essentially, our position still is that Taiwan’s status is undetermined. It doesn’t mean it couldn’t be resolved in some way, but it should be done through negotiations between the two sides of the Strait.
R. Bush on the US position on #Taiwan:
We engineered a separate bilateral peace treaty between Japan and the ROC. And in that treaty as well, Japan renounced sovereignty over Taiwan, but didn't designate to whom it would be transferred.
Our position still is that Taiwan's status is #undetermined.
🇪🇺 🫱🏼🫲🏽 🇹🇼 Taiwan’s investment in the European Union (EU) has surged 650% over the past decade as trade ties between the two economies has grown. The EU is Taiwan’s fourth-largest trading partner and largest source of foreign investment.
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You mean this guy?
"Solar Energy Debate Points to Pan-Blue Stance Against Renewables" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
Check out the latest New Bloom Substack! Here we look at the history of the 228 Massacre, recent impacts from Iran on Taiwan, and our latest events
Wrote about reactions in Taiwan to the US war with Iran in my latest for @thediplomat.com . What is notable is how Lai has sought to align Taiwan with the US and Israel, as well as how the pan-Green camp has viewed the war as reassuring in deterring China
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Does Taiwan Truly Remember the 228 Massacre, 79 Years Later? • KMT grosstalgia • FAP espionage • Iran • Trump • tariffs • Myanmar • medtech migrant workers • 買了都沒穿 • TransUtopia #TaiwanNews #台灣新聞
Taiwanese History 101 is a reading group for Taiwanese diaspora, students, people new to Taiwan, and others who want to learn about Taiwanese history to better understand Taiwanese politics and civil society today.
Join us for the third session of our five-part reading group on Taiwanese History 101!
"What Will the Impact of Events in Iran Be on Taiwan?" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
In this second gathering, we will conclude our discussion of Jennifer Mullan’s book Decolonizing Therapy. This time, we will break out into small groups to discuss short extracts from the book and reflect on our unique stories of home, migration and ancestry.
This is the second of a series of gatherings that will explore decolonial ideas about healing, therapy and community support.
