Search
78 results for “davidonformosa”
-
@davidonformosa Also worth noting that #ASPI themselves are facing significant budget cuts in #Australia. 🤦♂️️
For now they're probably the most well-informed organization in the world to shine light on China's global influence operations.
The Chinese regime would naturally like to see them disbanded altogether.
-
@davidonformosa
Lemme fix that headline…
*Beijing's 🇨🇳 #stenographers: "oF cOuRsE iT's TaiWaN's FaULt!!!!11!!!!!" -
what CCP gov did is terrible.
Tsai was right to apologise, but I would not be so celebrating about Taiwanese society in this aspect: collectively #Han/ #Hua community has an ingrained discrimination built on cultural supremacy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hua%E2%80%93Yi_distinction
What Taiwanese Han did to the Austronesian Taiwanese is terrible deeds and it was not even government driven you can see some hints of it from the drama Seqalu https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3BOpGcivW9o
That mindset remains still -
@kkarhan @davidonformosa
Because they're not in #Taiwan's 🇳🇫 territorial airspace — just in the #ADIZ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_defense_identification_zone -
The latest edition of Mekong Review is out now. Lots of great content to explore.
-
The reduction in Taiwan's special defence budget will impede its plans for a porcupine strategy as a key part of maintaining deterrence against threats from China
-
A delegation representing Taiwan’s Millet Ark Initiative (小米方舟) participated in the Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding in New York
"Despite Taiwan being excluded from many formal international institutions due to geopolitical pressure, Indigenous communities from Taiwan continue to engage in global forums and dialogues in innovative ways."
-
Two books about Taiwan, written three decades apart, reveal shifts in academic and journalistic discourse
"Reading these two books side by side offers more than a comparison of two authors or two historical moments. It reveals a deeper transformation in how Taiwan itself has changed, and how it is understood, narrated, and situated within global knowledge."
-
New report from Human Rights Watch about the Chinese government's systematic erasure of the Tibetan language
“Language loss on the scale taking place in Tibet is not accidental – it is Chinese government policy. Unless China’s practices change, an entire generation of Tibetan children will grow up cut off from their own language, culture, and heritage.” - Maya Wang, HRW
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/04/china-harmonization-plan-erasing-tibetan-language
-
Misinformation has become pervasive in Taiwan's information environment. A survey by NTU found that there was a high level of awareness of misinformation and its impacts on society
Over 90% of respondents supported government legislation to regulate misinformation. 76% believed that technology companies should take a more active role in limiting its spread
#Taiwan #FactCheck #disinformation #SocialMedia #tech #台灣 #事實查核
-
The Melbourne Taiwan Film Festival will be held on 21-23 May 2026 at ACMI
https://australasia-taiwan.org/melbourne-taiwan-film-festiva/2026-melbourne-taiwan-film-festival/
-
Jenna Lynn Cody's review of 'Rebel Island', a history of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements. She writes that it is an engaging read on Taiwan's early history, but contains numerous errors about more recent events
-
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-teh has travelled to Eswatini. His arrival in the African country comes just ten days after a planned trip was cancelled as a result of the Chinese party-state pressuring countries en route to deny permission for overflight.
-
RightsCon 2026 in Zambia cancelled, possibly due to Chinese party-state interference, says Human Rights Watch
An activist on the organising committee told HRW that China objected to Taiwanese participation in the conference.The cancellation of the conference highlights the influence of China in Africa.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/01/zambia-summit-on-human-rights-technology-effectively-canceled
#Zambia #China #Taiwan #RightsCon #HRW #Africa #HumanRights #台灣
-
Today is the 37th birthday of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama of Tibet. He was disappeared by the Chinese party-state at the age of six. His whereabouts remain unknown
https://savetibet.org/ict-statement-on-the-panchen-lamas-37th-birthday-april-25-2026/
-
44 politicians from the now-dissolved opposition Move Forward Party face prosecution in Thailand for attempting to reform the lèse-majesté law
Thailand has the world's harshest lèse-majesté law with at least 291 people charged since 2014
-
Some pretty fair criticism of the DPP by @donovan_smith
"Today’s DPP is culturally stifling, with rigid message discipline and almost zero tolerance for internal dissent. It is an opaque party, with infighting taking place behind closed doors and dominated by shadowy factions."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856077
-
Some pretty fair criticism of the DPP by @donovan_smith
"Today’s DPP is culturally stifling, with rigid message discipline and almost zero tolerance for internal dissent. It is an opaque party, with infighting taking place behind closed doors and dominated by shadowy factions."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856077
-
Some pretty fair criticism of the DPP by @donovan_smith
"Today’s DPP is culturally stifling, with rigid message discipline and almost zero tolerance for internal dissent. It is an opaque party, with infighting taking place behind closed doors and dominated by shadowy factions."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856077
-
Some pretty fair criticism of the DPP by @donovan_smith
"Today’s DPP is culturally stifling, with rigid message discipline and almost zero tolerance for internal dissent. It is an opaque party, with infighting taking place behind closed doors and dominated by shadowy factions."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856077
-
Some pretty fair criticism of the DPP by @donovan_smith
"Today’s DPP is culturally stifling, with rigid message discipline and almost zero tolerance for internal dissent. It is an opaque party, with infighting taking place behind closed doors and dominated by shadowy factions."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856077
-
A review of Lev Nachman's book Contested Taiwan. The review focuses on the Sunflower Movement and the formation of the New Power Party. It calls the book's theoretical arguments about contested state theory "padding". I thought the theory was important and that Nachman added some very Taiwan specific context to it.
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/23/2003856078
#Taiwan #TaiwanStudies #book #NPP #台灣 #時代力量 #政治 #sovereignty
-
Scooter Trip to Wutai 霧臺 - a nice day trip from Kaohsiung or Pingtung
https://formosajmac.com/2026/04/21/a-weekend-adventure-scooter-trip-to-wutai-%e9%9c%a7%e8%87%ba/
-
Amnesty International's annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, has just been released.
It raised concerns about several issues in Taiwan including continued use of the death penalty, lack of protections for asylum seekers and problems with the Constitutional Court.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/0320/2026/en/
#HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Taiwan #DeathPenalty #台灣 #人權
-
The downfall of China-born TPP legislator Li Zhenxiu (李貞秀) is just another episode in the deepening dysfunction of the TPP, writes @donovan_smith
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/18/2003855804
-
Courtney @donovan_smith writes about KMT Chair Cheng Li-wun's visit to China and the division in the KMT
"In such a diverse party as the KMT, the real split is between ideologues like Cheng and what I call the “electability” camp.
"The electability camp is dominated by people who regularly interact with their constituents and are keenly aware that the underlying electoral math remains challenging as long as the ideologues are in charge."
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2026/04/11/2003855398
-
In 2025 China's Ministry of Public Security released provisions for the reform of Residential Surveillance at a Designated Location (RSDL). This was in response to criticism of the system and deaths in custody. However, it is unclear to what extent the reforms have been implemented
https://safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/china-reforms-its-secret-rsdl-jails-will-anything-change
-
UnderReported China lists some of the new tactics being used by the Chinese party-state in its foreign influence campaigns
"Two dynamics run through all of these examples: the sheer scale of the operations and a consistent emphasis on obfuscation, making the China-linked origins of content as difficult for ordinary users to perceive as possible."
https://open.substack.com/pub/underreportedchina/p/beijings-foreign-influence-tactics
-
A new report by ASPI about why Taiwan matters to Australia and the world
"Taiwan is not a peripheral issue. It sits at the intersection of global trade, advanced technology, democratic values and regional security. What happens there will shape Australia’s prosperity, security and way of life for decades."
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/taiwan-matters-australia-needs-to-understand-why/