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  1. ☝️ Great summary about democratic backsliding towards authoritarianism

    IMO democracies must *together* start supporting their weaker fellow democracies while making the life of despots more expensive rather than giving the increasingly networking authoritarians a free ride with trade, finance and technology.

    #FreedomHouse #humanrights #globalism
    @davidonformosa

  2. ☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」

    #CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
    @davidonformosa

  3. ☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」

    #CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
    @davidonformosa

  4. ☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」

    #CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
    @davidonformosa

  5. ☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」

    #CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
    @davidonformosa

  6. ☝️「“Not even one day of detention of Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing could possibly be just. Huang Xueqin and Wang Jianbing’s treatment from the beginning to end at the hands of the police has been full of violations of Chinese law and procedural justice. It is the Chinese government who should be on trial for its behavior of unlawfully locking up its own citizens merely for the peaceful exercise of their human rights,” said Renee Xia, CHRD’s Director.」

    #CHRD #HuangXueqin #WangJianbing #CCP #china #dictatorship #humanrights #legalism #lawfare
    @davidonformosa

  7. 🛳️ A new ferry service between Keelung and Ishigaki began operating yesterday. The Yaima Maru operates an overnight service departing Keelung on Thursdays and Ishigaki on Sundays

    This is the only ferry service between Taiwan and Japan. There is currently no onward ferry connection from Ishigaki to Okinawa

    taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/ar

  8. Mei-fen Kuo puts award winning novel Taiwan Travelogue into context for Australian readers. She notes that Australians have not been served well when it comes to understanding Taiwan

    "This Taiwan predates the Chinese Civil War entirely. It is a society with its own interior life, its own hierarchies of intimacy and exclusion – one that Japan imposed and that Taiwan quietly, stubbornly, remade on its own terms."

    theconversation.com/yang-shuan

    #Taiwan #books #literature #translation #台灣

  9. The Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has issued a statement supporting Taiwan's democracy and right to self-determination

    The statement was signed by 42 members of IPAC who are elected members of parliament from around the world

    taiwannews.com.tw/news/6366181

    #Taiwan #IPAC #台灣 #democracy

  10. A Taiwanese novel translated into English has won the International Booker Prize! Taiwan Travelogue was written by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ and translated by Lin King. It is described as "both a romance and an incisive postcolonial novel"

    theguardian.com/culture/2026/m

    #Taiwan #books #literature #translation #台灣

  11. J. Michael Cole's analysis of the Trump-Xi meeting and Trump's subsequent comments

    ➡️ Some good separation of the signal and the noise

    "Before we get too carried away by what President Trump says at any moment, we need to keep in mind that he has a tendency to say many things — something contradicting himself within 24 hours — in the moment, based on what he recently heard or whom he spoke with."

    jmichaelcole.substack.com/p/af

  12. J. Michael Cole's analysis of the Trump-Xi meeting and Trump's subsequent comments

    ➡️ Some good separation of the signal and the noise

    "Before we get too carried away by what President Trump says at any moment, we need to keep in mind that he has a tendency to say many things — something contradicting himself within 24 hours — in the moment, based on what he recently heard or whom he spoke with."

    jmichaelcole.substack.com/p/af

    #Taiwan #China #Trump #USpol #politics #台灣 #中國 #政治

  13. Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to Amnesty International

    Iran executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure

    China is believed to carry out the largest number of executions but no official numbers are available

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

    #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Iran #China

  14. Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to Amnesty International

    Iran executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure

    China is believed to carry out the largest number of executions but no official numbers are available

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

  15. Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to Amnesty International

    Iran executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure

    China is believed to carry out the largest number of executions but no official numbers are available

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

    #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Iran #China

  16. Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to Amnesty International

    Iran executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure

    China is believed to carry out the largest number of executions but no official numbers are available

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

    #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Iran #China

  17. Executions in 2025 were the highest recorded since 1981 according to Amnesty International

    Iran executed at least 2,159 people, more than double its 2024 figure

    China is believed to carry out the largest number of executions but no official numbers are available

    amnesty.org/en/latest/news/202

    #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Iran #China

  18. A clear explanation of Taiwan's sovereignty by President Lai Ching-teh

    The [DPP’s Resolution on Taiwan’s Future] declares that Taiwan is an independent sovereign state, whose name is the ROC, and that the ROC and the PRC are not subordinate to each other, with any change in the “status quo” to be decided by Taiwanese, he said

    taipeitimes.com/News/front/arc

    #Taiwan #TaiwanIsaCountry #sovereignty #DPP #台灣