Taiwanese actor Wu Mu-hsuen was forced to sign a pledge supporting China's territorial claim over Taiwan, or the show she had just finished filming would be cancelled
According to Wu's agent, the practice is now commonplace for Taiwanese artists working in China
I've been earwormed by this song a lot and I love the translation of the delightful lyrics, but I'm going to write the title as "Gender Queer" going forward as that is more faithful to the lyrics than the literal title "雌雄同體" (by 五月天/Mayday) and the English translation of that phrase is potentially offensive to intersex people.
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"China's final warning" is a Russian ironic idiom originating from the Soviet Union that refers to a warning that carries no real consequences.
The People's Republic of China released its first "final warning" to the United States on 7 September 1958 during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. By the end of 1964, more than 900 such "final warnings" had been issued. However, no real consequences were levied for ignoring the "final warnings".
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Alors que le président chinois est en représentation en France, un rappel du comportement de la #Chine vis-à-vis de #Wikimédia :
🔹 la Chine bloque l'adhésion à l'#OMPI parce qu'elle n'apprécie pas les articles sur #Taïwan et l'existence de #WikimediaTaïwan
🔹la Chine #censure totalement #Wikipédia depuis 2019
🔹une tentative d'#infiltration de la communauté a été déjouée en 2019
Interview with Cosette Wu, a Taiwanese-American student at Harvard and co-director of the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP. The Coalition is made up of Tibetan, Taiwanese, Uyghur and Hong Kong students working in solidarity toward their collective liberation
The U.S. House delays on the foreign aid package to #Ukraine and #Taiwan, now passed by the Senate, helped Russia by among things giving Putin time to move forward with plans to purchase ballistic missiles from Iran.
And it sent the wrong geopolitical message to #China, too, according to an international relations scholar:
Senate passes a long-delayed $95 billion package sending aid to #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan. The bill also includes language that could ban #TikTok -CNN
Omnibus bills are always about hiding the worst crap, and selling people on the headliner. I get this is about #Ukraine for you but that bill will drop bombs on 1.2 innocent civilians who were told to go there for safety. It should be voted against and each major item should be debated on their merits, if the United States was a democracy, that is.
🥳The US House has passed $95 billion in aid to #Ukraine, #Israel and #Taiwan, ending a political impasse. The Senate is expected to pass the package, which was negotiated with the White House, next week -Bloomberg
The House has cleared a key procedural hurdle in passing foreign aid to #Israel, #Ukraine and #Taiwan. The chamber voted 316-94 to advance the bills, setting up a Saturday vote on the final passage of $95 billion in foreign assistance -ABC News
I was earwormed again today by a song that sounds in my head like it's by Taiwan rock group Monkey Pilot. But I've listened to both their albums and the song doesn't seem to be there. Any idea how I might find it. I'm pretty sure it's a real song and not something I've made up, just can't be sure it's Monkey Pilot.
"It took less than six months for [U.S. House] Speaker Mike Johnson to reach his existential moment. The Louisiana Republican has arrived at fateful but familiar crossroads where he must either choose to honor a conventional vision of U.S. national interests or side with the wrecking ball antics of his party’s far-right bloc."
CNN has an analysis of the fight over U.S. aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan: https://flip.it/OWUesz
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
There has been relative calm in the #TaiwanStrait since the #Biden-#Xi summit, after a period of high tension in which Chinese warships and planes would regularly approach #Taiwan. At the same time however, there has been increasing friction in the #SouthChinaSea between #China and neighbouring countries, particularly the #Philippines, a #US ally. #WestPHSea