Thank you all. Without our medical professionals, Taiwan wouldn’t be the safe haven against this virus that it is today. Your work makes us proud— and the world takes note!
I provided a comment for the Polish Press Agency @PAPinformacje on the recent signing of the Taiwan Assurance Act 🇹🇼🤝🇺🇸. Despite the looming transfer of power, the institutionalization of our relations will help their stability.
I thank PAP's @aleksandraketal for reaching out.
Thank you all. Without our medical professionals, Taiwan wouldn’t be the safe haven against this virus that it is today. Your work makes us proud— and the world takes note!
A huge part of soft power is education — and Taiwan continues to have a legacy of excellence in education. What better way to share our culture and values than through the channel of education? 2/3
The Foundation of Taiwan Organization for Philanthropic Education is an excellent resource for anyone studying in Taiwan — not only for us Taiwanese, but for those coming from abroad as well. 1/3
Taiwan is a beautiful mosaic, embracing people from many different walks of life and dissimilar backgrounds. Our archipelago-democracy needs to embrace diversity and resist the populist temptations of defining our polity as a monoethnic entity.
The outrageous narrative of "green terror" which the KMT seeks to perpetuate undermines the importance of unpacking Taiwan's own authoritarian legacy and the tremendous progress in terms of #transitionaljustice achieved by the people of our archipelago-democracy.
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Such comparisons are wildly inappropriate - and it has nothing to do with one's party identification. Decisions of ruthless authoritarian strongmen have affected real people, whose experience should not be undermined by petty political games.
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Editor-in-chief of pro-KMT newspaper UDN (once supposedly a paper of record), compares Tsai Ing-wen’s rule to rise to power of Hitler and Duterte, as part of the ridiculous Blue Camp trope that under the DPP Taiwan has become an elected dictatorship. vip.udn.com/vip/story/121152…
This publication definitely deserves a wider audience considering it’s concise and insightful analysis on Taiwan’s geopolitical position. globaltaiwan.org/2020/12/vol…
Among other topics, editor-in-chief Russel Hsiao outlines the changing perceptions about defense between Taiwan, Japan, and the US — and the need for substantive cooperation. 2/3
For those of you who are trying to keep up to date on geopolitics related to Taiwan, Global Taiwan Institute @globaltaiwan has an excellent bi-weekly publication that covers current events and trends. 1/3
Big thank you to my friends from Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association for their thoughtful and timely gift - a beautiful #ikebana calendar. I fell in love with ikebana as I read public policy at @UTokyo_News_en and its subtlety is a perfect remedy to busy think tank life.