Mein #WDR -Interview zu chinesischer #Spionage in Deutschland und der Notwendigkeit, die zu lange bei uns praktizierte #Blauäugigkeit zu beenden. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audi…

Zeit Online:

'investigators accuse Jian G. of having spied on the Chinese exile opposition in Germany. He is said to have worked in various positions in opposition groups and collected information about Chinese dissidents. He reported this to China'

Last night the assistant of the extreme right AfD top candidate for European elections, Maximilian Krah, was arrested in Dresden on suspicion of esponiage for China.

It has been 20 days after the mainshock in eastern #Taiwan , and now the area is struck by an aftershock cluster containing multiple M6 and M5 earthquakes in the last 24 hours. The strongest one is estimated to be M(L) 6.3, with hypocenter depth very close to the surface.

Three German citizens arrested on suspicion of having worked as foreign agents for Chinese Ministry of State Security with goal of forming research partnerships with 🇩🇪universities in order to extract militarily sensitive & useful knowledge.
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Nymphia Wind on 🧋: 'I obviously came here to represent my country, and I'm not going to do it by putting a flag on my dress. Boba tea is the national drink of #Taiwan . We invented boba tea. Put that in your brain! That was my way of being camp and still representing my country.'

Seems to be a small matter of civil aviation, but it’s another move by China to change the status quo. China has unilaterally started operating new flight paths, despite protests from Taiwan. This could potentially increase the airdefense burden on Taiwan.
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I had the pleasure of reviewing Lev Nachman & Jonathan Sullivan's book 'Taiwan: A Contested Democracy Under Threat' for Los Angeles Review of Books. It's the latest in a wave of academically-researched general-interest books on Taiwan, unthinkable just 5 years ago 1/lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-demo…

Taiwan’s Vice President-elect Lai Ching-te congratulates RuPaul's Drag Race winner Nymphia Wind 🇹🇼🍌👸🏻

MND early release states that 21 PLA aircraft have been detected operating around Taiwan since 0815 today, with 17 entering the de facto ADIZ.

Specific aircraft mentioned:

J-16, Y-8 (variants), UAVs

Last week TFCC elected new leadership:

President: Thompson Chau Thompson Chau
Vice President: David Demes David Demes 戴達衛
Treasurer: William Chen
Activities Chair: Michael Garber Michael Garber
Membership Chair: Lloyd Roberts Lloyd G. Roberts III

We’re excited about the year ahead!

🕊️ #Taiwan has formally declared MAY 19 as WHITE TERROR MEMORIAL DAY (白色恐怖記憶日) in memory of those who were persecuted under martial law over a period of 43 years that started on May 19, 1949 and ended in 1992. The memorial day will remain a work day. ey.gov.tw/Page/9277F759E…

„Es ist naiv zu erwarten, dass China eine neutrale Vermittlerrolle einnehmen könnte“, sagt Kristin Shi-Kupfer im Gespräch mit den #tagesthemen über Chinas Positionierung im Krieg gegen die Ukraine. (red)

New de-facto EU Ambassador to Taiwan will be Lutz Güllner 🇺🇦🇪🇺, until now the European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 Head of Strategic Communications.

Lutz is an experienced German expert on hostile disinformation, foreign information manipulation and interference to democracies.

In Taiwan, the EU is already

Scholz gets a front-page splash in People's Daily:

'XJP pointed out that the industrial & supply chains of 🇨🇳&🇩🇪 are deeply embedded...& their markets highly interdependent. Mutually beneficial cooperation between 🇨🇳& 🇩🇪 is not a 'risk''

Audrey Tang will be replaced by Huang Yen-nun who holds a PhD in information technology from the University of Maryland and once worked at AT&T. A far more conventional choice than ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳. Technocrat.

According to UDN, the Presidential Office is still trying to figure out what happened. President-elect Lai is considered a staunch supporter of the indigenous submarine program.

OK. This is very interesting. #TSMC supplier TOPCO Group (崇越集團) Chairperson J.W. Kuo (郭智輝) will become Taiwan's Minister of Economic Affairs in May. Taiwan's President-elect Lai Ching-Te is really putting efforts in #semiconductor .
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Here's a list of 賴清德Lai Ching-te's incoming natsec team, confirmed by The Wall Street Journal:
國防部 Ministry of National Defense, R.O.C. 🇹🇼: Wellington Koo
外交部 Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROC (Taiwan) 🇹🇼: Lin Chia-lung
大陸委員會 Mainland Affairs Council, ROC (Taiwan): Chiu Chui-cheng
National Security Council: Joseph Wu

More: on.wsj.com/4cVfeA6 + quotes from Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 🇺🇦 Lev Nachman Fang-Yu Chen

Here it comes. Taiwan's ex-President Ma Ying-jeou this morning calls on Taiwan's president-elect Lai Ching-te to:

1. obey ROC constitution & 'One China framework'
2. reaffirm 2 sides of TW Strait are not two countries
3. ditch Taiwan independence
4. return to 92 'Consensus'. /1