🚨 #China 🇨🇳 to Allow Tourists from #Fujian Province to Visit #Taiwan 🇹🇼

Easing Cross-Strait Tensions or a Strategic Maneuver?

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.Dr. S. Jaishankar (Modi Ka Parivar), 🇮🇳 External Affairs Minister calls Taiwan an important partner for India in the field of semiconductor & mentions the India-Taiwan labour pact.
India is perhaps the only major country vocal about the merits of engaging with Taiwan👏🏼👏🏼

🚨 'Taiwan is keen to collaborate with India and help it become a leader in the semiconductor space', says Jason Ho (TCC Chairman)

在中國政治归政治。
#田馥甄 #台灣 #中國

Major Shakeup in #China 🇨🇳: Strategic Support Force ( #SSF ) abolished.

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🚨 Both discussed the joint operational & combat training exercises, indicating the depth of their military partnership. This meeting came as the #US has accused #China of providing #Russia with components that are supporting its 'brutal war of aggression against #Ukraine '.

#US Secretary of State (SoS) Secretary Antony Blinken visit to China 🇨🇳

Image courtesy: Hua Chunying 华春莹
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The Taiwanese Civil Aviation Administration has reiterated its disagreement with the flight paths that #Chinese airlines have been taking, due to concerns about safety & sovereignty issues related to #Taiwan 's airspace.

Xi told Blinken: ' We hope that the United States can also take a positive view of China's development. Only when this fundamental problem is solved and the 'first button' is buttoned can China-US relations truly stabilize, get better, and move forward”

To avoid any mishappening, the #Taiwanese 🇹🇼 Civil Aviation Administration ( #CAA ) 🛫 ✈️ restated its objection to the controversial flight path taken by #Chinese 🇨🇳 airlines.

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Time to ammend the constitution! 😆

National #Security Council (NSC) Secretary-General Wellington Koo will head Taiwan's #defense ministry, and current Foreign Minister Joseph Wu will replace him at the NSC, starting May 20, the incoming president announced Thursday. focustaiwan.tw/politics/20240…

🚨 #G7 meeting on the Italian 🇮🇹 island of #Capri reiterated the importance of peace and stability across the #TaiwanStrait , referring to it as critical to #global security and prosperity.

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#China tactfully tailors its messaging to fit its domestic narrative, painting the #USA as a destabilizing presence in the Middle East. Also, Beijing's approach to the region targets 3 key audiences:
1️⃣ Domestic populace
2️⃣ The Arab community
3️⃣ The Global South
Sana Hashmi | 胡莎娜

This is how the Chinese repeatedly accuse him of being against peace between #China and #Taiwan .

他說我是 #中國人 。 好笑 😂

Death row inmates are challenging Taiwan's use of the death penalty at the country's Constitutional Court.

🚨 #Taiwan 's government has announced plans to eliminate all remaining statues of late President Chiang Kai-shek from public spaces. This is viewed as a deliberate effort to break ties with his controversial legacy & the #China connection.

Image Courtesy: South China Morning Post
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