Taipei Station has been taken over by Eid celebrations!

In a rare move, Weibo issued a public notice reminding users not to make comments mocking Taiwan’s earthquake. The platform has been laden with nationalistic comments. But Weibo said it has removed over 300 posts and temporarily suspended over 20 accounts making fun of the quake.

My take on Taiwan's former president Ma Ying-jeou's visit to China for China.Table. What I wrote on this matter two days ago doesn't seem to matter an awful lot after the shock of yesterday's earthquake. I hope that Taiwan can recover quickly. table.media/china/analyse/…

For the second time in a row, Indonesian migrant workers took the stage at 大港開唱 MEGAPORT FES., one of Taiwan's highest-profile independent music festivals in the southern city of Kaohsiung. The punk band Southern Riot sings about human rights and labor issues migrants face in Taiwan.

Taipei-based friends! Join Taiwan Media Workers Alliance tomorrow eve for a panel I'm moderating about the 10th anniversary of the Sunflower movement.

Location: Taiwan Inspiration Association 台灣勵志協會, Yitong St, 104, Taipei City, No. 47, 2F

Ich habe für Krautreporter 5 Mythen über China debunkt. Hier kannst du den Text lesen 👇

My latest for The World: Ten years ago, hundreds of students made history in Taiwan when they occupied the legislature for over 3 weeks. The Sunflower Movement would eventually stop a trade deal with China and change the course of Taiwanese politics. theworld.org/stories/2024-0…

The film Oppenheimer nuked the Bechdel test.

And disappeared the great physicist Lise Meitner, she who first comprehended that atoms could be and had been split.

How Does Organized Crime in Taiwan Compare to the 1990s? Part One: Business dominotheory.com/how-does-organ…

For the past year, Julie Yoon & I have been digging into gender inequality in South Korea and the factors underlying its superlatives on gender/family issues among all major economies (biggest gender wage gap, lowest in glass-ceiling index, lowest fertility rate, etc).

Thread:

The loss of the Google cache function will be a blow to China researchers - making it harder to know which information has been deleted by government censors

aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/20…

Many in the West praise Russian opposition leader #Navalny and the Oscar-nominated documentary about him. But there’s something else to remember: Being anti-Putin doesn’t negate Navalny’s imperialist and chauvinist views. Let’s take a look at specific examples in this thread 🧵