This guy is a more effective communicator than 95% of left-wing electeds. Connecting the moral purpose of Palestine solidarity protests with his values as a father 🫡

Getting the Taiwan Fellowship program running is critical as authoritarian forces threaten the Indo-Pacific region, including Taiwan—a key US ally. With Senator Marco Rubio, I'm urging Department of State to finalize an agreement to allow fellows to arrive in Taiwan by the end of this year.

Several hundred, mostly young people, are gathered outside of the legislature right now in demonstration of the KMT’s actions

DID YOU KNOW that Taiwan's new Vice President, Bi-khim Hsiao 蕭美琴, wrote a foreword for our book? 😍 Here's a photo of our editors with the VP and our book, "Why and How the US Matters." Read below for our thread on the inauguration of Taiwan's President 賴清德Lai Ching-te & VP Bi-khim. 🧵 1/

The beloved & eloquent 苗博雅 mesmerized a crowd of over 3,000 outside the legislature. "It's been ten years. I didn't give up, right? I didn't turn my head and leave, right? It's because we're all people who really love Taiwan." Everybody cheered like crazy. ❤️❤️🔥

Very exciting & grateful to be at the protest outside Taiwan's legislature today, as people come to protest against the legislature for wanting to push through a law that will give it over reaching powers to presecute others. Organizers say over 30,000 people are at the protest!

My mom: “They’re trying to signal that they don’t recognize Lai as president. But by not showing up, they also don’t recognize Taiwan as their country. It’s like we’re back in the Chen era, when the KMT wreaked havoc to impede progress, and the DPP suffered as a result.”

Jenny Li and Peng-Hsuan Chen of US Taiwan Watch deep dives into Lai's inaugural speech. "It's time to stop 'reading tea leaves to look for brewing tensions,'" they said. ketagalanmedia.com/2024/05/22/lai…

New article by our editor and writer, Jenny Li & Peng-Hsuan Chen 陳芃瑄, on President Lai Ching-te’s inaugural address. How might Lai’s policies continue or differ from that of his predecessor, Tsai Ing-wen? How will he unite Taiwan amid serious political divisions? Read more...

On The Diplomat 1)Not bc DPP. 2)KMT&TPP forcibly pushed the bill unnecessarily 3)So ppl doubted the motivation, e.g. the #China factor. 4)Care natl security&low poli trust in Legislative Yuan. thediplomat.com/2024/05/why-ar… UNLV PoliSci Fang-Yu Chen Charles K.S. Wu Yao-Yuan Yeh UNLV

Oh, now we see where this is going quite quickly, with efforts to put Tsai administration officials in jail. The KMT sure does like trying to arrest members of previous political administrations whenever they get a bit of power

We contribute the second analysis of #Taiwan's #Bluebird movement on The Diplomat in response to comments falsely concluding that the it was simply mobilized by DPP and was not supported in the poll thediplomat.com/2024/06/taiwan… UNLV PoliSci Fang-Yu Chen Charles K.S. Wu Yao-Yuan Yeh

Some news--my first book is coming out from Repeater Books in January! It's fiction, but drawing from the experiences of my early 20s as a young activist in the Sunflower Movement, Occupy Wall Street, the founding of New Bloom Magazine, and beyond barnesandnoble.com/w/taipei-at-da…

Personally I (and most of Taiwan) feel that childless cat ladies make strong presidents.

JOIN US on 9/3 GW Sigur Center for Asian Studies! 🎉 With a panel of top Taiwanese and Taiwanese American experts, we will explore how Taiwan can navigate uncertainties in foreign policy, Taiwan-US relations, military reform, self-defense, China policy, and regional connections.

Many thanks to Phelim Kine “老 康“ at POLITICO for featuring "Revolutionary Taiwan" in his "1 Book, 3 Questions" segment. As @mhar4 & I argue the threat from China siphons off Taiwanese resources & energy from quality-of-life issues & long-term socioecon planning politico.eu/newsletter/chi…

This is a real image released by the Chinese Coast Guard regarding China's military drills around Taiwan today, this is not a meme, lol. Originally seen on 沃草 Watchout, which had the same reaction

Hi friends! I think I'll be leaving X/Twitter and moving on to Bluesky: jennyycli.bsky.social . It was a fun 10 years.