#Taiwan widespread agreement among legislators that rules around fertility treatment should be opened up, but the details around eligibility, egg freezing and surrogacy are all contested — and there is disagreement within parties as well as without
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🇨🇳 wind-turbine makers made up four of the world’s top five manufacturers last year. China accounted for 65% of the world’s newly added wind power capacity in 2023.

Leading the pack was Goldwind Science & Technology Co Ltd which installed 16.3GW of turbines last year. It was…

Cover Story: U.S. Widens China Trade Fight to Shipbuilding
Susan Schwab, a former USTR, described the unusual nature of the new 301 investigation, which was launched decades after the U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry lost its global competitiveness.
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Something you can sense in the interstices of Taiwan culture and society is a subtle way of both grieving and embracing the Japanese colonial period in TW's history. Later generations seem less hurt by the past but also tentative in appropriation of their Japanese cultural cache.

#BREAKING 🚨 A Chinese war plane has fired flares at an Australian helicopter which was conducting routine operations: Nine | #6NewsAU

MND report states that 3x PLA aircraft and 6x PLAN vessels were tracked around Taiwan today. 2 of the aircraft entered the de facto ADIZ.

#Chinese PLAAF J-10 deliberately launches flares into the flight path of a Royal Australian Navy Seahawk Helicopter in a manner that was extremely hazardous to the Aussie crew on board. How is this anything but an act of aggression in international airspace?? : ‘Unsafe and…

Dr. Malcolm Davis 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 Royal Australian Navy PLA continues to have its way all while the self-respected state actors are “managing” relations with China.

Money is probably better spent on targeted projects and expanding facilities for producing existing, proven weapons. Quantity is going to be a major component of quality in the next war....

One does wonder how the KMT would handle relations with Russia given its efforts on maintaining good relations with China

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Taiwan’s Chief of General Staff Mei Chia-Shu attended INDOPACOM’s Change of Command ceremony, but did not appear in uniform.

Prior to his promotion, Mei served as the commander of the Navy.

Good morning from 3,000 meters.

One, a doctor and former non-district legislator who won a by-election against a gangster for a regional seat.
The other, elected, almost recalled, didn't run again, jumped ship, and is now a non-district legislator.

Short term memory loss or what?

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Panai is a hero for this.

I don’t believe the KMT or TPP would do any better, but she was given some promises and the DPP wilted on this.

Power will not negotiate away power unless it is to keep power.

Taiwan needs to continue the road to decolonizing.

5.9 earthquake just now in Hualien, felt all over Taiwan

Temple-goers in southern Taiwan carried deities into the river over the weekend in an annual event to bring prosperity and fortune to Chiayi County.

Taiwan grateful for US security assistance, but must invest in building its own strengths, vice president-elect Hsiao Bi-khim says – Reuters reuters.com/world/asia-pac…

Indigenous activists are packing up their encampment in Taipei's 228 Peace Park after nearly eight years of calling for Taiwan's government to return land to Indigenous peoples.

'The DPP does not take Indigenous people or our history seriously.'

Disappointed by the Tsai administration's record on transitional justice for Indigenous groups, activists are ending a yearslong demonstration demanding land return.