While Taiwan does not officially recognize Christmas, #Taiwanese love a celebration, ensuring its larger cities have a #festive spirit Here a local #Christian congregation brings their version of #Christmas onto the streets of Taipei #Christmas2024 #Taiwan #聖誕節

China kept a key interest rate unchanged — a move widely expected by economists — as it seeks to keep powder dry ahead of possible escalation in trade tensions with the US trib.al/aXXkSUn

Taiwan Blocks Uber Purchase of Delivery Hero’s Arm, CNA Says trib.al/alaWPiY

Revenge is just around the corner

Today, on Mao's birthday, let us remember that in a 1937 interview he said that Taiwan should be independent. “…we will extend them (the Koreans) our enthusiastic help in their struggle for independence. The same thing applies for Taiwan.” More here: thediplomat.com/2022/05/when-t…

🇨🇳/🇺🇸 Eileen Gu aka Gu Ailin (谷爱凌): “I always represent China. Whatever shape I’m in, I always represent China.” (the Jan 2, 2025 episode of 体坛零距离 on 🇨🇳 state media CCTV)

Well I guess that answers why the KMT and not the DPP are leading Taiwan’s delegation to Trump’s inauguration.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said an agreement to free hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been finalized bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Paul Wallace Philip Glamann

China has reportedly freed five Mintz Group employees who were detained in 2023 trib.al/0StmHcd

China announced its military exercises around Taiwan today with this rather tasteless image

Our BBC live page has more and this and the unfolding chaos being caused globally by #Trump's tariffs. Click on link below to read more... bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp8v…

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The new White House influencer briefings are a terrible look on.ft.com/4k8RbAB

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Jack White claims he can name any Beatles song in just one second. And then he starts to name them.

No Kings. Except, that is, except for Angus and Stephen.

1,000 retweets and they have to bring us back

Why the sudden wave of retaliations and escalations from Beijing? The answer lies in the eight editorials published in the People’s Daily over the past few days. Written under the pen name 钟才文, these pieces are widely understood to represent the views of the Office of the

As anxiety over Donald Trump’s commitment to protecting Taiwan from Chinese military aggression lingers in Taipei, the island’s officials are fanning out across Europe to shore up friendships bloomberg.com/news/articles/…