Reposting my tweetstorm on the 2020 Taiwan elections. The details remain much the same this time around:

I’ve also seen countless experts traveling to Taiwan just to talk to academics, diplomats and only a handful of experts. I really think business veterans and civilians should be part of the convo.

China has allegedly offered Taiwan Nano & Micro-Photonics Co. NT$23 billion (US$710 million) to transfer its silicon photonics chip technology to China and set up a plant there, media report, noting Taiwan legislators grilled the head of the National Development Council (NDC), an…

Landslide vote in European Parliament to adopt the anti-coercion instrument

528 for
24 against
19 abstentions

ACI gives EU tools to respond to economic bullying. Initially inspired by Trump tariffs, it gained momentum after China's coercion of Lithuania in a row over Taiwan

美麗島和新頭殼的民調, 柯文哲支持度趨勢差異很大, 不知如何解釋?

美麗島採用市話隨機撥打, 由訪員進行的電腦輔助電話訪問; 新頭殼則是以手機簡訊邀請回答線上問卷

看兩者的年齡層和教育程度分布都非常接近. 不過新頭殼受訪者必須另行連入問卷網站填問卷, 可能會篩選掉一些不熟悉使用網路的族群

Since everyone is a Qing historian now, if you want to read a book that does really change our understanding of the Qing state, and is an amazing piece of painstaking research, read this: hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?is…

Wishing a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to all, from AIT Washington! 🥮🏮🌕

Taiwan has about 100% of its GDP in foreign exchange reserves (and its shadow reserves: swaps and fx on deposit in the domestic banks)

Higher US rates = a massive windfall. The budget isn't a real constraint ...

Was deeply honored to testify yesterday on the CCP’s foreign media influence before the Senate Intelligence Committee in a rare open hearing. Recording is here plus my statement and those of the brilliant Glenn Tiffert and Alan Kohler. intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/open-…

Provocative piece on how diverse scientific approaches work in harmony theconversation.com/from-stock-mar…

中秋節快樂！

Glenn Tiffert on China’s struggle to build a domestic semiconductor industry:

Cult of Chiang, 1947, Shanghai.

We know that California has a housing shortage. But which jurisdictions are underbuilding? In a major new California YIMBY report, out today, we answer these questions. 🧵 cayimby.org/research/housi…

🤯 👉🏻 A local commentator who frequently writes us-scepticism narratives for pro-China Taiwanese media defends his work as a commercial enterprise. “Everyone just treats it as a job…It’s a tool to feed yourself.”
economist.com/asia/2023/09/2…

Happy first day of classes on The Farm 🌲🤓

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Join us on Wednesday September 27 at 9AM EST (9PM TAIPEI) as we release two
two reports that shed new light on #CCP #disinformation and participatory #propaganda tactics. doublethinklab.my.webex.com/doublethinklab… (pw doublethinklab)

#Throwback
Stepped into #DMV & saw AIT Chair, Laura Rosenberger's familiar welcoming smile w/ 江啟臣｜JOHNNY CHIANG. Chair #Rosenberger addressed long-standing commitment of the #US for #Taiwan to maintain sufficient self-defense capacity. A #RockSolid commitment for 🇹🇼 🇺🇸 #partnership #friendship !

Bringing a piece of their heritage to the Farm 🇼🇸🇦🇸

Stanford University's Special Language Program now includes a course in first-year Samoan, thanks to Brandy Atuatasi and Ari Patu 👏

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