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Founder, editor @ketagalanmedia . Advisor @globaltaiwan , NTNU. Board @ustaiwanwatch , @FAPA_HQ . Taiwan state-building, amateur cook, vintage robot collector.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 months

A piece I wrote to mark Taiwan's performance in #Paris2024 : a mature, empathetic, confident, principled, tolerant, and celebratory nation. "It is something that, more than any flag or anthem, represents Taiwan."

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Ketagalan Media

@KetagalanMedia

2 months

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, Taiwan's athletes and fans displayed a maturing national identity. Despite challenges, they stood tall, showing what sets Taiwan apart. #TaiwanIdentity #Olympics2024 Read full article 👇

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2 years

Taipei 101 tonight #安倍晋三 #ShinzoAbe #Japan

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Taiwan celebrates 七夕 today, a traditional holiday of romance, by totally ignoring the advances of a guy next door with a history of domestic abuse #Taiwan #China

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C'mon everyone...

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5 years

Hi everyone, just want to share my grandmother of 96 died yesterday from existing health issues plus covid19 in NY. My family was able to see her one last time, through a video call with the nurse in her room. Call your family and stay safe.

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Most people in Taiwan did NOT come from China after the Civil War; there were already millions living in Taiwan prior to 1945. They never wanted to be China; the post-1945 people converged on that consensus over the years. @stavernise @ewong

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China and Taiwan: A Torrid Backstory (Published 2023)

Tensions between the United States and China over Taiwan have been on the rise. Here’s what lies behind them.

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Taiwan has gone through a fundamental shift in cultural hegemony; the Chinese culture enforced by the KMT dictatorship dominated Taiwan until ~30 years ago, when Taiwan became more open, diverse, democratic, and focused on its uniqueness apart from China. 1/

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4 years

The @WHO 's Facebook account seems to be blocking the word "Taiwan" from being posted in comments:

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2 years

The tantrum continues---as many have pointed out, is this level of reaction proportional to a one-day diplomatic visit? Is this the kind of regime we really ought to keep "working with"?

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JUST IN: China says it will halt all talks with the US over military and climate change issues following Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan

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In her National Day speech, @iingwen referred to China as "北京當局", the "Beijing authorities." China calls Taiwan's government the "Taiwan authorities," as a euphemism that denotes Taipei as subordinate to Beijing.

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4 years

The height of Chinese diplomatic language: "we will make them feel pain in some places that they can't think of." @globaltimesnews

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2 years

From a friend in Taiwan: "the festive reaction in Taiwan towards Pelosi's visit really means how much the Taiwanese people are sick and tired of China's bullying, and me inviting a friend over to chill is none of your f*cking business"

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To me, the most beautiful thing about Taiwan's election is how we can be so passionate at rallies last night, but quietly, orderly cast our votes this morning and go back to our own lives.

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2 years

In front of Irvine Taiwanese Church in Laguna Woods today: #LagunaWoods

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9 months

For everyone who worked hard this past week writing, thinking, talking, and speaking up for Taiwan: #Taiwanelections2024

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2 years

Most people of the Nationalist Chinese group have moved on, but there are those who became enraged at the loss of their cultural superiority, at "how the world has changed", taken over by people they used to look down upon. Not too different from white supremacists. 2/

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2 years

Missing from most media reports is that #LagunaWoods is a top retirement destination for Taiwanese Americans from all over the US, including many political activists for Taiwan's nationhood over the past decades. The shooter knew who he was targeting and where to find them.

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3 years

@TheEconomist Most dangerous place on Earth is the minds of Western elites who thinks Taiwan as nothing more than a problem to be "solved."

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3 years

"You have forgotten which country you are from," one popular comment read. "The official position of the country should be the position of all Chinese people." "I don't understand how I 'betrayed' the country," Wang told CNN.

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2 years

A week has gone by and nothing from @StopAAPIHate or any other major Asian American rights groups on the #LagunaWoods hate crime targeted against Americans of Taiwanese descent. Last time I checked, Taiwan is in Asia. Profoundly, profoundly, profoundly disappointed.

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2 years

This is why the #LagunaWoods shooter opened fire in a well-known Taiwanese retirement community. I'd like to believe the shooter acted on his own rather than a part of some twisted plan. But the fringe anti-Taiwanese ideology that motivated him is toxic. 4/end

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10 months

My response to the @BonnieGlaser @jessicacweiss , Christensen FA article, also @osmastro & @ryanl_hass "US-Taiwan-China relations requires wisdom...but China is the one that insists on military action as a legitimate means." in @TheDiplomatMag :

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Taiwan Strait Tensions: Don’t Blame the Victim

The rush to find a China-U.S. modus vivendi on Taiwan often involves intentionally overlooking the unequal nature of “provocations.”

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Hey @elonmusk , or anyone else whose business or investment makes them realize they need to understand the basics of Taiwan Geopolitics, DM me for a crash course.

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2 years

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9 months

Polls opening right now

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2 years

Maybe then it's not a surprise that extremely disillusioned people, who perceive themselves the victims, resort to similar playbooks---including massacres and terrorism. 3/

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

11 months

Hou, Ko, Ma: negotiate one page agreement on Tuesday, says they didn't know what they agreed to on Saturday Same people: "we will negotiate peace with China"

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

"Your false speech online is illegal and has seriously damaged social order. Will you cease your actions?" "Yes." "If you continue your stubbornness, you will face the wrath of the law! Do you understand?" "I do." Signed: #LiWenliang , 1/3/2020

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3 years

It's not that hard, @pewresearch : if 204,000 people said they're Taiwanese, you report 204,000 Taiwanese.

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Ketagalan Media

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3 years

CNN puts out a quick rundown of Asian American Pacific Islander data (taken from US Census' American Community Survey, which counts self-reported Taiwanese as Taiwanese):

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Had the honor of meeting Taiwan's ambassador @bikhim and former Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today. What did we talk about? US-Taiwan technological cooperation and #semiconductors , of course. She is a favorite to become the next Vice President of Taiwan.

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3 years

Having to constantly insist you own some territory...sounds pretty imperialist to me

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Shooter of the #LagunaWoods massacre on a Taiwanese church mailed a 7-volume manifesto named Diary of a [Taiwanese] Independence-Eradicating Angel to Worl Journal. The newspaper turned the manifesto over to the police w/o publishing contents.

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3 years

It's time for the rest of the world to understand how Chinese authorities has vastly exploited tools meant for free speech--tools that the CCP doesn't even allow their own citizens to use. This, as with many other campaigns, are premeditated attacks on democracy.

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I know a lot of people have said this already, but if #Taiwan can keep ourselves #covid19 -free for a whole year, then we can beat community spread. #台灣加油

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4 years

"Consistent with the best wishes of the people of Taiwan"---a long way from "to be decided by the Chinese on either side of the Strait".

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Lee Ying-yuan was a Taiwan Independence and Statehood activist before it was cool. But more than an inspiration, I will remember him coming to my event the morning after 2016 elections, even though he had just fought for reelection 12 hours ago. A mentor. We will miss you.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

A historical moment, for a US House Speaker to pay tribute to the victims of a regime that the US supported in the past in Taiwan.

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Nancy Pelosi

2 years

Together with former political prisoners our delegation visited the Nat’l Human Rights Museum: a tribute to heroes who suffered & fought for Taiwan’s Democracy. Then we heard from civil society leaders on human rights. We came to listen & learn; we left inspired by their courage.

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3 years

Again, see how easy it is to NOT lump Taiwanese together with the Chinese @pewresearch ?

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NPR

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MYTH #1 : Asian Americans are a monolith More than 22 million people of Asian descent live in the U.S. While those of East Asian and Southeast Asian descent make up the largest shares — no group makes up a majority. A huge variety of ethnicities exist within regional groups.

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3 years

Risking of giving @yanisvaroufakis any more exposure than he deserves, but "Western imperialism" is exactly his assuming he can speak authoritatively about an exotic, far away country he clearly has very little knowledge of.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

It's tempting to compare the #Capitol riots to the Sunflower Movement, but a better reference point might be Lien Chan's refusal to concede in 2004.

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Ketagalan Media

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4 years

Rioters upset with election results is not new to Taiwan: in 2004, KMT presidential candidate Lien Chan refused to concede, called the election a fraud, and demanded a recount. Rioters set fire on the streets and rammed down the gates to Kaohsiung's courthouse. #capitol

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Why does China get to say "we can either stop killing people or stop killing the planet, but not both"?

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Quoted in @RadioFreeAsia 's report on @pewresearch reissuing chart to show "Taiwanese" as a separate category. "Through communicating over and over again, we want to tell the world where Taiwan is, what Taiwan is, and who the Taiwanese are."

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在美臺灣人成功正名"臺灣裔"非"中國裔"

在美國的臺灣人最近爭取“正名”成功。美國皮尤研究中心近日發佈“更正版”的亞裔美國人人口普查報告，將自我認同“臺灣裔”的族羣，從“中國裔”族羣獨立出去計算。

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3 years

#Tiananmen is a reminder, especially to people who claim that holding the Chinese Communist Party accountable to its countless atrocities is somehow "racist," that no one has suffered more at the hands of the CCP than the Chinese people themselves.

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2 years

"Artwork" depicting invasion of Taiwan, part of the fantasy and glorification of violence. The work was drawn two years ago---not so funny now, considering how much this looks like what Ukraine looks like in real life.

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The shooting at #LagunaWoods should bring attention to a grave matter: online fantasies among Han Chinese ethno-nationalist groups about punishing and killing Taiwanese. Chinese forums online often write or share memes featuring horrifying images of raping and killing Taiwanese.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

The sense an era passed is especially strong for me personally--my grandmother, who was a year younger than Lee, also passed away this year. I saw in her the same complicated identity and worldview brought on by the Japanese, Chinese and Taiwanese experiences. Rest in peace.

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4 years

"Lee Teng-hui’s is a microcosm of Taiwan’s 20th century history itself. During his life, Taiwan was a Japanese colony, occupied Chinese territory, and a Taiwanese state in its own right--in large part due to his own efforts." By @ChiehtingYeh

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1 year

A bit late to the party, but my "review" of Wave Makers, the Taiwanese political drama on Netflix: A version of Taiwan politics WITHOUT China as a factor---and a better version of Taiwan politics because of that. For @UoNARI_Taiwan

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

9 months

Breaking news: Shih Ming-te, Taiwan pro-democracy activist who was court-martialed in the 1979 Formosa Incident, passed away this morning:

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快訊》民進黨前主席施明德凌晨辭世享壽83歲

前民進黨黨主席施明德去年底驚傳肝癌復發住進榮總加護病房，今（15日）凌晨傳出辭世，享壽83歲，北榮、前立委林忠正今日均證實訊息。施為1941年1月15日生，辭世日正好為其生日，今天也剛好是施明德83歲生日。

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

11 months

Of the four men running for president in Taiwan, only one knows he's actually running for sure. We're less than two months to election day.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Brilliant for marketing, horrible for a well informed public. Good graphic though (if wildly inaccurate)

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The Economist

3 years

Taiwan is the most dangerous place on Earth. A war over the island would be a catastrophe: America and China must work harder to avoid it. Our cover this week

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A lot of explainers, for clarity's sake, had to start at the Chinese Civil War. Understandable, but this gives off the wrong impression that Taiwan was an empty island until the "split"; that is completely untrue.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Now @icao is not only toeing the PRC line its picked up exactly what Chinese officials do--睜眼說瞎話, blatantly lie with a straight face... @wraillantclark would love to know what's going on.

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@hyipttwh ICAO has not blocked anyone for asking anything about anywhere. Please do not contribute to the spread of this misinformation.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

Of course cotton pickers just break out in synchronized cotton picking dance in full regalia, nothing forced here

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4 years

China's propaganda has already started to against #boycottxinjiangcotton . Happy Uyghurs are dancing and enjoying picking cotton that there is no forced labor. For brutal China's regime, anyone who can only play dance is the happiest person in the world.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

To @nytimes : if we believe supporting Taiwan always "irritates" China, would we ever do it? "Easing restrictions might be construed as a strong support for Taipei. But Biden does not need an added irritant for the fraught relationship with Beijing."

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

Apparently 中國台灣 (Taiwan, China) is ok, but "Taiwan" is not:

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Shout out to @emilyywu and @ghostislandme for being featured in Elle Magazine Taiwan!

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2 years

From a friend: "We're more concerned with getting laid than getting bombed"

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4 years

Can't be in Taiwan right now so

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4 years

Quoted in @dw_chinese by @WilliamYang120 : "The rise of Taiwan is deeply rooted in the quiet confidence of the Taiwanese people; If Taiwan charts a clear vision of how it can help lead the world, and take sure and steady steps towards that vision, it can sustain the momentum.”

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Latest for @dw_chinese - With less than 20 days until the WHA, more countries are lobbying for #Taiwan 's inclusion into @WHO . I talked to @ChiehtingYeh and @chiaoning_su about the intention behind these countries' support for Taiwan and ...

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

US #Election2020 vote counting is making Taiwan's election look mundane in comparison...wait that was in 2020 too?!

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Low-tech, public, efficient. I ♥️ Taiwan vote counting. #Taiwan2020 #TaiwanElection

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

When people say "The Taiwan Strait is an active shipping lane", this is what they mean: each dot is a bulk carrier, cargo ship, container ship or tanker etc:

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

@icao "Fact-based discourse" means recognizing the fact that #Taiwan has no representation in @icao , @WHO , or the @UN . And then blocking people and deleting their tweets en masse-- #cyberbullying @UNICEF ?

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Scotland did try and the UK was totally fine with it. Then again the analogy is not correct, the PRC has never ruled Taiwan. There is no "split." There is only China trying to invade and annex Taiwan.

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Would the UK remain calm and show restraint if Scotland split itself from the UK?

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From Made in Taiwan to Designed in Taiwan...Taiwan to inaugurate "Taiwan Design Research Institute". Aesthetics played a major role in making political identities tangible; or, political identities are aesthetics.

蔡英文：2020成立台灣設計研究院，不只MIT還要Design in Taiwan - 未來城市＠天下 - 進步城市的新想像

2019年10月23日，蔡英文總統出席〈洞見設計・台灣動起來〉全國設計論壇，擔任閉幕致詞貴賓，也為2020年2月將成立的台灣設計研究院，寫下重要的里程碑。

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5 years

Taiwan should enact whatever policies needed to get these reporters relocated to Taiwan ASAP. @iingwen @MOFA_Taiwan @DPPonline @eballgogogo

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

@catielila Agreed; and framing the US-China relationship as a simple "Cold War or Not" dichotomy is not terribly helpful. PRC in 2021 is not the same as USSR in 1951, and relying too much on the analogy limits our capacity to think of solutions.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Taiwanese society have long been asked about "independence", "unification" and "status quo," but since surveys like the @nccu1927 poll began in the early 90s, what people understand these terms to mean have changed drastically.

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Ross Feingold (方恩格)

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Poll in #Taiwan reveals depite negatives views about #China , support for independence is less than half: Independence now: 7% Maintain status quo, move towards independence: 40.8% Maintain status quo: 39.1% Maintain status quo, move towards unification: 7% Unification now: 1.8%

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

@icao Sorry to hear you are inundated with spam. But everyone have the same one question: how do you address the fact that #Taiwan is left out of the @UN system?

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Official @UN @icao @WHO standard procedure: "any information will first go through Beijing and then shared to its sovereign territories (i.e., Taiwan)." Has Beijing shared anything with Taiwan other than contempt and utter disregard? No. #coronarvirus #WuhanCoronavirus

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Joanna Chiu

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Response from UN aviation agency to me about how #Taiwan can get information it needs to fight #CoronavirusOutbreak : “To the best of our understanding, (all info) promptly shared by China with ... stakeholders and officials in its sovereign territories.”

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2 years

Not #tbt yet, but a friend shared this picture of @SpeakerPelosi in San Francisco from 2001:

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2 years

Tourists gathered at the southern coast lookout spots to watch PLA war games:

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

1 year

iPhone billionaire Terry Gou announces running mate--actress Tammy Lai, who ran for president herself in the Netflix drama "Wave Makers"! Terry, I think she'd have a better chance than you do!

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Presidential aspirant Terry Gou announces running mate - Focus Taiwan

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. founder and aspiring presidential candidate Terry Gou (郭台銘) on Thursday announced veteran singer-actress Tammy Lai (賴佩霞) as his prospective running mate for Taiwan's...

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

As much as we criticize the @WHO , this move is completely regrettable and short-sighted. The United States created the @UN system, and it has a responsibility to fix it, not give up on it. As whether this could be used as a leverage...what benefit is he asking in exchange?

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BREAKING: Trump announced the U.S. is officially leaving the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic. WHO is currently coordinating international vaccine and drug trials to fight #Covid19

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2 years

I just won some ice cream! Seriously though...a masterclass move for Pelosi, way to stay cool for Taiwan, and a blunder for everyone else:

@KetagalanMedia

Ketagalan Media

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2 years

Officials confirm that @SpeakerPelosi will indeed visit Taiwan---the first for a US House speaker in 25 years. Taiwanese official added that she is expected to stay in Taiwan overnight.

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As the election 2024 winds down, I want to share this little piece of history...first ever female president of Taiwan, elected in 2016. Thank you for your service, President @iingwen .

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949 but #WWII ended in 1945...?

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Full analysis to come shortly; overall @kuomintang actually did better than 2016, with growth of two newer parties--both of which will now have to further clarify their legislative agendas to voters.

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5 years

Changes to the upcoming 2020 Taiwan Legislative Yuan from 2016, in one graphic by Lucien Ong:

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen awarding Speaker Nancy Pelosi the Special Grand Cordon Order of Propitious Clouds, the highest civilian honor in Taiwan:

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

The greatest statesman in Taiwan's modern history is one for the ages. He oversaw Taiwan's peaceful transition from authoritarian rule to democracy, and set Taiwan on the path of nation-building from within. The end of an epoch.

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Emily Y. Wu

4 years

Former Taiwan president Lee Tung-Hui passed away tonight at 7:24pm. He was 98 years old.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

This was the original vision for @KetagalanMedia all along--because we weren't satisfied with how Taiwan was covered in English, so we did it ourselves. Now Taiwan has a louder, richer, and more legitimate voice, thanks to everyone @michaelturton mentioned, and more.

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Ketagalan Media

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3 years

Thanks @michaelturton for the shout out! Not only has the volume of Taiwan coverage in English increased in the last decade, the quality and depth has improved by leaps and bounds too. We're proud to be an early part of the movement.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Is it too late to join the @icao #icaoblock party...? @icao #taiwan

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Michael Cannings

5 years

You have to feel for the poor @icao social media intern who has to block everyone who even mentions Taiwan. Take a break, get some fresh air, maybe have a boba tea. Doing the bidding of autocrats is thirsty work.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

1 year

It also may lead to the opinion that since everyone in Taiwan came from the mainland after 1949, the two sides SHOULD "reunify."

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

My great grandfather taught himself Mandarin, and was drafted as an interpreter for the Imperial Army in China. During the 228 massacres, he packed up his old Japanese uniform and his lieutenant's sword, and hid them in a well behind an old church in Chiayi...

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Milo Hsieh

5 years

February 28, 1947. The year that my Grandpa was born. To this day, they still don’t know what happened that day. Or the relatives who went missing in the years after. We don’t talk about it. I hope one day, we can find out the truth about it. What happened on #228 ?

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

1 year

Otherwise a very detailed, well-done explainer of the Taiwan-China standoff, especially noting that Taiwan is struggling to be heard and assert its own agency.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Lastly, Beijing sees any reforms of ROC state symbols in Taiwan, a 100% issue domestic to Taiwan, as a "provocation" that justifies an invasion of Taiwan. This duress is one major factor people in Taiwan has to weigh while deciding whether or when to change the "status quo."

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

First time giving a full-length talk in Taiwanese, we'll see how it goes...!

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3 years

Join @ChiehtingYeh for an online discussion on #Taiwan 's soft power, cultural export and US-Taiwan relations, hosted by NTNU's Int'l Taiwan Studies Center. Talk is in Taiwanese. May 27 1:20pm (Taiwan Time) May 26 10:20pm (PDT)

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

We're keeping the record of one mass shooting a week. I guess in addition to teachers, pastors, librarians, and supermarket cashiers, we'd have to give guns to doctors and nurses too. It's a national arms race. I wonder who's counting the cash.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Meanwhile, a few shops in China are "mourning" #ShinzoAbe 's assassination by offering buy one get one free and 40% off deals

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

What they are NOT talking about is "breaking away" from the People's Republic of China, because Taiwan is not and has never been governed by the PRC.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

Also was able to have Ambassador @bikhim sign a copy of "Why and How the U.S. Matters" by @ustaiwanwatch ! Amb. Hsiao wrote a preface for the book.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

2 years

In another show of force from China, a cafe replaced all flavors of Americanos on its menu to "Chineseos"

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

@catielila Doesn't help when people wrongly assume Taiwan is a part of China; Taiwan is trying to not get invaded. By China.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

One Country, One System, One Voice. This is why Apple Daily had to go (the only newspaper headline NOT celebrating the passing of the National Security Law)

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Insisting on profits and politics even in life and death situations, and Beijing wonders why people in Taiwan aren't warming up to the idea of living under CCP rule.

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Roy Ngerng 鄞義林 Khûn Gī-lîm

3 years

"Shanghai Fosun,... the distributor of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the Greater China area, has insisted that any sale of the vaccine to Taiwan, either to the government or a private company, will have to go through its distribution network."

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

Which is to say, the "status quo" as the Taiwanese society understands it is NOT being halfway governed by Beijing somehow, NOR a kind of "self-ruling" province or constituency of the PRC like Scotland or the Cayman Islands.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

"After speaking with CNN, his Chinese social media accounts were banned, leaving him unable to contact his family back home."

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

Beijing didn't object to Taiwan joining the @WHO 's world health assembly before 2017. Then Taiwan's China-friendly @kuomintang lost the presidency, and China started blocking Taiwan again. Who's playing politics with human lives? #TweetforTaiwan

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Ambassador Michele Sison

4 years

Is the health of Taiwan's 23 million people less important now than it was before 2017? Or, is the #PRC punishing Taiwan voters for freely choosing their own leader? #TweetforTaiwan

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

3 years

@timmyzone @catielila There was a time when novels, newspapers, & textbooks were printed in POJ for mass consumption (among the people who could read POJ, still a small slice of the population). The scandal isn't just that we weren't taught POJ, but that no one even knew that these things existed.

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

5 years

Hi everyone, I've finally taken the plunge...great to meet everyone this past month in Taiwan @WilliamYang120 @catielila @heguisen @lnachman32 @emilyywu @MargaretKLewis @brianhioe @durrivedfunktor @KeepTaiwanFree_ @liaoshenyi @Diplateevo @SunnyCheungky @donovan_smith +more

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

1 year

"The @kuomintang primaries are not just cheap political melodrama. They are formal processes for the KMT to decide how it needs to keep reinventing itself to survive." My take for @UoNARI_Taiwan :

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KMT’s Lost Opportunity to Reinvent Itself Again for Survival

Written by Chieh-Ting Yeh. If—and it’s a big if—the KMT could reinvent itself again, it could find a way to shed the old rifts between the ideological and the opportunistic camps. It could present …

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Chieh-Ting Yeh

4 years

In her #inauguration speech, @iingwen on #Taiwan #China : "I also hope that the leader on the other side of the Strait will take on the same responsibility, and work with us to jointly stabilize the long-term development of cross-strait relations."

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