Brian Hioe

The KMT has done a drastic rebrand on visual identity lately. Er, take a look for yourself

PRC military flights around Taiwan fall - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Honestly, it's anybody's guess as to why there has been such a drop in PLA air intrusions, at best we have educated guesses but I'm wary of hot takes on the matter

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Non-motorized canoe sails from Palau to Taiwan - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Fascinating read, this highlights links between Taiwanese Indigenous and other Austronesian Indigenous peoples

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Council to contest Li’s eligibility as legislator - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Looks like controversy about Li Zhen-xiu's citizenship status will continue

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Taiwan scholar barred from testifying in HK nat. sec trial over 'irrelevant' expertise A Taiwanese academic was barred from testifying in Tiananmen vigil activist Chow Hang-tung’s national security trial as the evidence he planned to give was “irrelevant” to the case at hand, a HK court...

Ho is notably one of Taiwan’s top experts on labor and social movements

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KMT’s version of defense expenditures may be similar to the TPP’s in logic

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Seeing as it shows the extent of US military capabilities that China does not currently have

How Taiwan Views the US War With Iran The Lai administration immediately sought to align itself with the United States, while debate in Taiwan rages over what the strikes mean for cross-strait dynamics.

Wrote about reactions in Taiwan to the US war with Iran in my latest for @thediplomat.com . What is notable is how Lai has sought to align Taiwan with the US and Israel, as well as how the pan-Green camp has viewed the war as reassuring in deterring China

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Ex-lawmaker urges defense bill passage - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Interesting to see former KMT legislator Jason Hsu call for passage of defense spending

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MOL to expand childcare subsidy scheme to encourage employer support - Focus Taiwan Taiwan's Ministry of Labor (MOL) on Wednesday announced an expanded subsidy scheme aimed at encouraging businesses to provide more childcare support to employees, including higher subsidies for employ...

Even if this does apply to blue-collar migrant workers, often they face dismissal if they are pregnant, so I'm not sure this will have much impact

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以色列匿蹤戰機寫歷史 F-35I首度擊落伊朗有人戰機 - 自由軍武頻道 以色列國防軍4日證實，1架以色列空軍的F-35I匿蹤戰機，稍早在伊朗首都德黑蘭上空擊落了一架伊朗所屬的雅克-130（Yak-130）戰機。這是F-35戰機服役以來，首次在空中戰鬥擊落有人駕駛的敵機，也是以色列空軍約40年來首度執行飛行員對飛行員的空中擊落任務。以軍表示，被擊落的雅克-130為俄製噴射

I don't think I've ever seen the Israeli military written about in such glowing terms in a front-page article for pan-Green media before--another impact of current events in Iran

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Thai civic groups launch course on Taiwan democracy | Taiwan News | Mar. 4, 2026 17:43 Participants study Taiwan’s democratic transition and referendum system | Mar. 4, 2026 17:43

Good to see this kind of grassroots cooperation between Taiwanese and Thai civil society

www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6313806

‪UDN reported on it. Now it’s in Chinese-language discourse. My day is made. Please, someone ask Chiang to comment on it at a presser‬

‪https://global.udn.com/global_vision/story/8663/9359199?from=udn_ch2_menu_v2_main_index‬

You mean this guy?

Not sure if you caught this, but MND source tells Liberty Times that the delivery of Patriot PAC-3 MSEs to Taiwan will likely be delayed because of this

See you all tonight 19:00 at @newbloommag.net! #SciComm #Taipei #Taiwan 🧪

On @Monocle_Radio in a few to discuss the impact on Taiwan from recent events in Iran

The Myth of Jeb’s Protégé If you believe their stories, Bush was a mentor to Rubio. The truth is more complicated.

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Please someone ask about this at the next MOFA presser

'We're going to unleash Chiang on these people': Rubio says US stepping up Iran campaign

Lolwut

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Based on that they seem to see nation-states as the fundamentally building block of the order on some ladder of abstraction

I also find interesting the inability of some leftist groups to distinguish people (who are messy, full of factions, and sometimes have inchoate views rather than being a romanticized unitary and monolithic The People) vs nation-states and primarily articulate responses

Last week individuals and collectives from across Asia met in Thailand for a regional gathering of The Peoples Want.
On the last day, they organized an action in solidarity with Iran.

We’ll probably see an increased momentum for greater LNG storage and other forms of energy if there are regional and global shortages

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Taiwan-US trade deal still in limbo, premier says - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

More uncertainty from the US on tariffs, it seems

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A controversial Karen warlord’s quiet stop in Taipei - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Interesting scoop by @DaveOhYeah. I wonder to what extent Taiwan carries on such diplomacy and it’s just never reported on

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Times like these are really telling when you see which groups and individuals leap to the romanticization of Khamenei simply because they oppose US empire and who has, you know, the capacity for critical thought. Perhaps both sides can be bad? What a thought

Times like these are really telling when you see which groups and individuals leap to the romanticization of Khamenei simply because they oppose US empire and who has, you know, the capacity for critical thought. Perhaps both sides can be bad? What a thought

The US’ Iran strikes are about China: researcher - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Somewhat illustrative for Taiwan to interpret all events in the world to be about China--projecting our domestic politics onto the rest of the world--and to amplify such views

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"Sono oltre settant'anni che Taiwan affronta minacce militari da parte della Cina"

@brianhioe.bsky.social sul Capodanno lunare e le minacce viste da Taiwan