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Surprise Chinese Drills ‘Advance On’ Taiwan - Domino Theory China launched drills around Taiwan on April 1. Based on Chinese media coverage and military propaganda packages, the exercises appear to be the first “major” ones of 2025. Precise numbers have not ye...

I'd like to try to bring a little attention to an even better reading of the “Shell” video by
@joshuamwilkes.bsky.social and @imtienyikrislih.bsky.social over at Domino Theory. They discuss things I missed or didn't know. Bravo!
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Drills are over, we can have our lives back now

Filmmaker Midi Z asks the world to help war-torn, quake-hit Myanmar - Focus Taiwan Myanmar-born Taiwanese filmmaker Midi Z (趙德胤) on Monday made a tearful appeal in New Taipei, saying the Southeast Asian nation devastated by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake last Friday needs help from ever...

Originally from Myanmar, Midi Z is considered among the rising generation of Taiwan's filmmakers

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#東京タワー

The destruction of DOD’s Office Net Assessment will be celebrated in Beijing & Moscow.

This little-known but enormously consequential 50 year-old institution actually thought long-term.

It helped us win the Cold War, grasped the China challenge early, and figured out revolutions in warfare.

Sanctioned ship slowed down over subsea infra, immediately got Dutch intel up their stern.

The negotiation is still not over, Trump didn't get the peace and minerals he wants

3 things: (if one still has bargaining chips):
1. Be like Mexico, agreed to secure border.

2. Be like Poland, bump up defense spending.

3. Be like Abe/ Netanyahu, shower Trump with praises in public, give him the proper respect he thinks he deserves. Let the negotiation be done under the table.

Really good points on defense budget: "Europe must invest or risk mistakes"

Have you tried it?

ミャンマーで日本人の男子高校生2人保護 特殊詐欺に加担か | NHK 【NHK】ミャンマーの拠点で特殊詐欺に加担させられていたとみられる日本人の高校生2人が現地で相次いで保護され、このうち愛知県の16…

ミャンマーで日本人の男子高校生2人保護 特殊詐欺に加担か
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20250218/k10014725751000.html

Interesting list of Chinese entrepreneurs that attended a symposium chaired by Xi Jinping, even Jack Ma attended (Alibaba co-founder)
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Factually justified

Waiting to get their red envelope or annual bonus

AIT Chair Fired? - Domino Theory Laura Rosenberger, a key China advisor to former president Joe Biden, is no longer listed as chair of the de facto U.S. embassy in Taiwan.  Rosenberger was appointed as chair of the American Institute...

Our newsroom still can't get an answer from AIT Taipei and the AIT HQ in Virginia.

My observation: probably a result of Trumps's decision on $identifying and removing over a thousand Presidential Appointees from the previous Administration"
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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period.

I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt.

But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

Thank you for reposting it. I guess Taiwan needs to count itself lucky that they were able to switch to a back up service in an hour... But if it's a war scenario, a different story then

I'll summarize the whole podcast genre:

" If you are entertaining, people will listen to you and buy what you are selling. Including politics "

They will not check your background, your education or fact check you

It's a podcast. They are trying to kill time. Entertainment sells.

These satellites serve as backups to the microwave transmission system and will be used for disaster response and command system operations, the digital ministry said

The Matsu region currently has access to nine non-geostationary satellites — one from Luxembourgish provider SES Global, eight from the U.K.’s Eutelsat OneWeb — for use by the fire department, police department, Lienchiang County government and Chunghwa Telecom base stations

Taiwan currently depends on a network of 10 domestic and 14 international undersea cables for its communications, according to Digital Ministry

Taiwan Investigating Damage to Two More Internet Cables - Domino Theory Ministry of Digital Affairs says four cables have been ‘disrupted’ so far this year

More on today's undersea #cable incident: #Taiwan's Digital Ministry said there have been four such cable “disruptions” in 2025, compared to three both in 2023 and 2024
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Carter’s Complex Legacy: The U.S. President Who Chose Beijing Over Taipei - Domino Theory Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. president, passed away peacefully on December 29 at the age of 100. As the last remaining leader from the Cold War era, Carter set many records. He was the longest-living p...

Who knew even the "old friend" of China got snubbed by Xi?
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Just my unscientific observation: X is good for hardcore political content; Bluesky is good for content that focuses on humanity

It's quite interesting to look at this person through the lens of various experts. (always appreciate colleague Josh for having such a profound way to think about the angle)

President of Taiwan or the R.O.C.? - Domino Theory What do Lai’s comments about China this fall tell us? Is he appealing to a Taiwanese audience or an international one?

After #Taiwan president Lai Ching-te spoke about the #motherland on October 5, all eyes were on the National Day event five days later. Why did he say something else controversial?
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It's quite interesting to look at this person through the lens of various experts. (always appreciate colleague Josh for having such a profound way to think about the angle)

Taiwan Slowly Builds Up Its Satellite Communications Capabilities - Domino Theory In 2023, Taiwan’s Matsu Islands were almost cut off from the main island after the two fiberoptic cables that connect them were severed. They were most likely cut by Chinese vessels in a gray-zone ope...

You always learn something from the person you work with - my colleague Josh proposed the idea to cover Taiwan's biggest space conference called TASTI. I learned a ton about the satellite industry, Taiwan's effort, and a dream to launch rockets...
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