Daphne Kuo (郭祥惠)

Opinion | Here’s How Trump Can Prevent a War Over Taiwan

This opinion piece by Jennifer Kavanagh is very, very bad. Naive at best but I believe it goes further: it portrays Taiwan as the unique trouble maker and basically suggests to let Taiwan disarmed and isolated.

"At any rate, this isn’t about abandoning Taiwan", she writes.

Well, yes, it is.

An illustration of a man falling out of a piece of paper, with text that says: How an academic betrayal led me to change my authorship practices.

"The day the paper was published should have been a moment of pride. Instead, it felt like a quiet erasure." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4p3eH5g

How China Influences Elections in America’s Biggest City

Remarkable reporting on China’s intense system of payoffs and threats of NYC politicians to toe their line on Taiwan and Hong Kong.

And such an exquisite irony here regarding Zohran Mamdani versus the scared conservative corrupt New York establishment. 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...

More and more similarities in rhetoric between MAGA type and 藍白.

Bribery offers from China rattle journal editors. Are they being scammed? Richard Addante On November 12, Richard Addante, an associate editor at the journal Frontiers in Psychology, received an alarming email from someone purporting to be a faculty member at a universit…

Last winter's report. It is definitely a step up from those invitation emails of bogus conference keynote speaker or position offers in my work inbox for a while. They were sent to editors of psychology journals. Other disciplineds? Scams.

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People are having fewer babies: Is it really the end of the world? Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative impacts over the next several generations, but adaptation is possible.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Why Taiwan feels the USAID debacle more keenly than most - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Great piece on US aid programs in Taiwan by James Baron.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...

I'm curious to see how he thinks.

US economy slows in the fourth quarter; spending robust Gross domestic product increased at a 2.3% annualized rate last quarter after accelerating at a 3.1% pace in the July-September quarter.

US economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter, but robust domestic demand will probably keep the Federal Reserve on a slow interest rate cut path this year reut.rs/4hC1k7C

Hmm ... I'm always curious if one day an actor did not play by the script.

光中？

These Corals Are Made for Walking With time-lapse video, scientists show how tiny mushroom corals can move themselves to influence their fate.

Amazing nature.

These Corals Are Made for Walking www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/s...

‘We surpassed human limits to stop this’: LA megafires show our approach to fire needs to change As the climate crisis turbocharges wildfires, adding resources alone won’t be enough to stop the destruction – our relationship with the land must be remade

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US Department of Homeland Security firing all advisory committee members, letter says The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

Such an idiotic act.

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US DHS fires outside advisers, sources say China probe disrupted The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, according to a letter seen by Reuters, a move which two people familiar with the matter said would disrupt the agency's efforts to investigate a sweeping hack of U.S. telecom companies blamed on Beijing.

The Department of Homeland Security is firing all the members of its various advisory committees, a move which people familiar with the matter said would disrupt the agency's efforts to investigate a sweeping hack of US telecom companies blamed on Beijing reut.rs/3C97b5g

Japan to closely watch impact of US withdrawal from WHO | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News Japan's top government spokesperson says his government will closely watch the impact of the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization.

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The US today and Taiwan today, lol

總統：總預算遭刪對政府影響史無前例 完全無法接受 | 政治 | 中央社 CNA 總統賴清德今天表示，總預算遭刪減、凍結都是歷年最高的情況下，各行各業受影響程度難以預料，且沒有往例可循，對政府的影響是史無前例。他請行政院盡速盤點窒礙難行之處，以及可能停擺的服務，向全民報告，也請在野黨再次審慎思考，讓國家能夠恢復穩定運作。

The Lai administration has commented on the budget debacle, Lai stating that the cuts will have an impact on the operations of government with no parallel in Taiwanese history. This is the most direct comment that Lai has had on these events to date

Analysis | Fact-checking President Trump’s 2025 inaugural address Trump relies on many claims debunked during the election campaign

Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: President Trump’s 2025 inauguration speech had a laundry list of proposals and plans — and a hefty dose of false claims that we’ve fact-checked before.

Here’s a quick rundown of what was inaccurate or misleading in Trump’s address.

What to know about the WHO and its rocky relationship with the U.S. Trump had started the process of leaving the World Health Organization in his first term but was not able to complete it.

😔 Sigh.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...