David Demes 戴達衛

Weltspiegel: Taiwan: Wie riskant ist der Atomausstieg? - hier anschauen Gerne möchte sich die von Erdbeben gebeutelte Insel Taiwan von seinen Atomkraftwerken trennen. Doch das macht sie abhängiger von Energie aus dem Ausland.

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Das Tokio Team der ARD hat einen sehr sehenswerten Beitrag zur Energiewende und Atomausstieg im Zusammenhang mit der militärischen Bedrohung durch eine Seeblocke seitens der Volksrepublik China.
#ardtokio #taiwan #energiepolitik #atomausstieg2025 #energiealswaffe

Taiwan: Investitionen als Treibstoff für litauische Unterstützung In Vilnius wird inzwischen offen darüber gesprochen, dass die Kooperation mit Taiwan weit hinter den Erwartungen zurückgeblieben ist.

Taiwan-Lithuania ties have a solid foundation. They must now adjust to political realities.

What’s needed: fewer grand gestures, more robust cooperation across political parties and across society.

My take on why Tsai Ing-wen’s visit matters.

🙏🏼 @demesdavid.bsky.social

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Exclusive—Chinese patents reveal aim to cut undersea cables Patent applications showed that Chinese scientists had been devising ways for severing undersea cables

👀🇨🇳 "With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply." By Didi Kirsten Tatlow:

Wer sollte zentrale chinesische Parteitexte ins Deutsche übersetzen? (Bevor jetzt jemand sagt, Englisch reicht - der Bedarf ist im Bundestag und Ministerien da, denn nicht alle Fächer und Berufe arbeiten gleich intensiv in Englisch).
Ein kurzer 🧵 (zum Parteitagsbericht 2022)

#China #Chinakompetenz

The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club will host a discussion about the crisis for Taiwan’s judiciary and legal profession on Jan 9. We’ll be joined by ex-grand justice Su Yeong-chin and reps from the Taiwan Bar Association, Taipei Bar Association, Academia Sinica and Judicial Reform Foundation.

Vielen Dank für die detaillierte Rezension! 🫶🏻

David Demes, Frédéric Krumbein: Taiwan. Asiens erstaunliche Demokratie Neuer Beitrag auf dem PW-Portal!

In „Taiwan: Asiens erstaunliche Demokratie“ (bpb) beschreiben @demesdavid.bsky.social & Frédéric Krumbein die Geschichte Taiwans sowie die gesellschaftliche, wirtschaftliche & demokratische Entwicklung des Inselstaats. Eine Rezension von Josie-Marie Perkuhn.

Polisky

Forgot to raise their anchor and dragged it for 100 miles? Who among us …

Cabinet approves child discipline changes - Taipei Times Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

Taiwan's government plans to replace language in Civil Code permitting parents to "inflict punishment upon their children" with a prohibition on "violent conduct that harms mental and physical health." Far-reaching implications for Taiwanese society. A big deal.
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Chinese customs seizes Taiwanese textbooks over 'incorrect maps' - Focus Taiwan Customs officials in China recently seized three Taiwanese textbooks shipped to Fuzhou for "incorrectly labeling the province Taiwan as a country."

Chinese customs seizes Taiwanese textbooks over ‘incorrect maps’ – Focus Taiwan: ‘A total of 5,570 students were enrolled in the three Taiwanese schools in China in the first semester of the 2024 school year’

North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank have concluded, based on satellite images.

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Former Taiwan leader was due to visit UK for two days in October, leak shows Exclusive: letter reveals dates for visit that was planned by Tsai Ing-wen before Foreign Office intervened

Governments adopting a China hedging strategy will seek to squeeze out Taiwan from the international system.

Taiwan's ex-President Tsai says U.S. should prioritize assisting Ukraine - Focus Taiwan The United States should focus on providing assistance to Ukraine despite the impact that could have on efforts to help Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack, former President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) sai...

Taiwan’s ex-President Tsai Ing-wen (DPP) in Canada says US should prioritise assisting Ukraine – Focus Taiwan: ‘at the annual Halifax International Security Forum’

Taiwan just defeated Japan in the WBSC Premier12 finals!

Captain Chen Chieh-hsien: “Thank you to our team for making the world see Taiwan!”

#TeamTaiwan 🇹🇼⚾️

My publisher has sent over promotion for my upcoming book, and I have to say I am digging the Marimekko vibes the amazing cover artist went with.

As Bluesky takes flight, China has got a Twitter problem For years, state media have been seeking to grab the microphone. Now Musk has handed them it.. no one is listening?

“Chinese state media has sunk considerable resources into Twitter, via unlabeled state-sponsored influencers, huge bot networks, the famous 50 cent army, … The Twitter bird, they thought, had finally been caged.”Then comes Bluesky. toosimple.substack.com/p/bluesky-ta...

COP29: Wie Taiwan einen einsamen Kampf gegen den Klimawandel führt Peking verhindert Taiwans Teilnahme an der Weltklimakonferenz. Unterstützung erhält die Inselrepublik dafür aus Deutschland.

Warum plant Taiwan seinen Windenergie-Markt weiter für ausländische Anbieter zu öffnen? Wie versucht das Land seine ambitionierten Klimaziele zu erreichen?

Diese und weitere Fragen beantworte ich in @table.media. Mit exklusiven Zitaten von Taiwans Umweltminister.

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