@chasondailey.bsky.social
Taiwan-based political commentator. HR/immigration for TW's largest private ESL company. Recovering China-based edu consultant. UChicago alumnus.
Love when the internet’s favorite gay uncles more on top of Michelle Yeoh being in Taiwan than Taiwanese media
11.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The commentary you need is there on Bluesky
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Timely article by @thomchau.bsky.social about nascent drone industry in Taiwan. Anything in new defense budget for this?
'In his inaugural speech last May, President Lai Ching-te vowed to make Taiwan "the Asian hub of UAV supply chains for global democracies."
asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Po...
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
14.02.2025 07:07 — 👍 41082 🔁 10578 💬 1015 📌 899
Some details here on what the Lai administration seeks to purchase if it uses special budgetary measures for defense
def.ltn.com.tw/article/brea...
Record-high tax revenues this year, which the Lai administration wants to use on social services. Er, and the KMT is seeking to cut the budget why?
www.cna.com.tw/news/aipl/20...
"Former KMT Legislator Faces Charges Over Chinese Election Interference" by @brianhioe.bsky.social
14.02.2025 09:33 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Taiwanese poster for Nausicaa, which is being released in theaters there next month for the first time:
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Taiwan Presidential Office press release, Feb 14, 2025: https://english.president.gov.tw/News/6908#new
Noting that the US has replaced China as Taiwan's biggest #investment target, #Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called on the #Trump administration to "understand how Taiwan is an indispensable #partner in the process of rebuilding American manufacturing and consolidating its leadership in high-tech."
14.02.2025 12:35 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Taiwan Mainland Affairs Commission denies a third application by the Taipei City government for Shanghai officials to visit Taiwan.
news.ltn.com.tw/news/politic...
Taiwan Government seems determined to make the public aware of each single impact of budget cuts passed by the Legislature.
(And that’s good.)
Miss Major Griffin-Gacy, one of the Black trans women who was at Stonewall on the night of the first riot - she fought back, got knocked out and spent the rest of the night in the Tombs - is still fighting for trans rights. She spoke with @samtlevin.bsky.social in 2023.
14.02.2025 00:37 — 👍 1399 🔁 521 💬 6 📌 19Were it not so believable, it would be unbelievable.
Europe is agonizing over Trump and is threatening to draw closer to China.
So what does China do? Appoint, by far, the most disliked Chinese diplomat in Europe as a Special Representative.
My latest: With the U.S. funding freeze, an entire ecosystem of vital China-related work is now in crisis. Dozens of scrappy nonprofits in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US are at risk of suspending their operations, firing employees, and even shutting down.
www.aspistrategist.org.au/with-us-fund...
Trump repeats disinformation claims that Lin Yu-ting is male, Sports Administration defends her. Well, another way Trump has further alienated Taiwan. Worth noting is such claims are originally of Russian origin
06.02.2025 09:49 — 👍 29 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0Taiwan had 40,751 foreign national permanent residents at the end of 2024. +5,020 for the year, which is a 14% increase. 400 are under 15 while 662 are students. There are even 51 special migrant workers (cooks and translators).
www.immigration.gov.tw/5385/7344/73...
Watching part two of this United Front expose and it's filled with truly incredible footage. Nearly lost it when they got to the part where signs started falling off the wall at the vacant and dust-covered "Taiwanese youth entrepreneurship base" in Xiamen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCyW...
06.01.2025 13:10 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0Taiwan's poor information security enables Chinese United Front attacks: "A #Taiwanese NGO worker received a series of unusual phone calls from Chinese individuals claiming to be customer service from #Eslite, questioning her about her purchase of a book by Puma Shen on Chinese invasion scenarios."
23.01.2025 11:22 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0Amazing
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I don’t like dictatorcore
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Great to hear that this can occur in today's Taiwan, it reflects contemporary cultural pluralism
19.01.2025 08:05 — 👍 24 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1Me: Could. You. NOT.
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People: Taipei is an ugly city.
Me: I disagree. If you consider historical, economic, and environmental factors for why the city looks at it does, I think it’s possible to really appreciate…
Taipei:
This is a remarkable essay about a Catholic church in northern Hualien that is a nexus for Taiwanese religious, colonial, and indigenous history. Yet another landscape in Taiwan apparently devoid of history but drenched in blood, memory and spirits.
ampleroad.substack.com/p/the-histor...
👀🇨🇳 "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:
11.01.2025 04:13 — 👍 546 🔁 234 💬 1 📌 30
China is building at least five new special purpose barges which appear tailor made for amphibious assault. The barges may provide China with a unique way to offload large numbers of tanks directly onto Taiwanese roads. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
11.01.2025 05:23 — 👍 30 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 4
"China’s top diplomat in Canberra has challenged Australia to remedy what he says are “misunderstandings” on Taiwan..."
Sure.
From Ben Packham in The Australian, comments by PRC ambassador Xiao Qian on Taiwan, with, notably, a rebuttal by Taiwan Representative Yu-tien Hsu.
The Bluebird Movement held a rally in Taoyuan on Monday night. It is planning events in other cities in Taiwan in coming weeks
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/12/25/2003829080
#Taiwan #BluebirdMovement #台灣 #青鳥行動 #protest
This is what segregationists said about media depicting blacks as normal or interracial relationships as ok
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