Brian Hioe 丘琦欣

Editor @newbloommag, writes @Diplomat_APAC @itsflaminghydra. Words @washingtonpost @thenation @guardian. Nonresident fellow @UoN_TRH, @TaiwanFCC board member

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Some news--my first book is coming out from @RepeaterBooks in January! It's fiction, but drawing from the experiences of my early 20s as a young activist in the Sunflower Movement, Occupy Wall Street, the founding of @newbloommag, and beyond

https://t.co/P8D3WkiVjJ

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

I thought this was quite a useful read, a good counter argument to those who think that the ROC military during the KMT era is some model for today when it was rife with graft and rewarded sycophants to dictators rather than innovation or ability

[New Bloom Magazine @newbloommag]

"Review: On the Brink: A Military History of Taiwan" by @brianhioe

https://t.co/Sw2NF7keUb

[New Bloom Magazine @newbloommag]

Join us for the next Pen Club on Tuesday! Pen Club is an open invite for artists, illustrators, or anyone to sketch and hang over a drink.

https://t.co/WO1eTOvbZj

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Wave Makers is getting a second season!

https://t.co/27rnDIAVIL

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

They had the votes to do this from the start though honestly, there was no actual need for a referendum

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Amazing lol. They really want to make Taiwan into an international embarrassment

[TaiwanPlus News @taiwanplusnews]

The Kuomintang is proposing a bill for caning as a punishment for serious crimes, after a push to get the issue on a referendum this fall failed.

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Hahahahahaha

https://t.co/VQqEyUSYp8

[Emily Feng 冯哲芸 @EmilyZFeng]

1/ New from me: Chinese diplos scrambled 90 min before the Xi/Trump visit to the National Archives to stop a Taiwan-related treaty from being shown.

..."an indication of pushback from within the U.S. gov against President Trump's warm reception of Xi.."
https://t.co/7znpoZcEcN

[Bill Hayton @bill_hayton]

Interesting to note the countries that have NOT joined the 1951 Refugee Convention - eight are ASEAN members

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

KMT to push for legal changes to allow referendums to overturn Constitutional Court rulings. Well, looks like efforts by the KMT to overturn any checks and balances of powers continue

https://t.co/BkK9KyeVxm

[HK Labour Rights Monitor 香港勞權監察 @HKLabourRights]

🚨 Hong Kong national security police reportedly arrested independent journalist Tang Ho-wing and another person this morning, accusing them of spreading “fake information” and inciting others over the 31 August 2019 Prince Edward station incident.

At least five people have now reportedly been arrested.

The case raises further concerns over press freedom and the use of national security laws against independent journalism.

Read more from @hkfp:https://t.co/IStE8bcZrn

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Important to note—Taiwanese detained in China are prevented from returning to Taiwan after the end of their sentence as long as they are deprived of their civil rights, which for this man in question was as long as his actual sentence

[New Bloom Magazine @newbloommag]

"Taiwanese Continue to Be Detained in China After the End of Their Formal Sentences" by @brianhioe

https://t.co/1xK3iAZEK8

[New Bloom Magazine @newbloommag]

New Bloom will be tabling at the Fake Art Book Fair this weekend! Join us over the weekend at the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park

https://t.co/xaTGLILunV

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Probably a result of how overworked bus drivers are that this man wasn't found immediately

https://t.co/AUtHGINAcn

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Wrote on recent changes to Taiwan's migrant work policy for Euroview

https://t.co/syYJtKiGNZ

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

"THE ADVANCE OF COMPUTERIZATION, HOWEVER, HAS NOT YET WIPED OUT NATIONS AND ETHNIC GROUPS."

Yet the setting is completely contrary to that blurb

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Ghost in the Shell is a particularly egregious example of this even as the opening blurb is: "IN THE NEAR FUTURE - CORPORATE NETWORKS REACH OUT TO THE STARS, ELECTRONS AND LIGHT FLOW THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE."

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

On this point, it's really interesting to note how all these anime have these weird fantasies about these conglomerate nation-states while not thinking that the nationalism of the present and past would persist into some future

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Noticed this bizarre detail of the plot of Gundam SEED

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Sometimes I think about how Gundam Wing was precisely the wrong show to watch as a teenager and how that impacted the development of my psychology afterward

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Noticed this bizarre detail of the plot of Gundam SEED

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

What's not to love about dialogue like this, lol

https://t.co/I2zpBPP1hi

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Hmmm, almost like such a person always had such views

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

We always make fun of the journalists who speak to ONE taxi driver and cast their verdict on a society based on that sole conversation, but do we talk enough about the people who talk to a random genocidal taxi driver and decide to echo such views to a hilt based on that convo?