"What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."
- Hasan Piker, champagne socialist and so-called anti-imperialist
“We don't want a war. We want peace and stability,” says Taiwan’s representative to the U.S., Ambassador Alexander Yui, regarding relations with China.
“We are sovereign, independent away from the Chinese People's Republic of China's attempt to swallow us as one of their own. They have never ruled or controlled Taiwan, ever,” he adds. “Those are intruders trying to get into our house. We're trying to beef up our security system. And then they complain, the intruder complains that because we're trying to improve our security system it’s making his job harder.”
NATO's Rutte:
I know many of you criticize Trump. But do you really think that, without Trump, eight big economies in Europe—including Spain, Italy, and Belgium—and Canada would have reached the two-percent defense spending target in 2025?
At the beginning of the year, they were at just 1.5 percent. Without Trump, this would never have happened. They are all at two percent now.
🤯 "China quietly mobilized thousands of fishing boats twice in recent weeks to form massive floating barriers of at least 200 miles long, showing a new level of coordination that could give Beijing more ways to impose control in contested seas. The two recent operations unfolded largely unnoticed. An analysis of ship-tracking data by @nytimes reveals the scale and complexity of the maneuvers for the first time."
@eigenrobot Chiang Kai Shek sucks at fighting commies so bad that he lost the entire China. SOOOO, I don't think his sword would grant any magical power, if any, it brings bad luck.
International law has never cared about Taiwan. Now the feeling’s mutual.
Few here worry about the erosion of democratic norms after Venezuela. They know what little concern the world shows for Taiwan is down to its semiconductor dominance.
✍️ Chris Horton
https://t.co/OnmPAgDwCD
China once claimed it supported denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Now, as Beijing eyes Taiwan, that rhetoric is quietly disappearing.
A nuclear-armed North Korea isn’t a failure of Chinese influence, instead it’s a feature of the CCP’s strategy to distract and constrain the U.S. and our regional allies.
Staus quo is maintaining de facto independence of Taiwan, which account for 89.6% percents of the population. In the Taiwanese political context, that 4% simply refers to constitutionally rename the country. Which under China's threat, it runs the risk of being seen as provacation. But what do I know, I only lives in Taiwan for my whole fking life, people should know Taiwan from a illiterate white woman.
Nah, Taiwan has been excluded from almost all international organizations and left for dead by the United Nations during multiple pandemics and natural disasters for decades. So, bear with us 'barbaric' Taiwanese if we don't have much faith in 'rule-based international law' to begin with. Like, what has international law actually done for the people of Ukraine, Hong Kong, Tibet, or the Uyghurs?