@Reuters Beijing is no longer satisfied with controlling speech inside China.
Now it wants people outside China to obey its political vocabulary too.
That is not “international practice.” That is transnational repression wearing a legal costume.
“We will not let the Communist Party of China define who we are.”
Taiwan Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim said it clearly.
Taiwan is not defined by Beijing.
Taiwan is defined by its own people. 🇹🇼
@MOFA_Taiwan Taiwan and Europe may be far apart on the map, but culture has a way of making distance feel smaller.
A shared meal, a performance, or a familiar tradition can say more than a hundred official statements.
@TaiwanMonitor Gray-zone pressure is dangerous because it tries to make abnormal things feel normal.
Beijing wants Taiwan to get used to being surrounded, watched, and threatened.
That is exactly why Taiwan has to keep watching back.
@PopularFront_ Beijing keeps trying to make military pressure around Taiwan feel normal.
That is the dangerous part of gray-zone warfare: repeat it often enough, and people start treating coercion like background noise.
@SenTedCruz Beijing wants Taiwan hidden, isolated, and treated like a political inconvenience.
Taiwan should not have to disappear from international spaces just because the CCP throws a tantrum every time it sees a flag🇹🇼
@globaltimesnews Beijing keeps saying Taiwan’s future belongs to “all Chinese people.”
It still does not change what Taiwan is in real life: a country with its own elections, military, government, passport, currency, and people who decide their own leaders.
@Mylovanov Half the speech is “NATO is dangerous.”
The other half is a Russian weapons brochure.
You cannot turn Ukraine into a live-fire weapons lab and then act shocked when Europe starts taking defense seriously🙄
@ShaykhSulaiman Translation: Russia invaded Ukraine, keeps threatening nuclear war, and now wants everyone to believe it is the victim. Sure, Vladimir🙄
@ShaunPinnerUA Makes sense🤡
The West was so “prepared for war” that Russia had to invade Ukraine first, annex territory, and threaten nuclear Armageddon every other week.
@JayinKyiv A dictator invading his neighbor is giving everyone a lecture about aggressive regimes again.
History really suffers every time Putin opens his mouth🤡