James Chater

Senior Journalist @BBCWorld @BBCNews 🌏 Previously with @dwnews in Taipei 🎻 in a former life

[James Chater @james_chater]

@CityofPhoenixAZ Hi there, I'm a journalist with BBC News. Hope you're keeping safe. Would the BBC and its partners be able to use this video in our reporting with a credit to your account?

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@ggdm Hi there, hope you're keeping safe. I work for BBC News and wanted to ask a few questions about this video. Would you be able to follow me back so I can DM you? Take care, James

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@mohsinhassan84 Hi @mohsinhassan84 , I'm a journalist with BBC News. Would you be able to follow me back so I can ask you a question about this video?

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@barcodeman @CBSNews @cnnbrk Hi there, hope you're safe. I'm a journalist with BBC News. Could you follow me so I can send you a DM when you get a chance?

[James Chater @james_chater]

That meant I had to say goodbye to the wonderful team at @dwnews-@dw_chinese.

For my final piece, I travelled across Taiwan for this documentary on what Trump's second term could mean for Taipei.

Watch here 👉 https://t.co/uejA5hlc04

[James Chater @james_chater]

🚨 Breaking my silence on X to break some personal news:

This month, after nearly 6 years in Taiwan, I left Taipei for Sydney, where I have joined @BBCWorld-@BBCNews.

I'm part of a brand new digital team here covering global and UK news. Get in touch: [email protected]

[Richard Walker @rbsw]

So here he is, Taiwan’s next president.

William Lai 賴清德 beat expectations with 40% of the vote, after an unpredictable 3-way race.

Beijing won’t be happy.

But he’s firmly committed to not shaking up the status quo.

His message: This was Taiwan’s choice and nobody else’s.

[James Chater @james_chater]

Lai Ching-te has won Taiwan’s presidential election, after the opposition candidates conceded.

As he arrives at the DPP HQ, the crowd chants “總統好” - “Hello, Mr. President.”

[James Chater @james_chater]

3 hours into the vote count.

The mood is **very** optimistic at the DPP HQ.

[Richard Walker @rbsw]

THREAD 1/
Former Taiwan Pres Ma Ying-jeou:

“You can never fight a war with the mainland. You can never win”

DW interview:

- Blames DPP for China tensions
- Rejects⬆️mil spending/conscription
- Doubts US wd aid Taiwan in an attack
- "Have to trust" Xi on cross-strait relations

[James Chater @james_chater]

In interview with @dwnews's @rbsw & @tsoutsouhan, former KMT Taiwanese president Ma Ying-jeou says:
– when it comes to cross-strait relations, "you have to" trust Xi Jinping;
– and that "he doesn't think [Xi Jinping] is pushing for unification".

[DW 中文- 德国之声 @dw_chinese]

【马英九：就两岸关系而言必须相信习近平】

台湾大选在即，前总统马英九接受DW专访。去年才访中的马英九反覆强调，8年任内的台海平静无波，现在的备战思维恐带来灾难。他也提到了两岸统一的条件就是和平跟民主，并强调要试图说服北京，「以武力作为最后的手段，可能永远也得不到台湾。」

[Helen Davidson @heldavidson]

Some weird bot activity around the air raid alert today

[James Chater @james_chater]

Taiwan's defense ministry has now issued this statement, saying the "default English message was not revised".

[James Chater @james_chater]

This alert just went out all across Taiwan. The Chinese language says China launched a satellite that flew across Taiwan's southern air space, but the English read "missile alert".

MND has now confirmed it was a satellite, so it appears the English is a mistranslation.

[Terry Martin @tmnewsstream]

Screenshots from my lives this a.m. w interlocutors in Tel Aviv, Kyiv, Taipei, Jerusalem, and Berlin. Topics: Hamas-Israel war, their ceasefire deal, humanitarian conditions in Gaza, Russia-Ukraine war, and North Korea's satellite launch. Another intense day on the DW anchor desk

[James Chater @james_chater]

In his post, Lai took aim at Taiwan's opposition parties currently struggling to consolidate a joint ticket: "any cooperation without shared beliefs and values, in the end, will only create more chaos".

[James Chater @james_chater]

Just in: Lai Ching-te, presidential candidate for the DPP, has named Hsiao Bi-khim, who until this morning was Taiwan's de facto ambassador to the US, as his running mate for vice-president.

He also shared a photo of them in Washington in early 2020.
https://t.co/u1AmYIHb7X

[James Chater @james_chater]

It’s that time of year again…

[James Chater @james_chater]

Nothing says it’s Pride weekend in Taipei more than a drag queen death dropping to a club remix of Taiwan’s bin collection song.

[Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen]

TFCC also hopes to sit down with president Tsai Ing-wen @iingwen, with whom we had two fruitful briefings during her first term. We have yet to meet during her second term, which ends next May.

[James Chater @james_chater]

BBG: Huawei building network of secret chip manufacturing facilities, which the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) says could be used to evade US sanctions.

SIA says Huawei is getting $30 billion in state funding.
https://t.co/WuYrONt8Kq