Karen Wu

Translator/journalist/editor/writer. Translator of Complex Chinese edition of “Elon Musk” by Walter Isaacson and "Source Code: My Beginnings" by Bill Gates

[Nasdaq @Nasdaq]

.@SpaceX listing day is here. Watch live. $SPCX https://t.co/VTXg0N2TBc

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

The War in Ukraine Has Now Gone On Longer Than World War I https://t.co/8TOFKNhK3t

[华尔街日报中文网 @ChineseWSJ]

格温·肖特韦尔是马斯克为SpaceX聘用的首批高管之一，她帮助该公司发展成为全球最具价值的公司之一。

作为马斯克最信赖的副手，她不仅在发射日有着独特的私人仪式，甚至还把一台星链终端直接装在了自己的车顶。https://t.co/hltA7vngXI

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

Flawless Asphalt, Empty Homes: A 300-Mile Drive Through Afghanistan https://t.co/n7vs5XeO31

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

Under China’s leader, Xi Jinping, Beijing has tried to export its ideas about security to the world in countries like the Solomon Islands, a Pacific nation 3,000 miles away. Where Washington offers treaties that commit American troops to defend U.S. allies against external threats, Beijing offers something different: equipment and tactics for governments to keep order at home.

That pitch has appealed to many authoritarian and weak democratic states in Africa, Southeast Asia and Central Asia that view domestic threats to regime security as an equal, if not bigger, priority than fielding an army.

https://t.co/F5QNQPqm9c

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

Thousands demand South Korea repeat local elections after ballot shortage https://t.co/KIC3vdpafj

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

6月5日，一个韩国公民发帖：
我是首尔市民。
2026. 6月5日到现在，我仍然无法相信这一切竟然真的发生在韩国。
6月3日选举当天，全国各地都有许多市民因投票纸不足而无法完成投票。
尤其是在首尔市松坡区（蚕室一带），大量选民长时间排队等待，却最终因投票纸不足而无法行使投票权。

超过1000名机动队员与身份不明的警察被部署到现场，强行将市民驱离。

我们无法理解，在大韩民国这样的自由民主国家，竟然会发生这种事情。
许多国民都受到巨大冲击，甚至有人认为韩国的民主已经死亡。
那些未能行使参政权、也就是未能完成投票的国民，遭到警察机动队强行带离现场。
最终，投票箱被政府方面强行夺走了……

许多国民对此感到愤怒与震惊，并要求彻底查明事件真相，向人民作出明确交代。
然而，韩国的主要电视台与公共广播媒体，包括 MBC、KBS、SBS，至今仍保持沉默。

from Seoul

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

韩国全国地方选举涉嫌舞弊，爆发大规模韩国公民抗议

6月3日，占领韩国首尔蚕室投票所的民众意外发现，投票箱内出现了被撕毁的选票。韩国市民据此质疑执政党存在做票嫌疑。

6月5日，韩国警察暴力镇压“清场”在场民众，守护投票箱的市民（包含大量女性和老人）与警方发生激烈肢体冲突。
警方动用多名警员对个体进行强行拖拽、按倒并“人肉搬运”抬离，现场爆发刺耳的尖叫与哭喊。
最终，投票箱被强行运走。

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Video of Chinese communist security forces killing hundreds of protesting students on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4th, 1989. 🇨🇳

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

“Every year, I learn more about Tiananmen through people, every year I get new pictures, new documents,” Zhou says. “I think it’s pretty clear that the memory of Tiananmen is preserved.”

Although technology has empowered China’s censorship and surveillance regime, it has also allowed activists to reach new audiences, Zhou says. Asked if he’s concerned that the combination of ageing witnesses and CCP pressure could weaken the memories of 1989, Zhou is optimistic: “I’m much less worried than 10 years ago”.

https://t.co/gVzaDqUahp

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Chinese students, workers, and other civilians who lost their lives had gathered to exercise their natural rights and demand democratic reforms and accountability for corruption. We remember their lives and honor their legacy. No amount of censorship can erase the past. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.
https://t.co/e9Gux5c8rM

[JF Books 季風書園 | 季风书店 @Jifengbooks]

#季風薦書 六四37週年：以閱讀銘記歷史
三十七年過去，許多名字被淡忘，許多檔案被封存，許多親歷者已漸漸老去。然而，歷史並不會因沉默而消失。

六四不僅是一場發生於1989年的學生運動，更是一代中國人對自由、改革、責任與未來的集體追問。那些廣場上的身影、街頭的呼喊、深夜的槍聲，以及此後漫長的失語與遺忘，共同構成了我們理解當代中國不可迴避的一部分。

記憶並非為了停留在傷痛之中，而是為了理解歷史如何塑造今天，理解一個社會如何面對權力、真相與人的尊嚴。在一個越來越多歷史被刪除、被改寫、被遺忘的時代，閱讀本身就是一種保存。我們相信，書籍無法改變已經發生的歷史，卻能讓歷史不至於再次消失。

六四三十七週年之際，季風書園整理店藏中與1989年相關的著作、回憶錄、文集、攝影作品與歷史研究，邀請讀者透過閱讀重新走近那段歷史。

願真相被看見，願記憶被保存。
以閱讀銘記，以思考抵抗遺忘。

📚點擊查看季風書園精選書目：https://t.co/TtVZwn26tJ

[報導者 The Reporter @tw_reporter_org]

#系列報導【傅家王朝如何鞏固勢力及走出花蓮？代理人能否順利接班？從縣府標案、政治獻金、選舉小物案公開資料看見的事】 https://t.co/Do9BZjWJnC
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「對於傅崐萁來說，大本營花蓮如果失火，他的黨團總召應該也當不久。」
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年底地方大選，在連續擔任四屆花蓮縣長的傅崐萁、徐榛蔚夫婦之後，國民黨徵召參選縣長的吉安鄉長游淑貞，被視為延續「傅家王朝」的代理人。不過泛藍陣營中，弟弟是現任花蓮市長的議員魏嘉賢，去年公開挺罷免的議長張峻也都表態參選，挺過罷免風波卻又迎來光復鄉災後復原挑戰的傅家王朝能否「17+N」，成為地方熱議話題，甚至有傳言傅崐萁為了守住版圖可能再度回鍋⋯⋯
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「花蓮王」不是一開始就坐穩。
傅崐萁2001年起以親民黨籍當選立委踏入花蓮政壇後，曾競選縣長失利，2009年被時任國民黨主席馬英九以黑金、地方派系為由開除黨籍，年底還是以無黨籍之姿獲得5成以上得票率當選，此後儘管二度因炒股案入獄、還有理想大地案官司與選舉小物案爭議，都沒能撼動傅家——「傅崐萁最厲害的地方是，大家都有需要他的地方，」一位不願具名的立法院國民黨資深助理如此形容。
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從地方立委、縣長到立法院最大黨的黨團總召，傅崐萁如何建立王朝走向全國？《報導者》根據各項公開資料分析，看見兩夫婦與背後家族的人脈網絡、縣府資源的運用，為何共治了17年，「接班人」卻成為其最大難題？
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傅家人脈之廣，從2018年傅崐萁父親傅兆林的訃聞可窺一角，上頭「義子」、「義女」涵括花蓮政商界，有鄉長、鎮長、村里長、鄉民代表會主席、警察局隊長、紅十字會總幹事，也有營造、礦業和地產公司負責人。
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為更了解過去4屆花蓮縣府資源的運用，《報導者》查閱縣府 預算，發現徐榛蔚任內對「宗教禮俗」的預算編列從2023年的4,178萬元成長到今年1億8,749萬元，超過4倍有餘；公開 標案 紀錄則顯示得標數前11名中，有5家公司都屬於「蘇色萍家族」的營造業集團，16年內拿下525個標案、共43.7億元，近年標案數看似微幅減少，總金額卻是創新高。得標過程並無傳出太多爭議，但有知情人士稱，蘇色萍是傅崐萁的長期支持者與重要金主。
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《報導者》調查相關案件各公司歷任負責人、董事、登記地址等資訊時，發現「標案王」蘇色萍與去年爆發的「藍營立委選舉小物案」連上線，背後有更綿密關連。該案負責製作小物的「戰天下有限公司」登記地址上掛的是「戰天下整合行銷」的招牌，這間公司曾接下10項花蓮縣府標案，長期服務花蓮在地藍營候選人；而「戰天下整合行銷」的地址又跟工程公司「長興實業」相同，「長興實業」前任董事是蘇色萍，現任董事劉有成是「戰天下整合行銷」負責人李翠雲的丈夫。
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傅崐萁在能率集團位居高職的姊夫胡湘麒，則是助他勢力走向全國的要角。
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攤開政治獻金資料，胡湘麒與能率集團第二代董俊仁、董俊毅兄弟近年以個人及旗下公司名義捐出至少20筆政治獻金，總額約506萬元，捐贈對象不分黨派也不分中央地方，但以國民黨政治人物為主。而胡湘麒、能率與中國國營企業北京控股集團（簡稱北控）關係密切，也引發外界想像空間。

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

❝But FT analysis suggests that the Chinese state’s campaign of oppression against Uyghurs and their culture and identity has in fact entered a new phase.
While many camps have shut, a vast network of prisons and detention centres remains, alongside pervasive surveillance and systems of coercive social control. It shows Xinjiang has the world’s highest prison detention capacity relative to its population size — evidence that authorities continue to rely on mass incarceration.

Researchers and rights groups say repression in the region now extends towards the long-term remaking of Uyghur society. Beijing has expanded labour transfer programmes that move Uyghurs into factory work elsewhere in the country — schemes UN experts say can amount to forced labour.

This places multinational corporations that work in China in a challenging situation, as Beijing is also making it increasingly difficult and dangerous for companies to perform due diligence in their supply chains so they do not target Uyghur rights.

The employment scheme is Beijing’s new priority, says Adrian Zenz, director of China Studies at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a US non-profit. The camp system acted as a “catalyst” for policies including “birth prevention, parent-child separation, boarding schooling . . . and labour transfer”.

What the state orchestrated through the boarding school system amounted to a “dramatic tearing apart of Uyghur society”, Zenz adds. He says children are separated from families at increasingly young ages, while the Uyghur language and cultural practices are heavily restricted.❞

https://t.co/urFdT0zllY

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

「從娃娃抓起」

藏族地區及全國各地幼兒園如今奉命灌輸政治觀念，包括兒童必須熱愛中國共產黨和祖國，認同自己是「中華民族」一分子，歌頌「中華優秀傳統文化」。幼兒園不得在教學中涉及或包含任何宗教成分，因此即使在藏族地區也必須將藏傳佛教及其習俗、節慶、知識或文化——即藏族文化與民族認同核心元素——排除在課程之外。

透過強制規定從教學到日常互動、照護及遊戲中都必須使用普通話，當局在幼兒通常建立母語能力的關鍵階段，徹底重塑了他們的語言環境。現在，除了時數極少的地方語文課程之外，中國少數民族兒童可能在整個童年及青少年時期都無法體驗母語教學

https://t.co/Kvyn48VU6E

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

As the Iran war spurs questions over American military strength, the US last month sought to reassure allies in Asia by staging some of its biggest drills yet to deter China in the Pacific Ocean, including around Taiwan and in the South China Sea.

Yet hidden from view, the risk of a clash is increasing between China and Vietnam. The action is most heated in the Spratly Islands, where Vietnam has emulated Chinese President Xi Jinping in building and fortifying about two dozen artificial islands among a crowded cluster of reefs and shoals.

A Bloomberg News analysis of ship-tracking data from Starboard Maritime Intelligence identified more than 100 Chinese vessels — including at least 45 linked to state-backed entities such as the coast guard and maritime militia, according to Starboard — that passed within 10 nautical miles of Vietnamese-controlled sea features during the past year, nearly double the 57 vessels that did so from May 2022 to April 2023.
@business

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[NVIDIA @nvidia]

One photo. Decades of building together.

[Karen Wu @karin62366]

The Trump administration is removing some tariffs on imports from Taiwan to implement parts of a previously agreed trade deal with the US. https://t.co/nUkUVO6rqQ