蘇明成🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺

Passionné de culture chinoise. Chinese culture enthusiast. 對中華文化抱有興趣。

[Robin Carrel @robincarrel]

Non, le journalisme n'est pas mort.

Regardez-moi ce truc de génie et laissez-le pendant un mois et demi dans vos favoris.

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[Stéphane Malsagne @malsagne]

Parution le 10 septembre. Une histoire inédite de la guerre civile chinoise en milieu insulaire à travers un évènement trop méconnu: la défaite de Mao sur l’île de Kinmen fin octobre 49. Au delà, une histoire globale des premiers projets communistes d’invasion de Taïwan.

[Thompson Chau @tchau01]

ANALYSIS: Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te marks the halfway point of his 4-year term this week. If the first 2 years are anything to go by, the next will be gruelling. @NikkeiAsia looks at Lai’s leadership, his security reforms and the political drama. 1/4
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[Ryan Hass @ryanl_hass]

Sharing brief thoughts on Trump’s Taiwan gambit. I argue Trump’s approach, if acted on, would be a shift from deterrence to dealmaking in a domain where there is no deal to be made, beyond offering unilateral concessions that undermine US credibility.

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[哈囉台灣人 @linyuneng007]

立法院通過7800億軍購條例，台灣總統憂心看得到用不到#shorts

[Cédric Labrousse @CdricLabrousse]

Et ?

Qu'un peuple se constitue par une idée, une langue, un projet, une religion, un texte sacré, une union politique, une union contre un autre, etc...

Il n'en devient pas moins... un peuple.

Vous voudriez arrêter la liste des peuples en 2026 selon une liste de critères ?

[Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen]

"The opposition's budget was understood to cover purchases of US equipment but not domestic production, potentially compromising plans to expand the homegrown defense industry."

Beijing fears a strong Taiwanese defense sector, and the KMT+TPP are working to slow its development.

[蘇明成🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺 @lemondechinois]

@martelf @quatremer J’ajoute car je l’entends souvent de personnes pourtant en accord avec cela que Taïwan n’est pas une « démocratie chinoise » ou alors c’est nier la volonté d’une grande partie de la population taïwanaise, dont l’identité est désormais strictement taïwanaise.

[Thompson Chau @tchau01]

Taiwan’s KMT-led parliament on Friday voted to cut President Lai Ching-te’s proposed defence funding by more than a third, a move likely to draw scrutiny in Washington days before an expected summit between Trump and Xi. 1/2
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[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

Cheng calling for a meeting with Trump is, in fact, quite a smart move--it could moderate her pro-China image plus outflank the DPP, in claiming a diplomatic breakthrough they were unable to achieve. Cheng is also taking advantage of international publicity after her Xi meeting

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

No consensus on arms purchases after thirty minutes of negotiations

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[Taiwan Security Monitor (台灣安全觀測站) @TaiwanMonitor]

Per a press conference with DPP lawmakers, Legislative Yuan President Han Kuo-yu will preside over negotiations tomorrow between all three parties in the LY over the draft special defense budget, as well as Taiwan's general budget for next year.

DPP officials urged KMT counterparts to attend and engage, citing last Thursday's consultation in the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee where KMT members were absent.

[The Wire China @thewirechina]

This week's cover story: While every war is different, countries generally cannot mobilize for war in secret.

In an essay adapted from his new book, Defending Taiwan, @eyckfreymann looks at how the U.S. and its allies can try to prevent Xi from pulling the trigger over Taiwan: https://t.co/ImaN6IoNsj

[POLITICO @politico]

China says it will resume some ties with Taiwan after visit by opposition leader https://t.co/I60sdJOOLy

[Thompson Chau @tchau01]

ANALYSIS @NikkeiAsia: KMT leader Cheng Li-wun met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. The meeting came toward the end of Cheng’s six-day “peace” mission to China, and establishes her as #Taiwan’s top politician for cross-strait dealings. 1/5
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[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

In Cheng’s press conference after her meeting with Xi, she doesn’t state much that is already in her speech, but frames Xi’s ideology as in line with the Three Principles of the People

[Brian Hioe 丘琦欣 @brianhioe]

PLA declares live-fire exercises in Yellow Sea today, interpreted here as a slap in the face for Cheng Li-wun’s claim to be able to reduce tensions with her trip to China. I suspected this would be the case, the PLA doesn’t really seem to know to hold off

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[Paul Huang @PaulHuangReport]

The biggest problem with @kuomintang Chair Cheng Li-Wun's China trip is not* it could paint KMT as "red", but trip and her speeches all follow the boring, ineffective pattern of her mentor Lien Chan (a failed pol.). So far TW social media engagement have been pathetically low.🧵

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

#Opinion: Cheng Li-wun’s visit to Chinese mainland sends a clear and powerful message to the world: as long as the 1992 Consensus and the one-China principle are upheld, the door to cross-Straits dialogue will remain wide open, cooperation will flourish, and the Chinese mainland’s sincerity will stand firm.
https://t.co/2vQkQBlRTJ

[David Demes 戴達衛 @DemesDavid]

BREAKING Former Taipei mayor and founder of the Taiwan People’s Party, Ko Wen-je, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption-related charges. Based on the sentence of 10+ years, Ko won’t be allowed to run for President in 2028.