@svdvizag@WSJ Are you making fun of America's political infighting, the integrity of its industrial chain and productivity, and the efficiency of policy implementation?
Beijing is running a relentless global loyalty campaign, and the entrance fee is Taiwan.
The latest example played out during Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi's recent visit to Mongolia, where Ulaanbaatar was pressured into publicly declaring Taiwan an inseparable part of China. But Mongolia is just one cog in a massive, coordinated machine.
Every time a foreign leader touches down in Beijing or a Chinese diplomat travels abroad, the exact same political choreography is demanded. This isn't routine diplomatic small talk; it is highly aggressive geopolitical lawfare designed to systematically isolate Taipei on the world stage.
The Chinese state apparatus has dramatically intensified this push, using economic leverage, massive infrastructure loans, and trade access to buy public compliance across the Global South. Simultaneously, Beijing is weaponizing UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, trying to twist a decades-old ruling into a false global consensus that justifies its territorial claims.
This full-court press is creating severe fractures. Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs routinely slams these forced statements as a deliberate attempt to manipulate global opinion and invent a legal justification for future military action.
Meanwhile, Western democracies are left playing a fragile semantic game. Washington and its allies must fiercely defend the distinction between Beijing's absolute "One China Principle" and their own independent "One China Policies", which merely acknowledge, rather than endorse, China's claims over a self-governing democracy.
#China #Taiwan #Mongolia #OneChina #ForeignPolicy #Diplomacy #Geopolitics #NationalSecurity
@MsMelChen He will most likely pretend not to see your sharp criticism, dare not refute you directly, and deliberately downplay your presence. Because doing so would put him in a disadvantageous self-justifying spotlight.🫢
Two global powerhouses?
Oh please, I see only ONE.
Singapore is what competent governance actually looks like. It's pro-growth and has strong rule of law. They CANE vandals, graffiti scumbags, and anyone who thinks they can trash a world-class city. Imagine that? The streets are clean and safe for families. Merit and results are favored over feelings and cheap sloganeering.
You? You took one of the greatest cities in human history and ran it straight into decay and decline. Knife crime has exploded on your watch, phone snatchings have soared, and the rate of robberies and violent crime with injury are way up. Young Londoners are so terrified to walk certain streets that many have moved to safer towns in the countryside. The streets are filthier, the tube is far more unreliable and chaotic, and businesses and talent are fleeing London.
Your woke policies are the EXACT OPPOSITE of Singapore's and the results are clear.
And don't get me started on how you've poisoned race relations. London is now a seething cauldron of division and resentment. While Singapore builds unity through shared standards, forced integration, and zero-tolerance enforcement, you've peddled woke grievance politics that pit communities against each other. You've obsessed over "structural racism" and "anti-Blackness," pushing narratives that scream institutional guilt at every turn, all the while anti-white sentiment and antisemitism have surged to horrifying levels on your watch. Jewish Londoners living in fear, synagogues needing extra security, streets filled with chants that call for their destruction. You downplay it, equivocate, and let the marches roll on with kid gloves.
Two-tier policing has gone off the charts with police being harsh on some protests, soft on others depending on the identity or cause. Native Londoners and white working-class communities feel abandoned and demonized, while certain groups get a free pass.
Your own office even put out garbage claiming a White family "doesn't represent real Londoners." You've fanned the flames of resentment instead of demanding assimilation, excellence, and color-blind law and order.
So sorry, but London *was* a powerhouse, but that was before your tenure. It's not anymore.
In 1946, a young Lee Kuan Yew stepped off the boat into a battered London still licking its wounds from war.
Amid the mess, he witnessed something miraculous - an unsupervised newspaper stall at Piccadilly Circus. People stopped, dropped their coins, took their paper, and walked on. There was no attendant, no fear of theft.
“This,” he thought, “is civilisation. A high-trust society where men police themselves.”
He carried that vision home.
In the 1960s, as Singapore stumbled out of colonial rule - poor, swampy, fractious - Lee vowed to forge his city state into that London he saw first hand.
Over time, Lee transformed Singapore into an orderly, courteous, disciplined, garden of trust rising from a chaotic swamp.
Now the tables have turned as London, once the beacon, slides into low-trust decay. It's only accelerated under your leadership. It went from high-trust to low-trust to now, negative trust.
There's actually a huge trust deficit now.
The former colony has now surpassed its former colonial master as the latter forgot how to govern.
Singapore actually has the playbook. Since you're there, you might as well learn from the best.
With Chinese hypersonic weapons and fortified bases in the South China Sea, the vast ocean buffer that kept Australia safe for generations is officially dead.
A stark assessment by the Lowy Institute, an independent Australian think thank reveals that Beijing now possesses the definitive capability to launch conventional missile strikes directly onto the Australian mainland. Over the next decade, this direct threat will expand exponentially as China rolls out more DF-27 intermediate-range ballistic missiles alongside conventionally armed ICBMs deployed on advanced warships and submarines operating near Australian waters.
However, a sudden rain of missiles is only the most visible part of a broader strategy to paralyze the nation. Australia faces far more immediate, invisible dangers that could easily cripple daily life without a single explosion. The most pressing vulnerabilities involve catastrophic cyber attacks on critical domestic infrastructure, the strategic severing of vital undersea communications cables, and the military blockade of the maritime trade lanes that keep the economy alive.
Australia's political leadership has quietly scrambled to adapt, but officials remain deeply hesitant to stoke public alarm. While the government has pivoted its defense strategy toward northern maritime approaches and secured long-range strike capabilities through the AUKUS submarine pact, it has consistently avoided openly discussing direct homeland attacks. No official government statement has been released in response to these latest tactical developments yet. But the brutal reality is undeniable: the geographic shield is gone, and the country is now directly in the crosshairs.
#Australia #China #DefenseStrategy #NationalSecurity #DF27 #AUKUS #IndoPacific #Geopolitics
Gee, maybe be the large nice men riding yellow rental bikes on weekends. Or the ones you bump into at “The Diner”.. - Or could be the nice gents who dropped into our cigar bar and everybody played pretend. - Everyone in Taipei knows and so does the PLA.
& while not special forces the United Airlines boarding US military personnel going and coming to Taipei is usually about a dozen on my last couple of flights.
"If the KMT can regain power in 2028, it will fully restart exchanges with mainland China in all fields." This promise, made by KMT legislator Cheng Li-wen during her June 2026 US tour, has triggered a diplomatic disaster in Washington.
What was meant to reassure American allies quickly devolved into a high-profile failure. Alarmed by her overtly pro-Beijing rhetoric, the US National Security Council abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Cheng on short notice. Relegated to lower-level staff at the AIT Washington headquarters instead of the White House, Cheng faced a brutal diplomatic snub rarely seen for visiting Taiwanese officials.
The fallout goes much deeper than bad optics; US officials are deeply unsettled by Cheng’s defense of the KMT’s recent legislative maneuvers. The KMT recently used its majority to slash Taiwan's vital NT$1.25 trillion special defense budget. Adding fuel to the fire, Cheng publicly criticized US arms sales as a corruption-prone "blank check" and dismissed the strategic importance of the First Island Chain as a mere "Cold War mentality." Coming just months after her April 2026 meeting with Xi Jinping, these remarks have sparked intense backlash at home, with critics accusing the KMT of being completely absorbed by Beijing's influence.
While the KMT frames the trip as a pragmatic push for peace via the 1992 Consensus, Washington clearly sees a dangerous gamble. By trading Taiwan's defensive resolve for Beijing’s favor, the opposition has alienated its most critical international ally. This diplomatic fracture leaves a sobering reminder that Taipei's fierce internal political divides may now be its greatest national security vulnerability.
#Taiwan #KMT #USPol #CrossStrait #TaiwanPolitics #NationalSecurity #China #ForeignPolicy