Uganda seized Taiwanese passports at the airport. Demanded Chinese ones instead. Nobody fired a shot.
That happened this month at Entebbe International Airport. It's part of a pattern Beijing calls the "silkworm" strategy: nibble away at Taiwan's mobility before swallowing its recognition whole.
Seychelles, Mauritius, and Madagascar revoked overflight clearance for Taiwan's president in April, forcing his delegation onto a longer route through Eswatini's royal jet just to reach a state visit. Morocco stopped processing Taiwanese visas in July. South Africa is demanding Taiwan relocate its liaison office out of Pretoria entirely.
The mechanism is economic. In February, China offered zero-tariff access to 53 African nations. Every one accepted it except Eswatini, Taiwan's last remaining ally on the continent. The other 52 have been tightening the noose on Taiwanese travelers ever since.
This isn't Beijing invading Taiwan. It's Beijing making the rest of the world act like Taiwan already doesn't exist, one visa stamp at a time.
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The Cuban regime has spent decades using front groups to infiltrate, corrupt, and radicalize Americans. Today, I'm sanctioning the leadership of ICAP, which is one of the primary organizations involved in these efforts—including convicted Cuban spy Fernando González Llort—and nine entities that sustain and fund the regime's repressive apparatus.
Anyone supporting, sponsoring, or providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of being sanctioned themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to, or hold funds for, these entities should take immediate action to cease their support.
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🚨 TRUMP DECLARES ‘ECONOMIC D-DAY’ AGAINST IRAN
Trump says any country doing business with Iran will face “TREMENDOUS economic consequences,” targeting oil smuggling, financial transfers, exchange houses, ship registries and front companies.
“Today, I am also announcing that ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS economic consequences.”
Trump calls it “ECONOMIC D-DAY” and vows “economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.”
“IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”
⚠️BREAKING: Nearly 16 Palestinians were caught hiding inside a double-walled compartment of a truck while trying to enter Israel illegally, probably to carry out terror attacks against Jews.
[ Margin Notes ] A Child’s Cry of “Don’t Help!” Exposes the Moral Rot of CCP China.
🇯🇵🇨🇳 A Chinese tour bus rolls through Japan. Outside, an elderly man stumbles and falls. Japanese pedestrians and shopkeepers rush to lift him without hesitation. Inside the bus, a small Chinese boy blurts out in pure instinct: “Don’t help him!” His mother, flustered, whispers the damning truth: “It’s different here from us.”
That single child’s reflex is not cute or naive. It is the perfect indictment of a society deliberately hollowed out by the Chinese Communist Party. Under CCP rule, decades of propaganda, legal traps, and state-engineered distrust have trained an entire people to treat basic human compassion as a lethal risk. Famous cases taught the lesson coldly: help a fallen stranger and you may be sued into bankruptcy, accused of causing the injury, or branded a troublemaker. Trust evaporated. Morality became a liability.
Japan still preserves the simple decency that once existed in Chinese culture too, help the weak because it is right. In CCP China, that impulse has been systematically extinguished, so thoroughly that even kindergarteners now recite the Party’s unofficial commandment: look away, stay silent, protect yourself. When children internalize cruelty as survival, the regime has not merely failed; it has poisoned the next generation’s soul.
This is not “culture.” This is the predictable product of a system that rewards fear, punishes virtue, and calls the resulting spiritual wasteland “stability.” The boy’s shout is the clearest verdict yet: under the CCP, even innocence is not spared.
— Aric
Harvard is taking hundreds of millions of dollars from China and, at the same time, transferring our great tech to the CCP military. Stop Harvard from selling us out to the Chinese. @IngrahamAngle@FoxNews
Crazy levels of disinformation in the replies.
For information: Gui Minhai successfully renounced his Chinese citizenship, and became a full Swedish citizen.
He was abducted in Thailand, and taken to China, where he was tried under CHINESE LAW as a CHINESE CITIZEN. In China he “voluntarily” renounced his Swedish citizenship in forced confession videos.
What this tells you is that the CCP will assert the primacy of Chinese citizenship where it suits them, and often predicated on the ethnic identity of the subject, regardless of their citizenship.
The basic rule according to the legislation (as if the letter of the law matters) is that if one of your parents has settled abroad, and you were born elsewhere and had foreign nationality at birth, you are not a Chinese citizen.
However, if you are considered of Chinese descent, and the CCP wants to treat you under Chinese law, they will do so on the basis of your ethnic identity.
If you really want to get into the weeds, my tweet was about the UK context, based on the 19th Session of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People’s Congress, 1996. See below for excerpt.
It’s a racist policy, and simply unbelievable that other countries are content with their citizenship being treated so cheaply.