Taiwan not part of China, engineer insists at WEC - Taipei Times https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/10/21/2003808009
Why does this even need to be mentioned? I am surprised however that they actually listened to him.
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Taiwan not part of China, engineer insists at WEC - Taipei Times https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/10/21/2003808009
Why does this even need to be mentioned? I am surprised however that they actually listened to him.
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Living right by the sea at a western coast has its advantages: sunsets, sunsets, sunsets...
Those are fishing boats. The freight ships are more to the left, not in the photo. Well, not in this photo. Here is a panorama of the same sunset:
It's not easy however to spot the freighters against the cloud backdrop.
#myphoto #Taiwan #sunset
Dwarfed by China’s military strength, the island has been improving training and stockpiling military equipment.#Military #Politics #Weapons #AsiaPacific #China #Taiwan
How prepared is Taiwan for a war with China?
'Puppy' typhoon heads to other Southeast Asian areas after causing death and destruction in Taiwan's Hengchun peninsula.#Weather #AsiaPacific #Taiwan
Typhoon Koinu lashes southern Taiwan, kills one person
This would be a death sentence for Taiwan.
You missed the whole of World War II if you don't know how this movie ends.
If #Ukraine can beat #Russia, #China is less likely to invade #Taiwan."
We do indeed still have train stations here in #Taiwan looking like this one. It is located close to the #Chimei Museum, in #Tainan, but not far from Kaohsiung.
When I arrived there, I found that they had no machine to check my (magnetized) paper ticket, only an RFID reader. I had a card, but didn't get to use it, because when I asked about a train to this station in Kaohsiung, the lady at the counter was so happy someone showed up, she immediately issued me a paper ticket.
There were also no gates as such and nobody was checking (although the station should be manned by at least one person), they simply expect people to be honest.
The beauty of Taiwan politics...
Names are important, very important, when it comes to dealings regarding #Taiwan. Former president Horse Hero Nine is slightly miffed that the current administration has changed the name for the 10/10 holiday from "Republic of China National Day" to "Taiwan National Day". The use of the name "Taiwan" hurt him so much, he won't participate in the celebrations
Taiwan’s Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) announced that he would not attend this year's National Day celebrations on his Facebook page on Monday.
Ma said the current government's decision to change the English name of the holiday to "Taiwan National Day" from the “Republic of China National Day” was his reason for declining.
You see, he belongs to those encrusted KMT hardliners who even though they may have been born in Taiwan (He was born in HK in 1950, where his parents had been on the run from the CCP to Taiwan.), they will still say they are "from another province" (外省人) or that they are Chinese, not Taiwanese. Interestingly, although they insist on being from another province, hate everything with the name "Taiwan" on it and are best friends with the CCP these days, they don't want to move to their "ancestral province" and continue their attempts at selling Taiwan to the CCP.
And if you ever wanted to know what "independence" means in relation to Taiwan:
In his post, Ma said that the change was a clear indication of the government's pro-independence stance.
It's a name change. Taiwan is an independent country. The "independence" the PRC talks about is a change of the official name away from "China" to "Taiwan". That would render the so-called "One China Policy" non-applicable to Taiwan.
So, other than Horse Hero Nine, I'm pretty sure someone else is not happy either, a Mr. X in B...
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Taiwan unveils first homegrown submarine amid china tensions
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Military exercises near #Taiwan aimed at combating ‘arrogance’ of separatists, says China | Taiwan | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/27/china-military-excercises-near-taiwan
Sure. "Arrogance"... I wonder to whom that term applies...
Taipei has reported regular sightings of the Chinese military around the island as well as land exercises in Fujian.#Military #Politics #AsiaPacific #China #Taiwan
China says drills around Taiwan to ‘combat arrogance of separatists’
Enter generative #AI tools such as large language models, which power some of the big breakthrough online AI tools such as #ChatGPT. “This year, because gen AI is just so mailable, they just fine-tuned a language module together that can clarify such disinformation…adding back a context and things like that. So we're no longer outnumbered,” she said. It also allows the citizen-run venture to remain as such, as opposed to run by the #government, which is important for its credibility.
That sounds very naive to me. I've learned so far from #Trump's "war on truth" that when someone has dived too deep into the right rabbit whole, no more fact checking or credibility helps. The opponent can always produce #fake and #propaganda via AI faster than you can refute. In the end, #conspiracy ideologues don't care about the #truth.
#china #technology #fakenews #news #future #politics #military #war #terror #problem #rabbitWhole #conflict #society
Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng says frequency of Chinese military drills increases risk of accidental clash.#Conflict #Military #Politics #Weapons #XiJinping #AsiaPacific #China #Taiwan
Taiwan calls China’s increased military drills ‘abnormal’, risks accident
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The battle for Taiwan is anything but a game
Taiwan: Mehr als hundert chinesische Militärflugzeuge nahe der Insel registriert - DER SPIEGEL https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/mehr-als-hundert-chinesische-militaerflugzeuge-nahe-taiwan-registriert-a-5ce91406-4c34-4277-af2d-772151db9692
Sportlich, sportlich... Kriegen die Jungs Medaillen, wenn sie einen neuen Rekord aufstellen oder gefällt ihnen einfach nur die Aussicht um #Taiwan herum? Es ist ungemein beruhigend, wenn man weiß, dass die alle unheimlich friedliebend sind...