Last Friday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jetted off for a marathon of international summits, the most significant of which will be the
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On November 5, Taiwan’s Central News Agency reported on what could well have been one of the most boring pieces of news in history. The story
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The B-21 is a smaller and more advanced version of the famously capable and infamously expensive B-2. It is currently on schedule to start flying
What Does Taiwan’s Twitter Diplomacy Stand to Lose From Elon Musk’s Takeover?
The Taiwanese government currently uses Twitter in a wide variety of ways. It publicizes (informal) engagements with “delegations” from other
Report Shows China Is Massively Underreporting Its Shark Catch
Dalian Ocean Fishing used banned gear to deliberately catch and illegally cut the fins off of huge numbers of sharks in international waters, Mongabay
‘There Are Solutions to These Abuses’: How China Can Rein in Illegal Fishing
Earlier this month, Mongabay published an article uncovering a massive illegal shark finning scheme across the fleet of one of China’s largest tuna
How Beijing’s Useful Idiots Canceled Trump’s Spy Probe
Between the years 2010 and 2012, China killed or jailed around 20 of its citizens who had been feeding information to the CIA. The purge was so
COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a ‘Complex and Grave Situation’ Inside a Wuhan Lab
The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal.
Fearful of Deliberately Vague Rules, Online Fandoms in China Internalize Self-Censorship
When talking about censorship in China, most people immediately think of the government. Censorship is imagined as a finely tuned machine of
Why Didn’t Taiwan’s Government Congratulate Lula?
As the results to the second round of Brazil’s presidential election were announced last week, a string of world leaders moved quickly to congratulate
Olaf Scholz’s Trip to China: Is Germany Really a ‘Freeloader’?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s planned visit to China would make him the first European Union leader to make the trip since the start of the COVID-19
U.S. Moves B-52 Missile Platforms Toward Taiwan
Designed in the late 1940s, the B-52 Stratofortress bomber is today still a very impressive and very large flying missile platform that can carry 32