Beijing’s rapidly advancing spying operations have seen agents penetrate the island’s armed forces, enticing personnel to pledge allegiance to China.
Nice read on the state of civil defense by @joyuwang.bsky.social. What has often surprised me is how recall groups, after the defeat of the Great Recall Movement, shifted to become civil defense groups
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Latest from @wsj.com: When Beijing wants to intimidate its rivals, it has an extensive—and often menacing—playbook to draw from. Here are some pages of it, refined through years of squeezing Taiwan and redeployed against Tokyo: www.wsj.com/world/china/...
For decades, China has waged a campaign to isolate Taiwan, which in turn has fought a struggle for recognition. But until now there hadn’t been an episode so unusual as the recent test of wills over a tiny African kingdom www.wsj.com/world/asia/t... with quotes from @wenting.bsky.social and more
🚨 NEW & UNREPORTED: China has taken the unusual step of reserving swaths of offshore airspace without explanation for a period of 40 days, issuing alerts similar to those used to warn aviation authorities of Chinese military exercises.
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China’s military announced the start of the “Justice Mission 2025” exercises around Taiwan on Monday morning and on Wednesday afternoon declared the drills “successfully completed.” Here are our five takeaways:
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A @wsj.com analysis: By hosting KMT's Cheng Li-wun, Chinese leader Xi Jinping is presenting himself as a force for stability who can be entrusted with ensuring peace, as long as Taiwan participates. With quotes from @kharist.bsky.social and more sharp minds: www.wsj.com/world/china/...
Latest: a @wsj.com deep dive into the threat of Chinese espionage in Taiwan. “It’s all being used in preparation for annexing Taiwan.”
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For the first time, Taiwan fired its U.S.-supplied HIMARS launchers into the Taiwan Strait off a beach at a location deemed a potential landing point for China’s PLA.
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China launched major military exercises in the waters and airspace around Taiwan Monday in what it called a “stern warning” against outside interference in Chinese affairs, as tensions grow with the U.S. and Japan over the security of the island.
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Beijing’s rapidly advancing spying operations have seen agents penetrate the island’s armed forces, enticing personnel to pledge allegiance to China.
China’s state propaganda machine has a toolbox for undermining leaders that includes fake opinion polls, “lawfare” and general character assassination.
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The island’s leader scored a point in the battle for recognition, surfacing in Eswatini despite Beijing’s objections.
