Today I decided to go public with the email
#China
’s embassy in Spain sent to coerce the University of
#Salamanca
into cancelling “
#Taiwan
Cultural Days” on October 2017. ENG version on the account of what happened ➡️
@aliceysu
Meanwhile in
#Taiwan
my centenarian 阿公 goes for a stroll on the park in the company of relatives, and people queue to get the famous 潤餅 (Taiwanese burrito) during these past festivity days…
#Taiwan
ha tenido un repunte de contagios (28 marinos de 3 buques de la armada que han estado en misión de entrenamiento en Palau) y la Presidenta Tsai
@iingwen
pide disculpas por ello, “como Comandante en Jefe, soy la responsable” Repito, PIDE DISCULPAS
#China
’s ambassador to Spain threatens Spanish government over Huawei: 🇪🇸 will suffer if Spanish firms follows US recommendations Well, if he wanted to prove Huawei is a private company with no ties to
#Beijing
...
#PoliticalWarfare
#InfluenceOps
@globaltimesnews
Also in
#Taiwan
: a bakery shop welcomes Pelosi’s visit, the owner says US-TWN relations are not about 🇨🇳.
「蛋黃酥業者江軍衛指出,台灣跟美國的交流,完全不關中國的事。中國長期打壓台灣,讓台灣人很不開心。裴洛西要來台灣訪問,他一定要用行動相挺。」
At
@DPPonline
big rally (Ketagalan Boulevard) the ambience is lively, I am seat in the front rows among a bunch of high spirited 阿公阿嬤 who want to take pictures with me because they say I resemble
@bikhim
☺️
In
#Taiwan
democracy is always a celebration, very festive environment right now at
@DPPonline
‘March for Love’ (rally). How can some claim this is 🇨🇳?
Yesterday a Confucius Institute was inaugurated at the University
@unisevilla
, Spain. My colleague
@MarLlera
, professor at said university, led a solitary protest against 🇨🇳CCP coopting our academic institutions. There are 9 CI in Spain already, next one, my hometown
@USAL
.
Hoy he decido hacer público el email con el que la embajada de
#China
en España amenazó a la Universidad de
#Salamanca
en octubre 2017 para cancelar las “Jornadas Culturales de
#Taiwan
”. Los emails en la versión original en español ➡️
Some clarification here: the People’s Republic of China 🇨🇳 did not exist during World War II (not until 1949), so it was the Republic of China 🇹🇼 (which occupied Taiwan after WWII) the one who provided shelter to Jew refugees.
And THIS, ladies & gentlemen, is the new EU
@eu_eeas
ambassador to
#China
:
- “We (the EU) do not support
#Taiwan
independence, but (we support) peaceful reunification. We believe there has to be only 1 🇨🇳”.
He’s presenting Spain’s government position on TWN as the 🇪🇺 position!😱
#China
’s economic coercion against
Norway 2010
Japan 2010 & 2012
Philippines 2012
Mongolia 2016
South Korea 2016
Taiwan 2016*
Australia 2017*
Canada 2018
New Zealand 2019
Sweden 2019
Czech Republic 2019
United Kingdom 2020
Sweden 2021*
Lithuania 2021*
(*ongoing)
Vaya, vaya, vaya… tenemos aquí a un tankie que tiene que dejar Twitter (temporalmente) ya que al parecer no puede conectarse desde 🇨🇳, donde esta app está vetada, xq le está fallando la VPN que usa para circunvalar la prohibición impuesta por el régimen cuyos dogmas defiende 😏
#GoodLord
Former Spain’s PM Zapatero has written a propaganda op-ed piece in “
#China
’s Daily” where he endorses
#Beijing
’s “1 🇨🇳 principle” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Recap: former Japan PM Shinzo Abe is currently fighting for his life at the hospital after being shot at a campaign rally. Meanwhile
#China
’s official media…
Lituania (país miembro UE y OTAN) ha rechazado un contrato de 63 millones euros con España por razón de seguridad nacional. Porque la empresa española "Puentes y Calzadas" tiene inversión de la subsidiaria estatal 🇨🇳 "
#China
Road and Bridge Corporation"
@WhoresofYore
At my hometown university library two condoms were found inside a 16th medicine textbook, they date from mid 1800 and are made of pig tripe
OJO, MUY GRAVE!!! Lo que he descubierto: en la lista actualizada (28 octubre 2022) del
@MAECgob
sobre traductores jurados para idioma chino, figuraría una de esas 9 "comisarías" que el régimen de Pekín tiene en España. En Barcelona, C/ Roger de Flor 83, local 3
08013.
@Nyscalo
@alvarocotobal
Y poco se habla de cómo
#Taiwan
a día de hoy está teniendo una gestión impecable con esto del
#COVID19
. Y sin sacrificar libertades civiles, que estamos hablando de un país democrático...
#Coronavirus
#COVID_19
A día de hoy
#Taiwan
se mantiene estable con 45 casos de
#WuhanVirus
/1 fallecido, con trazabilidad de todos ellos. Además decretó nivel de alerta 2 para quienes lleguen desde España, Francia e Italia ➡️ cuarentina. #武漢肺炎
@iingwen
Madam President, I’m a Spanish-Taiwanese 混血 scholar who
#SpeakUpforTaiwan
in Spain’s (
#China
friendly) political minefield. I respectfully point out you office HUGE FAIL of publishing the Catalonian version of the
#TaiwanConsensus
with the separatist flag. Correct versions➡️
In
#Taiwan
democracy is always a celebration, very festive environment right now at
@DPPonline
‘March for Love’ (rally). How can some claim this is 🇨🇳?
A friend has sent me this pic, the Pillar of Shame is back in Taipei Liberty Square, but apparently it has been vandalized with black paint. Cc
@jojjeols
Last month in Beijing Chinese fans were banned to enter Taiwanese A-mei 張惠妹 concert wearing any 🏳️🌈 🌈 apparel, now it’s Jolin 蔡依林 turn. Reminder: both singers have actively advocated for
#LGBT
+ equality.
LGBTQ+-themed song is removed from Taiwanese pop star Jolin Tsai's concert in Chinese city of Changsha
The song "Womxnly" commemorates a Taiwanese teenager who died after being bullied in school for appearing 'feminine.'
After
@SafeguardDefend
investigation on China´s 'police stations' abroad, now I am discovering more disturbing info. 🇨🇳 People´s Courts 人民法院 establishing "joint investigation centers for litigation and legal service" abroad in collaboration with overseas Chinese associations.
“They're an independent nation,
#Taiwan
, and I believe in the ‘One China‘ policy, but they are a democracy, which
#China
is not and I believe that a conversation with the president (Tsai
@iingwen
) of a freely elected, democratic Taiwan is more than appropriate."- Sen. John McCain
And President Tsai
@iingwen
has just posted on FB about the whole “
#China
-
#Taiwan
” controversy at yesterday’s Golden Horse Awards gala (the Asian Oscars)
Yesterday we celebrated 阿公 👴🏼 101 birthday. He wanted to have 牛排🥩 for lunch and then a chocolate 🎂 for tea time. I got him a 0.5kg free weight set for him to exercise.
Italy banned all flights from
#Taiwan
(because 🇭🇺 banned flights from
#China
and considers TWN part of 🇨🇳). Currently TWN has 26
#2019nCoV
cases and 1 casualty, ITA almost 80 cases and 2 casualties...
@javierespinosa2
Parece que el anuncio de Rusia se refiere a “países y territorios”, no sé si alguien que entienda ruso puede confirmarlo. En todo caso en el listado figura como “Тайвань (Китай)”
#Taiwan
,
#China
. Bien 🇷🇺 reconoce a TWN como país, o está incluyendo a 🇨🇳 como país ‘no amigo’.
Let’s rephrase all this inaccuracy 👉🏼
#China
’s regime continuos threats endanger
#Taiwan
.
#Beijing
trying to annex this neighboring country through war would be a global catastrophe: the US and like-minded democratic allies must work harder to deter the Chinese government.
Taiwan is the most dangerous place on Earth. A war over the island would be a catastrophe: America and China must work harder to avoid it. Our cover this week
@CarmelaRios
Así figura Xinhua 🇨🇳 en el registro mercantil: sociedad extranjera cuyo ‘objeto social’ es “difundir la linea, principios y políticas dl Partido Comunista🇨🇳; reflejar aspiraciones y demandas de las masas populares; orientar correctamente la opinión pública nacional y extranjera”.
NO, it was not a translation problem,
@JosepBorrellF
clearly said in Spanish “
#Taiwan
es un pequeño país” and “TWN, un país que es de la talla de Andalucía”…
Reminder: Spain was the first EU member state to sign an extradition treaty with Beijing, and also the only Western democracy to have ever extradited Taiwan nationals (about 300) to China.
@katka_cseh
@bueti
calls for remaining 12 EU members to cancel extradition treaties with China
Wants to "create dedicated hotlines for the victims of Chinese policies" and to "unwind the police cooperation that still exists in Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Serbia, and Switzerland."
TOTAL
#DISINFORMATION
🇨🇳 has forcer the
@UN
to regurgitate: there is not a single (either Security Council nor General Assembly) resolution to support this claim.
@borjaguti1
@unisevilla
@MarLlera
@usal
Cultural exchanges with a totalitarian regime which implements an ironclad censorship you have to use a (outlawed by Beijing) VPN to write that post? I wonder if Arantxa Echevarría 🎥 “Chinas” (filmed with authentic Chinese diaspora in Madrid) could even be shown in China…
Tráiler de CHINAS, la nueva película de Arantxa Echevarría ('Carmen y Lola').
De estreno en cines el próximo 6 de octubre, la película se acerca a la vida de dos niñas de ascendencia china que viven en Madrid.
🔗
Today is Lee Teng-hui’s birthday, he would have turned 100 y/o. Lee is the father of democracy in
#Taiwan
, he was able to reform Chinese Nationalist Party KMT brutal authoritarian regime from the inside. 李登輝 was the first Taiwanese born democratically elected President.
Today I decided to go public with the email
#China
’s embassy in Spain sent to coerce the University of
#Salamanca
into cancelling “
#Taiwan
Cultural Days” on October 2017. ENG version on the account of what happened ➡️
1/3 I’m going to tell a story my family suffered during Chinese Nationalist White Terror 白色恐怖: late 40s, at my 阿公阿嬤 house in Chiayi, KMT soldiers stormed in, my 阿公 took my eldest 舅舅 in his arms. Soldiers pointed their rifles & bayonets at my 阿公 forcing him to kneel.
34 years ago today, President Chiang Ching-kuo #蔣經國 lifted martial law on
#Taiwan
. We remain immensely proud of this decision, as it made possible the
#RepublicOfChina
's substantial subsequent democratization. Truly a historic day!
#Democracy
#Freedom
#Libertad
Qué maravilla, el canal de
@SeInterpone
tiene videos de la historia
#Maitino
con subs en Mandarín como Dios manda (usado en
#Taiwan
,
#HongKong
y diáspora). Todo un recurso didáctico para idioma: “Te llevo tatuada en cada poro de mi piel” ➡️ 妳就像刺青一樣滲透我每一寸肌膚.
@CarlaAntonelli
El pequeño “gran” detalle es que en durante la cena de gala de la
#CumbreOTAN
en el Palacio Real, Gauthier Destenay estuvo sentado junto a Orbán, presidente de Hungría y reconocido homófobo (foto vía
@CasaReal
)
The
#Taiwan
Fellowship Program run by
@MOFA_Taiwan
has just given me the official go to change my research from ‘Taiwan National Defense Reform’ to ‘
#InfluenceOps
in
#China
’s Public Diplomacy’ 🤓
A-miao did a herculean campaign in 大安區 blue stronghold. I’ve seen her several times, campaigning on her bike and stopping to talk with any passerby who wanted to debate with her. I am looking forward to what’s next for her, she is from a generation of politicians Taiwan needs.
La visita Pelosi a
#Taiwan
parece ya confirmada. Se espera q aterrice aquí mañana al anochecer. Ni 🇨🇳va a invadir TWN, ni se va a desatar 3ªGM. Habrá intensificación maniobras PLAN en Estrecho + incursiones aéreas en ADIZ. Y + vetos a exportaciones TWN como ya lo hiciera con 🍍🐟
Beautiful sunset today,
#Taipeihenge
(yes, it’s a thing, like the ‘Manhattanhenge’). A reminder that
#Taiwan
is not a geopolitical abstract concept, there are 23.500.000 + souls living here, whose lives have been threatened by 🇨🇳 for decades…
#Nitenite
This Taiwan national flew Spain to Poland avoiding joint Madrid-Beijing 👮🏻♂️operation where around 300 Taiwanese were detained and later extradited from🇪🇸to🇨🇳. Spanish gov is the only Western democracy to have done so: MAD does recognize BJ’s “one🇨🇳 principle - 台灣是中國的一部分”.
Taiwan’s 1st extradited prisoner returned from Poland
🇹🇼👮🏻👮♂️🇵🇱
Taiwan will continue working with like-minded partners to uphold justice and promote global public security.
Mini cursillo de defensa civil en
#Taiwan
: estructura básica, lo indispensable para sobrevivir en montaña + lo indispensable para sobrevivir en entorno urbano. Dato útil 👉🏼 un bote de mantequilla de cacahuete aporta energía para 1 semana.
@BuzoneoVox
@Fronterasblog
@sertorio122
El buque tiene bandera panameña, fletado x la compañía taiwanesa Evergreen y propiedad de la firma 🇯🇵 Shoei Kisen Kaisha, tiene una tripulación de 25 personas, todas de nacionalidad 🇮🇳. Salió del puerto de Ningbo en 🇨🇳,hizo escala en Taiwan y Malasia, destino final es Rotterdam.
Today (April 23th 2024) Taiwan Constitutional Court is hearing on a case against death penalty. And this is HUGE. Yes, it’s not about semiconductors, defense… But again, for TWN, this is HUGE.
How the DPP raised Taiwan international profile?👉🏼Legalizing same-sex marriage, pandemic response, topping freedom indexes in Asia…
How the KMT plans to keep international interest in TWN?👉🏼Enforcing death penalty
2024 Elections: Hou Yu-ih (KMT) signs pro-death penalty pledge – Taipei Times: ‘The DPP blocks the implementation of the death penalty through administrative orders, because it is afraid of abolishing capital punishment, Hou [claimed].’
EU’s VP/HR
@JosepBorrellF
blames Nancy Pelosi’s visit for escalation in the
#Taiwan
Strait… Pelosi’s visit was confirmed less than 24h before she landed in Taipei, military exercises on that scale are not prepared in 24h. 🇨🇳had planned for it way before, the visit was the excuse
Mi abuela materna nació siendo japonesa (
#Taiwan
colonia imperio 🇯🇵), luego en 1945 llegó
#China
(nacionalista Chiang Kai-shek) a ocupar TWN y a obligar a los taiwaneses a dejar de hablar taiwanés y japonés, porque para eso eran chinos. Quienes afirman q TWN es CHN, ni p*** idea.
Del tweet anterior: Para ser ecuánimes, a la Uni de
#Salamanca
, víctima tb, la situación le cogió totalmente por sorpresa, no sabían cómo lidiar con
#China
. En contexto: en España la propaganda de
#Beijing
lleva décadas campando a sus anchas, tb de la mano de influencers pro 🇨🇳
Today marks D+35 under lockdown here in Spain. I was very touched by this clip, underlines having around someone supportive (not my case) when you have a panic attack [
#Station19
,
#Marina
Capt. Maya Bishop (
@D_SAVRE
)💕Dr Carina DeLuca (
@spampistefania
)]
Honestly, I can’t fathom why Taiwanese citizens, especially those who engage in non “re-unification” politics, and/or democracy/human rights activists, still travel to China…
According to
@ltntw
, another Taiwanese citizen has gone missing in China. It is believed the woman might have been targeted because of her membership in a political action committee associated with President Tsai Ing-wen, called "小英之友會"
#Coronavirus
#COVID_19
A día de hoy
#Taiwan
se mantiene estable con 45 casos de
#WuhanVirus
/1 fallecido, con trazabilidad de todos ellos. Además decretó nivel de alerta 2 para quienes lleguen desde España, Francia e Italia ➡️ cuarentina. #武漢肺炎
Se ve que ha escocido mi denuncia de que 1 de las “comisarías” q 🇨🇳 tiene en 🇪🇸 funciona tb como traductores jurados reconocidos oficialmente por
@MAECgob
. El cónsul en Barcelona me ha bloqueado, y por cierto, el diplomático visitó esa “comisaría” tras hacerse público mi hallazgo
- Mi hermana, adjunta de UVI.
- My sister, an ICU doctor.
- 我妹妹是重症加護科醫生。
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
#Coronavirus
#COVID19
#COVID_19
#武漢肺炎
Today my 阿公turns 99 y/o. He survived 🇯🇵colonization, the US 💣 his 🏠 during WWII, China’s Nationalist occupation, the White Terror dictatorship... He & my relatives in
#Taiwan
(an auntie & cousin in the 📷) still live under 🇨🇳 constant threat. Let the world not forget about it
NO‼️❌
#China
no ha expresado su “inquebrantable apoyo” a la soberanía de Ucrania 👉🏼 ‘La posición fundamental de 🇨🇳 sobre la cuestión de 🇺🇦 es abierta, transparente y consistente. Siempre hemos abogado por el respeto a la soberanía y la integridad territorial de todos los países.’
Want to hear something even wilder? Spain’s Ceuta and Melilla cities in North Africa are not covered by NATO. Madrid backtracked on the application to have both cities covered fearing a Morocco retaliation by weaponizing immigration flows.
Want to hear something wild? Hawaii isn't covered by NATO because geographically it isn't in the North Atlantic. Doesn't matter that Hawaii is part of the United States.
#WhyOhWhy
is that only populists like Trump, Bolsonaro, Poland’s biblical
#MPGA
, etc... support
#Taiwan
? It doesn’t say much about progressive/liberals’ will to defend a struggling
#Asian
democracy, but says so much about their will to kowtow to aggressive authoritarian
#China
...
#BREAKING
Spain Health Minister has just announced the measures that will be applied to travelers arriving from 🇨🇳:
- Either to provide a negative PCR test,
- or vaccination (at least 2 jabs) certificate.
Western media is largely silent on this major news from
#Taiwan
but President Tsai Ing-Wen’s party has officially been defeated! Tsai is known for being against China and wanting to push independence, but Taiwanese don’t want war and voted accordingly. This is good news for Asia!