Catie Lilly
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Tweeting about Taiwan & its (post)colonial present. Striving for a good brain & kind heart. In real life, an assistant professor of early modern British history
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For the Dutch program Backlight I explain why Taiwan matters:
"Taiwan is unique: there is nowhere else so economically dominant & so formally diplomatically isolated. The combo of these things is dangerous for regional security & hence for the world."
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@JohnCornyn
This is dangerously wrong. There are not 30,000 US troops in Taiwan! There is no active US military base in Taiwan.
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Citizenship Day! Really National ID
Day but that’s the weirdness of the Republic of China at work 😬
今天申請中華民國身分證，成為台灣新移民之一 🥳
Kin-á-ji̍t chhéng Tiong-hoa Bîn-kok ê sin-hūn-chèng chiâⁿ-chò Tâi-oân ê sin î-bîn, hi-bāng ū chi̍t kang Tâi-oân ka-kī kiàn-kok 💪🏼
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The ROC was a corrupt, rapacious state for the 38 years it ruled China. It was a murderous, exploitative state for the first 43 years of its rule in Taiwan.
The ROC is a democracy today because Taiwanese fought to make it so, against all odds. Long live the people of Taiwan 🌝
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Because of China, Taiwanese athletes aren’t allowed to compete in the
#Olympics
with the country’s name. But they know who they are & where they come from. Our new gold medal winner in
#Badminton
”I just want to loudly tell everyone: My name is Wang Chi Lin & I’m from Taiwan”
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I don't know if Taiwan is the next Ukraine but I do know the same "We are one family but I reserve the right to launch missiles at you" rhetoric leads nowhere good everyday. Please challenge this line every time it is used against Taiwan, it is the only way change will happen.
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他家好，ta̍k-ke hó！我上個禮拜改了身分，從「無戶籍國民」成為中華民國 （台灣）「公民」，取得身分證與戶口。想要分享我的經驗，希望可以讓台灣人更了解我國移民系統與定居規矩的基礎，邏輯，優／缺點。 討論「誰是台灣人／新移民」議題。讀者有回饋請留言， tha̍k-chiá ū ì-kiàn chhiáⁿ hôe-tap
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It's one thing for John Cena to grovel and deny that Taiwan is a country. It's entirely another for a German producer of lifesaving vaccines to delay a contract because it doesn't think Taiwan should be able to call itself "a country" (or even use the word "Taiwan", apparently).
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So tired of Western “anti-imperialists” who stomp all over democratic movements in Asia. I can’t think of a more bankrupt idea of anti-imperialism than one that is anti-civil rights, anti-democracy & anti-self-determination for non-white people you clearly think of as sub-human
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5 yrs ago
@iingwen
was on the cover of
@TIME
w/the headline ‘She Could Lead the Only Chinese Democracy’.
@michaelturton
said it was a shame editors didn’t use the word
#Taiwan
instead. Today Tsai is back in the same magazine in her own words, as president of the country of Taiwan
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As an Asian-American I don’t want
#StopAsianHate
rallies to have speeches by people who deny the suffering of Asians in Asia or their exiled families in the West. It is extremely messed up that people who call Uyghurs liars are centering themselves here as “anti-racist allies”
In London's Chinatown to rally against racism and the new cold war.
Amazing banner.
#StopAsianHate
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I wanted to write a thread documenting my experiences as a millennial Taiwanese-American woman speaking Taiwanese 台語 in northern Taiwan - outside the family, with a foreign accent - and why I am adamant the ROC is a colonial state for robbing people of their mother languages 1/
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Day 0 of quarantine & the excitement is nonstop! My hotel delivered fresh milk tea. I received a call from Taiwan CDC thanking me for my patriotic service. I struck up a convo w/the boy quarantined in the room directly across the street from mine. Maybe he will become my friend.
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生為台灣美國人，從小在海外參加抗議遊行，為了挺台灣。常有多元背景朋友或陌生人來支持我們，表達對台灣的同理心。禮拜五02/25 14:00-17:00在信義路與基隆路交叉（莫斯科駐台北代表處）， 鼓勵台北人為了另外被威脅的民主國家站出來，抗議俄羅斯侵略烏克蘭，表達台灣人自由價值，給烏克蘭人民加油 🇺🇦
I will be back here on Friday 2/24 at 2 pm to support my country 🇺🇦
Xinyi and Keelung roads. Join me if you want to show your support.
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禮拜六 03/26 14:00
@scheeinfo
會舉辦一場推特「Space」討論台灣的「民防 civil defense」，一般的民眾怎麼開始訓練抵抗忍受侵略，哪種戰略可以從烏克蘭🇺🇦人民學習。歡迎大家參加，也免費訂閱
@scheeinfo
的「Substack」通訊報，探討類似議題：
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Beijing is not committed to a peaceful solution for Taiwan. It is committed to taking over Taiwan against the will of the Taiwanese people. Threatening Taiwan is not peace. Excluding Taiwan from the WHO in a pandemic is not peace. Flying military jets towards Taiwan is not peace.
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看一些台灣人把他們的帳號照片換成川普的臉，所有的推文都在討論支持川普，感覺好傷心😢
川普這麼有名；他不需要你的宣傳。
但台灣需要你的宣傳。
我們因該用我們的帳號，權利討論川普還是台灣？如果有人經過你的帳號，他們會認同台灣還是川普？學習關於台灣的訊息，歷史，現實，還是川普的新聞？
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我是中華民國無戶籍國民之一。再過6個禮拜我就有資格申請身份證與戶籍，獲得跟一般的台灣人一樣的權益。人都問我為什麼要「搬回」台灣。但我覺得我應該屬於新移民。我父母因為政治問題出國；我在國外生成長的。怎麼樣產生新的台灣人？跟別的高產階級經濟國家一樣，不只能靠生育，也要吸引多元背景移民
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The headline is misleading because the article only discusses how Taiwan & America can ensure that war remains too much of a gamble for China - not how China can avoid war by telling a different narrative about itself, one that doesn't depend on conquest of an unwilling people.
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
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This generation of Taiwanese is so brave 🥺 In the face of threat by a superpower next door they are unafraid of telling the world where they are from, giving thanks to the country that raised them, working towards a future where Taiwan is accepted on the world stage
#Tokyo2020
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Me *in Taiwanese*: You’re going to dinner together?
Man 1 *in Mandarin*: Your Taiwanese accent is weird, you can speak in Mandarin
Me *in Mandarin*: I’m practicing my Taiwanese & trying to use it outside my family
Man 1 *in Taiwanese*: Wow, your Mandarin accent is weird too 😅
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台灣幾乎是最後的國家經過社區感染階段，證據台灣政府的好政策與人民彼此的關懷。我從很久以前就想搬到台灣，在疫情中可以住在這裡感覺好幸運。今天也不例外。希望大家可以從別的國家的經驗學習好的防疫習慣：避免室內用餐；把辦公室，學校，宿舍，等等的窗戶多打開讓空氣流通；接種第一牌可得到的疫苗
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That Taiwan is nearly the last nation in the world to experience community spread of
#COVID19
is a testament to good governance & community care. All along we have been looked after by those around us. Every day I wake up happy & lucky to be here & today is no different #台灣加油
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Tired: Proficiency in Mandarin is required to be a good China watcher.
Wired: Maybe not. Different roles require different skills
Inspired (?): Foreigners & diaspora learning only Mandarin reinforces PRC & ROC policies that have pushed other Sinitic languages to the brink.
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今天是家世界母語日 International Mother Language Day ！我的目標是鼓勵越多人走「台灣母語路」。我個人的母語是台語，台語也跟台灣歷史、政治、生活有相密關係。如果要加強台灣文化，用文化來建國，要把台語與別的寶貴母語找回來。在這了分享我學台語的計畫，怎麼一年以內大幅進步聽書讀寫能力。1/
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@iingwen
@JoeBiden
@KamalaHarris
我問你，誰可以把台灣賣給中共？很多人 - 包括台灣人 - 以為美國有權力把台灣賣掉。實話，只有台灣人民可以放棄國家。2014，誰快賣掉台灣？不是歐巴馬，不是民主黨，是馬英九和國民黨！是台灣連任的總統和立法院！只要台灣人民願意選上愛國的代表人；準備守護自己的家，跟別的國家建交，台灣會活下去。
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I just received my Taiwan Area Residence Card (台灣地區居留證) - designed for "ROC Nationals without Household Registration" - & wanted to share about the process since there is so little information available in English. Please share for the Taiwanese diaspora in your life! 1/
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I put together a list of resources (podcasts, tutors, books, blogs, dictionaries) for anyone interested in learning more Taiwanese Hokkien (台語 or Tâi-gí) 🙂 but who is, like me, not fully literate in characters. Please share & let me know what I missed!
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As a 1st-gen American I hadn't believed I could be literate in my heritage languages, until 1 day I did. For A Broad & Ample Road, I explore what literacy means & how learning Han characters via Mandarin gave me access to worlds of Taiwanese-language text.
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如果不堪設想的情況發生，台灣被中國入侵，想要得到國際聲援，一定要用外語發推，靠海外台灣組織擴增台灣在地人的聲音。俄羅斯入侵烏克蘭，烏克蘭背景人民在各個國家舉辦抗議遊行。海外台灣人 - 包含第二、三代國外出生成長的人 - 經常為了挺台辦類似遊行，但我們需長���到語言、背景差異的問題 。1/
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If your message is “Stop Asian Hate” but you work for cynical organizations like No Cold War that openly argue some Asians (living in the borders of the Chinese state or in places coveted by it) don’t deserve human rights, your message is actually “Some Asians are not safe here”
It was a pleasure to speak at a rally of 150 people today in Chinatown against racism and the cold war.
Powerful to hear Dr Peng Wang speak about his experience of being racially attacked.
Great speeches from
@MuradQureshiLDN
,
@kate4peace2021
,
@Aping2011
,
@sequoyahdv
& others.
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This week I visited Green Island, where up to 3k political prisoners were kept for crimes like supporting Taiwanese sovereignty. Unification with the PRC means criminalizing Taiwanese aspirations again. People arguing that “both sides” should get a say want you to forget this…
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Two big problems with the “No Cold War” movement:
1) The very phrase No Cold War has been trademarked by a network of orgs run by people with tankie views
2) These same organizations push *for* Chinese rule of Taiwan, the single biggest reason why there might be a China-US war
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What a lovely gesture 🥰 Japanese broadcaster NHK said “It’s Taiwan” when the Taiwanese team marched in the Opening Ceremony at the Olympics (where the team is forced by China and the IOC to compete under the name Chinese Taipei)
#Olympics2021
#OlympicGames
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I'm never not emotional about Taiwan. The work is never done. I started this account to learn more about a place that meant so much to me but I knew little. 8.5 years later, 3 spent in Taiwan, hours learning from brilliant people here, I get to vote in my 2nd election w/my family
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I wanted to respond to a question I received: why do I write so much about Taiwanese(-American) identity but display much less interest in my Chinese ancestors or China today? I think any answer to this has to involve how Chinese propaganda tries to bury Taiwanese experience...
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If China uses military force against Taiwan it will look a lot like an invasion of another country - one with its own army, dozens of foreign representative offices, diplomats stationed abroad, an engaged diaspora - no matter how much on paper people insist it’s “just a province”
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外籍台裔選手也是讓世界看見台灣！
引述 《華盛頓郵報》： 美國高爾夫球奧運選手（與第二代台裔人）獲得金牌者
@XSchauffele
「可以身為美國人與看著銅牌者潘政琮
@ctpangolf
而說，「 我的同國人站在我旁邊。我媽媽在台出生，所以根據血緣群體，我也是半台灣人。」#台灣加油
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My 60-something dad who left Taiwan for political reasons under martial law: "Anytime people talk down about this generation of young people, I object. They know themselves better than we ever did, & they are braver than we ever were. I am optimistic about Taiwan because of them"
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Morning trail walking on this small mountainous island 🌿⛰🍃🪲🏝
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每天都被問「你是哪裡人？」取得身分證以後不知道怎麼回應，因為這種問題類似在美國被問「你真正從哪裡來的？」。問的人不管我的國籍，而是好奇我的背景。在美國有被歧視過，但美國人認同自己是移民國家。在台灣沒被歧視過，但感覺「移民」這個概念還是比較有限，誰屬於台灣人還是跟背景與出生地有關。
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The Kuomintang's insistence on using the name "Republic of China" instead of "Taiwan" means that they've accidentally tagged the
#ROC
- Russian Olympic Committee - in their post congratulating the silver-medal winning men's archery team 🤷🏻♀️
#TeamTaiwan
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
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台灣中央政府會把人民捐的9百萬美元轉給基輔政府與6間烏克蘭醫院。原推引用基輔市長維塔利·克利奇科跟台灣外交部長吳釗燮會議中的聲明：「我們看清楚誰是烏克蘭的真實朋友，決不會忘記。」底下的烏克蘭推友（一位編輯與翻譯者）讀這個消息回應：「如果我（這場戰爭）倖存下來，有一天我應該去台灣。」
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"Your Name Engraved Here 刻在你心底的名字" is out this week!
Every Taiwanese film is a high school romance but not every one is also a queer coming-of-age tale set in 1988, as two boys school learn that the end of martial law doesn't yet mean they are free to love who they want
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@Dalzell60
Then they’d have to explain that the Qing ceded Taiwan to Japan in 1895, and that no one living in Taiwan in 1945 got to choose to be occupied by the ROC or had any say in the constitutional claims made by it, all of which would make obvious Taiwan’s 2x colonization in the 20th c
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"Imperial" and "Colonial" are not geographical or hemispheric identities but descriptors of power relationships. There is no rulebook anywhere that says a formerly colonized polity cannot evolve in to an empire itself, once it decides to rule without the consent of the governed.
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My 1st academic essay on Taiwan is out w/
@HistoricalJnl
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Today is International Mother Language Day. My mother language is Taiwanese 台語 Tâi-gí. My goal this year is to encourage as many people as possible to embark or continue on their own Taiwanese-language journey, using the resources in this 🧵 Let's go! 1/
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「俄羅斯🇷🇺跟烏克蘭🇺🇦說我們是「一家親」同時對它發射導彈，總述了整個情況。」
Russia telling Ukraine "we are one people" as it lobs missiles at it is the whole situation in a nutshell
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民主單獨不能解決台灣地緣政治問題。仍然，是因為有民主才可以開始建（新台灣）國。有民主還有機會逐漸進步台灣社會。我在美國出生成長，一輩子在國外讀書工作，沒想到命運會帶我來到台灣定居。從小，父母教我要用英語技術支持台灣，長大以後決定取得身分證，獲得投票權利，利用最重要的方式守護台灣。
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Asian American Studies academics: what are you doing to counter the messaging and work of Q*ao Collective and China is Not Our Enemy, run by Han Chinese Americans who use the cover of
#StopAsianHate
to denigrate Uyghurs as liars and Taiwanese as “separatists”?
#AcademicTwitter
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I "prefer" to be what I am. A Taiwanese-American.
The Chinese ultranationalist viewpoint that all Taiwanese who reject union with China must secretly long to be Japanese is strange and sad.
@catielila
Nice try. Let me ask a different question: would you prefer to be Chinese or Japanese?
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This
@RichardHaass
quote is wrong for so many reasons, starting w/the fact that China fired missiles into the Taiwan Strait b4 the 1st direct presidential elections in 1996. No one gave Taiwanese people democracy, not the KMT & certainly not the PRC. They fought for it themselves
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It would be incredible to have a multiracial Taiwanese woman as VP, someone who spells her name in Tâi-gí romanization & embodies a more diverse & multilingual Taiwan than is usually represented globally. Wish there were 2 of
@bikhim
to go around, given the job she's done in DC.
🇹🇼🗳 Hot off the press from
@MOFA_Taiwan
: Taiwan's de facto U.S. ambassador Hsiao
@bikhim
officially resigned from her post. Her formal resignation comes as Taiwan's presidential frontrunner
@ChingteLai
is expected to announce his running mate today at 3pm
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Taiwan is in a tough fight right now.
@Marianne_Guenot
, please consider the utility of a piece that blames Taiwan for not "accepting" vaccines from a country that a) didn't release full trial data, b) points missiles at it, c) keeps it out of the
@WHO
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In 1996
@Newsweek
dubbed Lee Tung-hui “Mr. Democracy” after he became the first president elected by the people of
#Taiwan
. That year, he argued that cross-strait relations should be conducted “state-to-state”. Because of him,
#Taiwanese
people today live in light and dignity 🙏🏼
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I like my "Asian-American" advocacy organizations to stand for more than a (small) subgroup of Chinese-Americans.
And my anti-war advocacy organizations to come without a side of genocide denialism.
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Taiwan: "We use internationally recognized measurement standards. Celsius. Kilograms. Liters."
Also Taiwan: "Because of our colonial past, we measure apartment sizes using units of two tatamis laid side-by-side. And our Taiwan kilograms are only 600 grams, like in Japan."
Japan: "we use internationally recognized measurement standards. Celsius. Square meters. Liters."
Also Japan: This property is 30 tsubo of land. Please cook 2 gou of rice. Let's order a full isshobin of nihonshu.
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Between 1949-c. 1970 much of the world pretended that the Republic of China ROC governed China, when anyone could see that it did not.
From then to now, much of the world has pretended that the People's Republic of China PRC governs Taiwan, when anyone can see that it does not.
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Bringing fruit 🍉 🍌 🍎 to the people:
A self-serve unmanned fruit cart in Taipei 😊 The sign reads: “No discounts, not for individual sale, leave payment in the cart.”
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Discovering Somaliland Twitter is like looking in to a mirror of Taiwan Twitter: “Here is the history of my under-acknowledged country. Check out this hyper-specific meme I developed. I know this isn’t a perfect place but here are the reasons why I ❤️ it & hope it will improve.”
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Any “No War with China” organization that is not also loudly & strategically working to educate every single supporter of Chinese ethnonationalism that *war with Taiwan* is not the answer, is nothing more than an org that ignores reality in favor of condescending to Taiwanese
Our goal is to prevent a war between the US and China. We fear that Taiwan will be used as an excuse for war. We encourage Taiwanese/Chinese negotiations to arrive at a peaceful resolution.
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Maybe not the time to say this but 😬 if Taiwan wants more 2nd-generation diaspora to stay, we need pathways. Who gets government scholarships to study Chinese & hired on as English teachers? Not us. What international media outlets are hiring Taiwanese diaspora to cover Taiwan?
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@ericxunzhang
@iingwen
@JoeBiden
@KamalaHarris
我這個禮拜看很多台灣推友轉推這位先生的 po。台灣朋友，千萬不要以爲反中共的別國人一定是我們的盟友。你看他罵小英，指責她腐敗，笑台灣以後會變中共ㄧ部分。一個真正愛台灣的外國人會努力💪🏼 幫助小英的政府建設更好的外交關係，而不是講話像酸民一樣。好丟臉，一位信新教的男人這樣子笑台灣人。
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親中的帳號怎麼利用推特與「協同性造假行為」 (coordinated inauthentic behavior) 衝擊台灣？
1）一位外國「Tankie」批評蔡總統
2）一些稱呼自己是在台灣住的台灣人的馬上用一摸一樣的怪怪英文句型回應。我仔細查，發現這些帳號都是剛開的，或是ㄧ年多以內總共只發了三四個奇怪推文
cc:
@taiwantfc
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What can Taiwanese do to improve their「民防 civil defense」preparedness? What lessons can Taiwanese learn about how to provide support to the military and keep society functioning during attack? Join
@scheeinfo
’s Twitter space tomorrow 03/26 at 14:00 TPE
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Being Taiwanese is weird because many of us dislike the 🇹🇼 flag, which was created for an alien Chinese regime that occupied Taiwan starting in 1945. But when 🇨🇳 officials crash a party & knock a Taiwanese envoy unconscious over a 🇹🇼 cake, the flag starts to seem almost precious.
Just in from today’s foreign ministry press briefing: Beijing explains there can’t have been an incident involving Chinese and Taiwanese diplomats in Suva because “Taiwan has no so-called diplomats in Fiji” and Chinese Embassy staff were provoked by _a cake_ bearing the ROC flag.
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The 1st public memorial to the 228 Massacre in Taiwan was erected in 1989 in Chiayi, where the painter 陳澄波 was executed. A memorial in the same design was built in the Tsou village of 達邦. The Tsou teacher Uyongʉ Yata'uyungana led local indigenous resistance against the KMT.
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How do young people in
#Taiwan
see their identity? The 17-yr-old designer of the "Diverse Land" passport says she used these colorful dots to convey her belief in Taiwan's diversity & equity, regardless of ethnic origin, & that the country is not just blue (KMT) or green (DPP).
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I have had people tell me the KMT colonized indigenous Taiwanese but not us 本省人 because we are all “Han Chinese”. I find this difficult to swallow. Linguistic erasure - enacted via schools & teachers hired en masse from one sociolinguistic group - is classic colonization. 18/
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Feeling very moved by the vaccine donations by Lithuania 🇱🇹 and now Slovakia 🇸🇰 Taiwan is a place people often pretend doesn’t exist but these gifts show that friends far away have remembered the Taiwanese people in the hour of their need 🙂🙏🏼
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Now that my parents are in Taiwan & out of quarantine I have fully regressed to childhood, doing Chinese homework at their dinner table while my mom uses 4-character idioms to explain other 4-character idioms & my father teaches me to translate my example sentences into Taiwanese
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Meeting with my Mandarin teacher at a Louisa Coffee and an eight-year-old who is doing her own Mandarin homework looks over curiously and asks if we can switch books for a while and why I’m using one of these notebooks if I’m an adult 😅
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I was really struck by how the CDC rep took the initiative to say that he knows quarantine is hard but that this is how we protect the country. And that the 2x/daily calls are not just to monitor my compliance but also to make sure I know the government cares about my welfare.
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I had a look at your website as you suggested,
@codepink
&
@chinanotenemy
. Can you tell me what part of being a “collective” of mostly white & Chinese-American women who deny the mass incarceration of Uighurs, for example, is the equivalent of standing up for Asian-Americans?
@catielila
@codepink
This China Is Not Our Enemy campaign is specifically about US China relations. The heightened aggression towards China from the US is causing immense racism towards Asian American communities in the US. This aggression also the potential to turn into nuclear war
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Men who have made me feel unsafe for my (Taiwanese) ethnicity:
1. White nationalists
2. Chinese-American nationalists & disinformation specialists like Q*ao Collective and The Daily M*o who think they have a right to invade & punish Taiwanese people
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A fundamental problem with orgs like
@NoWarWithChina
is that they replicate the dynamics of the Chinese state and Chinese communities disregarding Taiwanese voices, and thus cannot present solutions besides asking Taiwanese people to stop speaking about their freedom and identity
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The East Rift Valley of Taiwan is gloriously, visibly multilingual - as well as being so beautiful your heart just squeezes up. But what resources exist to help both visitors and residents interpret, learn & pass on languages long, long spoken in this part of the island? A 🧵
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First-time voter 🙂
首次選民 🙌🏼
thâu-pái soán-bîn 🗳️
#18
歲公民權
#去挺陳時中
Incredibly grateful for the privilege of voting in my first Taiwan election over the Thanksgiving holiday. Thank you to the poll volunteers who make Taiwan’s democracy work 🙏🏼
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The
#StandWithUkraine
rally in Taipei, Taiwan organized by
@akhomenko
and
@amnestytw
made the
@nytimes
Instagram account.
居住台灣灣烏克蘭人
@akhomenko
與國際特赦組織台灣分會
@amnestytw
舉辦的挺烏克蘭人民遊行（在莫斯科駐台北代表處前）上了紐約時報的 IG.
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Anyone concerned about a New Cold War between China &the US should be working to dismantle PRC ideologies of ownership towards Taiwan. This means telling the truth about Taiwan. It means acknowledging the reality that the PRC government is not seeking peace in the Taiwan Strait.
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I cringe each time someone mentions the cheapness of labor in Taiwan, even educated & skilled labor. I think one of the best things diasporic & foreign entrepreneurs can do for Taiwan is to model paying their Taiwanese employees more & extending equity.
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This is an honest-to-God Tweet from the
@WHO
's Director of Communications, which might explain a thing or two about why the organization has spent so much time attacking a non-member state rather than own up to its initial credulity & blunder in handling the pandemic
#Taiwan
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I love this story & I grieve this story. Perhaps every single Taiwanese person abroad has encountered hectoring or pressure from a Chinese person - not just the PRC gov’t - over identity & nationality. Mass change in attitude is needed; long term geopolitical change depends on it
@catielila
I thank the Taiwanese kids team! They put in so much effort into showcasing Taiwan w/ their Truku, Amis, Hakka kids outfits, 🏳️🌈 flag & Tao boat. The crowd love their energy. Even when the Chinese audiences yelled at them, they just responded confidently: "We're from Taiwan!"
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What *is* acceptable for the people of Taiwan to ask for, or is it all "provocative"? Is it permissible to ask for inclusion in global organizations? To prepare for a military self-defence? For a democratically-elected president to say her fellow citizens deserve to live free?
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Lately I've been reading work by 3rd-generation 外省人 waishengren raised in the West, intrigued by the reasons they end up gravitating towards a more Taiwanese- or Chinese-centric identity; knowing they might be the last generation to face or have this particular choice 1/
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Morning thoughts from Tainan:
「台灣人，萬歲！」
“Long live the people of Taiwan!”
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My parents had their right to education in their native language taken away. This is what banning a language in school means: mass illiteracy & consequently few Taiwanese-language 台語 publications, books, posts, captions, text messages, gov’t announcements, forms, brochures 17/
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On Taiwan & “Zero Covid”: Taiwan is as open, if not more, than any country that has decided to “live with Covid”. Its *borders* are very restricted & have been through 2020-1. But people here go out without the mass illness other places went through & are still going through 1/
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At a bar:
Me: “My friend only speaks Taiwanese & English, no Mandarin”
Young bartender: “I didn’t know such people existed”
Me: “Our parents left during martial law & are pro-DPP.”
Him: “I’m from Tainan and we speak Taiwanese. In school I took Hakka. Want to do some shots?” 14/
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The biggest success of Chinese & pro-China propaganda in Taiwan is convincing some Taiwanese people that preparing for self-defense is tantamount to wanting war - & that Chinese missiles & merciless coercion will be held in check by platitudes about shared culture & ancestry.
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Now is the time to help the most vulnerable in Taiwan. Proud to introduce the
#TaiwanCovidRelief
fundraiser! Give directly to local charities providing food, shelter, & cash aid using their *new* English-language platforms. We're matching the 1st $10k USD!
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One year ☝🏼🗓 Lucky and grateful beyond belief for the chance to live and learn here 🍃🌱🌿
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推薦台灣朋友們也讀這份連串，記者訪問住在基輔和哈爾科夫的烏克蘭民眾，紀錄他們對於俄羅斯威脅侵略的焦慮與情緒。雖然烏克蘭與台灣的經濟與在地政治情況差蠻多， 這兩個民主國家的地緣政治處境也有相似方面：被隔壁的帝國威嚇，被國際社會視為不穩定因素，本地人的意見長被他人忽視。
In recent days, I talked to Ukrainians, both in Kyiv and Kharkiv, about how they feel in connection to a threat of a new Russian attack on Ukraine. A thread:
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兩個月前，一位荷蘭紀錄片導演跟我聯絡，問我願不願意接受訪問關於台灣的地緣政治處境與台灣和烏克蘭的比擬。雖然我緊張被錄影但還是覺得應該接受，趁機會給歐洲觀眾解釋為何台灣對世界經濟與穩定性那麼重要。感謝紀錄片人員讓我探討228、太陽花、與台灣100多年民主自由道路。
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台灣人不打疫苗，誰會輸？只有台灣人會輸。只有台灣人會感染到病毒。
台灣人被自己的媒體愚弄，誰會輸？只有台灣人會輸。只有台灣人會感染到病毒。
病毒已經快兩個月穿透防疫措施了。只有兩個方式可以達到群體免疫：
1） 百分之70-80%打疫苗
2） 百分之70-80%得到病毒，恢復
台灣人要選什麼？
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This is a simple realization that took me a long time to come to. After taking Mandarin & Taiwanese lessons for 15 months in Taipei. I know language classes are not enough. People need *subject education* in their mother languages. They need literacy, not just conversation. 16/
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我也支持感謝蠻多川普*政府*對於台灣的政策。但我覺得這麼多台灣人沒接受美國選舉的結果是很危險的。其實非常重要台灣人暸解美國人民的主流意見，不只是看右派的新聞而已。把台灣跟川普那麼緊綁在一起只會傷害台灣，因為大部分的美國人民已經拒絕他了。希望國外人想到台灣人不是想到川普而是台灣建國。
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