Speaking of the eye(s) of the storm(s): While super-#typhoon #Saola is about to make landfall in the #HongKong region, the next typhoon #Haikui is likely to make landfall in #Taiwan. It will be the first direct hit from a typhoon for the country (NOT a so-called province of you know whom...) since August 2019.
Luckily Haikui is much weaker than Saola. #weather #FarEast

Needless to say that the campaign of #TerryGou saw a telltale start when former KMT health minister #YaungChihLiang made some belittling remarks regarding #domesticviolence while fantasizing about beating up president #TsaiIngWen.
Absolutely no class in these remarks, this is the same brand of #toxicmasculinity that failed KMT candidate #HanKuoYu had plenty of as well. Deep blue and reactionary stuff that won't lead to any progress.
#Taiwan #FarEast
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2023/08/29/2003805444

So #TerryGou has decided to base his campaign on the fear of war with #China and on his personality to secure 50 years of peace with #Beijing.
This top-down approach ignores the reasons for cross-straight tensions and puts the blame for these tensions on the ruling #DPP and on #Taiwan only.
Terry Gou does not seem to understand a whole lot about the issue at hand. He would be an awful president of Taiwan - and likely the last.
#TaiwanisnotChina #FarEast
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/08/29/2003805432

So #TerryGou has decided to base his campaign on the fear of war with #China and on his personality to secure peace with #Beijing.
This top-down approach ignores the reasons for cross-straight tensions and puts the blame for these tensions on the ruling #DPP and on #Taiwan only.
Terry Gou does not seem to understand a whole lot about the issue at hand. He would be an awful president of Taiwan - and likely the last.
#TaiwanisnotChina #FarEast
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2023/08/29/2003805432

So #XiJinping went on a visit to #Xinjiang. And guess what? He called for even more #repression and #surveillance against #muslims aka #Uyghurs. He just happens to call it "control illegal religious activities".
Not that #China has been sanctioned for a #cutluralgenocide in Xinjiang or anything, right?
Shameless. And yeah: the only legal god in China is Baba Xi himself.
#fucktheCCP #FarEast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/28/xi-urges-more-work-to-control-religious-activities-in-xinjiang-on-surprise-visit

Keep in mind #TerryGou promised to support the official candidate of the #KMT when he was still considering running in the primaries.
Gou does not honour promises.
Gou is deeply dependent of #China and the #CCP can blackmail him with plenty of leverage.
Gou has no track record when it comes to serving under the #ruleoflaw. He's used to old-school leadership, very much top-down.
Gou is #Taiwan's Trump and should not even get close to the Presidential residence.
#FarEast

True bummer that #Taichung's #Jazz Festival only starts on October 13th this year - while I'm planning to be in Taiwan from September 24th to October 15th. So that's not more than two nights for me at the festival. #music #FarEast #Taiwan

Just got confirmation for my next trip to #Taiwan, known as a sovereign #country and a beacon of #freedoms and #democracy in #FarEast - and most definitely NOT a province of #China.
Flying out on September 23 and back to Switzerland on October 15th, so it's going to be a full three weeks.
Message to #Zhongnanhai: please postpone any possible invasion plans accordingly.

#StandwithTaiwan #Taipei #Taichung #Tainan

Sometimes what is missing is more telling than what is being published.

The latest #unemployment data from #China ominously omitted unemployment by age brackets, conveniently hiding the massive unemployment of young and highly qualified folks.
The #CCP bases its authority on growth and prosperity, it offers economic perspectives in exchange for #freedoms and #civicrights. What will happen if this promise turns out be hollow? Can the regime remain in place?
#FarEast #economy

In what has to be called good news for #humanrights and #civicrights, #Beijing obviously is not done yet with the #RuleOfLaw in #HongKong.
How utterly pesky an independent #judiciary can be, right?
Time to close in on those pro-#democracy advocates I'd say.
And time for any remaining activists to leave the city for their own best.

Glory to Hong Kong!
#FarEast #liberties
#StandwithHongKong

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/hong-kong-pro-democracy-advocates-have-part-of-convictions-quashed-jimmy-lai-martin-lee-margaret-ng-

In what has to be called good news for #humanrights and #civicrights, #Beijing obviously is not done yet with the #RuleOfLaw in #HongKong.
How utterly pesky an independent #judiciary can be, right?
Time to close in on those pro-#democracy advocates I'd say.
And time for any remaining activists to leave the city for their own best.

Glory to Hong Kong!
#FarEast #liberties
#StandwithHongKong

GLORY TO #HongKong.
And yes: glory to the last remaining independent #judges in Hong Kong who refuse to follow the wishes of #Beijing's puppets governing the city.
#independence #StandwithHongKong
#FarEast #China
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/28/court-rejects-attempt-ban-glory-hong-kong-protest-song

While backstabbing old bastard #HenryKissinger is still brown-nosing the ghoulish #CCP in Beijing and keeps blabbering on about win-win-cooperations, Chinese state-run media are putting ALL the blame for the deteriorated relations on the #UnitedStates only.

Now is this crap regime more immature or more insecure, I ask?

PS, #derisking only equals #decoupling if #China continues to act like a gargantuan asshole.

PPS Get your #business out of China as long as you can.
#fucktheCCP #FarEast

By the way: The #Senkaku islands are NOT part of #China. #FucktheCCP #FarEast

Welcoming mega container vessel #OOCL PIRAEUS, Port of Piraeus has become a critical link on trade route connecting #FarEast to Europe&Africa http://xhtxs.cn/J2V @PiraeusPortAuth #seafreight

#HongKong has become a very dark place as of late "thanks" to the ghoulish #CCP.
#kinliability is NOT acceptable under the #ruleoflaw, but then again we are talking about a highly repressive and authoritarian one-party dictatorship aka #China.
This is an attempt to blackmail the family of #NathanLaw and abuse it as a leverage to get hold of a #civicrights and #democracy activist that managed to escape.
#humanrights #FarEast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/police-in-hong-kong-raid-family-home-of-uk-based-exile-nathan-law

#RécupérationDeTouites
01/06/1936
#FarEast
— [en alsacien] Y'en a une de trop ici !
♫Houwihouwihouuu pwoin pwoin pwoin♪
https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96458725/f65.item

On April 20th, I tooted on a gun attack on a pawn shop in New #Taipei and stated that while #Taiwan was very safe for tourists there clearly are #triads operating in the country.
Meanwhile the main suspect of providing the gun and plotting the attack has been expedited from Malaysia to Taiwan. Look at the guy: tattooed arms, branded shirt. As triad as they get. 28 arrests in total so far, 28 scumbags less roaming the streets. Good. #crime #organizedcrime #FarEast

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202304290010

Since #Macron has shown to be utterly inept in dealing with the threat of an expansive #China, I start to wonder: What is #MarinelePen's position on China and #Taiwan? Is she also in the pockets of #Beijing?
Let's not forget #Meloni shocked friends and foes in Italy by being a rightwing loud mouth but NOT a puppet of #Putin, supporting the cause of #Ukraine.
When an authoritarian regime attacks a #democracy, there is no neutral middle ground!
#France #FarEast
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/emmanuel-macron-sparks-anger-europe-vassal-us-china-clash

I see the self-declared *force of #peace and #stability* in #FarEast is hell-bent on provoking an utterly unnecessary escalation again due to some broken glass hearts of nationalists.
#China needs to be pushed back, its salami slicing tactics have gone way too far already.
#Taiwan is a sovereign and independent COUNTRY where Beijing has ZERO say.
Always keep in mind that #TaiwanisnotChina and yes: #FucktheCCP https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-65219219