De Chinese Wouden, maandag 28 oktober: TK in Taiwan, China in Trumps telefoon, halfgeleiders in Arizona
Een officiële delegatie van de Tweede Kamer is eindelijk in Taiwan, nadat de val van het kabinet vorig jaar roet in het eten gooide. Het is dit jaar misschien wel toepasselijker, aangezien het vierhonderd jaar geleden is dat de VOC Taiwan koloniseerde en de eerste permanente Chinese bewoners ernaartoe hield.
De Verenigde Staten zeggen dat hackers gelieerd aan China via een inbraak bij Verizon de telefoons van Trump, Vance en personen in de campagne van Harris gekraakt zouden hebben. Canada waarschuwt dat China de cyberverdedigingen van belangrijke instellingen aan het scannen is. Indonesië moet deze week voor de derde keer een Chinees kustwachtschip wegjagen. Peking is behoorlijk aan het duwen.
In halfgeleiderland is de opbrengst (yield) van de nieuwe TSMC-fabriek in het Amerikaanse Arizona groot nieuws. De opbrengst zou 4 procentpunt hoger zijn dan vergelijkbare fabrieken in Taiwan. Goed nieuws voor Biden. Dit is wel bereikt met veel ingevlogen Taiwanezen en overheidssteun. Maar het werkt wel.
Ondertussen is men nog aan het bouwen aan de ESMC-fabriek in Dresden waarin TSMC en het Nederlandse NXP een aandeel hebben. Die zal echter niet zulke geavanceerde chips produceren als de fabriek in Arizona. De Europese industrie loopt sowieso achter op enkele gebieden. In FAZ een interview met de chef van Porsche over de mate waarin autofabrikanten China voorlopen – hij zegt dat de Chinese markt verloren is voor Europa.
Bondskanselier Scholz is nu in India voor alternatieve markten. In de metro van Delhi klaagde de Indiase minister van economische zaken voor de cameras tegen Duitse tegenhanger Habeck dat afhankelijkheid van China betekent dat de China de verkoop van Duitse boormachines aan India kan tegenhouden.
Nederland en Europa 🇳🇱🇪🇺
Dutch parliament delegation goes to Taiwan – NL Times: ‘The Foreign Trade Committee is the driving force behind the trip, but several members of the Foreign Affairs Committee are also coming along.’
‘This year marks 400 years since the Dutch settled in Taiwan, then called Formosa.’ 🇳🇱
Rijksmuseum exhibition in Amsterdam explores the Netherlands’ colonisation of Taiwan – Taipei Times: ‘curated in partnership with the Taiwan Culture Center in Paris to mark 400 years since the first Dutch settlers arrived in Taiwan.’ 🇳🇱
国台办: 赖清德避而不谈台湾回归历史事实暴露“谋独抗中”本性 – 中共中央台办、国务院台办：“赖清德当局〔……〕不仅不对台湾光复进行纪念，反而一再宣扬美化荷兰殖民台湾的所谓‘台南400年’和日本殖民台湾的50年，妄图以此构建‘台独史观’，〔……〕，为其‘新两国论’虚构历史依据。” 🇳🇱
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof in Leeuwarden vertelt het verhaal van de enige vrouwelijke keizer van China: wie was Wǔ Zétiān 武則天? – Omrop Fryslân 🇳🇱
Finnish president to visit China – Xinhua 🇫🇮
Asia-Europe trade on fast track as ASEAN Express accelerates from Chongqing – Xinhua: ‘set off for Poland’s Malaszewicze’ ‘loaded with automotive electronic components and other goods’ ‘originally departed from Hanoi, Vietnam’ 🇵🇱🇻🇳
Beijing gets new Catholic assistant bishop, days after Vatican-China deal renewal – Reuters: ‘Bishop Matthew Zhen Xuebin, 54, was named to the role by Pope Francis, who approved his nomination within the framework of a diplomatic deal originally struck in 2018 that gives Chinese officials some input into papal appointments.’ 🇻🇦
UK finance minister Reeves says ‘hard-headed, economic realist’ approach needed to boost China trade – Reuters: ‘said the U.S. had been able to boost exports to China while taking a tough line on Beijing’s economic and trade practices.’ 🇬🇧
Spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU Speaks on a Question Concerning the European Parliament’s Taiwan-related Resolution – Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the European Union 🇪🇺
First group of European parliamentarians visit Taiwan since June election – Focus Taiwan: ‘led by the chair of the European Parliament-Taiwan Friendship Group, Michael Gahler’ ‘also includes EP members Bernard Guetta […] and Ondřej Kolář’ 🇪🇺
Does Denmark consider Taiwan a part of China? Should Taiwan’s democracy be subordinated to China? – Taiwan Corner: ‘Denmark is acting alone within the EU by registering Taiwanese as Chinese.’ 🇩🇰
Rusland 🇷🇺
Chinese and Russian coastguard chiefs call for more cooperation on ‘far seas’ – SCMP: ‘Meeting in Beijing on Monday, Chinese coastguard chief Major General Yu Zhong and Admiral Roman Tolok, head of Russia’s coastguard, called for deeper “pragmatic maritime cooperation”’
‘They also vowed to improve “joint long-distance operations” between the two coastguards in the “far seas”’ 🇷🇺
Handel 🚗🇪🇺
The European Union still has ‘significant remaining gaps’ with Beijing after eight rounds of negotiations aimed at avoiding tariffs on Chinese-made EVs that are due to kick in by the end of this month – Bloomberg: ‘The EU’s trade chief, Valdis Dombrovskis and Chinese Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao had a video call Friday to discuss the progress of discussions so far’ 🇪🇺
‘‼️CCCEU Note to Press: Chinese Media Reveals Exclusive Details on Chinese Minister Wang and EVP Dombrovskis’s Video Call, EV Negotiation Challenges, and Prospect for Next-Phase Talks […]’ – China Chamber of Commerce to the EU (CCCEU) 欧盟中国商会, Twitter 🇪🇺
独家披露：中欧电动汽车下一阶段怎么谈 – 玉渊谭天： “……欧方在谈判过程中，采用‘阴阳手段’……” 🇪🇺
Chinese EV maker GAC 广汽 to invest in Europe even after report that Beijing is against plan – SCMP: ‘in an effort to mitigate damage caused by the tariffs imposed on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs).’
‘Wei’s remarks came after Bloomberg News reported that authorities in Beijing were pressuring mainland carmakers to refrain from investing in European Union (EU) countries while negotiations over EU tariffs were ongoing, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter.’ 🇪🇺
Porsche: „China hat sich gewandelt, da spielen Europäer leider keine Rolle mehr“ – FAZ: „Die erhoffte Erholung für ausländischen Anbieter im chinesischen Markt werde in den nächsten Jahren nicht eintreten.“ 🇩🇪
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in New Delhi called for further diversification of the nation’s trade as he looks to reduce the economy’s dependence on China in favour of India – Bloomberg: ‘Scholz also referred to the need for “de-risking,” saying it doesn’t mean less trade or less openness. “For us, de-risking means diversification.”’ 🇩🇪
Why Piyush Goyal confronted German economy minister in Delhi metro – Republic World: ‘“See your German company which is supplying us boring machines, which they are making in China…but China is not allowing them to sell it to India…We should stop buying German equipment now,” Piyush Goyal told Minister Habeck during the metro ride.’ 🇩🇪
China’s gateway port to ASEAN Qinzhou sees skyrocketing NEV parts exports – Xinhua: ‘railway authorities launched new rail-sea intermodal train services in July this year.’
Topman tomatengigant wil dat Brussel optreedt tegen ‘oneerlijke concurrentie’ van Chinese tomaten in Europa – NRC: „Het overgrote deel van de Chinese tomatenproductie vindt plaats in de regio Xinjiang, waar de Oeigoerse bevolking volgens mensenrechtenorganisaties en de VN onder erbarmelijke omstandigheden tewerk wordt gesteld.” 🇮🇹
Tech War 💽💥
Strategisch belang en milieubelang strijden om voorrang in Duitse mijnbouwregio – FD 🇩🇪
Siemens-Chef Busch: „Ich habe keine Angst, nach China zu reisen“– FAZ 🇩🇪
TSMC 台積電 tech in Huawei 华为’s AI chips raises questions about ‘porous’ supply chain – SCMP 🇺🇸
TSMC 台積電 suspended shipments to China firm Sophgo 算能 after chip found on Huawei processor, sources say – Reuters: ‘Sophgo was co-founded by Micree Zhan, who also co-founded Bitmain’ ‘Bitmain affiliates [are accused] of illegally recruiting Taiwanese semiconductor engineers and illegally conducting R&D’ 🇺🇸
China tightens its hold on minerals needed to make computer chips – The New York Times: ‘As at Oct 1, exporters must provide the authorities with detailed, step-by-step tracings of how shipments of rare earth metals are used in Western supply chains.’
‘China is also taking greater corporate ownership over the mining and production of the metals. In a deal that has received almost no attention outside the country, the last two foreign-owned rare earth refineries in China are being acquired by one of the three state-owned companies that run the other refineries in China.’
China to offer Taliban tariff-free trade as it inches closer to isolated resource-rich regime in Afghanistan – Reuters: ‘the impoverished country could offer a wealth of coveted mineral resources to boost Beijing’s supply chain security.’ 🇦🇫
Chinese vice premier Dīng Xuēxiáng 丁薛祥 meets advisory board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management – Xinhua: ‘Apple CEO Tim Cook, chair of the advisory board, said that Apple is willing to expand investment in China’
Chinese researchers more likely to cite each other compared with global peers, studies show – Caixin Global
Kantelpunt 🌏⏱️
Elon Musk has secretly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022 – WSJ: ‘At one point, Putin asked the billionaire to avoid activating his Starlink satellite internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping, said two people briefed on the request.’ 🇷🇺🇺🇸🇹🇼
Russia provided targeting data for Houthi assault on global shipping in Red Sea – WSJ: ‘The data was passed through members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who were embedded with the Houthis in Yemen, one of the people said.’ 🇷🇺🇾🇪🇮🇷
Japan participates in AUKUS exercises as observer; progress made toward concrete cooperation – The Yomiuri Shimbun 🇯🇵
Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible – The Economist’s Charlemagne: ‘For Mrs Merkel’s part, she led Germany as if in a make-believe world, letting it enjoy an extended geopolitical and economic nap from which it still needs to wake up.’ 🇩🇪
Sinologist Li Cheng: ‘America is not in the mood to study China’ – FT: ‘Li goes on. “I explained my theories of Chinese leadership. I was branded as a spokesperson for China,” he says. “It is sad. The old days of China, the time I grew up, the pendulum swings back.”’
Li Cheng is een gerespecteerde kenner van de Chinese politiek. Zijn boek over China onder Xi Jinping was goed – hoewel ik de tegenhanger van Willy Lam beter vond; Li gelooft te sterk in het bestaan van facties binnen de CCP. Li Cheng heeft een punt met de opmerking in deze titel, tot op zekere hoogte. Rond zijn vertrek uit de VS naar Hong Kong was ook duidelijk dat hij niet zo goed tegen ook inhoudelijke kritiek kon op enkele verkeerde voorspellingen en op soms wat chauvinistische uitlatingen (o.a. m.b.t. Xinjiang). Maar óók als een Chinees patriottisch, chauvinistisch of nationalistisch is, wil dat niet zeggen dat die persoon gelijk op de hand van de CCP is, zoals de meer McCarthy-istisch ingestelde Republikeinen helaas menen.
Wáng Hùníng 王沪宁: The man who shaped China’s strongman rule has a new job: winning Taiwan – The New York Times: ‘“He has the top leader’s full trust,” Professor Chiu, an emeritus scholar at National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, said of Mr. Wang. “Wang Huning’s influence has been in ideology, but now in China under Xi Jinping, ideology connects everything.”’
‘He appears to be sharpening strategies for reaching deeper into Taiwanese society’ ‘Mr. Wang has assiduously wooed dozens of members of Taiwan’s opposition [Chinese] Nationalist Party, which favors stronger ties with China, treating them almost as a Taiwanese government in waiting — one that Beijing would rather deal with.’
Hé Lìfēng 何立峰: Americans who want to do business in China need to meet this man – WSJ: ‘The challenge for He: Unlike previous Chinese officials who have acted as go-betweens with Western politicians and CEOs, little in his background has prepared him for managing trade tensions or courting foreign investors.’
‘He, who became vice premier overseeing economic and financial affairs a year and a half ago, started out primarily focusing on how to hit back at Western sanctions led by the U.S., essentially becoming the chief architect for ringfencing China’s economy.’
Overige
China buitenland en defensie
Chinese hackers are said to have targeted phones used by Trump and Vance – The New York Times: ‘among a number of people inside and outside government whose phone numbers had been targeted through the infiltration of Verizon phone systems’ ‘including staff members of Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign’ 🇺🇸
Chinese hackers targeted phones affiliated with Harris campaign, source says – Reuters: ‘Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, were also targeted, according to media reports.’ 🇺🇸
State alien land laws drive some China-born US citizens to rethink their politics – AP 🇺🇸
India and China pull back troops from last two sites in Himalayan face-off, Indian government source says – Reuters 🇮🇳
China-Pakistan economic ties could change ‘fundamentally’ if attacks on Chinese continue – SCMP 🇵🇰
Afgezien van het verlies van een duidelijk voorbeeld van Amerikaans imperialisme als aanvalsdoel voor propaganda, is de verslechterde veiligheidssituatie in Pakistan een andere reden waarom Peking niet per se blij was met de terugtrekking van de VS uit Afghanistan.
Indonesia drives Chinese coast guard ship from disputed waters in South China Sea – AFP: ‘for the third time this week’ ‘The incidents are an early test for newly inaugurated President Prabowo Subianto’ 🇮🇩
De Indonesische openheid doet licht Filipijns aan.
China building ‘counter-stealth’ radar on disputed South China Sea reef Triton Island, satellite pictures suggest – The Guardian: ‘Similar counter-stealth radars, known as SIAR, or synthetic impulse and aperture radar, have been built to the south, on Subi reef in the Spratly Island chain, and on Hainan Island, to the north.’
Vietnam builds airstrip on reclaimed island in South China Sea – RFA: ‘on Barque Canada reef, an artificial island developed by Vietnam in the disputed Spratly archipelago in the South China Sea.’ 🇻🇳
PLA Navy tests South China Sea defences as Vietnam and Philippines expand footprint – SCMP: ‘saying only that the exercise was conducted “in late autumn”.’
UK to increase military presence in Indo-Pacific to counter China – The Guardian: ‘The navy patrols will focus on maritime security, combatting illegal fishing and responding to the natural disasters’ 🇬🇧
US coastguard eyes China and Russia in making Indo-Pacific and Arctic Ocean ‘a top regional priority’ – SCMP 🇺🇸
Fearing China’s hypersonic weapons, US Navy seeks to arm ships with Patriot missiles – Reuters
Top Chinese military commander Zhāng Yòuxiá 张又侠 visits Vietnam for talks on closer cooperation – SCMP 🇻🇳
China to further promote military-to-military relations with Vietnam, senior military official says – Xinhua 🇻🇳
China leveraging Laos to link up its Southeast Asian economic interests – SCMP: ‘work with Laotian officials to turn Laos from landlocked to “land-linked”’ 🇱🇦
How an anxious China is backing Myanmar’s faltering junta in civil war – Reuters: ‘Beijing is increasingly alarmed at the rapid degeneration of the military, which it still sees as a guarantor of stability in its neighbour’ 🇲🇲
China and Japan renew currency swap deal for another 3 years – Xinhua 🇯🇵
China economie
China’s top legislature to meet November 4-8, as market awaits stimulus plans – SCMP
China’s recent rollout of stimulus is centred around lifting domestic demand and hitting the nation’s annual growth goal, said Vice Finance Minister Liao Min, ahead of a meeting of lawmakers expected to unveil details of Beijing’s crucial fiscal package – Bloomberg: ‘“The size of this round of policies will be of quite large scale,” he said’
China’s industrial profits plunge as economic momentum falters – FT: ‘Profits at large industrial companies fell by 27.1 per cent in September year-on-year, after a 17.8 per cent fall in August.’
China binnenland
China’s leader has a new military secretary, state TV video of rocket force visit suggests – SCMP: ‘Fang [Yongxiang]’s inclusion in Xi’s visit entourage suggests he is now CMC general office chief.’ ‘a native of Xiamen’
Xí Jìnpíng 习近平 stresses enhancing inclusive public services for people – Xinhua: ‘emphasized the need to strengthen public services aimed at meeting the essential needs of the people and ensuring basic living standards for those facing difficulties.’
Book of Xi’s discourses on Healthy China initiative published – Xinhua
Shanghai cracks down on Halloween costumes – FT: ‘Police on Saturday rounded up people in costume on Julu road, […]. Authorities had on Friday night set up makeshift barriers to prevent a repeat of crowds gathering on Julu road.’
CCP reveals findings in latest round of disciplinary inspection, requires solutions – Xinhua: ‘insufficient measures to support the implementation of decisions by the CPC Central Committee, inadequate measures to carry out reform plans, lackluster performance in coordinating development and security, and weak risk awareness.’
China’s anti-graft agency punished 589,000 people in first nine months of the year for discipline violations, including accepting or offering bribery – Bloomberg
China Geological Survey’s former head Zhōng Zìrán 钟自然 charged with state secrets leak and bribery – SCMP: ‘Zhong spent his career in government agencies overlooking mining, land survey and natural resources.’
China on course for record harvest in boost for food security drive – SCMP
Hong Kong
Severe Tropical Storm Trami: Hong Kong hoists T3 signal as Trami skirts southern China – HKFP
Taiwan buitenland en defensies
Taiwan President Lai says ‘won’t yield an inch’ in defence of island’s territory – AFP: ‘during a visit to the Kinmen islands off China for the 75th anniversary of a victory over communist forces in the Battle of Guningtou.’ 🇨🇳
Dit soort herdenkingen waren voorheen meer een ding voor ROC-liefhebbende Chinese Nationalisten (KMT’ers) – voor Taiwanese nationalisten waren momenten als de herdenking van het Incident van 28 Februari belangrijker. De presidenten Tsai en Lai doen echter veel meer moeite om één ROC-op-Taiwan geschiedenis te creëren.
Deliberately dodging fact of Taiwan’s return to China exposes Lai Ching-te’s nature of seeking ‘independence’, Chinese spokesperson says – Xinhua: ‘At such a crucial moment, Lai and his ilk, on one hand, deliberately avoided discussing the historical fact of Taiwan’s return to China; on the other hand, deliberately distorted the history of the Chinese civil war and incited cross-Strait confrontation, which once again fully exposed their nature of seeking “independence,” Zhu said.’
Xinhua Commentary: History brooks no denial, distortion by Taiwan’s Lai – Xinhua: ‘However, Lai Ching-te […] went to Kinmen on Friday to commemorate a battle there between the Kuomintang troops and the People’s Liberation Army in 1949’ ‘downplaying the history of Taiwan's liberation from Japanese occupation’
China is boos dat Lai op Kinmen een overwinning herdacht die Taiwan beschermde tegen Chinese overname, i.p.v. stilstaan bij de door de DPP afgeschafte feestdag 臺灣光復節 die herdacht hoe de ROC op 25 oktober 1945 Taiwan overnam van Japan. Het ziet dit als poging tot hersenspoeling van jonge Taiwanezen met de rassenverradelijke ‘Taiwancentrische geschiedenis’ die vanaf de jaren tachtig langzamerhand de Chinese nationalistische visie is gaan vervangen in Taiwan.
赖清德“祖国说”传引台独大佬团体不满 – 联合早报：“民调机构台湾民意基金会董事长游盈隆表示，民进党10月最新支持度仅31.1％，是今年3月以来的最低，可能和独派阵营开始对赖清德‘重中华民国，轻台湾独立’言论的反弹有关。”
Ondertussen krijgt president Lai juist klachten uit pro-Taiwanese hoek dat hij de geschiedenis van de ROC benadrukt, terwijl die voor de Taiwanese nationalisten een buitenlandse bezettingsmacht is. Steun voor de DPP zou zelfs iets zijn afgenomen.
Officials from China’s Taiwan Affairs Office barred from Two Lakes Forum – Taipei Times: ‘to prevent “united front” activities, a source said yesterday.’ ‘held annually and alternately by the Nantou County and Hangzhou city governments.’ 🇨🇳
PLA drills in the dark show China ‘ready for surprises’, such as over Taiwan – SCMP
US approves US$2 billion arms sale to Taiwan including Ukraine tested missile system NASAMS – Reuters 🇺🇸
US approves US$1.988 billion arms sales to Taiwan – Focus Taiwan: ‘The latest package of arms sales to Taiwan includes AN/TPS-77 and AN/TPS-78 Radar Turnkey Systems and related equipment’ 🇺🇸
China urges US to cease arming Taiwan, foreign ministry spokesperson says – Xinhua: ‘China will take resolute countermeasures and take all measures necessary to firmly defend national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.’ 🇨🇳
Taiwan reports Chinese ‘combat patrol’ after Beijing slams US arms deal – Reuters: ‘China stages such patrols around Taiwan several times a month, but this was the first since Beijing held a new round of full-blown war games near the island this month.’ 🇨🇳
Taiwan wants to join the IMF to get financial protection from potential Chinese destabilisation efforts – AP: ‘The [longshot] push is part of a wider effort to boost the self-governed island’s global status.’
Taiwan binnenland en economie
Most legislative investigative power measures ruled unconstitutional – Focus Taiwan: ‘The ruling dealt a blow to opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and Taiwan People's Party (TPP) lawmakers’
Prosecutors seek to extend detention of Ko Wen-je 柯文哲 (TPP) in corruption scandal – Focus Taiwan: ‘issued an arrest warrant for Ko’s secretary Hsu Chih-yu (許芷瑜), who left Taiwan for Japan on Aug. 29 and has not returned.’
‘Yang added that Friday's ruling, effective immediately upon its issuance, recognizes the lawmaking body's investigative powers but considers such power to be “subsidiary.”
Taiwan court rules parts of parliament reforms unconstitutional in setback to opposition – Reuters: ‘That included legislation that gave lawmakers the power to ask the military, private companies or individuals to disclose information deemed relevant by lawmakers.
The court also ruled that the legislation that gave lawmakers the power to criminalise contempt of parliament by government officials was against the constitution.
The court ruled that the president does not have an obligation to report to parliament at the request of lawmakers and take their questions, a major part of the legislation the opposition was pushing, but he can go if he chooses.’
‘KMT caucus whip Lin Tzu-ming […] said. “Judicial independence is dead, and we must speak out.”’
Constitutional court rules on legislative reform – Nathan Batto’s Frozen Garlic: ‘I think a better way to interpret this is that it was a rejection of the legislature’s efforts to unilaterally expand its constitutional power against the executive branch.’
Twee staatsrechtelijke grenzen die de hoogste rechtbank herstelt: (i) de president staat boven de vijf machten (Yuan) en kan dus niet gedwongen worden om voor de Wetgevende Yuan te verschijnen voor interpellatie, in tegenstelling tot de Premier (President van de Uitvoerende Yuan); en (ii) de onderzoekende macht ligt bij de Controlerende Yuan, wat betekent dat de onderzoeksmacht van de Wetgevende Yuan weer beperkt wordt tot werk voor haar wetgevende taak.
De DPP viert een overwinning in het touwtrekken tussen de door de DPP-gecontroleerde regering en het door de KMT-TPP-gecontroleerde parlement. Ik verwacht dat de reactie van de KMT en TPP aanvallen op het rechtssysteem zal zijn, onder andere doorgaan met de poging om het grondwettelijk hof lam te leggen door goedkeuring van nieuwe nominaties uit te blijven stellen en doorvoering van het wetsvoorstel dat het quorum voor uitspraken verhoogt tot boven het aantal rechters dat straks overblijft.
KMT hands DPP surprise win on civil defence language – Taipei Times: ‘DPP lawmakers at the time said the KMT proposal would have gutted the civil defense program’s ability to perform any tasks related to national defense.’
TPP lawmaker Lin Yi-chun 林憶君 defends military data request – Taipei Times: ‘An official who requested anonymity told the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) that the legislature mischaracterized the policy to develop a “resilient Taiwan” as cultivating a militia’
De KMT en TPP vallen ook het overheidsbeleid om Taiwan weerbaarder te maken aan en creëren een sfeer van verdachtheid rondom civil defence-programma’s en -groepen.
Thousands celebrate LGBT+ rights, inclusivity at Taipei pride parade – Focus Taiwan: ‘Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) joined the march for the first time since taking office in May’
Thousands march in Taipei to support Taiwan’s transgender community – Focus Taiwan
Definition of terrorist acts in Counter-Terrorism Financing Act to be expanded, justice ministry says – Taipei Times
Discussion on civilian order named after Chiang Kai-shek 蔣介石 needed, interior ministry says – Taipei Times: ‘symbols such as the order are managed by multiple agencies and cannot be disposed of by a single authority, the ministry said in the report.’