Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Archive
Leaderboard
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
So, Beijing Has a Nuclear Pact with Ukraine
A short Monday edition but some good stuff on Taiwan amping its war preparedness and, as Shenzhen and Shanghai go into some kind of lockdown, is the…
Mar 14, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
1
Touchdown, strap in
Under the cover of darkness, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes rumors reality in a move sure to rile China no end.
Aug 2, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
'I’m Uyghur by Blood, Chinese by Birth, Taiwanese by Choice'
Exiled student leader Wu'er Kaixi – or Uerkesh Davlet in Uyghur – speaks to ChinaDiction on identity and exile in a China-dominated world.
Jun 4, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
3
Saint Jim
The rags-to-riches – and then to-jail – tale of how Jimmy Lai became a billionaire before accepting God and a CCP jail cell is a page-turner despite the…
Feb 27
•
Chris Taylor
6
1
Beyond 'Banality'
Leaked documents and photographs from former East Turkestan (the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) coincide with a UN visit to the region and suggest…
May 25, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
China's Other Voices
Wu'er Kaixi (Uerkesh Davlet), student leader of the protests in 1989, today Secretary General of the Taiwan Parliamentary Human Rights Commission calls…
Jun 4, 2023
•
Chris Taylor
Kafka at the Gates of Dawn
A collection of essays by sinologist Perry Link is a could-be autobiography, but thankfully it tells us far more about the bizarre cultural evolution of…
Mar 9
•
Chris Taylor
3
3
Tangled up in red
Huawei, telecoms, the Party, and Mao-nostalgia 'cat tax'
Jan 27
•
Chris Taylor
4
1
Ghost Nations
Three books, three eras. Is it about time we called Taiwan what it is. China won't like it. But perhaps it's time we stopped trying to please China.
Jul 16
•
Chris Taylor
3
2
Is this MAD?
Has mutually assured destruction shifted 'Far East' – and is there a normalizing solution to the present 'tensions' in the Taiwan Strait?
Aug 12, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
1
Opinion: Anachronisms – Kissinger and Strategic Ambiguity
'Beijing needs to know we’re not afraid,' writes Wu'er Kaixi, former Tiananmen student leader and now secretary general of the Taiwan Parliamentary…
Jul 11, 2022
•
Chris Taylor
1
Rebel Island, Boiling Moat
As geopolitical puzzles go, Taiwan's a winner, resulting in some convoluted journalese: Welcome to, say, 'pawn between two giants.' or would you prefer…
May 28
•
Chris Taylor
1
2
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
