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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…
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Chris Taylor
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.
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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.
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Chris Taylor
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…
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Chris Taylor
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…
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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…
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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…
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Chris Taylor
Tangled up in red
Huawei, telecoms, the Party, and Mao-nostalgia 'cat tax'
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Chris Taylor
Is this MAD?
Has mutually assured destruction shifted 'Far East' – and is there a normalizing solution to the present 'tensions' in the Taiwan Strait?
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Chris Taylor
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…
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Chris Taylor
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…
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Chris Taylor
Cruisin'
But not to China, in a sign that the cruise industry is probably more on the ball than the average China watcher
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Chris Taylor
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