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Bad Taiwan Takes: American Leftists Seeing Asia Only in More Familiar Terms

·December 22, 2023·3 min read

Several viral tweets on Twitter in past months reflect how western leftists seem unable to perceive the world outside of western contexts except in terms more familiar to their own, as well as how they seem unable to reckon with the passage of history in Asian political contexts Read More

Bad Taiwan Takes: MintPress on the Taiwanese Government “Working with the FBI to Prosecute Chinese Americans”

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·August 29, 2023·3 min read

A recent article by MintPress proves a bizarre attempt to frame the Taiwanese government as actively contributing to the political persecution of Chinese Americans in the US. The article purports to be based on wires that MintPress claims to have obtained Read More

Bad Taiwan Takes: Code Pink Does Not Understand How to Read Polls About Taiwan

English Life

·May 19, 2023·3 min read

A recent petition by Code Pink sees fit to ventriloquize the people of Taiwan, claiming that the people of Taiwan do not want war with China–certainly true–but then claiming that the people of Taiwan do not hope for support for the US against China. The petition goes on to cite polling by Academia Sinica Read More

Tankies Praise Hong Kong Police After Supreme Court Ruling

English Life

·July 2, 2022·2 min read

The latest online blow-up by authoritarian leftists–commonly referred to as tankies–proves a bizarre one Read More