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Hassan Diallo's avatar

Another beautiful reminder to always double check what one learns from the mainstream media et.al.

AN EYE-OPENER.

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Barry Malone's avatar

Thanks so much, Hassan! Was so good to have a post from Melissa.

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Joseph John's avatar

Thanks for the explainer, Melissa and Barry and the recommended books. Several differences with the mainland I can think of. One is becoming the first in Asia to recognise same-sex marriage. There's also Taiwan's love for baseball thanks to Japanese colonialism. The Japanese phase appears to have been relatively benign in Taiwan compared to its notoriety in the mainland.

Three years ago, Taiwan was the topic for my Geopolitico quiz newsletter. To set up the questions, I wrote an introduction on the island's post-World War II history and how it diverged from the mainland. Here's the link to the answer key.

https://geopolitico.substack.com/p/answers-the-importance-of-taiwan

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Barry Malone's avatar

Thanks, my friend. Will check that out.

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Kerrill Thornhill's avatar

Taiwan is a province of China is the official position of the UN, US, EU &>170 countries = the status quote which peace is built on.

The guest journalist is seeking to redefine that status quo to promote the idea Taiwan is independent, to incite war & destabilise China. The article is thinly disguised neoliberal propaganda about the Wests moral superiority over Authoritarism.

This is a lucrative gig, but its complete garbage: This article is from the same neoliberal propaganda machine that Karl Rove referred to in his famous 'We're an empire now' attack on the 'reality based' community in 2004. Western media is an extension of western imperial power

https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/china-news/21091-a-500-million-dollar-business-america-s-state-sponsored-anti-china-propaganda.html

There is a live streamed genocide ongoing, with real journalists & kids being massacred by western imperial powers. To end this and future genocides, we need to dismantle the propaganda network that created ir

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