Perspectives with Neilo

New episode out now 🎙️ I attended the Irish premiere of the acclaimed Taiwanese historical drama A Foggy Tale at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema and spoke with Dr George Hong about Taiwan’s White Terror era, cultural identity, history & more▶️ Links below 👇 #Taiwan #AFoggyTale

Taiwan is NOT a province of China and has never been occupied or controlled by the PRC! The Brits occupied the 26 counties for over 800 years but it doesn't give them any claim. The Qing dynasty occupied Taiwan for just only 200 years. For any Irish Republican to support China's claim on Taiwan is pure hypocrisy!

Ireland needs a ‘One Ireland Policy’ as China has? USA and UK recognise the One China. Taiwan is recognised as a province of China, not an independent state. There is one Irish nation and it belongs to Ireland regardless of plantation, Irish civil war or partition. Irish reunification is the natural, just and democratic destiny of the Irish Nation and its people. @rte @BBCNews @BBCNewsnight @MaryLouMcDonald @MichealMartinTD @LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD @simoncoveney

🚨Today, China's stock market evaporated more than 2,000,000,000,000.00 yuan (2 trillion RMB, 293.8 billion USD). To desperately prevent the stock market from collapsing, China is now frantically selling off U.S. Treasuries. The situation looks very bad...

"nearly every nation" ?? LOL😆 You should take a little more time to study those "One-China policies" - ~ 68 don't mention Taiwan soverignty at all ~ 32 acknowledge PRC claim, but don't necessarily agree with it This excellent paper has all the details. carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/…

@BrianJBerletic @Michael71T "nearly every nation" ?? LOL😆 You should take a little more time to study those "One-China policies" - ~ 68 don't mention Taiwan soverignty at all ~ 32 acknowledge PRC claim, but don't necessarily agree with it This excellent paper has all the details. carnegieendowment.org/research/2023/…

Taiwan literally IS part of the PRC - recognized as such by nearly every nation on planet Earth through "One China policies" including by the US. Washington's own double-dealing and undermining Chinese sovereignty is at the center of current tensions - not any actual legal issue. Sources: US State Department - U.S. Taiwan Relations: 2021-2025.state.gov/u-s-relations-… US State Dept., Office of the Historian - 1972 Shanghai Communique: history.state.gov/historicaldocu…

Taiwan has never been part of people republic of China. Distorting the truth and writing fake history are inventions of the communist China.

@danobrien20 Do you have a reference?

Excellent piece on EU trade posture towards China.

Germany’s Federal Prosecutor’s Office has announced the arrest of a married couple suspected of spying for China. The couple was charged with establishing contacts with scientists to obtain intelligence for China regarding technologies with potential military applications defence24.com/geopolitics/ch…

@jambuki888 @BBCWorld China under the CCP doesn't treat its own people "proper". What chance does Taiwan have then.

@BBCWorld He doesn’t even know “that guys” name. Taiwan has always been a pawn for the Americans since the end of WW2. Only China will treat it proper.

Trump says he will speak to Taiwan's leader about arms sales bbc.in/4eZWx1G

“Both Korea and Taiwan were once colonies of the Japanese empire, but Koreans seem to feel uniformly resentful of that history, whereas Taiwanese people regard it with a much more conflicted mix of distaste and nostalgia." irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

"Hey Luke, you just post negative stuff about the CCP" Mate, I am only scratching the surface. I look forward to the day that there isn't an tidal wave of urgent threats from Beijing and a political class wilfully blind to them. Until then, this account will continue.

@WHO Taiwanese participants said WHO officials pressured attendees at a rally supporting Taiwan’s participation in the WHA in Geneva on Sunday to cover up the word “Taiwan” on their T-shirts or remove the shirts altogether, which they described as humiliating and absurd. taiwannews.com.tw/news/6366474

"China's armed forces secretly trained about 200 Russian military personnel in China late last year and some have since returned to fight in Ukraine, according to three European intelligence agencies and documents seen by Reuters." reuters.com/business/aeros…

New episode out now 🎙️ I attended the Irish premiere of the acclaimed Taiwanese historical drama A Foggy Tale at Dublin’s Savoy Cinema and spoke with Dr George Hong about Taiwan’s White Terror era, cultural identity, history & more▶️ Links below 👇 #Taiwan #AFoggyTale

Thank you @barrymward Barry Ward for supporting Taiwan's meaningful participation at the WHO. 👏👏👍👍🙏🙏 🇮🇪💚🇹🇼

The European solar sector’s reliance on components made in China leaves Europe vulnerable to attacks on its energy system, an analyst told the Solar 2026 seminar in Helsinki on Tuesday montelnews.com/news/37354f4b-…

@DrMikeRyan @IEAmbUNGeneva @WHO Dear Irish 🇮🇪 Representatives, Please support Taiwan's meaningful participation at the WHO. It is not right that the 23 million people of Taiwan go unrepresented in your org. Please do what's right. Thank you 🙏🙏

In the Great Hall of the People，At the dinner hosted for President Trump's delegation visiting China, the waiters turned out to be officers from the Central Security Bureau of the Communist Party of China!

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@lukedepulford Luke is spot on as corroborated by multiple sources - including by author Lee Moore in one of our recent podcasts ⏯️ Apple apple.co/4rBvlcC 🎧 Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/0ScsrP… 🎙️ SoundCloud on.soundcloud.com/1QUXy8d90TREHs…

Is it true that "Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times", as Beijing often claims? No, not at all. Here are some inconvenient facts which most people don't know. I invite the swarm of CCP trolls to try to unpick them. ✅ FACT: Before 1624, Taiwan was inhabited by indigenous Malay-Austronesian populations with no official Chinese administrative presence. ✅ FACT: The Dutch established formal administrative control over Taiwan in 1624, which was recognised by Ming Dynasty representatives as being "beyond [Chinese] territory." The Dutch found no evidence of Chinese administrative control. ✅ FACT: In 1662, the Ming loyalist Koxinga expelled the Dutch after himself being expelled from the mainland. He founded an independent kingdom, seeking to reestablish Ming rule. But the Ming Dynasty itself had already collapsed. This was not rule by "China". ✅ FACT: From 1683 to 1887, Taiwan was managed as a province of Fujien; but Emperor Kangxi considered Taiwan beyond his domain. Indeed, he said as much: ‘Taiwan is outside our empire and of no great consequence.’ There were popular revolts throughout this period. ✅ FACT: Taiwan was formally administered as a province of China for eight years, from 1887 until it was ceded to Japan in 1895. This is the only such period. Shorter than the Dutch. ✅ FACT: Following the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing Empire ceded Taiwan to Japan "in perpetuity". ✅ FACT: Local leaders briefly declared an independent Formosa Republic in 1895 to resist Japanese rule, but the Japanese shut this down within five months. ✅ FACT: Between 1926 and 1942, both the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Kuomintang (KMT) supported independence for Taiwan, viewing it similarly to Korea (as an essential part of an anti-Japanese military strategy). ✅ FACT: The CCP changed its mind. After WW2, the party coalesced around an effort to reclaim "lost territories". In 1943 Cairo and 1945 Potsdam declarations were issued which, while not formal treaties, maintained that "all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa (Taiwan), and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China". The 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty left Taiwan’s legal status "undetermined." ✅ FACT: The People's Republic of China (established 1949) has never, in any capacity, exercised control over Taiwan. As to the territorial claim of what constitutes "China", worthy of note is the highly variable claims to territory (not to mention autonomy and governance structures) over even the past 150 years. See below.