Humanity 1st 💪🏻🥽🧢☂️

Nope, Eileen Gu symbolizes how global elites exploit mobility to find the optimal path to success. She trained skiing in the US but competed for China. She also took SAT classes in China to get into Stanford, enjoying the best of both worlds with a fluid national identity.

Reuters was granted rare access to a bootcamp for marines training to become frogmen, Taiwan's equivalent of the US Navy SEALs. Powerful images by @annwphoto widerimage.reuters.com/story/inside-t…

Today #Taiwan announced a 1 bln $ credit fund for joint 🇱🇹🇹🇼 projects. Last week: 200 mln $ investment fund for #Lithuanian industries. Imagine: joint projects in #semiconductors, #lasers and #biotechnology - perfect celebration of #democracy & #progress 💪reut.rs/3Glhtfa

I wouldn't frame it as "Apple can't." It certainly can. Apple is a hugely profitable trillion-dollar company. It's just that it costs money to be a human rights-respecting company and Apple is unwilling to incur the cost.

Each time China tries to “teach Taiwan a lesson”, Taiwanese people reject them more deeply. Today we announce the creation of a $200 million fund to invest in Lithuanian industries. The way to confront bullying is not to give up, it’s to work together.

China's digital manhunt goes global: The final piece in our series on China's outbound propaganda and censorship shows how police use ever more sophisticated tech to find and silence those overseas. They target Chinese students and Chinese Americans alike. nytimes.com/2021/12/31/bus…

A Chinese government contractor said he “had been assigned to investigate a mix of Chinese undergraduates studying in the US, a Chinese American policy analyst who is a US citizen, and journalists who previously worked in China.” Chilling.

Reuters has been doing a great series on Taiwan called "T-DAY." In this installment, an excellent primer on President Tsai: reut.rs/3JmodLU

1/ This thread has clips for my @60Minutes episode. Its for the friends who can not get access to it from outside of US. you can also try to view the full interview here cbsnews.com/news/badiucao-…

This is… unsettling…

In the Cold War there were useful idiots. In the internet era, we now have useful influencers. Check out our deep dive into a new crop of social media personalities that get major support from China to boost its image overseas. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Lai, in turn, wrote that if commemorating those who “died because of injustice is a crime, then inflict on me that crime and let me suffer the punishment..."

@WilliamYang120 @Reuters Weren't they invited because of the point the map was trying to make? 😆

From @Reuters: "A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed #Taiwan in a different color to #China, which claims the island as its own." news.yahoo.com/curious-case-m…

All Brisbane billboard companies have placed a ban on my art work criticizing the Beijing Winter Olympics. Bishopp Billboards initially agreed before pulling out due to fear of a Chinese cyber attack. This is also a campaign supporting @DrewPavlou

[Recap] Peng Shuai row: ‘Nobody would be comfortable playing in China,’ world no. 2 tennis player Daniil Medvedev says hongkongfp.com/2021/12/03/pen…

Pennetta on #Peng: "If WTA, usually prudent, took such a decision against China, probably it knows something we don't. We must support Peng, and every champion of every sport should fight for her and use #WhereIsPengShuai"

Very powerful open letter to the #IOC from Peter Dahlin 👇 For people unaware, Peter was put in secret detention and forced to give a confession on Chinese state-run TV, so he has some valuable insights into what #PengShuai may be experiencing safeguarddefenders.com/en/blog/open-l… @iocmedia

As China builds up to the 2022 Olympics, Peng Shuai’s disappearance from public view was bad enough. Clumsily managed attempts to prove her wellbeing are making everything worse trib.al/IkxY9se

I’m not buying the IOC interview….at all.