Two days after Czech President-elect @general_pavel and #Taiwan President @iingwen held a historic call, Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and Speaker of the Czech Chamber of Deputies held a video conference today, confirming her visit to Taiwan starting March 25.
During the call, both sides exchanged views on Taiwan's National Palace Museum and Czech Republic's National Museum to organize mutual exhibitions, industrial cooperation, and how to deal with the compound threats posed by authoritarianism.
Wu said Taiwan will continue to work with the Czech Republic on different issues based on democratic values, while Adamová praised Taiwan for offering Ukraine different kinds of support, and she believes Taipei and Prague will have more room to cooperate when it ...
.... comes to the post-war rebuild of Ukraine.
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According to @_JakubJanda, Pavel's call with Tsai is a continuation of increased political ties by the Czech political establishment.
"To the rest of the world and to other democracies in Europe, he is sending a message that’s saying 'we should engage with Taiwan at the highest political level,' which is something that the European Parliament already called for in its official resolution," he told me.
After US Gen. Mike Minihan warned that #China could attack #Taiwan in 2025, some Air Force officer with Air Mobility Command told @Militarydotcom that the communication sparked immediate concern. military.com/daily-news/202…
"Some of my airmen are going to get scared when they read this memo," the officer said. "I felt like a random email blast to thousands of airmen was an inappropriate way to direct them to essentially prepare for war with a near-peer adversary."
"One Air Force C-17 Globemaster III pilot under Air Mobility Command, or AMC said Minihan's comments were unrealistic."
From @RadioFreeAsia: "In total, military attacks have killed 265 children in Myanmar over the past two years, 59 of whom were 9 years old or younger. At least 1.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes due to the post-coup fighting." rfa.org/english/news/s…
"In December, Khant Pyoe Thu, 9, was shot and killed by junta troops as he tried to escape his Wea Saunt village in Sagaing with his family.
That day, more than 900 villagers fled when a column of 80 soldiers attacked, believing that a People's Defense Force militia was operating there."
“The US and India agreed to expand cooperation on advanced weaponry, supercomputing, semiconductors and other high-tech fields, as the US looks to strengthen its connections with Asian allies and offset #China’s dominance of cutting-edge technologies.” nytimes.com/2023/01/31/bus…
Jake Sullivan, the U.S. national security adviser, told reporters on Tuesday that the goal was for technological partnerships to be “the next big milestone” in the U.S.-Indian relationship after a 2016 agreement on nuclear power cooperation.
He described the effort as a “big foundational piece of an overall strategy to put the entire democratic world in the Indo-Pacific in a position of strength.”
“The US military is seeking to expand its access to bases in the Philippines with an eye toward #China, according to several US defense officials, as part of an ongoing shift in force posture in the Indo-Pacific region.” amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/31…
“An announcement could come as soon as this week with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin set to meet with the Philippines' leadership in the coming days, including President Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. and acting Secretary of National Defense Carlito Galvez Jr.
The increased access to military bases in the Philippines would give US armed forces a strategic footing on the southeastern edge of the South China Sea just 200 miles south of Taiwan.”
"Japan and North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) must "remain united and firm" in the face of security threats posed by #China, North Korea and Russia's war in Ukraine, Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday (Jan 31) in Tokyo." channelnewsasia.com/world/japan-na…
Stoltenberg warned that Beijing was keeping a close eye on developments in Ukraine and "learning lessons that may influence its future decisions".
"What is happening in Europe today could happen in East Asia tomorrow. So we must remain united and firm, standing together for freedom and democracy," he said.