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Chris Horton 何貴森 Profile picture
Chris Horton 何貴森
@heguisen
Taiwan-based journo and @TaiwanFCC veep. Words in @thechinaproj, @nytimes, @NikkeiAsia, @business. Previously HK, Kunming, Shanghai, LFK.
Sep 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
During his NYC visit, KMT presidential candidate @houyuih met with @AmbElliott, president/CEO of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy @NATLCOMMITTEE - one day after she congratulated China's communist government on overthrowing the KMT 74 years ago.
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Image This June 2023 paper by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy frames Taiwan's situation in CCP/KMT terms ("Mainland China", "reunification") while asserting that Taiwan is just as culpable as Beijing for the increase in cross-strait tensions. Image
May 19, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Fascinating development: With its military decimated and its economy in tatters, Russia quietly opens the port of Vladivostok to China - 163 years after the Qing ceded it to the Russian Empire.
thinkchina.sg/russia-opening… Access to Vladivostok offers the opportunity to boost manufacturing and trade in the cities of China’s northeast interior. It's also likely to embolden Chinese nationalists who would like to take the former Qing territory from a weakened and isolated Russia. Image
May 13, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
China's COSCO Shipping, the world's 4th-largest shipping group, operates 400+ container ships at 500+ ports worldwide. Controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, it also supports and conducts exercises with the PLA Navy. It receives very little scrutiny.
asia.nikkei.com/Business/Busin… "Not only does COSCO provide support to the PLA Navy's escort and noncombatant evacuation operations, but its global network also allows the PLAN to resolve logistics and supply issues outside China's immediate maritime periphery" @ClaireJChu
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Oct 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
"The representatives of Chiang Kai-shek were expelled in 1971 because they insisted that the ROC government was the only legitimate representative of China," said @yujiechentw, "The stance of today's Taiwan could not be further from that position."
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Inter… Taiwan is never mentioned in UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, passed 50 years ago today. The resolution gave the People's Republic of China the China seat previously held by the Republic of China, the refugee Chinese party-state toppled by the Communists in 1949.
Jun 30, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Small thread: The all-encompassing and harsh new National Security Law that Beijing just dropped on Hong Kong is likely to spill over into already strained Taiwan-China relations, and by extension, worsening US-China relations. On Wednesday, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council will open an office dedicated to handling HK asylum seekers. Details are still not fully clear as to what it can/can't do. focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/2…
Feb 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Vatican inching closer to cutting ties w/Taiwan - where 23 million people enjoy religious freedom - in order to establish relations with China, where the Chinese Communist Party relentlessly persecutes Christians, Muslims, Jews and Falun Gong.
mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/id… Per this @lilkuo piece from last year: “The government has orchestrated a campaign to ‘sinicise’ Christianity, to turn Christianity into a fully domesticated religion that would do the bidding of the party” amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.thegua…