Arms sales policy will be the main topic of discussion when Taiwan’s top National Security Council (NSC) officials meet Biden administration staff at the Monterey Talks next month, reports said Tuesday (May 24). taiwannews.com.tw
Day: May 26, 2022
Japan, Czech Republic, 9 allies back Taiwan’s WHA inclusion
In a pre-recorded address played during the third day of the WHA’s annual meeting in Geneva, Japan Health Minister Shigeyuki Goto said the world needed to learn from successful examples of public health responses in tackling the COVID-19 outbreak, “such as Taiwan.” Focustawan.tw
Could China be the biggest winner in Musk’s Twitter acquisition?
Twitter has shut down a significant number of accounts connected to the Chinese Communist Party. That said, with Mr. Musk’s Tesla already dependent on the special treatment that China affords it for profitability, and given Mr. Musk’s rich history of complying with the communist regime’s many demands, will a laxation or outright reversal of policy soon come under order?
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If Musk’s Purchase of Twitter goes through,
Mr. Musk will soon own 100% of Twitter, and his company relies on China’s business and loans. Then, what is to stop Mr. Musk, under China’s pressure, from tasking a Twitter engine to help China hunt down and attack the Twitter users inside China, where using Twitter is banned and can be criminalized, and the critics of the CCP both in and outside country?
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