Beijing wants the world to believe that unification with Taiwan represents the rightful and intended state of the postwar system. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/12/japan/china-guardian-of-postwar-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #china #taiwan #us #chinajapanrelations #taiwanjapanrelations #okinawa #ccp #defense
Was wondering where the data for #Tibet was in this #China #power #climate update from Greenpeace East Asia
And then I realized to my shock and horror, that they were using the #CCP name, Xizang, in English. This is in line with the recent strong push by the Chinese government to eliminate the use of the term Tibet, in English.
A new, embarrassing low & I have to wonder what @greenpeace thinks of this.
Ukraine now says the peace plan has been completely altered yesterday, and Marco Rubio agreed that the peace plan must
"uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and deliver a sustainable and just peace."
Putin's aide JD Vance will lose it when Rubio arrives in Washington.
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/spilna-zayava-zustrich-ssha-ukrayina-101557
If China can punish Japan — economically powerful, diplomatically influential and protected by a U.S. defense treaty — then no other country should imagine itself beyond reach. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/21/japan/china-can-bully-anyone-if-it-can-bully-japan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #chinajapanrelationschina #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #xuejian #ccp #xijinping
China is using threats, diplomatic pressure, economic measures and manufactured media narratives to attack new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and influence Japanese politics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/11/20/japan/good-relations-with-communist-party-is-a-fools-errand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #china #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #xuejian #reiwashinsengumi #us #ldp #shigeruishiba #komeito #japaninnovationparty #ccp #philippines #shinzoabe #laichingte #xijinping #worldwarii
Japan-China relations are worsening as Beijing tries to punish Japan over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks, possibly strengthening support for her tougher China policy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2025/11/21/chinas-makes-mistake-with-japan-pressure-campaign/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #editorials #chinajapanrelationschina #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #xuejian #ccp #xijinping
Trump's Department of Labor has a new social media ad campaign, and I thought I had seen that Aryan race vibe somewhere before, so I looked it up.
I truly hate how the Nazis always used white, tall, males in their propaganda, as if nothing else existed.
The new Trump regime ad has 13 different posters, and all characters are tall, white men.
A former DJ and his obscure Nepalese nonprofit used a social media app popular with video gamers to drive massive protests and become the unlikely power brokers in installing the country's new interim leadership. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/14/asia-pacific/politics/activists-nepal-government-new-leaders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #sushilakarki #nepal
Ukrainian Maidan, squeezed over the line and going strong despite 2014+2022 invasions by russia 🥳
Hong Kong anti-dictatorship mass protests → crushed by the CCP 💩
Burma/Myanmar protests → civil war, struggling military dictatorship backed by CCP and russia 💥
Now Nepal youth/social media takeover (!) → ??
In the 1990s Nepal dumped the (Hindu) royalty, elected pro-CCP communists, became a vassal of the CCP while depending on India...
Now they're between the aggressive CCP and the hindu-nationalist India with both vying for influence/control. 💥??
(+ many more anti-regime uprisings which haven't changed the status quo)
#Ukraine#ArabSpring#Hongkong #ccp #burma #myanmar#Nepal#India
CK Hutchison said it may invite a "major strategic investor” from China to join a group seeking to buy its global ports, as the Hong Kong-based company works toward a solution to the geopolitically sensitive deal. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/28/ck-hutchison-china-port-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #ckhutchison #shipping #panama #panamacanal #china #likashing
"Hong Kong, the freest economy in the universe"
Speculation about Xi Jinping losing his grip on power overlooks how China’s evolving digital authoritarianism absorbs dissent through algorithmic control and selective visibility to reinforce CCP rule. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/10/world/china-online-dissent/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #china #ccp #chinesecommunistparty #freespeech #xijinping