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China Pins Blame for Cyberattacks on Taiwan

The Chinese government has sought to claim that the Taiwanese government is behind a series of cyberattacks on Chinese government websites, defacing them with messages critical of the Chinese government. The Chinese government claims this to be the doing of a group called “Anonymous 64,” which it claims is a front for ICEFCOM’s Cyber Warfare Unit. ICEFCOM is a section of the Taiwanese military that deals with information warfare, cybersecurity, and information management...

Taipei Holds March to Commemorate One Year of Genocide in Gaza

A march took place today in Taipei to mark the one-year anniversary of Israel’s genocide of Palestine in Gaza. The march today took place after a vigil last week on October 6th, focusing on the lives and stories of martyred Palestinians, as well as a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office on October 7th...

Taipei Holds Vigil, Rally Commemorating One Year of Genocide in Gaza

Local and international community members across Taipei gathered on Sunday at Liberty Square in Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall to commemorate the 42,000 Palestinian lives that have been murdered by Israeli offensives in the past year, as well as the hundreds recently killed in recent Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon. On the morning of October 7th, organizers from the Taiwan Alliance for a Free Palestine also held a flash mob outside of the Israeli Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei in the World Trade Center...

Lai Strikes Conciliatory Tone to China, KMT in National Day Speech

Lai Ching-te delivered the first National Day address of his presidency today. Very little surprised about the speech, in that Lai made no surprising statements on Taiwan’s sovereignty or about Taiwan’s relationship with China. What one does observe from Lai’s speech, however, is the contours of a new historical perspective bridging adherence to the ROC and the resistance against authoritarianism that occurred in the course of Taiwan’s democratization...