Comments by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi seen as expressing support for Taiwan have led to a large response from China. One has seen flights canceled, bans on Japanese imports, and performances by Japanese artists halted on stage...
An on-the-record press briefing by Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung last week proved a bizarre exercise in diplomatic ineptness and tacit endorsement of a genocide...
Last year, at a Palestine solidarity encampment on campus, I had a tense exchange with a Zionist student. He sneered, pointing at a map: “Where is Palestine? I only see Israel.” In that moment, it hit me again—some identities, some memories, are not erased because of what they’ve done, but simply because they exist. This is the reality in Tibet, East Turkestan, Hong Kong, Inner Mongolia, and across China itself: even remembering the Tiananmen Massacre is a punishable offense. Existence itself is treated like a crime...
More than a year since the Umbrella Movement took the world by storm, the debate over its significance remains shrouded in a cloud of propaganda, censorship, or worse, a distorted form of leftist Orientalism...
