Rebel Island by Jonathan Clements review: Taiwan besieged
Rebel Island, a wide-ranging history by Jonathan Clements, shows that Xi is merely the latest bullying thug to threaten the Taiwanese
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Rebel Island, a wide-ranging history by Jonathan Clements, shows that Xi is merely the latest bullying thug to threaten the Taiwanese
In this year of consequential elections, first off the blocks was Taiwan. Shortly before the January 13 vote, Chinese president Xi Jinping and his Taiwanese counterpart Tsai Ing-wen reminded the world, in their New Year addresses, what was at stake. Xi expressed his determination to see “all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait… bound by a common sense of purpose”; Tsai insisted that Taiwan was an independent country whose future should be decided democratically, rather than by a widely-ex
* The image of a sun-and-immortal-birds gold ornament, unearthed in 2001 from the Jinsha Site, is omnipresent at the upcoming Chengdu Universiade.* Despite being a cultural relic from 3,000 years ago, the Sun and Immortal Birds Gold Ornament strikes a chord with the Olympic motto of
Concerns raised by a leader who believes the hand grenade was planted to scare striking workers
Beijing never noticed until Chiang Kai-shek showed up