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SCOOP: Footage obtained from the Nvidia board investigation
We just issued a press release from our board of directors. Read the release: nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/s…
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I really want Taipei to have a mayor named Puma.
But also, if he wins, Xi will lose his shit and increase the intensity of China’s grey zone warfare against Taiwan and Taiwanese people. Good opportunity for cybersecurity and defense startups to test their new stuff.
Beijing sanctioned him, opened a criminal case against him, and went after his father’s company. Now Puma Shen might win Taipei, a city that has been a stronghold of the China-friendly KMT (“blue”) for nearly 30 years.
Puma Shen, 44, is the DPP’s candidate for Taipei mayor. Before politics he was a criminology professor who studied Chinese information warfare. He co-founded Doublethink Lab, which tracks Chinese disinformation, and Kuma Academy, which trains ordinary people in civil defense. In other words, he built a career exposing exactly what Beijing does to Taiwan.
That is why China treats him as a target. He was named a “diehard Taiwan independence separatist” in 2024, and a Chongqing police bureau opened a “secession” investigation in 2025. His family has faced sanctions on their business, death threats, and doxxing. The message is aimed at everyone watching: this is what happens to those who study and expose us.
Here is what makes this race unusual. Taipei hasn’t elected a DPP mayor since Chen Shui-bian in the 1990s. Shen was seen as a long shot. Then came the “Ocean Wave” movement, with ship-themed campaign trucks, big rallies, and strong support among younger voters. He shifted the campaign toward housing, childcare, and transport, while keeping his China credentials. Polls swung from double-digit deficits to a lead or a tight race, depending on the survey.
Why Beijing should worry: Taipei’s mayor is a national stage. Winning the capital would make him the DPP’s first mayor there in almost three decades, and a figure with a national profile. Cross-strait policy is set by the central government, so he couldn’t rewrite it from city hall. But he’d be a symbol that a man Beijing tried to isolate can be rewarded by voters.
His own take, from a November 6 Reuters interview: “Even if Chiang Wan-an got elected, it’s also a slap to China. Because we proved that democracy works here in Taiwan and we’re not interfered with by China.”
The vote is November 28. The race is competitive, and the outcome is not settled.
The candidate Beijing tried hardest to silence is now the one making the most noise.
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So why are you allowing this?
“In recent months, at least a dozen Hong Kong citizens who are in the U.S. with the protected status have been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Several were arrested at airports while trying to board domestic flights. Other Hong Kong citizens with different statuses have also been detained. Some say they were coerced into signing statements promising to voluntarily leave the country. Most, if not all, have been released by immigration judges but have been forced to wear ankle monitoring bracelets and restricted from traveling.”
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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Another angle on this whole Nvidia-Megaspeed thing is this - this case is yet another reason why, for all of Hong Kong’s relative decline, Singapore has not been able to take full advantage. Why choose Singapore when it turns out to be no better than Hong Kong as an espionage and sanctions busting hub? If anything, one might say Singapore is worse - at least with Hong Kong we now know what it is and thus be overtly cautious about it, but with Singapore’s political and financial class constantly wanting to play both sides, one never knows what one is going to get with Singapore.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admits to affair with China spy who ran Megaspeed, which diverted Nvidia chips to China.
Culper Research nailed it back in May:
“$NVDA vouches for Megaspeed - its largest SEA chip buyer, under U.S. and Singapore investigation - as having no Chinese ownership and free of diversion concerns.”
“$NVDA claims its China business went to "zero" after April 2025 U.S. trade restrictions. We believe that in reality, over 20% of Nvidia's FY 2026 compute revenues remained driven by China via illegal GPU diversion and Southeast Asian intermediaries.” teapawt.net/CulperResearch/status/…
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ICYMI: Joshua Wong is a hero of our times. His incarceration - now for an extra 10 years - is a sign of Beijing's brutal attack on free speech in this once free city.
@frances_hui wrote for Index about her friend.
indexoncensorship.org/2026/0…
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Minulý týden jsem se vrátil z pracovní cesty na Taiwan. A víte, co je pikantní? Že už během doby, kdy jsem tam byl, mi přišel email z mise Čínské lidové republiky při EU. V mailu se píše, že mám ctít "princip jedné Číny" - v podstatě šlo o výhrůžku, co mám jako jezdit na Taiwan.
Takové pokusy o nátlak zcela odmítám. Na Taiwan jsem jel proto, že kultivuju vztahy s těmi, a nimiž je to vzájemně výhodné. Z čínských investic v Česku zůstaly jen sliby.
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I am sure completely unrelated to the fact he was having an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, but do we all remember NVIDIA obtaining permission to sell chips to a shell company in China? Or heavy lobbying against any and all export restrictions?
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Policing 101, French edition:
The use of force must be necessary to the achievement of a legitimate aim, and proportionate to achievement of that aim (i.e. the least force required).
I don't think dislike of the flute qualifies.
@NaomiOhReally @Mediapart
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OHCHR don't work weekends. Newsflash: I, Miranda Brown, Anders Kompass and other #whistleblowers did. Because if someone is about to be executed for their politics, children are about to be raped or protestors about to be beaten, we cared.
We were fired. So OHCHR lacks capacity.
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Hong Kong is not far and the events of 2019 are not very distant, yet there are many in Taiwan who have already forgotten about Wong and other activists like him
"The Country That Has Forgotten Joshua Wong" by @brianhioe
newbloommag.net/2026/11/07/j…
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On the 7th anniversary of the death of #HongKong protester Chow Tsz-lok during the 2019 protests, 2 people went to the site of his fatal fall in Sheung Tak car park, Tseung Kwan O to mourn for him, under close observation by police.
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After January’s massacre in Iran, critics of the regime faced rejection in the West.
A Canadian editor told Iranian dissidents “speaking won’t help anyone”, while a US editor argued “the greater good” was “the defeat of Zionism and imperialism”.
🔗indexoncensorship.org/2026/1…
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Every time I read a “Chinese spy” story, I have two simultaneous reactions: 1) Of course. What else would you expect from the CCP? And surely there are many more. 2) How many more ordinary Chinese people living abroad will now be quietly suspected of being CCP spies?
New big turn in our Singapore chip-smuggling investigations: U.S. officials believe the mysterious business woman seen with Jensen Huang in Taiwan in recent years is a Chinese intelligence asset. Pres. Trump was briefed but took no action. nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
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Mao killed tens of millions of his own people - the bloodiest dictator of the Twentieth Century. Pass it on.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The CCP's 1981 resolution documents Mao's arbitrary rule, concentration of power, undermining of collective leadership, and personality cult (Sections 18, 20, 24)
characteristics associated with dictatorship.
china.usc.edu/node/20941
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The thing about Mao Zedong was that he was not just a dictator. He was actually a f***ing idiot to such an extent that it would make Trump’s ridiculous claims of himself being a “stable genius” almost credible.
Mao forced farmers to make steel out of farm tools and in small village furnaces, which left farmers with no tools to work the fields. He forced farmers to chase away insect-eating sparrows, which led yo locust-infested fields. Millions starved to death as a result.
He thought that turning the population on itself in endless struggle was the path to proletariat prosperity - all it had done was to make more starve to death, loss of Chinese know-how across the board and China left on the brink of bankruptcy.
His views on dental hygiene were so off the planet that he eschewed both “modern” or more traditional Chinese modes of dental care, to the point that his doctors and others all mention the rotting stench that emanated from his mouth.
Not all dictators are idiots - Deng Xiaoping was a dictator but not an idiot. But Mao excelled himself in his idiotmaxxing, more a buffoonish Idi Amin than a dangerously bright Emperor Kangxi.
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OPEN LETTER: Sally Rooney is a writer, not a terrorist. Her books must be available to the public. Their withdrawal from sale, on the basis of ill-conceived and draconian anti terror legislation, is an affront to basic principles of free speech and expression so long taken for granted in this country. We categorically reject censorship - whether direct or indirect - and urge the government to change course, amending the legislation which has led us to this point of repressive absurdity.
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The cacophony of madness coming from the Trump administration grabs headlines. But don’t lose sight of the extraordinary cruelty the CCP quietly and systematically inflicts every day on countless people, including some of the most extraordinary among us.
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The UK is now classed as a country where encryption is under severe threat, alongside China & Russia, as this map shows.
Encryption keeps our communications secure.
It’s staggering that the UK government isn’t doing everything in its power to defend it.
gp-digital.org/world-map-of-…