From Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen's English-language interview with @TaiwanCatherine, calmly saying that figures acting for Beijing were know to be following him and his family, including his 5 yr old daughter, in Taiwan in 2025.
Notable use of the phrase "talent cultivation" 人才培育, a phrase at the core of PRC education policy and so highlighting how parts of Australian higher education are being socialised and integrated into the PRC system.
Australia: Australian tertiary education sinks deeper.
"Victoria–China Education Dialogue 2026: Collaborative Innovation for Future Talent Cultivation.
How can government, universities and industry work together to prepare the talent of tomorrow? At CACIE 2026, representatives from China and the Australian state of Victoria meet to explore university-industry collaboration, practical teaching, international student mobility and new models for cross-border talent cultivation.
Speakers include Dr. Stacey Farraway (La Trobe University), John Molony (Deakin University), Sunny Yang (Monash University), Dr. Jason McGovern (Swinburne University of Technology) and Leigh Howard, Commissioner to Greater China, Victorian Government.
• 29 October
• Co-organised by the China Education Association for International Exchange and Study Melbourne"
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@mhar4 retweeted
From #Taiwan to #Tasmania! Deputy Director Lennon joined Taiwan partners in sending off PARAFANG, a traditional #Amis bamboo sailing raft, ahead of its journey to the #AustralianWoodenBoatFestival, in #Hobart, Tasmania, from 5-8 Feb 2027.
From @DesmondShum, on China disrupting LNG supply to Taiwan and smashing the global economy.
Australia is Taiwan's largest energy supplier, mostly LNG, so uniquely exposed to risk. And Taiwan has countermeasure options.
Every scenario converges on century-scale disaster.
China’s Taiwan Chokepoint: A Nightmare for Global Markets
Here’s my biggest takeaway from a conference I just attended in New York. More than a takeaway, it’s a scenario that genuinely spooked me.
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The flip-side being how those trained in maths or physics overestimate how they personally understand the world, e.g. those scientists confidently explaining all of China after they went to a conference and visited a shopping mall in Shanghai.
If you’re trained in math or physics, you’re often prone to overestimate how well-understood the world is. You assume most things have been “worked out” mathematically to a far greater degree than they have been.
It can be shocking and slightly horrifying to realize how much of the world runs on vibes and rules of thumb. It seems impossible that things could keep running at all with so little theory.
This is the first step on the road to Hayekian wisdom, to realizing that most of the knowledge that runs the world exists in no individual human mind but rather in the interactions between them.
A BBC2 Newsnight report from June 2006 by Boris Johnson(!), then shadow higher education secretary, about China and universities.
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Aesthetics aside, a few thoughts about Rubio’s speech.
It was a doctrinal speech. Rubio re-founds the transatlantic alliance on shared civilisational descent rather than shared values, rules or a shared threat, and makes the US commitment to Europe implicitly conditional on Europe "reawakening" on those terms.
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"We oppose your invasion but we won't help you" is a position on Ukraine from @DavidShoebridge that is the definition of unprincipled and which parallels his position on Taiwan.
Taiwan is complex for Australia and easily muddled with clichés and unexamined assumptions and leaps of logic, as this op-ed in The Australian demonstrates.
Reminder of how far the @Greens and their new leader @DavidShoebridge have to go to be at all credible on regional security.
At an anti-AUKUS public event in Sydney, a good question about China's threat to Taiwan, a response from @DavidShoebridge that starts as uncomprehending and descends into the bizarre.
Disappointing in 2026 to still not be platforming Taiwanese or Taiwanese-Australian voices at these sort of events.
EVENT | Is a clash over Taiwan just around the corner?
UTS:ACRI will host @JakobsonLinda for a public lecture examining cross-Strait developments, followed by a conversation w/ @j_laurenceson.
🗓️ Wed Oct 28, 5.30-7.00pm
📍 Level 3 Collaborative Theatre, UTS Business School
🔗 Registration is essential: bit.ly/4rAxtm8
Discussion between @SamRoggeveen and Hugh White, who insist on seeing Taiwan as a territory over which the US and China will fight, so are unable to conceptualise a China-Taiwan war and its total and direct consequences for Australia.
youtube.com/watch?v=kOK27BbK…
