David Demes 戴達衛

@demesdavid.bsky.social

German freelance journalist based in Taipei | Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club VP | Field producer for German public broadcaster ARD | Words in Table Briefings, Tagesspiegel, etc.

Taiwan-Lithuania ties have a solid foundation. They must now adjust to political realities. What’s needed: fewer grand gestures, more robust cooperation across political parties and across society. My take on why Tsai Ing-wen’s visit matters. 🙏🏼 @demesdavid.bsky.social table.media/china/analys...

Taiwan: Investitionen als Treibstoff für litauische Unterstützung

In Vilnius wird inzwischen offen darüber gesprochen, dass die Kooperation mit Taiwan weit hinter den Erwartungen zurückgeblieben ist.

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👀🇨🇳 "With Chinese ships suspected to have cut key undersea communications cables around the world, a Newsweek review of Chinese-language patent applications shows that engineers in China invented devices to sever such cables quickly and cheaply." By Didi Kirsten Tatlow:

Exclusive—Chinese patents reveal aim to cut undersea cables

Patent applications showed that Chinese scientists had been devising ways for severing undersea cables

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The Taiwan Foreign Correspondents’ Club will host a discussion about the crisis for Taiwan’s judiciary and legal profession on Jan 9. We’ll be joined by ex-grand justice Su Yeong-chin and reps from the Taiwan Bar Association, Taipei Bar Association, Academia Sinica and Judicial Reform Foundation.

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Chinese customs seizes Taiwanese textbooks over ‘incorrect maps’ – Focus Taiwan: ‘A total of 5,570 students were enrolled in the three Taiwanese schools in China in the first semester of the 2024 school year’

Chinese customs seizes Taiwanese textbooks over 'incorrect maps' - Focus Taiwan

Customs officials in China recently seized three Taiwanese textbooks shipped to Fuzhou for "incorrectly labeling the province Taiwan as a country."

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“Chinese state media has sunk considerable resources into Twitter, via unlabeled state-sponsored influencers, huge bot networks, the famous 50 cent army, … The Twitter bird, they thought, had finally been caged.”Then comes Bluesky. toosimple.substack.com/p/bluesky-ta...

As Bluesky takes flight, China has got a Twitter problem

For years, state media have been seeking to grab the microphone. Now Musk has handed them it.. no one is listening?

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Warum plant Taiwan seinen Windenergie-Markt weiter für ausländische Anbieter zu öffnen? Wie versucht das Land seine ambitionierten Klimaziele zu erreichen? Diese und weitere Fragen beantworte ich in @table.media. Mit exklusiven Zitaten von Taiwans Umweltminister. table.media/china/analys...

COP29: Wie Taiwan einen einsamen Kampf gegen den Klimawandel führt

Peking verhindert Taiwans Teilnahme an der Weltklimakonferenz. Unterstützung erhält die Inselrepublik dafür aus Deutschland.

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