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What are things people don't know about China/Taiwan that big publications can inform us on?
1) How new Chinese obsession w/Taiwan is; how old Taiwanese movements for self-determination are
2) The chasm between Chinese propaganda on Taiwan & how Taiwan functions empirically
1) How new Chinese obsession w/Taiwan is; how old Taiwanese movements for self-determination are
2) The chasm between Chinese propaganda on Taiwan & how Taiwan functions empirically
3) Why Taiwan has changed so much in 30+ years (this is what decolonization looks like in real time)
4) Global complicity in Taiwan's isolation & how individual decisions by the international community to exclude Taiwan helped create such a tricky geopolitical situation
4) Global complicity in Taiwan's isolation & how individual decisions by the international community to exclude Taiwan helped create such a tricky geopolitical situation
5) What do Taiwanese voices sound like? Taiwanese perception of internal vs external threat, their precarious but strategic position, their sense of living in a real country only nobody seems to know it. This wasn't empty land in 1624, 1683, 1895, 1945, 1949 & it is not empty now
An addendum: it's a little odd to see an article about the Taiwanese response on Twitter to a recent Economist article that cites no local Taiwanese accounts & only 1 diasporic Taiwanese when the discussion about #TheMostDangerousPlaceOnEarth in those circles has been popping 
