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Twitter: “Taiwan, Province of China”

Despite all the talk, all the late night sweats in Beijing, and all the curses from VPN-lagging China-based twitterers; it turns out Twitter and the PRC see more eye-to-eye than either side would have you believe.

The following is a screen capture by Nick (@riceagain), a Kiwi splitting his time between Taiwan and the Mainland, who noticed a peculiar phrasing when attempting to set the Twitter tweet location to “Taiwan”:

Suffer the Little Children

As the War on an Abstract Noun winds down with a crack down on cub scouts with suspicious names, and begins a small mop up procedure in Yemen, the world waits with trepidation to see whose next on America’s shit list. For all the laowai who bought knockoff bullshit detectors in a shopper’s paradise, I [...]

China gives Taiwan fake pandas

I have traditionally posted an April Fools pseudo-news blog post on this date the past two years (see here and here), but the Taipei Times did it nicely for me this year: Pandemonium breaks out at Taipei Zoo Zookeepers became suspicious of the resident giant pandas’ true pedigree after Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan began [...]

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