The latest edition of ASPI's State of the Strait tracking China's campaign of coercion against Taiwan
"As Taipei reinforces its defences against Beijing’s overt and covert pressure, China shows no sign of relenting—relying both on symbolic punishments and effective grey-zone tactics to sustain its campaign of coercion."
https://open.substack.com/pub/stateofthestrait/p/lai-bolsters-internal-security-against
Taiwan's President Lai faces domestic political challenges as well as external pressure from China. He has still been able to maintain public support and implemented new national security measures, writes Mark Harrison
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-lai-ching-te-government-shifts-gears/
The latest edition of ASPI's State of the Strait tracking China's campaign of multi-domain coercion against Taiwan
The big news this week is former Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen's visit to Europe. It's a good opportunity for Taiwan to promote counter-narratives of democracy and international cooperation
https://open.substack.com/pub/stateofthestrait/p/former-taiwan-president-tsai-ing
The latest edition of ASPI's State of the Strait tracking China's campaign of multi-domain coercion against Taiwan
China is continuing to block Taiwan's efforts to attend the World Health Assembly in Geneva later this month. Taiwan has been blocked from the WHA since 2017
https://open.substack.com/pub/stateofthestrait/p/taiwan-fights-for-a-voice-at-the
Du fragst wie alt? So alt:
(Wer das noch gebrauchen kann, darf sich bei mir melden)
#10base2 #din #nonlegacy #ultrawide #aspi #u3w #vintagecomputing
The latest edition of ASPI's State of the Strait notes the increase in espionage cases in Taiwan, many of which involve military or ex-military personnel
The latest edition of ASPI's State of the Strait tracking all forms of coercion used by China against Taiwan
ASPI has launched State of the Strait, a weekly report on Substack, to track all the forms of coercion China is using against Taiwan
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-counter-chinas-coercion-of-taiwan-we-must-track-it-better/
Surprise, surprise! there is now a mature voice writing about strategic issues from an Australian perspective (no, not #aspi )
https://strategicanalysis.org/the-facts-have-changed-has-the-australian-government-noticed/
@davidonformosa Also worth noting that #ASPI themselves are facing significant budget cuts in #Australia. 🤦♂️️
For now they're probably the most well-informed organization in the world to shine light on China's global influence operations.
The Chinese regime would naturally like to see them disbanded altogether.
Some China-related NGOs face imminent closure as a result of the freezing of USAID funds
"In many cases, these organisations provide our last window into what is actually happening in China. They do the painstaking and often personally risky work of tracking Chinese media censorship, tallying local protests, uncovering human rights violations, documenting the Uyghur genocide, and supporting what remains of civil society in China."
📜 A really gentle and diplomatic (re-)introduction to CCP's United Front Work Department (UFWD) by the BBC. Still, better than nothing.
Media coverage of UFWD and its work esp. in foreign countries can be seen as a useful barometer of media's appeasement level wrt. PRC China / CCP; the treatment of Tibet (even mentioning its very name which the CCP is trying to eradicate) is another.
To understand all this, one first needs to understand something about human nature. Trusting people and societies tend to, by default, consider other people and societies having some level of trustworthiness as well.
Likewise societies were people can't generally trust one another adopt that modus operandi themselves and don't easily believe anyone to be trustworthy. Global corruption indices act as a rough guideline here.
Now, the CCP is an extremely and inherently #paranoid organization that sees enemies everywhere. They are particularly paranoid about existential threats and after seizing power in China in 1949 they psyched and propagandized themselves as the only and irreplaceable organization (read: dictatorship) that can not only keep the old imperial state forcefully together but also to restore the "Middle Kingdom" to its rightful historical (mythical) position as the greatest power under heaven.
When the Chinese communists realized that actual communism (under dictatorship) was fucking useless after Mao Zedong's decades of nominal communist "internationalism" (where the empire's "ethnic peoples" had nominal rights or even nominal "autonomy"! Repression, massacres and famines were simply written out of history), the CCP was in desperate need for a "raison d'etre" or a reason to justify its very existence.
Enter national-socialism, a form of ethno-centric nationalism under dictatorship. Party cadres who could access foreign books learnt how a relatively small Nazi-Germany managed to mobilize the entire state to defeat the gigantic and communist Soviet Union with relative ease...!
(Of course what really happened was that after December 1941 (Pearl Harbour) when the USA was pulled into WWII it was only America's absolutely mindblowing amount of "Lend-Lease" military aid to Soviets (look it up!) that turned the tide against the nazis... but the points about "effectiveness" of nazism vs communism couldn't be ignored.)
CCP cadres also learned how the German nazis had used "legalism" devised by Carl Schmitt to justify *everything* the State would do as "legal". Absolutely everything. What's not to love! Ethnic supremacism? Check!
After 1989 (Tiananmen) and then the 1991 crumbling of the Soviet-russia empire the new war front that emerged was based on acquitition of technology and money as essential ingredients. No longer a hermetically sealed dictatorship, the CCP would pull in foreign industrialists and financiers to engage and entangle in "win-win" projects while starting to send its loyalty-checked subjects overseas by the million to study and bring about technological revolution in the PRC.
This is where the UFWD begins to emerge as *the* key department for the CCP. Its tentacles would not only keep the expatriate Chinese students (and increasingly businessmen; and they are invariably men) in line politically, but the UFWD would facilitate and focus their tasking and the transfer of data where they really wanted it. With increased foreign exposure came opportunities to influence and corrupt any and all useful foreign idiots in politics, science, business, finance...
With the newly re-adopted ethno-centrism ("Han chauvinism") another key target for UFWD was the large diaspora of ethnic Chinese emigre settlers in foreign countries. There are particularly large Chinese "communities" in most South-East Asian countries where, ironically, they are sometimes viewed similarly as the Jews ahd been at the other end of the continent; a society within society, depending on murky ancestral networks and controlling business and finance well beyond their numbers...
(NB. After playing friend and extracting all technology and science it could from Israel, CCP easily threw them under the Arab islamic bus because the latter are, for now, far more useful allies in CCP's wider war against democracy worldwide, an existential threat...)
The UFWD would effectively take over these old ethnic networks and harness them to serve business and industry of their "motherland" turned CCP Party-State.
This is just the mere rough outline of United Front's responsibilities, but it's not hard to see why CCP really considered it a "magic weapon".
⚠️ The best published research on this massive organization with global reach is done by #ASPI and #Merics.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c878evdp758o
#CCP #china #PRC #UnitedFront #UFWD #carlschmitt #nazism #BBC
Guten Morgen, beste Timeline der Welt!
Umzug ist geschafft. Nun noch einrichten, Ihr wisst schon, dies das.
Das Ganze macht bei mir ganz schön Veranstaltung im Kopf, mehr als gedacht. Mir als #Aspi fällt so etwas unglaublich schwer.
Dafür habe ich aber Frau Lùmmel und die Hunde, Kontinuität ist extrem wichtig.
Internetanschluss gibt es erst näxte Woche, Mobilfunk ist auch scheiße, deshalb seht es mir nach, wenn ich mich noch weniger zu Wort melde, als ohnehin schon 😁
Habt einen netten Tag mit vielen kleinen Mirakeln und bitte bleibt/ werdet gesund!
ASPI Australia's Critical Technology Tracker
Interesting website that allows you to compare pairs of countries in different critical technology areas.
The example at the weblink compares US vs. Russia in machine learning.
https://techtracker.aspi.org.au/tech/machine-learning/historical-performance/?c1=us&c2=ru
@nulleric well, I just had a quick google search and I found #Adaptec documentation for #ASPI.
So I'm wondering if I could interface that using #OpenWatcom and a simple text UI...
I've never done low level #SCSI programming, but I should have an Adaptec card somewhere and I could rip out my #BlueSCSI out of my mac...
Should be an interesting little project,, but I don't know when I might find some time for that...
Habe ich denn schonmal erwähnt, dass Ihr mein Draht nach Außen seid?
Meine Störungen machen es mir nicht leicht, mit anderen Menschen im RL zu reden oder gar über Belangloses zu quatschen. Hier sitze ich hinter meinem Monitor im lümmelschen Zimmer, in "Sicherheit" gewissermaßen, und hab' Euch.
Früher, bei X, hat das auch so begonnen, doch meine Bubble verlor sich immer mehr in den erzwungenen Timelines und ergab schließlich zwar Tausend Follower, die ich aber nie zu Gesicht bekam.
Social Media kann auch für einen #Aspi wie mich ein Gewinn sein, aber schnell auch Fluch.
Bei Euch habe ich nicht das Gefühl, möglichst viel und schnell herumklicken zu müssen, um dranbleiben zu können. Es fließt alles und wenn ich mal ein bis zwei oder drei Tage gar nichts da lasse, ist das auch nicht schlimm. Dafür wollte ich mich, so kurz vor'm Feste, mal bedanken.
@AnitaWorks9698
Ich selbst bezeichne mich ganz gern als #Aspi, weil die Beschreibung des Syndroms ganz gut zu mir passt. Es bleibt aber eine Form des Autismus und dass ich mich selbst als Aspi bezeichne bedeutet nicht, dass das alle Uninteressierten dürfen, um eine "leichte" Form des Autismus zu beschreiben, und dann abzuwinken.
Meine Störung macht es mir möglich, mich voll auf EINES zu konzentrieren und darin zu versinken, wenn es mich interessiert. Inkl. Ausblenden von allem anderen.
Gestern war die Aufgabenstellung: Rette das Chinahandy von X.....i mit Manjaro- Linux- Bordmitteln und ausschließlich freier Software. Und nun melde ich Vollzug! Es ist entsperrt, geflasht und läuft. Kein MS- Dreck nötig. Fragt mich aber nicht, wie ich das gemacht habe. Muss erstmal die Nacht aufarbeiten.
#Aspi #FuckMS
Könntet Ihr Euch vorstellen, etwas mehr #Fedibeichten eines #Aspi, also von mir, zu lesen? Will ja nicht nerven.
