China’s People’s Liberation Army has launched military drills around the island of Taiwan as a deterrent to separatist activities there, sending the Western media into propaganda overdrive.The drills come days after Lai Ching-te chose to thoroughly confuse Western readers, familiar only with simple black and white facts, by introducing a new concept for them: the "Republic of China."But wait a minute? Isn’t it just called “Taiwan”?!Today, we’ll take a much needed deeper look.This is Reports on China, I’m Andy Boreham in Shanghai. Let’s get reporting.
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino
“The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton
“… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
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