Samuel Wade on Media Complicity and Taiwan

Mangroves south of Hsinchu city.

This thread was posted by Samuel Wade to Twitter. Wade is an editor at China Digital Times. #9 is something I've been saying for years.

1/11 Thread. Like a lot of us, I've spent a fair amount of time writing around Taiwan's status.

2/11 Cross-strait this, the island's that, Taipei's, Beijing's...

3/11 No.

4/11 The question is not "Should Taiwan be independent?" or "should Taiwan declare independence?"

5/11 The fact is: Taiwan. Is. Independent.

6/11 The question is, will the rest of the world have the courage to acknowledge that?

7/11 Even I, a card-carrying "hostile foreign force," have written around this too much.

8/11 This is not, as I felt for a long time, a side issue.

9/11 This is a nation the size of Australia whose right to self-determination we are routinely complicit in denying.

10/11 Fuck that.

11/11 Taiwan is independent.
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