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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 47m

Causing hyperinflation in the afterlife by burning too much joss paper

Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 55m

The US has accepted Taiwan's Letter of Offer for Price and Availability for MH-60R naval helicopters and C-130J transport aircraft, military sources tell Liberty Times. The LOR P&A is the first step for possible procurement.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 59m

A Taiwan (ROC) Air Force Mirage 2000-5 fighter flies over Taipei 101 during rehearsals for the National Day celebrations in October 2026. The plane is serving as the lead aircraft for the flyover Photo: Ministry of National Defense

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Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social · 4h

"...it’s the way paramilitaries are used in other places. The Israeli state does not need to coordinate the settlers too directly. It simply has to create the conditions that produce them" @danaelkurd.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/middle...

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Settler ‘rioters’ are Israeli state policy—through deniable means

The UK’s ‘reset’ on Israel penalises the settlements while leaving the government that protects and expands them largely untouched

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 5h

A Chinese maritime militia vessel was observed in international waters off the eastern coast of Taiwan for the first time on 10/8. An Apex Aviation ISR aircraft took the photo.

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Lev Nachman @lnachman32.bsky.social · 6h

Whether the DPP sweeps Taipei and New Taipei, or the KMT keeps its northern stronghold, the outcome of the local elections is not a reflection of Taiwanese attitudes toward China, Lai, Trump, or war. My latest with @brianhioe.bsky.social in The Diplomat: thediplomat.com/2026/10/taiw...

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Taiwan’s Local Elections Are Not About China, President Lai, or the United States

Candidates across Taiwan are campaigning on local issues that vary by city – not topics like cross-strait relations. What can we learn from these elections?

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 20h

Lyndon B. Johnson, then serving as VPOTUS, in Taipei, May 1961 Photo: Thomas J. O'Halloran

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The fact that the mainstream conversations surrounding drones are nowadays mostly about FPV drones has made people forget that drones are generally not attritable, and they still are expensive and manpower-intensive.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One less-discussed effect of mass UAV use is that they have dramatically lowered the threshold for armed action. 45 MQ-9s and it's a collective shrug.

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

wait are you telling me the TaNKs ArE DeAd!!!! stuff is wrong?!

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Taiwan is not New Jersey, you’d never find people as obnoxious as Eagles fans there

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Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BREAKING: European Parliament significantly toughens China position, adopted by landslide FOR 454 AGAINST 86 ABSTAIN 110 Report says China is “decisive enabler” of Russia & backs a “continuous [European] naval presence and joint exercises” in and around the Taiwan Strait

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Taiwan Coast Guard Administration cutters Chiayi (CG5001) and Penghu (CG1007) arrived at Malakal, Palau, as part of a training and diplomatic visit on 10/6.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Must clarify for those who are not security cooperation sickos who know the FMS Wall in their sleep: This particular FMS case has not reached the President yet. Taiwan is effectively asking State to ask Sikorsky for a price quote.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trump is not holding back this arms sale! This is not before Congress yet. This case has only reached State so far.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Taiwan has forwarded a Letter of Request for Price and Availability to the US for MH-60R naval helicopters. The ultimate decision on whether Taiwan receives MH-60Rs will depend on the Trump administration.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Real rednecks are leftists and they would stop support MAGA if they weren’t so poor” sounds increasingly like “China’s going to democratize if they get rich.”

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

heartwarming: well-off russian who can live overseas returns to russia

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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Given how many Chinese were among those coming to California in 1849 looking for gold, and how many of those went back to China, it's entirely possible for a family to have three kinds of 49er in 3 different generations.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thinking about how there are probably a few 49er Taiwanese who are 49er fans (moved to Taiwan in 1949, then the US, now Brock Purdy acolytes)

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The US could station Institute for Defense Analysis and Defense Innovation Unit personnel at Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense Headquarters on a long-term basis. Currently, US defense officials are attached to the American Institute in Taiwan.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If it's any relief: Xi Jinping is 73. Donald Trump is 80. My children will grow up in a world without them.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A major Chinese milblogger posted, "Taiwan Coast Guard bullies mainland ship near Tungsha Island; Taiwanese frogs [slur for DPP supporters] are excited again. I am enraged." They then cite multiple KMT-leaning outlets. Chinese nationalists will call anything not pro-PRC "Taiwanese separatism."

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense has released pictures showing the first two F-16C Block 70s on their delivery flight escorted by an F-16AM Block 20 and two T-5 Brave Eagle jet trainers.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Notice that Tucker says “the US taking over the world” as a negative. No one has more disdain for American hegemony than American fascists.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

He is not a Christian nationalist. He also has voiced his support for trans people in the aftermath of the Bud Light ordeal

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Some hope for the Pacific-heads: The Taiwan and Philippine Coast Guards are jointly monitoring Chinese ships rather than threatening to kill each other

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Philippine Coast Guard has commissioned BRP Sarangani, formerly Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration cutter KINMEN, on 10/2. Taiwan recently transferred the vessel to the WPS Foundation.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

i actually like the f-15s without them and the f-16s with them

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A better picture of F-16C Block 70 "6727" of the Taiwan (ROC) Air Force, which just landed in Taiwan from Guam earlier today. The jet is the first of two of the 66 ordered from the US in 2019.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The first two F-16C/D Block 70 fighters have landed in Taiwan on 10/2. More to come this year, MinDef Wellington Koo says.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s the morning of 10/2 in Taiwan. The first two of 66 F-16C Block 70s will land at Taitung’s Chihhang Air Base in hours from Hawaii. These are the first new F-16s to arrive in Taiwan in 27 years.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Just checking the till here, and it seems you're short a few groups

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Taiwan (ROC) Army Lanyang Area Command conducted a combat-readiness patrol to simulate the defense of port facilities in the area on 9/30.

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Brian Hioe @brianhioe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Shocking, but the military vehicles amassed in Shenzhen did seem to be a sign. The memory of Tiananmen has had a constraining effect--both on authorities in terms of military escalation and on protesters in terms of escalating violence to what might prompt a military intervention

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Documents show China weighed military action in Hong Kong in 2014

Documents seen by Kyodo News have revealed that high-ranking Chinese military officials in November 2014 considered military intervention to suppress a pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, raising que...

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The first two Taiwan (ROC) Air Force F-16C/D Block 70 fighters, "6727" and "6728," have departed Hawaii and will land at Chihhang Air Base on the morning of 10/2 after a stop in Guam, the ROCAF says.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Taiwan is a sovereign and democratic state, and it will be for the foreseeable future.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No comment on whether Taiwan will transfer the decommissioned patrol boat ROCS Chin Chiang to the Philippines, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense says. The chair of the Legislative Yuan's National Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee, Ma Wen-chun (KMT), has expressed concern.

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Various Taiwan (ROC) Army and Air Force aircraft participating in a partial rehearsal for the National Day flyover, 9/30/2026. Photos: Military News Agency

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's journalists going to Iowa and talking to people at diners

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A small proportion of Indians are both Christian and English-speaking too

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Yen-han Chen 陳彥翰 🇹🇼🇺🇸🇺🇦 @chen-yenhan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The US is helping Taiwan secure non-monetary compensation for delays in F-16C/D Block 70 deliveries. Possible compensation can include additional maintenance support.

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Babyn Yar. 85th anniversary of the tragedy. One of the largest sites of mass murders committed by the Nazis in Europe. A place of great pain and our memory of all the victims of the Holocaust.

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