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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

My new project: strait-signal.net Want to know what the narratives are in cross-strait relations? Get it from the source. An AI-pipeline with escalation between models and all output checked and approved by real people who know the subject. So you can actually trust what you're seeing.

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Cross-Strait Signal

Open-source intelligence dashboard monitoring PRC-Taiwan cross-strait dynamics through automated bilingual media analysis.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

The circus has begun and the clowns are on stage.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Thank you. My brother is moving to France soon, so I look forward to visiting often!

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

So why did the KMT not succeed in getting votes against DPP? Incompetence, laziness, and lack of motivation. The KMT/TPP have control, why do they need to recall anyone? Motivation and a passionate core explains why the pro-recall side passed 10%. But not enough to convince public at large.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Anyone who is surprised that all these recalls could fail despite gathering all those signatures needs to understand: Almost every district can summon 30% support for blue/green camps. 10% is the amount of signatures needed.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Early days but if these results hold, a lot of self-professed Taiwan experts need to take a long, hard look in the mirror about how they completely misjudged support for the recalls.

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Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today is a pivotal day for bi-national couples and families: for the first time people on the spouse/partner visa route were listened to by a Committee that wanted to learn what life is really like when you want to live in the UK and were moved by what we read in the report #FamiliesBelongTogether🧵

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I could write a book or two on this subject, but I'll leave it at that for now.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Finally, of course, compensation is inevitably an issue. Talent doesn't come for free, and especially international talent. But the way PTS operates makes it completely impossible to pay either int'l or local talent what it takes to make T+ a true success.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Recruitment was too focused on English ability imo, and the structure of the newsroom is wrong. Reporters should lead coverage, not editors, but if your reporters don't bring stories then editorial has no choice but to lead.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Stories are rejected all the time for terrible camera work, poor sound, etc. To make local stories work for T+ audience, T+ needs to shoot them. But often the staff lack the experience or simply time to follow the story make the contacts etc. They need to produce a few hours' worth of content daily.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The piece highlights several of the key issues, number one of which is recruitment. You're asking a team to make news that stands up to standards Western audiences expect. Repackages of local news (one of the main routes T+ gets local stories) doesn't cut it.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

There is zero chance that any editors at T+ don't know who Jay Chou is. But a discussion of whether an international audience will know who he is is likely to have taken place.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Her role was precisely to be someone who knows nothing about Taiwan -- they are the TA for T+ as far as everyone at the company is aware. Domestic is not the target audience; so if she says she doesn't see why it's important that's for the reporter to sell the story to her and the audience.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The NZ consultant, who no longer works there, never chose stories, she only offered advice and most importantly, she told us how to convert them to TV, how to use the resources of TV news (lives, packages, interviews) to tell a story for int'l audiences.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Clearly, through common sense, everyone knows that's not what they actually want. But without clear instructions we also had to operate based on the resources and personnel provided to us. Senior reporters have always been int'l focused, not domestic. This drives coverage.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Seeing as I am soon to leave the company, I will list out a few replies to points in the article. The English version had the xenophobic edges sanded off by Kwangyin. From the start, the only instruction on editorial policy received by the team is that T+ should operate as an int'l news channel.

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/03/2025

"Some random country that hasn't fought a war in 40 years..." Over 500 dead British and French personnel (more than 1,000 total European fatalities) and c10,000 injured in Afghanistan 2001-2021. The only time Article 5 has been invoked. 'Disrespect' does not reside in lack of a suit, Mr Vance. ~AA

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Reuters @reuters.com · 04/03/2025

China swiftly retaliated against fresh US tariffs, announcing 10%-15% hikes to import levies covering a range of American agricultural and food products, and placing twenty-five US firms under export and investment restrictions reut.rs/4h2kylT

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China hits back at U.S. imports as Trump's fresh tariffs take effect

China on Tuesday swiftly retaliated against fresh U.S. tariffs, announcing 10%-15% hikes to import levies covering a range of American agricultural and food products, and placing twenty-five U.S. firms under export and investment restrictions.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/02/2025

💥Our new report conducted by Frontier Economics dropped over the weekend. Revealing how deep alignment with the EU on goods & services could boost UK GDP by up to 2.2% - double the estimated impact of a UK-US trade deal. Now here's what this kind of deal could do for the EU.👇1/

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Senator Ron Wyden told me today it looks an awful lot like a coup - full Decoder coming Monday but it felt like we should get this clip out there

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

The only differences I can see are the "Highlights" section has been scrubbed of recent news and a section about donating COVID vaccines has been deleted.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Saved myself the pain and didn't listen to it when I saw who the guest was.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

TaiwanPlus's budget has been cut by 20% and funds "frozen" (in essence means you must satisfy lawmakers' demands before money is released) 30%. The stated reason being the "inappropriate" description of Trump as a "convicted felon."

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

This appears to be an article just verbatim quoting what some talking head said with zero fact-checking involved. Something every single media outlet here is guilty of.

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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Now that is a level of international celebrity.... In a club in Shanghai... footage of Luigi Mangione up on the big screen 😲 Video sourced from Majorcantotraits on IG: www.instagram.com/majorcantotr...

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

I think her argument is that if you recognise the PRC as a country, then you recognise its self-proclaimed territory, ergo you recognise Taiwan as part of the PRC. It sort of skips over the fact that countries can have relations and not agreed with territorial claims, but that's the logic.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

It's not yet known where or when it will broadcast. Producers say they're aiming for May 2025.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

It's fairly chilly here in Taipei.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Sigh. Although I actually didn't hate it as much as I thought I would, but my expectations were extremely low.

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Lauri Myllyvirta @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How is China's EV boom affecting gasoline demand and electricity demand? It has been hard to find precise data on this so here's a thread working out some numbers.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

You Know What The Fuck I Meant: A muting story

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Ryan Ho Kilpatrick 何松濤 @ryanhk.blue · 28/11/2024

This week, three news stories in Taiwan have illustrated to me the government's unwillingness to meaningfully engage with some of the country's biggest problems: its poor labour standards, its shrinking population, and its lack of international visibility. All three are also intimately connected. 1/

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

NCC主任秘書黃文哲今天表示，他個人初步的看法，此舉有損害國家利益 You think this is not criticism and completely inappropriate for a media regulator? Then we have very different standards.

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Ed Moon 艾永青 @emoontw.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The "if necessary" in my post refers to if a report is received from the public.

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Jasnah Kholin @jasnah.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

full sentencing for all the NSL47, image from HKDC:

HCCC69, sentencing for NSL47, defendants 1-24.

HCCC69, sentencing for NSL47, defendants 25-47.

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