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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"AUKUS isn't a mistake, it's a necessity". Robust and wide-ranging defence of AUKUS from Lavina Lee.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Legendary German filmmaker Monika Treut premiering her newest film about Taiwan, "Cooking Up Democracy" in Taipei.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I think Rudd is basically right in his assessment but he is a lot of theatre and is not across the details

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Rudd's minor errors (e.g. that the US has been committed to defending Taiwan since 1949) are an interesting tell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Ri...

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Kevin Rudd sounds alarm on Australia becoming 'complacent' | Insiders On Background

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This features a number of well-established Australian anti-US alliance activists, but it takes a certain kind of monomania to be unable to conceptualise that China could also drag Australia unwillingly into war.

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This year's Spirit of Taiwan Award (新世代台灣精神獎) goes to two academics: Chengchi University's @catielila.bsky.social, who co-authored "Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order" with @mhar4.bsky.social, and Soochow University's Chen Fang-yu! english.taup.net/%e3%80%90%e6...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Good from Richard Herr on the disastrous Pacific Islands Forum.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Unbelievable comments by fmr Chief of the ADF Admiral Chris Barrie at the AUKUS inquiry, equating China attacking Taiwan with US actions in Latin America, unable to condemn both while failing to grasp the scale of the impact on Australia were China to do so

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Gapu Ŋupan, the storytelling collaboration between Yolŋu people in the NT and Amis and Paiwan people from Taiwan, at the Garma Festival this week and the Darwin Festival August 5-6.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The outcome of many decades of campaigning by Siraya people and a milestone for indigenous reconciliation in Taiwan. The PRC rejects the concept of indigenous and defines all 17 tribes as a single "ethnic minority" and would dismantle all this if it annexed Taiwan. focustaiwan.tw/society/2026...

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Cabinet officially recognizes Siraya as Taiwan's 17th Indigenous tribe - Focus Taiwan

Premier Cho Jung-tai (卓榮泰) on Thursday approved the official recognition of the Siraya as one of Taiwan's Indigenous tribes, making it the country's 17th officially recognized tribe and the first Plai...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fmr foreign minister Gareth Evans in @thesaturdaypaper.com.au, not just unable to conceptualise a China-Taiwan war and its effect on Australia, but implying that Taiwan's exclusion from the international system (by Beijing's ideological monomania), means Taiwanese lives have less moral worth.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As has been brought to my attention, the speaker has extensive business and political dealing with China focussed on Qingdao back to the early 2000s, through the Australia China Development Company.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The ignorance and misinformation that the inquiry has aired about the region, policy and history is disgraceful. The whole exercise is shameful for all involved.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

At the anti- #AUKUS public inquiry, former federal minister Chris Schacht ranting about Taiwan in a disgraceful display of ignorance and contempt for policy, history and the region, and of course the Taiwanese. The whole exercise is shameful for all involved.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

"The war in Iran has also demonstrated how a regional conflict can have global economic implications." As good a defence of AUKUS from @peterkhalilmp.bsky.social that can be made while the Australian government sticks to its reluctance to say "Taiwan".

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The Australian government has tabled the Australia’s Foreign Relations (State and Territory Arrangements) Amendment Bill 2026, which includes the inclusion of transnational education arrangements under its provisions, with one consequential caveat.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Op-ed by PRC ambassador to Australia submitted to the Nine Fairfax papers attacking ASIO. Concluding with the phrase Xi Jinping famously said to Putin: "In the face of profound changes unseen in a century, China stands ready to work shoulder-to-shoulder with Australia..."

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The demand to only see the world through the lens of US power and the refusal to see PRC power and the PRC system is the Australian political left's version of the monoculture.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

AUKUS has many issues but @davidshoebridge.bsky.social wants a national security policy that assumes that an authoritarian party-state under the control of one man will be a rational actor and believes that Australia can remain isolated from the effects of China going to war with Taiwan.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

From the @nytimes.com interview with @albomp.bsky.social, some long-overdue robust language on China and Beijing's intentions.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

生成之間: 澳洲與台灣原住民族藝術交流, really highlighting the crudeness of this dialogue, @leanneminshull.bsky.social and @emmashortis.bsky.social reducing a morally and historically-grounded relationship to nothing-but America and "not our battle, mate". Actually, no. bsky.app/profile/mhar...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Trailer for the documentary In the Making: An Australia–Taiwan Indigenous Art Exchange 生成之間: 澳洲與台灣原住民族藝術交流 An account of the extraordinary multi-year project of exchange and learning between Australia and Taiwan indigenous artists. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYT0...

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In The Making 2025 Trailer

YouTube video by Mark

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

And these are the people who are being thusly misunderstood, disregarded and disparaged in order to make an argument about America.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

😮‍💨 Australian progressive activists like @emmashortis.bsky.social, @leanneminshull.bsky.social and @davidshoebridge.bsky.social still haven't been able to develop a critique AUKUS and the US alliance that doesn't rely on misunderstanding, disregarding and even disparaging the Taiwanese.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Distressing and wrongheaded comments about a PRC invasion of Taiwan from @australiainstitute.org.au's @leanneminshull.bsky.social, a war that would cost countless lives and destroy a society, and directly devastate Australia's economy and the lives of Chinese and Taiwanese communities in Australia.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

At an anti-AUKUS public event in Sydney, a good question about China's threat to Taiwan, a response from @davidshoebridge.bsky.social that starts as uncomprehending and descends into the bizarre.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Another mention of Taiwan in this walled-garden of opinion on Australia foreign policy that is unable to see outside the US alliance (even alluding to the absurd Trump-Xi Iran-Taiwan deal idea). Treating the Taiwanese, and China, as mere metaphors for anti-alliance politics.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Australian uni sector peak body Universities Australia promotes a keynote at their annual conference by PRC ambassador Xiao Qian using word-for-word CCP slogans.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Vital step in Taiwan's long journey of truth and reconciliation. Authoritarianism and historical trauma continue to shape politics, culture, identities and inter-generational relations in Taiwan very directly. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

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Taiwan's Martial Law-era archives fully declassified - Focus Taiwan

Taiwan's top intelligence agency said Monday that it has completely declassified tens of thousands of political archives it possessed from the Martial Law period and transferred them to the National A...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The rules-based international order really is over. "South Australia secures Australian MotoGP, world-first street circuit announced" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

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Breaking: SA secures Australian MotoGP, world-first street circuit announced

The South Australian government has confirmed the Australian MotoGP will move to Adelaide from 2027.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Everything described here is true, as some of us had seen some years ago, but there is nothing here about what it means for Australian universities to be integrated into the PRC system in this way, just a market logic that occludes the nature of that system.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Shocking comments by the PRC ambassador to Australia about Taiwan. Disinformation, declaring that Taiwanese who oppose annexation should leave Taiwan, and directly linking Australia's sovereign national debate about regional security and Taiwan to good relations with China.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Superb analysis from @nathanattrill.bsky.social. "Put simply, the scale and persistence of Chinese military activity around Taiwan look less like signalling and more like systematic preparation for the use of force, conducted on Beijing’s own timetable." www.aspistrategist.org.au/that-isnt-si...

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That isn't signaling. China’s military is seriously rehearsing around Taiwan | The Strategist

Analysing China’s military activity around Taiwan often invites a simple question: what triggered it? Analysts tend to assume that spikes in aircraft sorties, naval deployments or coast guard operatio...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

An escalation of political warfare by the PRC ambassador Xiao Qian in the national Australian media. Disinformation, misrepresentation, and a new explicit demand to accept in silence Taiwan's annexation and its catastrophic consequences.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

"...do we back the US or China in a battle over Taiwan." As always, Laura Tingle unable to conceptualise backing the Taiwanese, so ends up grotesquely suggesting that Australia could actually support a PRC invasion of Taiwan (with troops? materiel? a UN statement?) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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As Rudd leaves his post, questions for Australia's foreign policy swirl

One month after Kevin Rudd leaves his post as Australia's ambassador to Washington, Donald Trump will make his first presidential visit to China in almost 10 years.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Shanghai Oceans University with a leadership conference on the 4th Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, with comments by the dean of the UTAS JV Ai'en College with far-reaching implications for the Australian university sector. www.shou.edu.cn/2025/1025/c1...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

From Geoffrey Robertson, no less. You can really see where a certain block of Australian elite opinion will go in rationalising a PRC invasion of Taiwan, at least until the global economy crashes, the AUD is at USD25c and emergency interest rates are 30%. www.smh.com.au/national/thi...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

University of Tasmania and its Shanghai Oceans University JV Aien College visit the Shanghai office of US-sanctioned PRC AI company SenseTime to sign a partnership. ien.shou.edu.cn/2025/1211/c2...

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Japanese ambassador to Australia responds to PRC ambassador's attack.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

As Beijing continues military threats and political warfare against Taiwan, PRC Ambassador Xiao Qian warns Australia about "appeasement" of Japan, following PM Takaichi's comments that a PRC war against the Taiwanese would threaten Japan's security.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Yes, that is more than a real possibility.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

"To assure peace and prosperity, secessionists would be crushed, state media declared brightly. It’s obvious – Beijing just doesn’t get it. Yes, it is. And Beijing is holding the whole world hostage with its Taiwan delusion. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation | Simon Tisdall

The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he considers a renegade province, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Generous account of our new @aspi-org.bsky.social @defenceaustralia.bsky.social report "Australian Public and Institutional Responses to Taiwan Strait Crises" from Paul Monk in The Australian, with important insights into facing realities of Beijing's threats against the Taiwanese.

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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Dreadful and irresponsible from @mattbevan.bsky.social's ABC "If You're Listening" series, on China and Taiwan, blithely and glibly imagining that Taiwan has no history before 1949, so believing that China and Taiwan corresponds to the CCP and the KMT and so getting it all wrong.

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