Many details to square away, but No. 1 Offspring, having completed their university degree, and with no immediate prospects for gainful employment beyond McDonald’s, has opted to go live with their grandparents in #Taiwan for up to a year and participate in the government-endorsed (?) Mandarin language learning program.
"President Joe #Biden will dispatch former #US officials to #Taiwan as its new president takes office, a show of support for the island calibrated to avoid enraging #Beijing
"Island X tells a political history of a generation of Taiwanese who migrated to the US from the 1960s to the 1980s as graduate students during the late Cold War and Kuomintang (KMT) martial law periods and became politically active in struggles for democracy, human rights, and Taiwan independence"
Taiwanese actor Wu Mu-hsuen was forced to sign a pledge supporting China's territorial claim over Taiwan, or the show she had just finished filming would be cancelled
According to Wu's agent, the practice is now commonplace for Taiwanese artists working in China
I've been earwormed by this song a lot and I love the translation of the delightful lyrics, but I'm going to write the title as "Gender Queer" going forward as that is more faithful to the lyrics than the literal title "雌雄同體" (by 五月天/Mayday) and the English translation of that phrase is potentially offensive to intersex people.
🧋 Australian scientists have developed a healthier form of bubble tea. The new product blends oat fibre with tapioca which reduces the drink's sugar content