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Apr 13, 2023Liked by Benjamin Herscovitch

I would also be interested to see how often ministers from Taiwan have visited Australia. The last one I know of is the Minister for Economic Affairs John Deng (鄧振中) who visited in 2015.

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Apr 12, 2023Liked by Benjamin Herscovitch

One more for your list: Gary Hardgrave, then Minister for Vocational Education and Training, visited Taiwan in for 5 days in 2005. He was accompanied by an Education Department Dep-Sec and a number of representatives from Taiwanese community organisations in Australia (his electorate, Moreton, had/has Australia's largest Taiwanese community).

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Could you provide a direct quote, with link, from an official PRC document, that contains false or misleading claims or misinformation about Taiwan? I ask because I have not seen one.

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China’s settlement of its trade dispute with Australia over barley (and soon with wine) would be telling of Beijing’s renewed efforts to iron out wrinkles with CPTPP members that may be unreceptive to a potential Chinese accession. This is certainly a space worth watching.

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It’s journalism like yours that are a source of disinformation. All parroting the stance and hypocrisy of US involvement in many nation’s internal affairs to suit it’s hegemonic purpose.

Almost every self appointed Western journalist claims to be an expert or having deep understanding of Chinese politics, culture, historical events and language. Do they?

Today’s mainstream medias or aptly ‘stenographers’ pushing their own theories and agendas are just adding more fuel in support for Govt’s agenda.

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