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Mao thanked Japan, the CCP does not

Derek Low

In December 1937, Japanese troops captured Nanjing and unleashed one of the darkest chapters of the 20th century. Over six weeks, hundreds of thousands were slaughtered and women were raped on a scale that still defies comprehension.

Across Asia, the Japanese occupation left deep scars. Singapore, Malaya, the Philippines and much of China endured terror, forced labor and massacres. My own grandfather was tortured by the Japanese in Singapore. His wife, traumatized beyond recovery, lived the rest of her life in silence and breakdown. These stories are real, not abstract history.

Here is the irony: Mao Zedong (毛澤東) himself once told visiting Japanese delegations that without Japan’s invasion, there would be no People’s Republic of China.

US wants peaceful Taiwan resolution

Taipei Times

The administration of US President Donald Trump has told Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) “we don’t want any coercion, but we want [the Taiwan dispute] resolved peacefully,” US ambassador to China David Perdue said in a TV interview on Thursday.

Trump “has said very clearly, we are not changing the ‘one China’ policy, we are going to adhere to the Taiwan Relations Act, the three communiques and the ‘six assurances’ that were done under [former US president Ronald] Reagan,” Perdue told Joe Kernen, cohost of CNBC’s Squawk Box.

The act, the Three Joint Communiques and the “six assurances” are guidelines for Washington in dealing with its unofficial relationship with Taipei under its “one China” policy.

Tibetan broadcasts must return

Khedroob Thondu

For decades, the Tibetan services of Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA) served as lifelines — beacons of truth, piercing the fog of censorship that envelops Tibet. These broadcasts were not mere news bulletins; they were instruments of dignity, connection and resistance. Their recent suspension is not just a bureaucratic decision — it is a moral and strategic failure that must be urgently reversed.

From the snowbound monasteries of Amdo to the refugee settlements of South India, Tibetan listeners tuned in to hear the world speak to them in their own tongue. In a land where information is tightly controlled and history rewritten, VOA and RFA offered unvarnished facts: global events, Tibetan affairs, spiritual teachings and cultural preservation. They were trusted not because they were perfect, but because they were consistent, courageous and rooted in the Tibetan experience.

No ‘50-50’ chips deal with US: official

Taipei Times

Taiwan has “never made any commitment to a 50-50 split on manufacturing chips, and would not agree to such terms,” Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君) said yesterday after returning from a fifth round of in-person tariff negotiations with the US.

US President Donald Trump’s administration wants Taiwan to adopt a “50-50 split” on semiconductor manufacturing, with half of the chips used in the US to be made domestically, US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said in an interview with NewsNation on Sunday.

The concept differs from the investment direction being discussed under negotiations regarding supply chain cooperation, the Cabinet said in a statement yesterday.

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