Mark Harrison
@mhar4.bsky.social
Taiwan, China, social theory, ideology, politics, foreign policy.
Honda's reusable rocket prototype.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Honda's reusable rocket prototype.
"Our Al turned your paper into a shareable comic."
Oh ... no.
Oh ... no.
November 1, 2025 at 2:58 AM
"Our Al turned your paper into a shareable comic."
Oh ... no.
Oh ... no.
The self-ascribed progressive alternative to ABC's The Insiders, #SundayShot, @instanterudite.bsky.social and Bruce Wolpe with dreadful comments about Taiwan, bizarrely claiming the US could cede Taiwan to China as if it is it US territory, erasing 23m people with their own story.
October 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The self-ascribed progressive alternative to ABC's The Insiders, #SundayShot, @instanterudite.bsky.social and Bruce Wolpe with dreadful comments about Taiwan, bizarrely claiming the US could cede Taiwan to China as if it is it US territory, erasing 23m people with their own story.
"‘Country could shut down’: Australia has just 28 days of petrol"
Racking my brains trying to think of some possible regional crisis that could disrupt Australia's oil imports.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
Racking my brains trying to think of some possible regional crisis that could disrupt Australia's oil imports.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
October 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
"‘Country could shut down’: Australia has just 28 days of petrol"
Racking my brains trying to think of some possible regional crisis that could disrupt Australia's oil imports.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
Racking my brains trying to think of some possible regional crisis that could disrupt Australia's oil imports.
www.afr.com/policy/forei...
Tasmanian Chinese Buddhist Academy of Australia Cultural Park, under construction for many years, vandalised with "中国统战部AUS HQ".
October 11, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Tasmanian Chinese Buddhist Academy of Australia Cultural Park, under construction for many years, vandalised with "中国统战部AUS HQ".
"...on the other is the Kuomintang (KMT) party, which has always been friendlier with China, and encouraged more dialogue."
Has it, though?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Has it, though?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
October 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
"...on the other is the Kuomintang (KMT) party, which has always been friendlier with China, and encouraged more dialogue."
Has it, though?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Has it, though?
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Those were the days. A 594 page reading pack.
September 26, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Those were the days. A 594 page reading pack.
Call in the Hobart Mercury for "multipolarity", a codeword for great power spheres of influence and abandoning the liberal principle of universal human rights.
September 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Call in the Hobart Mercury for "multipolarity", a codeword for great power spheres of influence and abandoning the liberal principle of universal human rights.
New regulations on transnational education, or 中外合作办学 Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools just released.
September 20, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New regulations on transnational education, or 中外合作办学 Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools just released.
Tell me you don't understand Taiwan without telling me you don't understand Taiwan.
"German reunification could offer lessons for Beijing on Taiwan: government adviser"
"German reunification could offer lessons for Beijing on Taiwan: government adviser"
September 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Tell me you don't understand Taiwan without telling me you don't understand Taiwan.
"German reunification could offer lessons for Beijing on Taiwan: government adviser"
"German reunification could offer lessons for Beijing on Taiwan: government adviser"
"Representation of the CCP's Concept of the United Front as Part of the the Theory of Contradictions."
This from Lyman P. Van Slyke in 1967 still lands.
This from Lyman P. Van Slyke in 1967 still lands.
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
"Representation of the CCP's Concept of the United Front as Part of the the Theory of Contradictions."
This from Lyman P. Van Slyke in 1967 still lands.
This from Lyman P. Van Slyke in 1967 still lands.
Extreme example of cognitive dissonance on ABC Insiders, from Raf Epstein and AshleighRaper, vehemently asserting it is unacceptable to be seen with Putin and Kim, et al, but explicitly excluding Xi Jinping himself - who hosted them - from that judgement.
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Extreme example of cognitive dissonance on ABC Insiders, from Raf Epstein and AshleighRaper, vehemently asserting it is unacceptable to be seen with Putin and Kim, et al, but explicitly excluding Xi Jinping himself - who hosted them - from that judgement.
Powerful piece about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, democracy and solidarity, and Daniel Andrews.
www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i...
www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i...
September 4, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Powerful piece about the Tiananmen Square Massacre, democracy and solidarity, and Daniel Andrews.
www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i...
www.smh.com.au/world/asia/i...
Heroic effort by @heldavidson.bsky.social to push back against the tidal wave of historical revisionism coming from Beijing and being channeled by enablers in Australia.
September 3, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Heroic effort by @heldavidson.bsky.social to push back against the tidal wave of historical revisionism coming from Beijing and being channeled by enablers in Australia.
“Trade is one thing, and tourism, but military parades … I would honestly stop and think seriously about that,” she said.
Important comments by fmr Queensland premier Palaszczuk, trying to define one of the most poorly defined concepts in 🇦🇺 foreign policy, "engagement".
Important comments by fmr Queensland premier Palaszczuk, trying to define one of the most poorly defined concepts in 🇦🇺 foreign policy, "engagement".
September 3, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“Trade is one thing, and tourism, but military parades … I would honestly stop and think seriously about that,” she said.
Important comments by fmr Queensland premier Palaszczuk, trying to define one of the most poorly defined concepts in 🇦🇺 foreign policy, "engagement".
Important comments by fmr Queensland premier Palaszczuk, trying to define one of the most poorly defined concepts in 🇦🇺 foreign policy, "engagement".
"Why cognitive warfare is Beijing's greatest weapon"
From Lavina Lee and John Lee, on China's nuclear weapons and how Beijing has deeply internalised its ideology and outlook into foreign systems, including Australia's, for strategic advantage.
From Lavina Lee and John Lee, on China's nuclear weapons and how Beijing has deeply internalised its ideology and outlook into foreign systems, including Australia's, for strategic advantage.
August 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"Why cognitive warfare is Beijing's greatest weapon"
From Lavina Lee and John Lee, on China's nuclear weapons and how Beijing has deeply internalised its ideology and outlook into foreign systems, including Australia's, for strategic advantage.
From Lavina Lee and John Lee, on China's nuclear weapons and how Beijing has deeply internalised its ideology and outlook into foreign systems, including Australia's, for strategic advantage.
Another piece in an Australian newspaper by the PRC ambassador, this one pushing Beijing's efforts to conflate PRC and ROC history for tactical purposes.
But if you appropriate the ROC and the KMT completely, they'll never get back into power in Taiwan, and then what, ambassador?
But if you appropriate the ROC and the KMT completely, they'll never get back into power in Taiwan, and then what, ambassador?
August 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Another piece in an Australian newspaper by the PRC ambassador, this one pushing Beijing's efforts to conflate PRC and ROC history for tactical purposes.
But if you appropriate the ROC and the KMT completely, they'll never get back into power in Taiwan, and then what, ambassador?
But if you appropriate the ROC and the KMT completely, they'll never get back into power in Taiwan, and then what, ambassador?
Latest TPOF survey on identity and politics in Taiwan, including capturing some of the complex views in the electorate on the recall elections.
www.tpof.org/wp-content/u...
www.tpof.org/wp-content/u...
August 21, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Latest TPOF survey on identity and politics in Taiwan, including capturing some of the complex views in the electorate on the recall elections.
www.tpof.org/wp-content/u...
www.tpof.org/wp-content/u...
From ASIO director Mike Burgess, 2025 Annual Hawke Lecture, identifying Antarctic research as a target for espionage, and much else.
August 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
From ASIO director Mike Burgess, 2025 Annual Hawke Lecture, identifying Antarctic research as a target for espionage, and much else.
Substantive piece from John Fitzgerald on PRC transnational security activities in Australia.
August 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Substantive piece from John Fitzgerald on PRC transnational security activities in Australia.
"But nervousness in official circles comes not from fears of communist attack or subversion but of loss of power to the Taiwanese majority." Plus ça change.
Great account of Taiwanese politics in the early 1970s from William Glenn in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Great account of Taiwanese politics in the early 1970s from William Glenn in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
August 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"But nervousness in official circles comes not from fears of communist attack or subversion but of loss of power to the Taiwanese majority." Plus ça change.
Great account of Taiwanese politics in the early 1970s from William Glenn in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Great account of Taiwanese politics in the early 1970s from William Glenn in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
"China does not interfere with other countries, a state-controlled newspaper has claimed, after a woman was alleged to have been sent by Beijing to spy on a Canberra Buddhist group." 🤔
August 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"China does not interfere with other countries, a state-controlled newspaper has claimed, after a woman was alleged to have been sent by Beijing to spy on a Canberra Buddhist group." 🤔
Very robust piece on green steel and China's pursuit of geopolitical domination through industrial policy.
archive.is/a8r99
archive.is/a8r99
August 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Very robust piece on green steel and China's pursuit of geopolitical domination through industrial policy.
archive.is/a8r99
archive.is/a8r99