Few ideas, but confused.

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Credits: Chen Chun-hua / Elizabeth Hsu @ focustaiwan.tw / Brian Hioe @ newbloommag.net / Guido Gargiulo @ www.geopolitica.info

Thank you 🙏🏻

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With changes to the Recall Act likely to pass, anger may be redirected to other moves by the KMT, such as the party’s effort to freeze the Constitutional Court.

Source: newbloommag.net

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By 10:45 a.m., DPP legislators were dragged out, and the KMT had taken the speaker's podium. As such, the KMT and TPP's changes to the Recall Act are expected to pass.

Source: newbloommag.net

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Afterward, both parties tussled, with KMT legislators seeking to drag DPP politicians away from the speaker's podium.

Source: newbloommag.net

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Several attempts were made by KMT legislators to enter the premises in the early morning hours, around 6 and 7 a.m. - KMT legislators were successful in breaking into the legislature shortly around 9 a.m.

Source: newbloommag.net

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Through the night, DPP legislators livestreamed, offering commentary on their understanding of the KMT's moves in the legislature.

Source: newbloommag.net

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Some continued to demonstrate outside of the legislature through the night, with 1,000 earlier this morning. Given the situation, there was also a sizable police presence outside of the legislature this morning.

Source: newbloommag.net

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At its peak, over 10,000 demonstrators were gathered outside of the Legislative Yuan last night in protest of the KMT's actions. This was framed as the latest Bluebird Movement demonstration against the KMT's moves in the legislature in the last year.

Source: newbloommag.net

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KMT Legislator Hsu Yu-chen (許宇甄) called the meeting to order, reviewed the amendments to the Recall Act, and moved directly into a line-by-line review of the draft.

Source: focustaiwan.tw

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DPP lawmakers, who arrived at 6 a.m., were unable to enter the meeting room, resulting in a confrontation. Several clashes ensued, but the DPP lawmakers were unable to sign in or attend the meeting.

Source: focustaiwan.tw

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KMT lawmakers had gathered outside the chamber, blocking one side of the hallway with chairs and sealing the door with tape. They used their bodies to block the other side.

Source: focustaiwan.tw

He is. He has his own satellites and noone to regulate what's on them. He also communicates with heads of state on whims and can't be trusted as a reliable partner of democratic governments.

I’d like him be classed as a terrorist (for stoking the riots among other things) and have him and all his companies banned from the uk. That would be so sweet!

Why? The UN was good with the atrocities russia perpetrated in Ukraine, the torture of prisoners and the Ukrainian poplation in the occupied territories, the human safari on the citizens of Khersson, the deliberate destruction of hospitals and eco terrorism. Why is Igor Kirillov so dear to them?

F off UN.

The UN is a joke.