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Crossing the Line


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[Chinese warplanes, increasing in number]

 

Almost every day this week, military planes from China have crossed into Taiwan’s air space. That has some skittish residents of Taiwan worried that war is around the corner. 

 

In today’s Taiwan Insider, Natalie Tso asks military expert Alexander Huang what’s behind the rise in tensions and how we’ll know if warfare is imminent. We’ll also offer an explainer on the cross-strait median line, which China no longer recognizes. 

 

PLUS:

Taiwan’s latest meme craze: Art from Studio Ghibli

The strangest flavors at Taipei’s oldest ice cream shop

Taste test! Who will eat the pork floss ice cream

Test your knowledge of the news on this week’s News Quiz

 

 

LINKS:

Ministry of Defense’s real-time reports on Chinese military activity near Taiwan:

https://www.mnd.gov.tw/PublishTable.aspx?Types=%E5%8D%B3%E6%99%82%E8%BB%8D%E4%BA%8B%E5%8B%95%E6%85%8B&title=%E5%9C%8B%E9%98%B2%E6%B6%88%E6%81%AF

Tamkang U. Professor Alexander Huang’s Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/alexander.c.huang

Snow King Ice Cream, Taipei’s oldest ice cream shop (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=%E9%9B%AA%E7%8E%8B%E5%86%B0%E6%B7%87%E6%B7%8B 

Taiwan’s first International Dark Sky Park: https://www.darksky.org/hehuan-mountain-becomes-taiwans-first-international-dark-sky-park/ 

Make your own Ghibli meme!: http://www.ghibli.jp/info/013344/

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