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"Recently, a new documentary was screened across Australia about the late
Taiwanese Australian professor Chwei-Liang Chiou, who dedicated his life to
improving relations between Taiwan and Australia.
At the Brisbane premiere, former federal MP Graham Perrett opened with a line
often attributed to the Soviet writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “We know they are
lying […] they know we know they are lying […] but they still lie.”
He said the line captured Chiou’s life work. In his classes and writings, Chiou
spent considerable time countering false claims about Taiwan’s past and
exposing Beijing’s denials of Taiwan’s democratic identity.
Truth and understanding sit at the heart of today’s debate about Taiwan.
And as a new report, which I co-authored for the Australian Strategic Policy
Institute makes clear, many Australians do not fully understand what’s at stake
if Taiwan’s democracy is someday threatened by China. Indeed, many Australians
don’t actually understand Taiwan at all."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
