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Water ghosts by shawna yang ryan6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() I worry that Taiwan, where half my family lives, would be treated as nothing more than a pawn in America’s dance with China. Though I am glad for some attention on Taiwan, I worry that Trump had stumbled onto territory that would put the country in danger. Between the Europeans and the Chinese, there were two islands, Formosa and Taiwan, setting a precedent-the island would never be a place of single, fixed appellation.Īfter Trump’s call with the president of Taiwan last month, I feel a frustration that keeps me up at night tweeting (and then deleting) sarcastic and outraged comments about the mainstream media accounts that persist in misrepresenting Taiwan’s history. ![]() ![]() Then came the Spanish, and then the Dutch, hoping to expand the Dutch East Indies north. Others argue the island did not exist until the name was recorded in the salty, damp logs of Portuguese ships by men who glimpsed it through spyglasses and, dazed by the garlands of soft fog around the lush jade peaks, murmured Ihla Formosa, Beautiful Island. ![]()
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