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Chinese Coast Guard vessels have entered what Taiwan calls "prohibited waters" near the Kinmen Islands, effectively controlled by Taiwan. Taiwan's media say it is the first time China Coast Guard ships, which fall under the command of the country's military, have entered the waters.
The Coast Guard reported on its website on Friday that it conducted patrols in waters near the islands based on Chinese law. It posted a photograph of the area with a red line indicating a shipping route. Local Taiwan media said four China Coast Guard vessels entered the prohibited waters for the first time. Earlier in February, a Chinese marine surveillance vessel was also spotted in the region.
China is demanding that Taiwan apologize and take responsibility for a mishap involving a Chinese fishing boat off the Kinmen Islands on February 14. Two Chinese fishers died after their boat capsized while being pursued by Taiwan's coast guard.
The China Coast Guard has announced that it will continue to strengthen its patrols for law enforcement, suggesting further Chinese navigation within the waters. China is mounting pressure on Taiwan's government led by the Democratic Progressive Party.
I do believe that Elon proved to be very disappointing on the free speech issue. All of us who worked on the Twitter Files felt the same way. We went in feeling tremendously optimistic that he actually meant a lot of the things that he said about being in favor of all legal speech and, being a free speech absolutist and all these other things.Taibbi published exchanges between Musk and himself.3
That proved not to be the case. He's currently disenfranchising thousands of Substack writers, including me. And no one seems to care in the press.
TAIBBI: Elon, am I being shadowbanned [on Twitter/X]?Does that conversation sound like Musk is a free speech champion, as he's claimed?
MUSK: We went on lockdown after discovering that Substack had stolen a massive amount of our data to prepopulate their Twitter rip-off. Looks like there is still a blanket search ban. Should be fixed by tomorrow. Going forward, tweets with Substack will not appear in For You unless it is paid advertising...
TAIBBI: Elon, I've repeatedly declined to criticize you and have nothing to do with your beef with Substack. Is there a reason why I'm being put in the middle of things? This really seems crazy.
MUSK: You are dead to me. Please get off Twitter and just stay on Substack.
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