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Businessman Robert Tsao bankrolls a people’s militia on the island – inspired by the example of Ukraine – to defend against invasion
On a sleepy Sunday morning 50 anonymous young men and women have wandered into a nondescript Taipei office for training with Kuma Academy. The one-day course includes cross-strait geopolitics and strategy, invasion scenarios, and disinformation. Later, they’re taught the difference between the opposing armies’ uniforms, and how to tie a tourniquet.
The citizen warriors are being trained with a 1bn Taiwan dollar (£28m) donation from businessman Robert Tsao. He made global headlines last month when he pledged the money to train “three million people in three years” and 300,000 sharpshooters for a civilian militia. The “warrior” training would be in conjunction with the academy, a volunteer civilian training organisation that launched in 2021.

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Group, some as young as 15 at time of alleged offence, detained for up to three years for ‘inciting others to subvert state power’
Five teenagers with a Hong Kong group advocating independence from Chinese rule have been ordered by a judge to serve up to three years in detention at a correctional facility, for urging an “armed revolution” in a national security case.
The five, some of whom were aged between 15 and 18 at the time of the alleged offence, had pleaded guilty to “inciting others to subvert state power” through a group called Returning Valiant.

The Los Angeles Korean Festival shows the growing political power of Korean and other Asian Americans in Los Angeles.

A new study found that Asian and Native American women were least likely to be chosen by corporations searching for legal counsel. NBC News reports that a study conducted by the Institute for ...

Tourists are stranded, residents confined at home. Covid flare-ups and the accompanying lockdowns are causing disruptions ahead of a key Chinese Communist Party meeting.

Billionaire recommends in interview that Taipei let Beijing control some of the island and believes conflict over Taiwan is inevitable
Elon Musk has suggested tensions between China and Taiwan could be resolved by handing over some control of Taiwan to Beijing.
The billionaire’s remarks were published just days after he floated a possible which drew condemnation in Ukraine.

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Asian women in law are chosen least often by corporations looking to hire counsel, a new study by the Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession found.