microblog · @taipei_ming · civilian · 30 January 2026, 14:00
From Taipei, and I will keep it short.
An American guarantee was tested this month. Not against us and not by China. By America.
We have spent forty years building a national strategy on one question — will they come — and we have just watched the answer be given somewhere else, in an accent we did not expect.
Beijing has not moved a single soldier. They did not need to. They just watched with us.
Japan is the only country that has been on the receiving end of these weapons. I want to say something profound and I find I only have something small: my grandmother is 88 and she watched the news about Büchel with no expression at all, and then she got up an…
Things going round this morning that are NOT true: ✗ "Germany has seized US nuclear weapons" — no. Nobody has gone near them. Police vans are parked on a road. ✗ "The weapons are being armed" — no. Nobody can arm anything without American codes. ✗ "US troops a…
In Japan we have the same treaty they had. The same bases. The same assumption. Nobody at my company mentioned it today. Everybody at my company read about it today. That is how it works here. The word going round quietly is 自主防衛 — independent defence. It has …