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2 weeks ago | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu |Michelle Kuo
Hello dear readers,Many apologies for being out of touch; we’ve had some serious family health issues. We appreciate all the feedback we received on our last post, which addressed a divisive topic in Taiwan—perhaps one of the few issues in recent memory to split progressives so sharply. (The fact that it was written in English offered some degree of insulation from controversy.) We’re grateful to everyone who takes the time to read our work.
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2 months ago | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu |Michelle Kuo
Dear all,The news has been worrying and dizzying. The big news this week has been President Trump’s “Liberation Day” announcement of tariffs on all of the United States’s trading partners. Taiwan was not spared—Trump levied a 32% tariff on Taiwanese goods.
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2 months ago | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Michelle Kuo |Albert Wu
Dear readers, dear friends,Like many of you, we’ve felt unmoored by the political chaos of the past couple of weeks. Deportations, detentions, firings of veterans and park rangers (and more), cuts to free lunches for low-income kids, defunding of scientific research, anti-trans laws, the gutting of the Department of Education, countless needless deaths from the cuts to USAID—we lie awake at night, sinking into depression.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
international.thenewslens.com | Albert Wu |Michelle Kuo
What you need to know A more isolationist US emboldens China, increasing pressure on Taiwan. However, this clarifies US transactional motivations, prompting Taiwan to redefine its global value beyond "chips." Welp. So that happened. It’s been nearly a week since Trump won another four years in office; you’ve probably read all of the takes and analyses about why the election broke the way it did, and there isn’t much more we feel like we can add.
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annallergy.org | Albert Wu
Property Value Status Version Ad File Disable Ads Flag Environment Moat Init Moat Ready Contextual Ready Contextual URL Contextual Initial Segments Contextual Used Segments AdUnit SubAdUnit Custom Targeting Ad Events Invalid Ad Sizes 1Department of Internal Medicine, Northwell Health: Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY 2Allergy and Immunology Division, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY Publication History: Received September 13, 2024; Revised December 20, 2024;...
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu
Hello dear readers,Happy New Year! We went to a lovely New Year gathering hosted by one of Michelle’s work friends; it was so nice, although we definitely were the oldest people there. We were home in bed by 11:30. We wished we had attended the “crying to welcome the new year” party in Da’an Park, in which thousands of people gathered to watch a Tsai Ming-Liang film, Vive l’amour, about urban alienation (there’s apparently a 7 minute crying scene).
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Nov 24, 2024 | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu
Tw: suicideHello dear readers,Two particular bits of news—on widely different ends of the spectrum—have occupied our attention since we last wrote. On November 4, the body of a civil servant, whose last name is Wu, was found in his office; he had hung himself. His death has sparked a major outrage on Taiwanese social media, especially as details from an apparently toxic workplace have emerged.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu
Welp. So that happened. It’s been nearly a week since Trump won another four years in office; you’ve probably read all of the takes and analyses about why the election broke the way it did, and there isn’t much more we feel like we can add. We didn’t think the Democrats deserved to win, but we don’t want to pile on. Everything we think about the post-mortem Democrats is basically summed up by the brilliant Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on The Dig podcast.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu
Albert here. In 2014, a Pew Research study on global religious diversity ranked Taiwan as the second most religiously diverse country in the world, just behind Singapore. Taiwan’s religious landscape is unique, blending Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, indigenous religions, and various popular beliefs. This diversity is notable, but what is perhaps even more striking is the ubiquity of religious and spiritual beliefs across Taiwanese society.
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
ampleroad.substack.com | Albert Wu
Hello dear friends, dear readers,Once again, we’re sorry for being out of touch. (We’ve paused payments for four months, as we feel guilty taking money from paid subscribers, but we’ll continue to be in touch every other week.) We’ve been really overwhelmed. Almost immediately after no-longer-a-baby P.
