Ashish Valentine
speaker
250 appearances
36 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 22 Aug
Ashish Valentine’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hope that's not what you're wearing to the dinner.
Opposition leader Zhang Liwen's visit marked the first meeting between a sitting head of the Kuomintang or KMT party and Xi Jinping in almost 10 years.
The two leaders affirmed their support for warmer ties between Taipei and Beijing.
But in a statement, Taiwan's President Lai Ching-de wrote that, History tells us that compromising with authoritarian powers only sacrifices sovereignty and democracy.
It does not bring freedom, nor does it bring peace.
Lai urged the opposition to pass his request for $40 billion in additional defense spending to better prepare Taiwan for the threat of a potential Chinese invasion.
In just over a month, Xi Jinping will host President Trump in Beijing, and may bring up the issue of US arms sales to Taiwan.
For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei.
A sad-looking plush toy has gone viral in China.
A factory in the manufacturing city of Yiwu was supposed to make thousands of smiling horse dolls just in time for the new year.
But apparently, a worker sewed many of the horses' smiles upside down, making them crying instead of smiling.
Customers who found the horses started taking photos, and a hashtag related to the horses has garnered over 100 million views so far.
One commenter said, "...the horse looks so sad and pitiful, just the way I feel at work."
Young people in China often call themselves Niu Ma, a term that literally means cattle horse, but refers to being overworked and undervalued.
Many netizens are hoping the horse brings some good humor and luck in the new year.
For NPR News, I'm Ashish Valentine in Taipei.
Pyongyang's home to a memorial wall and a museum honoring North Korea's war dead in Ukraine, and the state's now giving families of those soldiers new housing in the capital city.
State media showed Kim Jong-un walking through the new neighborhood with his teenage daughter, who many analysts believe may be his potential successor.
One photo shows Kim holding the hand of a father that lost his son in the war, crying as he and his wife sit down on sofas in their brand new living room.
Kim said in a speech the homes were meant to honor the spirit and sacrifice of the troops and to allow their families to live happily.
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