Don't mind us, just testing our hypersonic missiles by flying it across Taiwan:
Even before the main stage of the exercise kicked off on Thursday, Global Times called them “unprecedented,” adding that Chinese missiles were expected to “fly over the island of Taiwan for the first time.” People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces are also expected to enter the area within 12 nautical miles of the island, and could potentially surround the island “entirely,” it added, citing military “experts.”
Yeah, that might have been it. It was one of those English speaking folks who do videos of their travels around China, either guy guy who makes fun of the BBC a lot or Katherine's Journey to the East or another dude on there. Though, I feel like if it was Macau that I would have remembered it as such.
And yeah, I know that pinyin is the accepted standard in mainland but I like bopomofo for the same reason that I like hangul and hiragana/katakana versus romaja and romanji (and this all besides that 汉字 are good because it works better across the many dialects). I like orthographies that are formed from the languages themselves versus trying to use latin script for everything (even though the latter is much more convenient for myself). Consider the many attempts at romanization and even how Taiwanese pinyin is slightly different than mainland. Granted, pinyin has the momentum and that's hard to go against and it was developed by the Chinese versus an outside influence. In other words