Maddog has a great post on the lying KMT ad about the economy, and on the clash at the CKS Memorial/Taiwan democracy hall. Alive and Kicking, the blog of a local reporter, has a post on covering the mess at the hall. The always-good A-gu describes the political and legal aspects of it. ESWN has pictures and media captures; the Liberty Times said today the 'Taiwanese truck driver' was a lifelong Deep Blue who had participated in the Shih Ming-te faux protests, protested against Ma's mainstream moves for leaving the Deep Core behind, and was helping the campaign of a KMT candidate who described himself as running for legislator of China. bent blogs on criticism of the DPP Thomas offers a pro-Blue hack on the "transitional justice" position. .Craig has some wonderful pics of The Bushman jamming with a local Thai worker band. David does Museums in Taichung. Savvy finance guru Mark finds no way to get a debit card in Taiwan. Fili on a massive Taiwan temple celebration, and with scholarship info for foreign students. Jeff Miller has another great post on the Sino-Japanese War and Taiwan. Jerome Keating has a post on the Taiwan's Presbyterian Church and the democracy movement. Kerim introduces Kao Yi-sheng, one of the many remarkable Taiwanese who came out of the Japanese period, executed in 1954. Patrick finds that someone has a Zero fighter sitting on their house An appropriate find for a link on Pearl Harbor day. Scott blogs on Taiwan's transition into a global economy. Clearly we're not there yet, since fresh parmesan is not available everywhere. Tea Masters on Organic Red Tea from Taiwan. Min blogs on a woman who heard Guan Yin's voice explaining it was OK for her son to be gay.
MEDIA: Don't miss J Michael Cole's assessment of the Kitty Hawk mess. Jimmy Carter makes public the fact that Deng agreed privately that the US could go right on selling Taiwan weapons. Taiwan's exports probably increased in November, says Bloomberg. Our economy is doing so well that the KMT has been forced to claim we're making up the statistics....
EVENTS: Wild at Heart on the anti-global warming march TOMORROW, the 8th, in Taipei. Also on Saturday, here in Taichung, AmCham says: "On Saturday, December 8, 2007, the Hsiang Shang Children’s Welfare Fund is holding an international physically and mentally challenged carnival. This event will take place in the plaza of Feng Le Sculpture Park on the corner of XiangXin South and WenXin South 5th Roads. Its purpose is to raise awareness of the mentally and physically challenged among the general public, to encourage the general public to show their concern to this disadvantaged group, and most importantly to allow the mentally and physically challenged to obtain respect, dignity and self-esteem.Activities will kick off at 10:00 am and end at 4:00 pm and will include a children's coloring competition, remote-controlled plane show and performances by mentally and physically challenged groups."
NEW BLOGS: Taiwan First! contains work on Taiwan in several languages. This week I also stumbled across Pashan, a beautiful blog about hiking on The Beautiful Isle. Living in Taiwan is a new forum courtesy of the Real Taiwan.
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4 comments:
I'm still getting a sense of good cop/bad cop in the whole Kitty Hawk episode.
Shortly after the Party reshuffle, you have some group in the military deciding to play the hawk and prod the US. The Foreign Ministry gets to play good cop and was probably not in the loop with the bad cop's decision to deny the Kitty Hawk and other US ships the ability to park outside my window.
And one more interesting question, which I haven't seen mentioned yet is where did HK's CE fit in to the loop. Donald Tsang was on his annual duty visit to Beijing meeting with senior leaders when the decisions to deny by the military and then allow "for strictly humanitarian reasons" by the FM were made.
Not much to add to your links, but I found your photo of the day rather interesting.
Michael, thanks foer the link. Clearly you are from a major American metropolitan center. I am from a place in Canada where Belgian beer is considered highly cosmopolitan.
Scott.
"Savvy finance guru Mark finds no way to get a debit card in Taiwan."
You're too kind Michael. If anyone knows of a Taiwanese bank that doesn't discriminate against foreigners in this regard, please tell me. I'd be very grateful.
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