Busy day yesterday, didn't have a chance to post the monday links. Here they are!
BLOG:
- Jerome Keating on how Taiwan is the first Taiwanese democracy.
- PRC threatens to send spies to Taiwan and retaliate against protesting Taiwanese businessmen.
- The Foreigner on the Wolf, the Lamb, and China
- Ben with several new KMT election ads. Hilarious but scary.
- OzSoapBox attacks J Michael Cole for his commentary on expat humility.
- AsiaEye's Under the Radar News.
- Josh with B&W pics.
- The Confucius Peace Prize won by Lien Chan is now going to be cancelled. ROFLMAO.
- Chinese analyst calls for war in the South China Sea from J Michael
- The tea jar magic trick for tea drinkers.
- Exchange of letters over expat humility in interacting with Taiwanese. I agree with Cole 100%, which is why I haven't commented on this. But it is interesting to see the other opinions.
- BBC spotlight on Taiwan. Aside from the conventional and ignorant BBC hack on Chen Shui-bian, strong work, with more to come in the series.
- Jens argues that the weapons sales to Taiwan will only boost hardliners in Beijing.
- Jens also with an interesting article on ethylene and Taiwan
- HIV rising among Taiwan's young.
- Chinese tourism on Kinmen from Global Post.
- Ma asks again for F-16s. Right.
- Taiwan police bust 800 scammers across Asia, in cooperative move. Yay!
- Economist on Seediq Bale.
- AFP has a rare article on the dark side of KMT history, on the prison on Green Island. Except -- ha! -- it doesn't mention the political party that ran the prison. Thanks, AFP! It's crap like this that keeps us bloggers in business.
- WSJ on hardliner general criticizing CCP sell outs.
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