Daily Links, July 13, 2009

What's being harvested on the blogs today?

• Eyedoc on the defense build up in during the Sino-French War in Taiwan.
• Jerome ponders the problem of identity in Taiwan.
• This blogger has taken it upon himself to tell us the truths that other blogs won't, like how the Taiwanese can't think.
• Filipino overseas foreign worker Taiwan blog on Taiwan OFWs.
• Laorencha on the sad fate of the Uighurs: to be labeled terrorists.
• Wince: Mutant Frog finds a US civics lesson primer for the Philippines in 1913.
• Steve Crook on Dapeng Bay.
• Todd cycles on Sunday -- and has the links on Thursday.
• David on the Free Tibet concerts in Taipei.
• J Michael on identity and the drift toward simplified characters in Taiwan.
• TaiwanAir on the last overflight of China.
• Echo summarizes the political persecution of Chen Shui-bian.
• Bushman's blogger beach BBQ: Sept 19. Let him know if you are coming.
• Wild at Heart with another heart-wrenching piece on impact assessments.
• Around Taiwan in 80 days on the 40th day back in April.
• More musings on creativity and seeing from Craig.

MEDIA: Ma starts KMT election campaign -- he's the only candidate. The forms must be obeyed....Turkey invites Uighur leader to visit, Chinese take ball and go home. Taiwan's insurers are weakly capitalized, undermining financial stability. Few outside the industry realize it, but insurance is one of the most important industries in the world. KMT expects ECFA to be inked next year. The KMT and CCP also agreed to make it easier for each other's media to cross the strait. Paul Lin says Taiwanese should wake up and see how the Uighur situation is a warning. German firms say world trade picking up. Taiwan's TECO to explore wind generation equipment market in China. Inflows of PRC capital will only increase local market risks, says Taiwan News editorial. Yea, and they will drive up prices in Taipei for all those Blue voters. Karma. CSIS has a long PDF on attitudes of the young in China and Taiwan. China expands its influence in Africa against the backdrop of the US obsession with the Middle East and its own woes. The troubles in Xinjiang are all about transshipping energy across Asia into China. So are the Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars...

Mention my name in Guantanamo: Chen Shui-bian was detained for ANOTHER two months today. They may make him into a hero in spite of himself.

EVENTS:
The "Online Campaign and Governance Conference" Jul 25-6 in Taipei.
Official website is here: http://obama.adct.org.tw/
Four speakers have been invited:
-- John Della Volpe, Director of Polling at Harvard University's Institute of Politics
-- Gina Cooper, Gina Cooper is the founder and past CEO of Netroots Nation, formerly knows as YearlyKos, the most dynamic and influential political organization to emerge from the early years of the progressive blogosphere.
-- Michael Turk, a blogger, and part-time political technology consultant living in Falls Church, Virginia. Turk served as the eCampaign Director for Bush-Cheney 04 and for the Republican National Committee.
-- Aaron Swartz, co-inventor of RSS
Registration for the event will be opened on next Monday through
http://registrano.com (there's an English version).

Sept 19, the Bushman is hosting blogger beach BBQ. See link above.

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