Congratulations to President Ma for winning the party chairmanship against all opposition. Now we can look forward to a summit between Hu and Ma where Ma sells Taiwan to China with a bogus peace agreement in exchange for a Nobel Peace prize and trinkets worth $24. Talk of a summit with a Nobel as the prize has been rife for at least a year.....
Meanwhile, in Blogistan all sorts of meetings are being documented....
- EastWindUp on the strange Chinese names of local foreign baseball players
- Craig on the National Museum of Taiwanese Literature
- Far Eastern Sweet Potato observes that the big boys want the financial agreements and probably, eventual annexation of Taiwan to China, while taking the media to task.
- Taoyuan's unique Shinto relic.
- ECFA referendum faces race against the clock.
- Dixteel comments on pan-Blue supporters disappointed in the KMT.
- A-gu observes that support for the DPP, independence, no longer tied.
- TaiwanAir with the third in his series on the 35th squadron in the good old days.
- Neil Wade with some lovely random photos.
- Maid cafes in Japan exported to Taiwan.
- Stephane enjoys Chinese tea in Alsace.
RESOURCE: Great collection of China-Taiwan links to papers and articles
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If the US-Vietnam relationship were something like the Japan-China relationship, what the US would do is pay up billions of dollars every year out of guilt of completing destroying central Vietnam's environment while never admitting wrong doing with a few extremist textbooks claiming the US never really used pesticides in Vietnam.
ReplyDeleteBut as it stands--financial crisis or not, US you owe Vietnam. Now hurry up and pay up.
"You know how you always wondered if allowing all the illegality in Taiwan's traffic made things flow faster? It may well be true."
ReplyDeleteFor some reason, I originally read that as a metaphor for government and corruption--corruption keeping an overly bureaucratic bureaucracy well oiled. The equivalent to the 3 second rule might be something like "don't just take bribes from your friends... taking bribes from only your friends is always bad."
Couldn't help but notice that Ma was indicted (as Taipei mayor)for a very similar thing as Chen was as President. Double standards? Hmmm.
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