BLOGS:
- Frog in a Well on a new translation of Huainanzi.
- Jens Kastner argues that students from China will be really good for Taiwan.
- RTI with A Close Race in Taipei and The City Formerly Named Taipei County?
- Drew does 220 km, with pics. And here I sit with tendonitis unable to do a damn thing.
- Todd on Formosan Macques. Do you think in Ma's second term we'll have to change all the names to Chinese Taipei Macques, Chinese Taipei Pangolin....
- Thomas Crampton wants to know how foreign correspondents use social media.
- Larry Fields in USTDC on being posted here in the 1970s.
- Wetlands trust being put together by Taiwanese NGOs.
- Sponge Bear on Japanese signs in Taichu.
- Laowiseass muses on modernity. Really, LWA, you're in the wrong job. You'd have made an awesome anthropologist.
- Danshui history blog with the terms of the Dutch surrender in 1662.
- Fili has foodporn, with some from Taiwan.
- The Dignfied Rant rants on ECFA.
MEDIA:
- New camphor industry museum to open in Taipei
- China sentences US geologist to eight years for sale of database classified only after it was sold. "But China is changing!"
- KMT Mayor Hau of Taipei says Su of the DPP is the strongest candidate ever.
- Asia Times on ECFA: unification by integration.
- How will ECFA be leveraged? China is going to use it pry away our financial protections.
- Commonwealth deals with organic/green farming this month. Here's a piece on how farmers in Taiwan deal with global warming and the threat of ECFA.
- With consumer confidence and the economy picking up, retail sales should grow here. But inflation is growing marginally faster than expected.
- Taiwan's A Whale now being tested. I confess, I am absolutely thrilled by this story. I hope it actually works.
- Taiwan News looks at the impact of ECFA on Taiwan-US relations.
- Somali Pirates want $8 million from Taiwan fishing boat skipper's family.
SPECIAL: Michelle Phillips in the Washington Times conducts a clinic on how to report on Taiwan with a piece on ECFA that blows away all other reporting to date: quotes from many knowledgeable players, identifies their connections, puts the political issue front and center. Excellent work!
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check this out
http://colebatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/trading-places-beijing-and-taiwan-make.html
on as separate note
Feinstein is notorious to be in bed with CCP, the Obama administration being entangled in the two wars and having no guts, it's very likely there is a back-of-the-door deal to remove the "substantial irritant", aka the arms sale to Taiwan away from the US-China relationship. Sadly Ma is more than happy to oblige, or, pimp Taiwan out to be exact.
Jens Kastner argues that students from China will be really good for Taiwan.
Thanks for sending this link ... way to piss me off first thing in the morning. :)
Sage // July 5, 2010 at 11:18 pm | Reply to Jens Kastner's "Mainland students won’t do Taiwan any harm"
“bring extra money in Taiwan’s universities’ cash registers.” And this is always the bottom line isn’t it?
Regardless of the impact, it’s always about money. And to clean up a student dormitory … I hope this be in jest.
Chinese students for a long time have enjoyed the opportunity to attend American schools and with the exception of the elite student, pay the hefty foreign tuition fees.
While at the same time, UCLA as example, has raised the cost of tuition for American students by 30+% putting an education at this university out of the reach of many American students.
No other industry has figured out how to sell to China better than American university’s. Entice the elite class of Chinese students (and I don’t mean the brightest, just the wealthiest) by offering a discount, and watch the “me too” Chinese students follow. As we know, education is valued in Asian society, particularly Chinese.
Today in China, that foreign education for your child ranks right up there with the new Mercedes that you’ve just got to have to maintain your status and face.
But … again using America as example, there isn’t a more important resource than the American secondary education system. It has always given America the point of difference; training young minds to be our future leaders in both government and industry.
Many people have a problem just selling that off to the highest bidder, regardless of what condition of the student union or dormitory may be in.
Chinese students sit shoulder to shoulder with American students, with the opportunity to learn our technology and gain much “insight” into our way of life.
To those who know absolutely nothing about China and it’s culture, gaining insight to our “way of life” is something that we should expose them to, naively thinking they will see the light and appreciate the “American way of life” … it has proven to be far from reality and in some instances, counter productive. A failed missionary perspective.
Not unlike America encouraging China to adopt a free market society and embrace capitalism would somehow cause the Communists to change their stripes … it has fallen flat on those who supported this. One only needs to spend time in China to see evidence of this.
As it relates to Taiwan however, you only need to look to Tibet or Kyrgyzstan to appreciate what the Chinese colonization will bring you.
Opening the doors to their students is just one more step in the direction that the KMT and CCP would like to take the island. A slow but measured colonization.
Somehow there are those who feel that inviting Chinese students to Taiwan universities is a kin to inviting your brothers and sisters … this may be the case for KMT members, but this is NOT the case for native Taiwanese, who are NOT Han Chinese.
If you would like to propose something worthwhile, propose a revamping of the KMT designed education system that continues to suppress native Taiwanese, making a quality secondary education beyond reach of many. Require that the teachers actually teach! That wouldn’t be a unique idea.
As long as the Communist have missiles pointed at Taiwan, as long as the Communists practice ethnic genocide and the Han colonization in Tibet and Kyrgyzstan, all native Taiwanese should fight to the bitter end to keep Chinese students from infesting their universities.
Grab a bucket and a brush and paint the dormitory if it bothers you this much.
What Taiwan needs is a pruning of the poor universities, not Chinese butts on bad seats. But, this is typical of the kind of supply-side economics which prevails here. Instead of creating products that are needed, let's find a way to force the market to accept what we are producing, or even import a market if the local one won't buy our shoddy product.
"Quantity vs. Quality" isn't the issue. That concept has long since been replaced with "Quantity vs MORE Quantity = Quality".
This might be acceptable if we were talking about flip-flops or household slippers, but not education.
But how could this system change? Thoughts, anyone?
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