Yet another Taiwan government-sponsored food contest. *sigh* Is the choice of food political? Outdoor activities are likely to create environmentalism, which businessmen hate, while local history and culture are anathema to the KMT.Anyway, what's on the blogs?
BLOG:
- Drew rips Giant's new marketing to women concept as sexist and essentializing. Not to mention stoopid. Just consider Fixed Gear Girl Taiwan: hot chicks on hot bikes. Giant, you suck! Drew also has an awesome one on biking and the future.
- J Michael on the re-opening of the question of subs for Taiwan
- Is there a middle ground between annexation and independence? Stephen Nelson thinks not.
- More land purchases to save the Changhua wetlands.
- Dixteel says DPP needs more military experts.
- Cremation site for 1895 battle dead in Keelung
- Taichung area MAAG from the 1960s and 70s.
- Time to address driving standards
- China and US debt at the Peking Duck
- Taiwan Link on Obama denying me my F-16s! We're never going to get them, and I doubt that the Ma Administration even wants them. It's all just a minuet....
- Taoyuan Airport to institute food review. Finally.
- Mutant Frog on George Psalmanzar, the fraud of formosa
- China's dam diplomacy: "At the turn of the 21st century, 22,000 of the world’s 45,000 large dams spanned Chinese rivers. Between 1949 and 2000 in China, construction of large dams proceeded at a rate of more than one per day."
- AU Optronics CEO cannot leave the US due to price-fixing investigation.
- Taiwan News on the new Sun Yat Sen film and democracy
- New national health insurance system to get vote in Dec
- In 2010, foreign laborers run away at a rate of 1,000 per month.
- China and the Commons
- Time to end US ambiguity on whether it will defend Taiwan?
- China: Playing our game.
- Fourth nuke plan draws fine.
- Japanese ammo dumps in Penghu to be named historic sites.
- The ROC government makes another stupid claim to the Senkakus.
- The NCCU prediction markets on the municipal elections: Taipei：http://xfuture.org/cda_
trade_chart/multiline_chart_ Xinbei: http://xfuture.org/cda_data/1807, trade_chart/multiline_chart_ , The Chung: http://xfuture.org/cda_data/1808 trade_chart/multiline_chart_ Tainan: http://xfuture.org/cda_data/1809 trade_chart/multiline_chart_ Kaohsiung: http://xfuture.org/cda_data/1810 trade_chart/multiline_chart_ data/1811 - 2010 DOD report on China
- Some light reading of papers on cross-strait relations at the EU-China and the Taiwan question conference.
- Jamestown Brief has more light reading on PLA hawks vs doves, and on China-Syria-US.
- Taiwan News rips Cross-Strait Economic and Cultural Forum
- China now buying Asian debt
- A Golden Period ahead for Taiwan, says Robert Cutler in Asia Times.
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Yeah, except the food review at Taoyuan is utter BS - they'll rate the food, but all it might (MIGHT) do is encourage the two lackluster caterers to offer only slightly less noxious and extortionately priced options.
ReplyDeleteA food "review system" isn't what Taoyuan needs. It's like a band-aid on an amputation wound. It needs a complete food overhaul. I consider it a pleasure to fly through Singapore's airport, and Taipei and Hong Kong (which ought to have better food than it does) would do well to aspire to that level.
The links to the prediction market polls do not work. This aside, the selection of articles for this week is excellent, especially the ones about the South China Sea. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThe prediction market links work for me!?
ReplyDelete"The ROC government makes another stupid claim to the Senkakus."
ReplyDeleteYou can say stupid for all your hearts delight just like what Putin told the Japanese government about the Kurile Islands.
Stupidity here is defined from a point of weakness.
If Taiwan is a strong country then the Ilan county claim of Tiao Yu Tai would not be called stupid especially by a person who Taiwan welcomes with such open arms.
As an old timer here in Taiwan please be considerate about those 'stupid' Taiwanese who feels strongly that those islands belongs to Ilan.
Richa
Anon 5:27pm, you are desingenuous. Repeat after me, please, dez-in-dge- nyu-us. And desingenuous you are in that peculiar Chinazi way that stinks to high heavens.
ReplyDeleteMichael did not mention the Taiwan on whose behalf you make a pretense of speaking. He pointedly mentioned the STUUUU-PID act the Chinese exiles on Taiwan want us to call roc. And for all I know, that spokesman was actually speaking on behalf of China.
We? Pray, tell what entity was that spokesman talking for? Ah! Yes, that governing authority its protector allowed on Japanese Formosa on its behalf 65 years ago.
Methink said authority should connect itself with its protector and Japan and update itself on its legal status before putting its foot in its mouth in uttering "Taiwan's mine, the Sankakus are, too" again.
And don't you think that flag should be lowered if those who forced it on Japanese Formosa can not muster the cojones to raise it when a Chinese envoy sticks his nose in US-occupied Japanese Formosa internal affairs?
Strange how a Chinese official can say, "Who gives a damn about you!" when a Japanese official's accurate framing of that governing authority's rickety status on Formosa makes him personna non grata. Is not there a double standard and very un-confucean lack of piety toward the motherland?
The fun ellicited by watching unduly arrogant Chinese exiles prancing around US occupied Japanese Formosa has soured.
They have outlasted their stay.
白痴のジェローム please don't be hysterical, I'm just sayin or reminding people who are oldtimers here in Taiwan to be considerate about the feeling of some here who are even willing to die for their cause.
ReplyDeleteWhether its right or wrong is not for me nor you nor Michael to judge.
Those islands could belong to you and I don't care but in this present crazy world it would not hurt anyone to be considerate of the belief of others here who are even willing to risk their lives just to prove 'their' point.
Relax and go biking! The beautiful roads of Taiwan is waiting for ya!
Richa.
BTW only the Naruwan people are not 'exiles' or 'colonizers' here. I don't know about the english teachers status though :)
Naruwan, huh? Naruhodo(なるほど), my dear anon. So that’s the taî-hole of last resort you are crawling out from.
ReplyDeleteTo bevin チュウ, joe へっち & al. (aka anons), your inept reference to Naruwan reminds me that I hail from the westernmost reach of the austronesian languages sphere (Malagasy <- Barito <- Malayo-Polynesian <- Austronesian <- Formosan languages). This affords me claim to concern over my Formosan cousins’ well-being.
Not that I actually am Malagasy. But my US-citizenship application papers tell me that I can forget about my previous passports. It all hinges on where I was born. So, Madagascar it is, which makes me a “zanatany”, from “zanaka + tany”, a son of the land.
What claim have you, anon and your ilk, to a counter-claim. None, except your devious claim of concern over a purported Formosan First Nation’s heritage.
Concern that, in swiping, Limbaugh-esque and thought process-free fashion, I will conflate with that of the Southern Christian fundamentalists usurped concern over the well-being of Israelis in Palestine.
Now purported Naruwan-hugger that you are, tell me how **it – yes, feces – is expressed in various Formosan languages. I expect you to get back to me with a mouthful of “taï”, as it is how it’s called down the austronesian languages thread, both in Indonesia and Madagascar.
If you feel offended that I am trying to smear your mask in **it, be my guest. In Madagascar, we also have an epithet for an arrogant and devious “sinoa” like you. We conjure images of feny taï (full of **it) platters and call him adalo-adalo.
ADAlo-ADAlo – tell me, buster, ain’t ringing a bell?
白痴のジェローム
ReplyDeletePida ka balachiok? LOL!
Richa
" If you feel offended that I am trying to smear your mask in **it, be my guest."
ReplyDeleteNo thanx, you can keep your fave food
exclusively for your own consumption!
Now you'll be known as ' The Expert of Tai!"
Natural for people who can't reason in a civil argument resort to bull-tai! ROFL!
Mali Mali!
Richa