BLOGS:
- Poagao visits the place where he did his military service in Taiwan
- Cycling the world on $8 a day.
- Abusing Cycling for political gain
- How swimming lessons and parasites saved Taiwan from Communist invasion. Is this a true story?
- 1969 satellite image of Yangmingshan
- Shi-yang Culture Restaurant review
- Islaformosa with awesome potential subway map of greater taipei area.
- Kaohsiung MRT is bleeding cash. Could it affect the election?
- Fili on a great hike in Taiwan
- What One Country Two Systems means in practice
- Ben on the recent educational system re-sinicization.
- J Michael on Jeremy Stone
- UDN poll on independence, China, etc
- China halts top-level ties with Japan.
- 27 multinationals plan to invest in Taiwan
- Two Taiwanese nationals injured in terror incident in New Delhi
- As gold prices rise, statues in Taiwan temples become more valuable
- "Despite improved relations with China, Taiwan will deploy missiles."
- Economist intelligencer says economy will grow 9.2% this year.
- CSIS report on the military balance in Asia 1990-2010
- A rising superpower confronts a fading one
- A look at Taiwan's long term care program
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One thing that may peek your interest is that teachers are starting to use simplified characters more. I don't believe they are teaching it yet. 6 years ago, I could stump a class with simplified, now I have them using the ugly one for car when they bother to write.
ReplyDelete"A rising superpower confronts a fading one."
ReplyDeleteThe faded photograph here is not the USA but Japan.
The latest Diau Yu showdown will soon let the world know whether China is a papertiger that trembles facing Japan but bullys Taiwan.
People of the world will also know if Japan is really as tought
agains the PRC as they are versus the six aging (88yrs+) former U.S. soldiers taken prisoners of war in the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II that have failed to receive apologies from private industries that used them as slave labor.
Interesting times!
Richa
Okami:
ReplyDeleteThat's really interesting!
BTW, you should write "pique," not peek. Pique comes from French, and the meaning is something akin to spice, but we English speakers have turned the French word into a verb.
@Troll Anon: Ever heard about the US-Japan Security Treaty? :)
ReplyDelete"Troll Anon: Ever heard about the US-Japan Security Treaty? :)"
ReplyDeleteAh the girlie 'love-hate' pact of two? :)
Well there's a new and meaner version by just one man standing up and waving that finger sign at the US President! :)
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad warned the Obama administration today that if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked, the U.S. will face a war that "would know no boundaries."
@Troll Anon
Okami, are you talking about commie characters being used in the bushibans or the government school system?
ReplyDeleteI'm talking about commie characters being used in public(govt) schools by the teachers. I was quite surprised. I'm imagining that it's one of those behind the scenes things that is slowly crept in so no one notices until it's too late.
ReplyDeleteYou should see their faces when I tell them the Sun Yatsen stories. lol
@Troll Anon, again: No, the every attack on Japanese Soil automatically triggers the US to defend Japan bilateral agreement. :)
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