Daily Links, October 4, 2010

Lovely views out on the blogs today....

BLOGS

• Drew with our trip to Kenting this weekend. Great narrative and pics.
• Taiwan's military running out of cash.
• China's friends in Alberta.
• Michella cycling Green island
• Pat says 1911 means little to Taiwan
• Sinocentric on Hong Kong views of Taiwan independence
• A 1950s film on aid to Nationalist China in the 1950s.
• Nathan on riding the central cross in July.
• MJ with picture laden post on Dunkin Donuts in Taiwan
• Walking tours of Taipei: where things used to be.
• Laowiseass has a great time in Matsu.
• Great piece on the writing baron on Lao Deng's Dan Dan noodles.
• The Foreigner rips the stupidity of the China Post.
• Sinocentric with a great piece on nationalism in China.
  

MEDIA:

• BREAKING: It appears that the first case of NDM-1 in Taiwan has been found.
  
• WSJ: China's growing army holds sway
• Taiwan's submarine alternatives
• Fanapi led to rise in Dengue Fever cases in southern Taiwan
  
• MAC says Taiwan's 23 million people have the right to determine its future. Now that the election is on, suddenly the rhetoric shifts.
  
• Formosa Plastics has massive blaze in Chiayi, the latest in a string of woes -- we saw it from Highway 3 yesterday driving home, an immense pillar of smoke in the west.
• Desperation drives people to make absurd claims about the Senkakus.
• Apple Daily poll has Hau up 47-35 over Su in Taipei, and Chu equally big over Tsai in Xinbei.
• Tsai meanwhile hints at Presidential bid.
  
• China's growing power, from Oz. Also from a German Green. But FP writer says China staring into looming lost decade abyss.
  
• Minxin Pei at Carnegie on China's relations with its neighbors damaged by Senkakus mess.
  
• Dongsha might be a model for how the island disputes might be handled.
• Latest Taiwan What's Up out
• UN travesty: no Taiwan
  
• Europe loves Taiwanese bikes.
• AUO with billion dollar investment in China.
• Awright! Crocs loose in Taiwan!
• Paper on China's challenge to the US in the South China Sea.
• Presbyterian Church to write curriculum for "Life Education" in some local schools.
• Reality: negative rating on Taiwan remains due to debt, weaker recovery.
  

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