I've been totally mesmerized by the news out of Japan. So I am a day late with the links this week.
BLOGS:
- Drew with bikeporn about his new Seven titanium bike.
- Steve says aboriginal food is coming down from the hills
- Tainan railway line from the Tainan city blog.
- Clandestine Coffee from a fellow cyclist.
- Jordan slam dunks Taiwan
- North Coast Cycle race results. Several people I know were there, among them Nathan, who blogged on it.
- Craig F with a Shinto temple in Taiwan
- ETRC on China investments in Taiwanese firms.
- Taiwan's public infrastructure is great. Yeah, in Taipei.
- Echo Taiwan on Tsai Ing-wen's announcement of her candidacy for the Presidency. What I think is great is how little is made of her gender in the media.
- The Bushman vists the Miaoli Lantern Festival.
- Camping in Sanxia
- Fascinating piece on Japanese tourism in Korea (with passing reference to Taiwan) in 1940 for the 2,600 anniversary of Emperor Jimmu.
- China's economy is slowing? -- another recession will kill more people than radiation from Fukushima.
- Meanwhile Taiwan's central bank to raise interest rates.
- FSC wants local firms to reveal their Japan quake/tsunami losses
- Link for Monitoring radiation from Japan. Yes, these same people who run red lights without batting an eyelash are terrified of invisible particles from distant nations.
- Mazu activities get rolling in central Taiwan
- Taichung, crime capital. That's why I live here....not for me the dull predictability of Taipei. Hell, it's like Switzerland up there.
- Eva cancels some flights to Japan
- Editorials on nukes and Taiwan collected by FocusTaiwan
- China Times editorial noting that not only do Taiwan's 4 nuke plants represent a threat, there are a score across the Strait.
- WSJ
blogcolumn on the issue of nukes here. - Manila is sweet, so no restrictions on Pinoys working in Taiwan.
- Now that elections are coming round, Ma the KMT ideologue is going to transmogrify into Ma the Protector of Taiwan: the greening of Ma
- Taiwan Today fails history: the Cairo Declaration is a declaration of intent and does not establish ROC sovereignty over Taiwan.
- The Ant Tribe of Taiwan: people who can't afford homes.
- Implications of China's active defense strategy. Hello! The implication is obvious: see two Augusts in the 20th century.
- Australia's incredibly stupid Pacific policy of squelching Taiwan's influence has merely helped to suppress a possible rival to China's mighty influence
- Recommended again: Dr. Fell's great review of the coming 2012 elections.
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3 comments:
yeah, we kind of agreed in the comments that it's great...in Taipei. The title of the post only references Taiwan because that's the tag's name.
Nobody's gonna argue that public infrastructure outside Taipei is severely lacking (Kaohsiung is sort of catching up, at least).
Better than the USA, though.
I, too, have been totally mesmerized by the news out of Japan. My reasons, however, are a little too close to home for comfort. Although I have blood ties there, the Chinese saying that blood his heavier than water does not seem to bring any water my way.
I am trying my feeble means working the ropes with 2 consulates in Tokyo, but if my ex is of a mind that a dead-bit father’s concerns are immaterial to the welfare of their kids, what is one to say?
Like Taiwan, I have my own little brown bag when it comes to Japan. However, there is an ideal Japan that the Japanese people in their time of trials know how to live up to.
Don’t ask me why I am awed at the sight of the quiet resilience the Japanese people displays when confronted with overwhelming odds. Because I am not alone.
While glued to internet feeds of Japanese TV news broadcasts, I kept an eye on the right column where messages kept pouring in words of compassion and support in 4 or 5 languages. Those sent by Taiwanese viewers were striking by their expression of total empathy.
In the first hours there was the odd despicable one-liner fired by a sniggering Chinese here and there. But over time, real Chinese people, the suffering and compassionate ones, joined in the chorus of grief, sorrow and admiration.
Here’s a paragraph from an e-mail I just sent a friend visiting Taiwan.
“When you posted, were you aware of what Feb. 28 means to US-conquered and Chinese-controlled Japanese Taiwan? Although everybody in the know keeps very hush-hush about it, once in Taiwan, keep in mind that you are already treading on Japanese land. Presently every (native) Taiwanese heart and mind is mournfully attuned to reports of loss from Japan’s northeastern coast.”
I dare any reader to come up and tell it in my face that I am wrong.
God forbid that a wave of Japanese refugees from a radiations-stricken Kanto region reaches these shores.
However, remembering how, 62 years ago, six millions Taiwanese hosted two millions Chinese refugees, let us compute this together at the same 6:2 ratio of today Taiwanese population.
How many Japanese refugees does that amount to? If the UNHCR brings in nine million Japanese, will Taiwan mind making room for the naichi compatriots?
Like every native Taiwanese still holding a flame for the motherland, I can't but wish Taiwan a Japanese tsunami that'll douse the Chinese lava smoldering on this Japanese land.
"Great piece on the famine in Vietnam of 1944-45"
Yeah it's all Japan's fault.
Conclusion:
"France can hardly be blamed for the demographic increase in the north."
maybe that's why France never paid
any reparations.
"Japan was still leaching food out of Indochina,"
those ... leaches
"In August 1944, Macau Governor Gabriel Teixeira gained Japanese agreement to send a vessel (the SS Portugal) to northern Vietnam to load coal and beans for shipment to Macau at a time when the Japanese choke on Portuguese-controlled Macau had reduced sections of the population to cannibalism.31"
He cites his own book as a source?!!
Both JapanFocus and JapanToday are racist and anti-Japan.
A great piece about the great war.
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