EVENTS: Dems Abroad hosting Obama 50th B-day party. Carnegie's Thurs, 7-9. Stop by and say hello! Details here.
BLOGS:
- Video of late July Bass fishing from Expat Angler. Should be pretty awesome; I've never seen a bass fishing.
- Koxinga takes fort zeelandia.
- Awesome rides + pics: Todd does 136 and Baguashan. Taiwan in Cycles does Sanlinxi and 165 kms with 2000 meters of climbing. Orz Orz Orz.
- Laowiseass on US vs China views of medicating oneself.
- Asia Eye with underreported news from around Asia.
- Lief on trusty blue trucks.
- Sponge Bear addresses the CNN Go food affair with epic rant.
- Want a cheap carbon bike? They are out there.
- Using acupuncture for larger breasts. But can it get rid of man-tits?
- Changing economy may impact cross-strait relations
- The Foreigner on Lo and other sell outs. Good to see you out and blogging, man!
- Alive and kicking with a couple of lovely photos of one of my favorite areas, the Beimen Salt Farms.
- Ma's China policy a crumbling mass of contradictions.
- David on Formosa says good bye.
- Sea Fishing in Taiwan! from Pat Cowsill
- The Dignified Rant rants about selling F-16s.
- A blogpost about me and my blogging. Thanks!
- Great piece on how the government likes aborigines when they dance and sing but not when they want land rights and jobs.
- Yet another fire at the Formosa Plastics Plant in Yunlin. More closures ordered.
- Asia Sentinel with a piece which says -- in case you had any doubts -- that the recent South China Sea agreement will do little to calm territorial disputes. Like China's annual fishing ban, there.
- How renaming Taipei's office in Hong Kong matters, politically.
- Taiwan seeks bigger role for its banks in China.
- Ma has calmed tensions, right? So why is the PRC military build up continuing? A review of the disparity and the recent MoD White Paper. Meanwhile Ma's commitment to the F-16s questioned.
- Pro-Beijing WantChinaTimes asks how, if you snuff out the news of a train crash, you can win Taiwanese hearts and minds.
- Taiwan most vulnerable to a downturn but there may be a silver lining in the labor market adjustment.
- Overall tourism growth has been just 5% in 2011
- ChinaRealtime at WSJ on the F-16s and Ma.
- One solution to Taiwan's vast regional disparities: move the capital.
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