BLOGS:
- maddog with a great piece on the letter on Lee Teng-hui (boy did that issue disappear quickly from the public eye!).
- Drew's great ride report on his ride up to the Husun Forest Park. He wrote a really wonderful piece about me last week too. Thanks Drew!
- Another great piece at Taiwan Matters! on the effects of the stupid legislative reform, which punished the DPP and actually lowered its count of seats even though it increased its vote share.
- Lao Ren Cha on the road, comparing solo travel in Taiwan and elsewhere. I'll miss your excellent posts on Taiwan while you're gone, LRC.
- ETRC on the recent slowdown in the local housing market. Note that prices still haven't fallen.
- Sponge Bear on how China Post is aiding the KMT drive to assimilate the history of aboriginal resistance to Japanese rule into the KMT's mythological history of its own past.
- Jason looks at the DPP's struggle to formulate a cross-strait policy.
- Mad Minerva summarizes the Taiwan military response to China's carrier.
- Drew on Michael L H's inspiring ride in Changhua. Great job, Michael!
- CSS visits a rim maker.
- Echo on the hacking attack on the DPP
- 6.3% of drinks in Taipei contain traces of shit. Only 6.3%?
- Ben does Sanyi and Shengsing village, with pics.
- Frozen Garlic on the PFP and other small parties. I'm not quite believing it yet, but all appearances suggest that the PFP is going to seriously run against the KMT in this election. Soong also publicly stated he is more interested in running for President.
- Rare Salamander found in Yushan National Park.
- Dom's Picasa album of the 900 kms he biked around Taiwan this week.
- Audit of Taiwan's military: Missiles are out of date, military vehicles lack drivers: China Post
- Chinese scientists attempt to force Taiwan co-authors to subordinate Taiwan to China
- Pakistan gave China access to the crashed stealth helicopter from the Osama bin Laden raid.
- Taipei Times says the hacking attack on the DPP may be a potential Watergate. Apparently the hackers spoofed the RDEC and originated emails from there. The DPP claims the National Security Bureau working on behalf of the KMT carried them out. Read the whole article, it is quite interesting.
- Jens Kastner argue that star schools are a factor distorting Taipei's housing markets.
- In case you didn't notice, Taiwan-China-US relations have become stabilized. It will be interesting to see how long before our Establishment analysts start complaining that President Tsai Ing-wen is "destabilizing" relations between the US and China. Maybe I will start a pool.....
- WSJ column on the soft power clash between the Confucius Institutes and the Taiwan institutes. It must be galling to Ma and his Confucian ideological instincts that Beijing grabbed the name "Confucius Institutes" first. But here's how Taiwan builds soft power: 25 IT grads return to Gambia.
- Aviation Week: what the carrier means to China.
- NYTimes had a good article on China tourism in Taiwan. Linked again here, so many people liked it and sent it to me.
- Greenpeace rips Taiwan's overfishing of tuna stocks.
- Jade of Wai Taiwan.com interviewed by TaiwaneseAmerican.org. Jade's experience of falling in love with Taiwan shows the real soft power of Taiwan.
RIDES: This week Thursday and Friday we are riding down from Taichung and up to Xitou to go over the 12 turns. Overnighting in Xitou.
WAY COOL: Fossil of pregnant plesiosaur found. Spend hours laughing at this stuff. Asia-Pacific Journal piece argues that the reactor at Fukushima was knocked out and melting down before the tsunami hit, with clear political implications. The claims of scientifically incompetent climate denialists that volcanoes pump more Co2 into the atmosphere than humans are utterly refuted by scientific reality. Not that the lying will stop, of course.
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Dude. If the Ma administration knew about this:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2011/08/11/2003510452
(I mean the poster, not the missile),
wouldn't that indicate that Ma is not the Taiwan-hating, China-loving, authoritarian eater of puppies that the Greens make him out to be?
If'n I was a Chinese admiral, that poster, displayed on the day of the Varyag's maiden launch, would give me an aneurysm.
If you think a single poster refutes 60 years of evidence...
ReplyDeleteThanks for the kind words (recovering from our flight over Turkish coffee now, time to get my Topkapi Palace on)!
ReplyDelete"If you think a single poster refutes 60 years of evidence..."
ReplyDeleteI do think that most issues are not black and white. For example, maybe Ma only eats puppies that were sick and going to die anyway...
"maddog with a great piece on the letter on Lee Teng-hui (boy did that issue disappear quickly from the public eye!). "
ReplyDeleteyep! the kmt must have reminded him ..." you open your mouth more then we'll expose you more!"
so Lee sings silent night instead! rofl!
nuttin to do with those love-hate letters.
T. Next
Sorry, T. Next, nobody said it had anything to do with the letters.
ReplyDeleteBut long experience has led me to conclude that the trolls for the anti-democracy side can't read very well.
" Michael Turton said...
ReplyDeleteSorry, T. Next, nobody said it had anything to do with the letters.
But long experience has led me to conclude that the trolls for the anti-democracy side can't read very well.
August 16, 2011 12:53 PM"
Oh C'mon Michael! You know I'm not talking about you!
But yer right those on the anti-democracy side don't dare let people post on their blogs , very so unlike you Mike.
You are OK!
T. Next
"I do think that most issues are not black and white. For example, maybe Ma only eats puppies that were sick and going to die anyway..."
ReplyDeleteIn truth he only eats Japanese puppies. He treats Taiwanese puppies well while fattening them up to be fed to Chinese puppies.
@Karl
ReplyDeleteMa does seem to be the Taiwan-hating China-loving authoritarian he's made out to be, but black eats black and Ma knows he can't trust China. If China takes Taiwan peacefully then Ma will be a Chinese hero. If China takes Taiwan by force then Ma will likely be strung up with the rest of the leaders of Taiwan. So Ma has to weaken Taiwan enough to allow China to pressure him into peaceful unification, but he also has to make it clear that he holds enough cards to be valuable to Chinese leaders.
In any case, perhaps this poster was the work of military officers, not the president. The military and individual officers within the military have their own interests.