- J Michael reports that even the radar upgrades for the current F-16s are in doubt. No clear answers anywhere. What is Washington's problem? Don't even think about getting new F-16s. Perhaps we can start lobbying for other weapons....
- NYTimes article on Chinese tourists in Taiwan.
- Bloomberg has a great article on US professors blacklisted from entering China. The moral cowardice and greed of America's universities....sucks. Time for a link to Carsten Holtz's great piece in FEER a few years ago on the purchasing of academics by China.
- Control Yuan censures Taiwan's state-owned media.
- Huffpost has some nice time-lapse video of Taiwan. maddog points out it says it was shot in China. @#&$@*#&$
- CRS analysis says Taiwan is significant to the US.
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12 comments:
Let me guess.... You were all about going to Guang fu.
thanks a lot for the link to the bloomberg article!
i believe the situation is quite similar among german "sinologists". in general they tend to be very apologetic of the prc for various reasons, among them fear of not getting a visa or endangering cooperation and funding from china. i was shocked that there was not a single event at any department or an article by a chinese studies guy in 2009 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the tiananmen massacre, nothing on liu xiaobo and on the ai weiwei affairs. the largest daily in germany even wrote a piece on the "silence of the sinologists"... the critical attitude towards china of the quality german media is even critcised by the sinologists. they argue effectively only they understand china and thus could criticise it, what they of course don't do. worse is the growing dependency on chinese money either through the confucian institutes or sponsored professorships. the prestigious university of goettingen has a new chair in chinese studies and chinese language learning which is sponsored by the chinese government!!! the new head of chinese studies prof axel schneider (a selfdeclared friend of taiwan - he studied there, wrote books about it and his wife is from there, although i feel that he is maybe pro roc) has no problem with this but proudly welcomes the cooperation with the prc. good that people like holz or dikotter are still around.
Dude, censures, not censors... One is a good idea. Other not so much.
TGood catch, Robert!
Michael, did you see the description at the end of the video on HuffPost? It says:
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Time lapse shot from Taipei Tower in China
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How "nice" is that video now?
Tim Maddog
Hi Tim, Chris Anderson will communicate with their webmaster and correct the video label accordingly. Thanks again for spotting that:)
Hi, Joyce. Please find out how such an "error" is possible. I use the scare quotes because many people purposely try to make people believe that Taiwan is part of China.
Tim Maddog
Yes, I hear you, really appreciate your voice for Taiwan.
Finally, the description at the end of the video on HuffPost now says:
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Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan
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The AOL page where it's hosted, however, still has the wrong description:
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Taipei Tower in China
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Ugh!
Tim Maddog
Thanks Tim!
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