Some links for your pleasure....
BLOG:
- ETRC on branding in Taiwan as an economic development strategy.
- Fili goes to the Zhi Nan Temple in Taipei.
- R&R in Taipei in the 1960s.
- Lee of Singapore: Taiwan independent since 1989
- Man hijacks ambulance, kills neighbor who really needs it. Naturally the government is being sued.
- Sponge Bear on the trail in Wufeng.
- josh shoots street food.
- President Ma takes pictures with Patrick's daughter.
- Drew's detailed account of the Changhua 100 race.
- Shiro Armstrong at the neoliberal East Asia Forum explains why China's rare earths policy has backfired.
- Gordon Chang's excellent piece Ma + Obama = Drama
- Hahaha. Taiwan's Next Media Animators rightfully abuse Facebook's new changes, which suck.
- China's dam-building frenzy is global and extremely destructive.
- Arms package doesn't affect cross strait relations, says Ma.
- Time to decommission Taiwan's decrepit old subs.
- NYTimes hosts debate on whether we should sell arms to Taiwan. You'll know the names and lines/lies if you've been following things.
- US wavering on Taiwan: Economist
- Little fallout seen from US sale
- Japanese passenger stuck at Taoyuan Airport for 19 days.
- Taiwan business indicators all to be downgraded as global economic outlook stinks.
- Chennai Center for China Studies on the F-16 mess.
- NCKU to develop offshore wind farm
- Tsai Ing-wen releases.... her own fragrance. Sheesh.
- The Lowy blog notes as many of have that the reaction to the F-16 sale was coordinated in the three capitals. Taipei even formally thanked the US.
- First Taiwan-China undersea cable approved.
- Radioactive rice from Fukushima far exceeds safe levels. You know Chinese firms will buy that stuff up. And next year we'll be finding it in all sorts of export products.
- Hahahahahahahahahaha. Check out this poster of James Soong.
- Even the government's own polls don't find majority support for the fictional 1992 consensus.
- Grouper exports from Taiwan to China are so lucrative that the government has built a dedicated live fish carrier to ship them out.
- Taiwanese activists ought to think about how to use the petition function at WhiteHouse.gov.
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Thanks for the link, Michael. BTW, here's the translation on the Japanese passenger being stranded in Taoyuan's airport: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.livedoor.jp%2Fdie_door%2F
ReplyDeleteHe still has a computer and phone to sell if he really wants to get out of here. Hope he's not hiding anything on his permanence in Taiwan.