Daily Links, Oct 3, 2011

In town today shopping when a woman bent over in her car to pick up something she'd dropped and veered right into a local vendor. Despite the crowded market and the people mobbing this popular vendor, no one was hurt.

Busy day yesterday, didn't have a chance to post the monday links. Here they are!

BLOG:

• Jerome Keating on how Taiwan is the first Taiwanese democracy.
• PRC threatens to send spies to Taiwan and retaliate against protesting Taiwanese businessmen.
• The Foreigner on the Wolf, the Lamb, and China
• Ben with several new KMT election ads. Hilarious but scary.
• OzSoapBox attacks J Michael Cole for his commentary on expat humility.
• AsiaEye's Under the Radar News.
• Josh with B&W pics.
• The Confucius Peace Prize won by Lien Chan is now going to be cancelled. ROFLMAO.
• Chinese analyst calls for war in the South China Sea from J Michael
• The tea jar magic trick for tea drinkers.

MEDIA:

• Exchange of letters over expat humility in interacting with Taiwanese. I agree with Cole 100%, which is why I haven't commented on this. But it is interesting to see the other opinions.
• BBC spotlight on Taiwan. Aside from the conventional and ignorant BBC hack on Chen Shui-bian, strong work, with more to come in the series.
• Jens argues that the weapons sales to Taiwan will only boost hardliners in Beijing.
• Jens also with an interesting article on ethylene and Taiwan
• HIV rising among Taiwan's young.
• Chinese tourism on Kinmen from Global Post.
• Ma asks again for F-16s. Right.
• Taiwan police bust 800 scammers across Asia, in cooperative move. Yay!
• Economist on Seediq Bale.
• AFP has a rare article on the dark side of KMT history, on the prison on Green Island. Except -- ha! -- it doesn't mention the political party that ran the prison. Thanks, AFP! It's crap like this that keeps us bloggers in business. 
• WSJ on hardliner general criticizing CCP sell outs.

NOT TAIWAN: From the always delightful Mad Minerva, Googlemaps shows where the zombies are.
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