BLOGS:
- PAUL KANE NYT EPIC FAIL: Lao Ren Cha, Patrick Chovanec, Dire Straits, The China Hotline, Peking Duck, Business Insider, Asia Society, James Fallows, Next Media Animation, Joshua Keating, Freedom House, Michael Mazza, National Review Online, Taipei Times, Kane's Facebook page.
- Pinoy Mountaineer goes to the top of Snow Mountain.
- Klaus with an excellent piece on the Taipei Dome
- Jenna with a good letter in the TT about birth control and freedom
- Korean food, Japanese baseball: Sponge Bear
- Great post on POAs and conscripts in the military.
- New US defense body could focus on China threat, says J Michael
- Todd with great pics from a military village in Kaohsiung.
- The Yoziuki Hellship: repatriated Taiwanese.
- Of coins and history: another excellent post.
- The Yangmingshan Hot Springs from My Several Worlds.
- Frozen Garlic on the TSU's legislator list.
- Hahaha. Pinyin Info on New Row Mian.
- AsiaEye with under the radar news.
- CSS covers the Taiwan Cup, great pics.
- Oz on the old caoling bikeway
- Sinocentric on the Pentagon on China.
- POLLS: Rabidly pro-KMT UDN with poll results for the last few months for comparison. UDN has Ma over Tsai by 5. UDN also has a poll on the "dump-save" effect, which suggests that Soong is drawing a third of his support from Tsai. Pro-KMT TVBS has Ma ahead of Tsai by a mere point with or without Soong in the race. The Taipei Times covers this story of Ma's slowly eroding poll advantage here.
- Archaeological work begun on the Spanish settlement near Keelung.
- Julian Assange of Wikileaks says he has Taiwan pirate roots.
- A foreign vehicle mag picks up the tale of people taking kids on scooters without helmets and is then reported on by a local news station. It won't be seen as a problem here until it embarrasses the nation....
- Ma campaign wants to sell off "leases" in forest areas. Remember that one of his development ideas from the 2008 campaign and later was reforestation....
- EBay: WWII bomb run photo of B-25s nailing Taipei with 500 lb bombs.
- Tainted honey from China is flooding US markets. Has to be going on here too.
- This is a huge story here: Taiwanese official in the US accused of abusing housekeeper. Investigated as a human trafficker. Netizens react: Global Voices.
- India and Japan's involvement in the South China Sea disputes.
- Nat Bellocchi makes the same point I have countless times: "relaxed tensions" are really displaced tensions.
- Piggy banks from the AP
- Taiwan erects undersea warning system.
- AFP reports on DPP saying China interfering in election
- Yangming to build massive container ships.
- Ma says Taiwan to join TransPacific Trade Pact in ten years. What's wrong with now?
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Update on that NYT op-ed on selling out Taiwan--Paul Kane says it was supposed to be satire (http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/11/selling-taiwan-to-mainland-china-the-author-explains-his-swiftian-intent/248637/ and http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/11/17/ditch_taiwan_to_save_america_author_responds).
I SAID THREE DAYS AGO: "the KANE Piece i now believe was mere MODEST PROPOSAL satire a la Jonathan Swift...i think he was trying to make a point, the opposite point.... he loves Taiwan in fact.....he hates CHina....this was SATIRE."
But everyone took him too seriously. DOn't people know how to READ anymore.
He now admits to the world that IT WAS A SATIRE. Now what do you say Joe Bloggers and Professors of Taiwan? Get thee to a nunnery!
from Trevor in UK
descendant of Jon Swift
PS; -- My UK friends doubted me saying: "uh, Trevor, old boy, Do you have any reason to believe that this is a Jonathan Swift type of satire? Or is it wishful thinking? I hope you might be right. Kane once worked on Ted Kennedy’s staff.''
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