Daily links, Nov 21, 2011

What's cruising on the blogs today?

BLOGS:

• Frozen Garlic with fact filled post on Taichung legislative politics
• A-gu on Tsai's toughness. Imagine what would happen if the President of a major western nation admitted meeting with an alleged major gangster and international gambling operator.
• Global Voices picks up Chinese nationalist responses to America's announcement of refurbished hegemony in Asia.
• Ai Weiwei on Taiwan's absence from world politics
• Taiwan Airpower locates the Takao POW camp
• Letters from Taiwan lists all the scandals and stupidity that have plagued both campaigns. Only 1 for the DPP, a myriad for the KMT. 
• Far Eastern Sweet Potato looks at the MOFA claim that funding problems are preventing the government from flying observers to Taiwan for the election.
• Taroko Race this weekend
• LaoRenCha with great pics of a temple procession and celebration.
• Donggang Fish Market by Todd. An awesome place.
• A Taiwan Hot Springs guide.
• Taiwan gets an almost perfect history museum
• A-gu discusses China's view on the 1992 Consensus. It seems China is staking out a position in case Tsai beats Ma.

MEDIA:

• James Holmes on the possibility of a global navy for China in The Diplomat, which also hosts Ensuring China's Peaceful Rise (through alliance bolstering) and Harriers for Taiwan?
• Josh Rogin at FP on Sen Coryn's latest hold up of an Obama Admin official over the F-16 sales. Rogin doesn't mention that the aircraft will be made in his district and Lockheed is a major donor. Also Steven Walt explains America's Asian policy.
• CSIS 2012 piece extolling ECFA and saying what policy should be.
• Economist on presidential election.
• Taipei Times: DPP focusing on central Taiwan. It's amazing how far the KMT has fallen here. 
• Dean Cheng at Heritage shows once again what a bad idea F-16 upgrades are.
• Japan to station troops on Yonaguni Island
• Carnegie Endowment piece argues that there is no need to panic yet over China's economy.
• A good piece from Counterpunch on how the economic crisis in Spain, Italy and elsewhere in the Eurozone is a legacy of those nations' right-wing authoritarianism. One wonders about Taiwan, in that light....

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