Daily Links, March 26, 2012

Beautiful night, last night. Here's a shot of what everyone was ooohing and aaahing at: Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon together in the western sky. That green light directly below them is the Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium.

This week's collection....

BLOGS:

• The Curmudgeon visits the Lin Family house and other places in the area
• Todd with the latest entry in his Daily Jump series
• USTDC on preserving old US military homes in Taipei
• Oz on foreign-bashing, marriage, etc in the media
• Fear Not the Cross Strait Culture War
• Ji Gong, the Drunk God, from Lief
• MND denies Cloud Leopard AFV armor is below standard
• Pat on the MRT pole dance
• AsiaEye with the latest under the radar news
• Greenpeace taking on tuna industry in Guam
• Scott Simon with excellent piece on China's threats and claims in the Eastern Himal. 
• East Asia Blog Round Up 
• Drew with an excellent, photo-rich review of my friend Dom's new custom steel Seven bike.
• TC Lin on photography in Taipei

MEDIA:

• Why Europe won't sell weapons to Taiwan
• Retired Admiral Patrick Walsh warns of Beijing's Dangerous Game in the South China Sea
• China's milkfish campaign to boost cross strait business fails
• Studying in Taiwan may not help Chinese students. Yep, that's what they have told me.
• Hi-price tea all the rage for Taiwanese
• Taiwan industrial production rebounds in Feb
• DP pans One China, Two Areas hogwash.
• Former DPP Chair Tsai says DPP not anti-China, and China looks stable only because it is opaque
• Leftover women: there ARE leftover women here, but they are not the educated and empowered women that the PFP legislator referred to. Rather, they are low-status, poorly-educated females whose potential husbands marry imported brides. Those women don't show up on anyone's radar.
• March against the latest "One Country, Two Areas" claims?
• White House not negotiating over F-16s and hold on Mark Lippert

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