BLOGS:
- New Cold War in Asia in the South China Sea. Yes, the building calm before the storm.
- Winter is birding time in Taiwan...
- ...and Birding Taiwan: Smangus
- Taiwan's tourist farms. Everywhere I go now I see signs for the new ones constantly coming online.
- Keep on Running -- pics and discussion from local photoshoot by Craig Ferguson
- The Curmudgeon is off to Lugang with pics.
- Danshui map from late Japanese period
- MKL on working for a Taiwanese IT company
- Failed Made in Taiwan Clothing Line: netizens respond from Global Voices
- Snow Mountain from Richard S -- third time lucky?
MEDIA:
- NPR looks at Taiwan's health care system while critics blast the new proposed premium. It seems obvious that the health care system needs to be underwritten by major revisions of our regressive tax system.
- 8,000 year old human skeleton found in Matsu
- Nat Bellocchi on the One Country, Two Areas.
- The Ma Administration responds to Tkacik's charges that it has no US policy, has said it is part of China.
- More good stuff from TT today, this one on beef.
- Taiwan and Hong Kong resist Chinese downturn -- for now. The Taiwan dollar strengthened too.
- More on South China Sea cold war from CSIS: risks have grown while China, Russia hold join exercises
- Commonwealth interviews Tsai Ing-wen
- Jeremy Lin out for season, all Taiwan mourns
- Wu Den-yi at the Boao Forum: says setting aside political differences and focusing on economic issues is key
- Quota for Chinese tourists to double
- Taiwan does nothing for sustainable fishing, says Greenpeace
- Gas prices up after being held down in run-up to election
- After Taiwan Elections, Planning for the Future by Alan Romberg.
SPECIAL: Dems Abroad Taiwan Mike Honda Fundraiser April 8th.
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2 comments:
I am not sure if anyone caught the political slant the KMT put on the Matsu find.
It seems they are trying to shift Taiwan's Austronesian roots to fit a Greater Chinese ideology with competing timelines.
The article makes a grave error in claiming the remains to be Austronesian... as the term Austronesian is an ethnolinguistic group and therefore more caution is needed to define pre-Austronesian and proto-Austronesian groups.
This find supports the hypothesis of a migration of pre-Austronesians out of East Asia occurring roughly 8,000-10,000 years ago. These drops became Austronesian speakers after a period of Taiwan=based isolation.
If anything, this new find might challenge modern Chinese nationalist ideological constructs of the Han Chinese ethnicity and its dubious base in genetics and physical migrations of Han.
This site may actually point to the gradual cultural conversion of non-Han peoples into Han or other modern ethnic constructs used by both the ROC and the PRC.
Just amazing to see this headline in print.....
Three conditions for cross-strait political talks: Wu Den-yih
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