What's shining out there on the blogs this week?
SPECIAL: Expats, you will recognize your Taiwan experience.
BLOGS:
- US raids on Formosa: WWII Battle of Takao Harbor
- Taipei Air Station with color photos of Taiwan in the 1950s.
- F-16s: Taiwan faces difficult budgetary choices.
- Fenyuan's Baozhang temple with some nice pics.
- Richard Saunders on the trails in NE Taiwan. Good pics.
- Lao Ren Cha updates her posts on Indian Food in Taipei
- More Hitler Ads
- Taiwan-NZ complete FTA feasibility study
- Taiwan: Orphan of Asia
- John Feffer on the Okinawa base ulcer in US-Japan relations. Okinawa will be important if China attacks Japan or Taiwan.
- The resolutely Establishment East Asia Forum has a couple of reads on Asia's security future in the midst of competing US-China hegemonies. Archarya on China's Rise and East Asian Security. Also piece on the Pacific Pivot (does that really exist? Concrete evidence, please).
- US says it will defend the Philippines from third country attack.
- Central Bank Governor protests "Taipei, China" name at ADB meet up.
- Tackling Linyuan's menacing air.
- Year's first dengue case reported
- Taiwan is not collapsing. Please stop with this silly genre.
- Coffee grounds are gold for Taiwanese firm.
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1 comment:
One other reason for the disconnect between US actions re Sino-Filipino relations and Sino-Formosan relations is that the US Pacific strategy is shifting to defense in depth.
Most of US striking power is now being concentrated at Australia, Guam, and Hawaii, rather than Okinawa, Korea, and the Phillipines. This doesn't demonstrate any indication of a withdrawal from the region; rather that the US is simply acknowledging military reality. Forward deployment against a near-peer competitor poses unacceptably high risks of losing too much hardware against a first strike. In that regard, the Futenma is an anachronism.
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