BLOGS:
- Like antiques and knick-knacks? Check out this store from Hear in Taiwan (Anyone have an address for the store?)
- Far Eastern Sweet Potato -- Taiwan's F-16 orders now in holding pattern
- Renyitan Reservoir -- pics and info. Very informative.
- Snarky Tofu with some recent Taiwan pics.
- More on the Battle of Formosa.
- The Macroeconomy of the Chinese Kleptocracy: throught provoking post, great rebuttals and comments below it.
- ETRC says Beijing was mildly disappointed with Ma's second inaugural speech.
- The National Review with a strange article by J Nordlinger on Taiwan, pt 1. With so many experienced commentators, reporters, and writers on the island, why do foreign mags send out people for pieces like this?
- Excellent piece on how China's leadership model may be failing.
- Osprey deployment to Okinawa causes local anger, cries for independence.
- The elements rule: massive flooding all over the island as rains pound Taiwan... keep yourselves safe and dry, folks. This crappy weather should continue all week. And the quake yesterday, 6.5.
- Beef fight continues, with call in campaign to legislators.
- Laptop goes missing from Taiwan warship, espionage blamed.
- Global Post on gangsters.
- Taiwan is the top Asian knowledge economy
- Way cool: a species of Taiwan bird is one of the few songbirds in the world to jointly nest its eggs with other mating pairs of the same species.
- China offers subsidy to car buyers, benefits Taiwan's machine tool makers.
- Why Facebook won't survive the decade
- The Awesome Never Stop Bike Event over Wuling from the Taiwan Review
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I don't have a WordPress account, nor do I particularly want one (can't comment on that blog without it) - does Hear in Taiwan or anyone else have any info on the address of that store?
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ReplyDeleteNordlinger frequently writes travel blogs where he comments on various things without going into any depth. He's not treating Taiwan any differently than he treats other places he's visited.
I do wish though that he would drop the "Taiwan is Free China" routine. I've written to him about it a couple times, and I've commented on his articles when he's made the mistake.
He seems to be doing better this time. Although he says at the end "This is what China — all of China — could have had", in the rest of the article he refrains from calling the Taiwanese "Chinese". He even avoids saying something like "Taiwan proves that Chinese culture can have democracy" and instead says Taiwan proves democracy is compatible with Asian values. This is progress :)
I did comment on TVFT a week or two ago that convservatives have their own problems with Taiwan - tending to view it through cold war lenses. Perhaps Nordlinger is having a second look. I hope he gets outside the capital to visit Taichung and Tainan.
This is funny/scary: Air China at JFK
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