Daily Links, Monday, March 18, 2013

A homemade cheese place on Dongshan Rd outside of Taichung. They sell cheesecakes and chunks of homemade cheese for $3-4 a gram.

Wow! Long time since I've had time to collect some links for the weekly linkfest. Enjoy!

SPECIAL: At the China Policy Blog, Paul Katz shows what a complete failure the Ma Administration is. Great work. Don't miss it.

BLOGS:

• Expert raises questions for Taiwan's submarine development program
• Taiwan's Quadrennial defense review
• Michael rides from Syuhai to Taidong
• Far Eastern Sweet Potato notices more young people out to protest. The anti-nuke issue crosses partisan lines.
• Tie-non visits the K-town museum of history
• MKL finally notices that Taipei has a strong pro-independence community.
• Aussie Foreign Affairs Ministry docs on human rights in Taiwan
• Global Voices on Fukushima demonstrates how difficult it will be to get the truth out of Taipower if anything happens to one of the nuke plants.
• Resources for applying for an APRC
• When 1 Tea isn't enough
• Bamboo Union gang member White Wolf may return to Taiwan

MEDIA:

• The Monocle on Kaohsiung.
• Video: Me going to Gangshan for goat meat with Michella for FTV
• Securitizing the Han Identity. Also indirectly offers insight into the KMT's Han chauvinism, ethnic policies, and Han identity politics in Taiwan.
• Don Shapiro at Brookings with a long review of Taiwan's economy. Mostly good. 
• Who is bluffing who in the South China Sea?
• Beijing's Taiwan office has new leader
• President Ma leaves for Vatican bearing gifts.
• Commonwealth with another excellent article, this one on the problems of nuclear power for Taiwan
• Taiwan investors roam Asia.
• Taiwan to aim missiles at China
• Rhythm and Hues looking for special effects and animation engineers
• TV special on lives on new immigrants in Taiwan
• CSIS argues Taiwan might trigger nuclear war. Sorry, but it is China's desire to annex Taiwan that is the cause, not "Taiwan."
• How an unknown Taiwanese server maker is eating the big guys' lunch
• American media fail to uphold democratic values when reporting on Taiwan

HUMOR: The Death Star was an inside job
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