Links to scrape by with

A couple at the Lungteng Broken Bridge in Miaoli.

Too tired to blog. Have some links. Sorry about the light blogging this week... just too damn busy.
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Daily Links:

• Counties promote Visit the Tropic of Cancer! Whatever for?
• Chen Shui-bian moved from prison in Taipei to prison hospital in Taichung in the dead of night.
• Richard Bush on Ma's video conference at Stanford where he lays out Taiwan's foreign policy program. Ma said:

  "The first part involves institutionalization of the rapprochement with mainland China so that neither side would ever contemplate resorting to non-peaceful means to settle their differences."

  Bush parses that as

  The first of these is particularly interesting, because it expresses an essentially liberal, internationalist approach to ensuring peace and stability: that is, binding a potential adversary to a cooperative relationship so that the stakes of initiating conflict are just too high.

  C'mon. What Ma means is that Taiwan is to be so enmeshed in China that subsequent pro-Taiwan administrations can't extricate it. No amount of "institutionalizing" China's desire to annex Taiwan is going to cage said desire.
  
• ...which reminds me, the next round of dialogue between the KMT and CCP will discuss liaison offices.
• Butterfly watching from RTI
• Why Taiwan still matters in the OEM/Tech world
• Far Eastern Sweet Potato dreams of the day when Japan sells Taiwan sub tech.
• Taipei, Manila, ink pact with increased protections for local Pinoys.

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