Still crazy busy, should be back online this weekend. Enjoy some links:
- J Michael Cole: the students at NCKU vote to name an area after pro-democracy and free speech advocate Deng Nan-jung, the university committee nixes and insists students pick from approved list. A must read showing why changing the universities here is so difficult, and also showing how students have changed and run ahead of their elders.
- SOAS' Dafydd Fell was in Taiwan recently. The Facebook page with his pics. And here's the events page for SOAS.
- Ten Things Taiwan does better than anywhere else: CNN
- Taiwan should liberalize its financial services industry. Because that has worked so well for the UK and the US. *sigh*
- Ralph Jennings notes China's charm offensive has failed.
- Unification via online shopping platform
- Good review of some issues with the Services Trade Agreement
- US lawmakers urging tougher response to China
- Hegemonic Warfare Watch: Vietnam commemorates battle with China over S China Sea claims
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The anti-Taiwan Ralph Jennings does believe in fairies:
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… more than five years of [China's] economic goodwill
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LOL. Is he imagining that there were actual "benefits" from ECFA and that it had nothing to do with China's plan to annex Taiwan?
Jennings obscures:
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… Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party came to power in 2008…
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LOLOL. Saying they "came to power" instead of "returned to power" obscures their previous half century of rule and their completely uninterrupted legislative majority.
Jennings pastes:
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… the island [China] considers a breakaway province…
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… without giving consideration to the non-factual nature of the statement.
Jennings obscures some more:
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Before that year hostilities made most deals impossible.
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LOLOLOL at how he avoids informing readers about where those "hostilities" originate.
Maybe Jennings forgot what he pasted not so far above, but he basically repeats himself here:
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China still sees Taiwan as part of its territory…
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… and so on.
What a stenographer!
Tim Maddog
@Maddog
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… Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party came to power in 2008…
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LOLOL. Saying they "came to power" instead of "returned to power" obscures their previous half century of rule and their completely uninterrupted legislative majority.
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Is Ralph Jennings the same guy who writes at the end of every news article that "Taiwan split from China in 1949" or "the two sides split in 1949" while ignoring that Taiwan was split from China from 1895 to 1945?