Black Bears vs Pandas

A cartoon points out that there are only 300 Formosan Black Bears but 1500 pandas, so why are we subsidizing China's pandas? Just another case of using Taiwan assets to help China.
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Daily Links:

• DON'T MISS: What will happen to the Taiwan media after China takes over? Great paper by paper review of the situation in Hong Kong from Asia Sentinel
• BBC has an interesting piece on people transitioning from white collar to blue collar jobs as white collar jobs dry up and wages remain stagnant under brutal working hours.
• Great blogpost on the Taichung MRT.
• China fast becoming innovation powerhouse
• Taipei-Taitung rail trips to shorten this year: TRA
• The history curriculum revisions as yet another party-state project

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