I've begun work on a book on biking here with a couple of well known local expat riders. So expect blogging to take a hit. Exhausted today, enjoy some links....
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Daily Links:
- Foreign Policy notices the Hong Kong-Taiwan connection against China. A good review of the events. Don't miss comment from TECO in the comments section.
- Why the F-35 is ideal for Taiwan. It's nice to imagine, but the purpose of the discussion of F-22, F-35, etc, is to derail the whole idea of getting fighter aircraft, since the US will never sell F-35s to Taiwan. Now we can go through another few years of asking for F-35s and being refused. At the end of this "debate" we will have F-16s still, and the Chinese will be operating space warp attack vehicles with n-dimensional teleportation capability, and US "analysts" will be scolding Taiwan for not spending more money on defense.
- Sunflower leaders go to Washington and get everything wrong. Didn't anyone tell them that the US One China policy doesn't recognize Taiwan as part of China. Argh. Anyone who thinks the DPP is running the Sunflower movement doesn't understand the DPP, which was totally blindsided by the student movement.
- 30 Authentic Taiwan experiences
- Don't miss: The Forgotten Taiwanese soldiers -- what happened to the men who fought for several different countries in the 40s and 50s?
- Taiwan Marketplace, filmed in 1930. With sound! New Years Procession from the same year
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2 comments:
I was just thinking the other day that you should write a book on biking in Taiwan..! Looking forward to reading it.
Regarding Taiwan's "forgotten" soldiers, they have suffered no worse indignity than other soldiers who fought on the losing side. How many Medals of Honor did the US govt award to the hundreds of well documented incidents of valor among the American on the Confederate side? Zero. To paraphrase Gen, Yamashita before he was hanged for trumped up war crime charges "it sucks to lose a war." Yamashita's point was that if Japan won, it would be MacArthur on the gallows, not him.
Regarding the allegedly discriminatory treatment of Taiwanese soldiers by Japan, there is no discrimination. There is a big difference between a Taiwanese person who serves Japan and a genuine Japanese person. The Japanese have always viewed Taiwanese as Chinese even if some Taiwanese do not view themselves as such. The Taiwanese soldiers should be thankful that they got anything from Japan even if it is only a fraction of what Japan gave its own soliders.
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