Time, time, time.....
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Daily Links:
- Well balanced piece from Ralph Jennings on future plans to tie Taiwan to China via economic integration and help pro-PRC oligarchs. Did I say that? I meant "make trade deals." So used to translating things...
- The beginning of an in-depth series on Can China take Taiwan? by Michal Thim
- Eight activists on trial for making China Annexation Rep twenty minutes late.
- Taiwanese-American Citizens League is looking for a few good political interns.
- For those of you tracking Hong Kong as the future of Taiwan, Tung Chee-hwa says HKK can expect a state security law like that of China.
- Demand from China cools, export orders rise. That's orders, over half of which are now made in China.
- U of Stockholm closes its Confucius Institute
- Debunking the myth of inevitability in the Taiwan Strait: Cole at Thinking Taiwan
- How to get free wifi during your trip in Taiwan
- Not Taiwan, but way cool: Asia's sand wars
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That article on the "Asian sand wars" is shocking. It is so stuffed with metaphor and other verbose nonsense as to give the impression that the author not only doesn't have anything substantial to say at all.
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"As journalist Chris Milton pointed out in a 2010 essay in Foreign Affairs, sand is a medium by which massive environmental change can be effected via incremental processes. It is granular—neither liquid nor solid—which means that it can be transported by the boatload or by the handful. In large quantities, it can be engineered into the most fundamental of all infrastructures: land itself.")
I'm pretty fucking sure that sand is a solid by the way, but that aside, anyone who goes out of his way to explain to readers that sand is granular... is obviously a twat.