Too rainy to blog. Enjoy some links.
- Japan Times editorial says US should stay out of Taiwan election. Meanwhile the US hilariously announces that it does not take sides in Taiwan elections. Nope, it would never call up the Financial Times and anonymously hack on a presidential candidate in Taiwan, to elect a party that despises it and loves China.
- Alliance targeting KMT emerges. Again.
- MOEA wants to expand coal power in Taiwan. There's already a big natural gas plant in Datan that is working at low capacity. Could someone's cronies be getting fat contracts? Impossible! Everything is done according to the law...
- The DPP wants to give up ROC South China Sea claims. KMTs don't like that.
- Hugh White STILL wants Taiwan to sell out. Still living in La-la land.
- Another reading list from Sullivan, on media and political communications
- Hong Kong paper SCMP gets rid of four columnists for obvious political reasons.
- Taipei to allow dome work to continue after halting it the day before
- Setting up a business in Taiwan: the basics. From Winkler Partners.
- The beautiful girl working at the vendor who becomes a big internet hit is a staple of Taiwan popular culture. The latest is a butcher.
- Taiwan's evolving position in the SCS and why other claimants should take notice. Also Veep Biden's speech on the SCS the other day. Clearly pushback by US against China. Years too late, but nice to see.
- Letters from Taiwan on the Passive Voice President, Passive Voice redux, who is the State in Taiwan, and professors saying basically that young people are too dumb to vote.
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"MOEA wants to expand coal power in Taiwan. There's already a big natural gas plant in Datan that is working at low capacity."
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get that info about Datan from? Do you have a link for longitudinal data on capacity factors? Gas-fired plants tend to be used for base-load so the capacity factor should be relatively high, though there may be large temporary lulls over time due to maintenance.
Newspaper.
ReplyDeleteWell it's probably wrong then, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteMike: http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/print/2014/05/03/2003589437
ReplyDelete"'Well it's probably wrong then, isn't it?""
ReplyDeleteI know this will be revolutionary for you, but there is google and you can do engage in the novel behavior of checking what the reality is.
Michael
USMC to use Pagan Island in the Marianas as a training area for amphibious assaults... http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-marines-invade-20150517-story.html#page=2
ReplyDeleteIs Ms. Kuok really suggesting that Taiwan should maintain it's claim to the nine-dashed-line so as not to leave Beijing out on a limb? How does that benefit Taiwan?
ReplyDelete@"solidarity"
ReplyDeleteThank you very much. Reading between the lines there, it seems that the (at least prima facie) reason for the low capacity factor is intermittent supply of gas due to the absence of a liquid natural gas terminal.
Whether that is actually correct or not I don't know. And of course the liklihood of political shenanigans cannot be discounted.