Too lazy to blog, too rainy to ride. I think I'll just go sink some battleships in World of Warships. Meanwhile, enjoy some links...
- DON'T MISS: The Pinquanhui: an extraordinary 1999 post on a KKK-style anti-aborigine organization by one of the sharpest and most informed observers of Taiwan politics I know.
- KMTitanic: President Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President Wu Den-yi to stump for KMT candidate Hung Hsiu-chu. This is because she wasn't unpopular enough on her own.
- KMTitanic: KMT forms "youth" group to promote Hung... of people born in 1970s and 80s. Probably because no one under 25 is going to vote for her.
- KMTitanic: Hung isn't getting any cash from businessmen and may not make the threshold for government funding. LOL.
- Hung claims Senkakus belong to Taiwan. It's pretty clear she plans to continue Ma's policy of irritating relations with needed neighbors. Ma's use of the comfort women issue is of a piece; the KMT also uses that to attempt to separate Taiwanese from Japan. Good luck with that...
- SCMP says Soong is just a spoiler
- China Times says that old and young generation should cooperate on "Chinese reunification." LOL.
- Great Taipei Times feature on foreign labor
- If you haven't read it, again here's Solidarity's excellent piece on the curriculum protests.
- Goni has been promoted to typhoon Goni, but still too early to tell whether she'll dump on us.
- NT dollar hits six year low against US dollar.
- Japanese cigarette firm builds factory in Tainan industrial park. Somehow -- shocked, I tell you, I'm shocked -- it slips past all the regulators.
- Taiwan scammers forced me to make scam phone calls. really!
- With so many local governments in deep financial trouble, the Executive Yuan drops proposal to raise salaries for government workers. Nearly half local government budgets go to personnel costs.
- Ko off to Shanghai. Responds to usual China bombast by saying Taiwan and China are family.
- Musings on the curriculum protests, in a Chinese lit framework
- Taiwan's Navy feels pressure as China rises
- IMAGERY: Don't miss the new collection of images from the 1914 Japanese War against the Truku at the East Asia Image Collection
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Regarding "...KMTitanic: President Ma Ying-jeou and Vice President Wu Den-yi to stump for KMT candidate Hung Hsiu-chu. This is because she wasn't unpopular enough on her own..."
ReplyDeleteIs it possible that whenever there is any rumor of Hung stepping aside, someone in the green camp publicly broadcasts it to force the KMT go on the defense to deny the rumor?
I mean, of course the KMT could decide to drop Hung, but if they do surely they need to do it on their terms on their schedule.
But I am thinking it would pain them grievously for such a strategy to be gazumped by an outside force, especially a pan-green force where it could be perceived that the greens are calling the shots and are controlling the blue camp's moves.
Just a thought.
I dont think they will dump her.
ReplyDeleteI think there are a few situations which might force KMT's hand. One would be Wang Jin-ping threatening to join PFP. That would put the nail in Hung's coffin anyway, so KMT might be inclined to choose another candidate over her to keep Wang from defecting and taking his Bentu faction with him.
ReplyDeleteEric Chu is again saying he won't change his mind about running.
Thanks for posting the link to the archived images at Lafayette College Libraries.
ReplyDeleteAfter looking through some of the images in the 1914 Japanese War against the Truku collection, I looked through the collection of images (mostly negatives) taken in 1938 mostly by Rella Warner, wife of Gerald Warner, American Consul to Taiwan in the late 1930s. I recall seeing most of this collection some years ago, but there were some new ones that I had not seen before.
One of the most interesting was a photo of Rella sitting in a car parked in front of Longshan temple (Monga district of Taipei). The car is parked in front of a very large billboard with a map of China and Taiwan. The map shows all of the areas so far occupied by Japanese forces.
One other photo that I hadn't seen before is a view looking northeast, taken from the 2nd floor of the American Consulate. This building is still there on Zhongshan North Road. This is "Taipei Spot", the 'art-house' cinema (光點台北, 台北之家). Anyway, the view of the open fields across Zhongshan North road will be interesting to anybody who knows that section of the city now.