- Growing in scariness and importance: Taiwanese activist disappears in Chinese airport.
- Trmp trade pick wants to improve trade relations with Taiwan
- As witty observer Chris Horton observed on Twitter, China scores own goal by impounding Singapore armored vehicles in Hong Kong. Singapore has invited ROC navy to visit, first time since 2002. Well played, Singapore.
- Cole at Taiwan Sentinel: Strengthening Taiwan-Japan relations makes perfect sense.
- Hegemonic Warfare Watch: Peter Enav is wrong. Asia is not Lurching Towards War. It is careening towards war at an unstoppable pace, thanks to China's expansionist policies.
- This is bad idea: how US and China can build better relations by using shared WWII history. Nope, PRC is always trying to hijack this history in order to position itself as successor state to ROC. In any case it doesn't matter: US and PRC can't build good relations because China wants hegemonic domination and US can't let that happen.
- Hilariously, former Obama Admin official Medeiros slams Trump Admin:
He added that he doubts whether the Trump administration views Taiwan as crucial to long-term US interests, as the Obama administration did, or if it sees Taiwan as a bargaining chip to be traded to China when dealing with North Korea.
That from the weak, dilatory, and weakly pro-China Obama Admin. LOL. Medeiros is just trying to stir up trouble with comments like that. - The neon lights that once lit up Taiwan
- How China's fishing fleet creates facts on the water.
- The idiocy continues nonstop: KMT politician says due to LGBT issues, AIDS patients in Taiwan increased in 2016.
- US universities see fall off in foreign students. I advise my own students not to go to the US as long as the current administration is in power.
- Does Ma Ying-jeou understand why he is unpopular in Taiwan?
- VIDEO: Raymond Burghardt, former Chairman of the Board at AIT, interviewed on Bill Sharp's show.
- EVENT: Heritage on reforming arms sales to Taiwan with the Trump Administration
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It will be interesting to see how the Singapore invitation to the ROC Navy pans out. Haven't seen much in the English-speaking press so far.
ReplyDeleteDon't know if you caught this article by William Choong a few years ago, about SIngapore's defence situation, which seems to have at least one or two parallels with Taiwan.
He outlines the success that Singapore has had with National Service, and how many families view it as an essential part of their national identity. Despite this, the nation is in danger of becoming 'complacent'.
He also uses a phrase that should strike a chord with anyone living on an island nation with belligerent neighbours: how it '... suffers from a lack of strategic depth – another way of saying that once an adversary had set foot on its soil, the war was all but over.'
He also mentions the incident in 1991, when those neighbours chose Singapore National Day to practice what was seen by some as 'rehearsal for an invasion'.
http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2013-1e35/march-2013-6eb6/hard-truths-about-singapore-7dc7
Regarding the disappearance of Lee Ming-che: PRC authorities have confirmed they have detained him on the grounds of "endangering national security." One account is here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/national/national-news/2017/03/29/494519/Lee-Ming-che.htm
It seems as well he did not disappear in a Chinese airport; he was crossed into Zhuhai in the PRC from Macau.
Guy
A good article on CCP rule.
ReplyDeletehttp://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-can-no-longer-afford-leave-taiwan-out-its-china-19946
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/03/donald-trump-china-rachman/521055/
ReplyDeleteThe foreign student NBC news excerpt is very misleading. Here's a quote from the report:
ReplyDelete"39% of responding institutions reported a decline in international applications, 35% reported an increase, and 26% reported no change in applicant numbers."
http://www.aacrao.org/docs/default-source/TrendTopic/Immigration/intl-survey-results-released.pdf?sfvrsn=0
I think it's a combo of statistical noise and and a strong dollar.
Ma Ying Jeou hasn't been indicted for corruption yet. Is he clean or are Taiwan's prosecutors KMT partisans?
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