Enjoy some links...
- DON'T MISS: News Lens with an excellent piece on wages and living standards of Tigers and Nordics. Part 2.
- Taichung city to set up international affairs department
- This I did not know: in 1928 a Korean assassin came to Taichung to kill a member of the Japanese imperial family in the area. The attempt took place on May 14 at the old Taichung Library, now the Taiwan Cooperative Bank Building (Wiki). The assassin failed, was caught, tried, and executed in October.
- Supporters in the KMT want to make Ma Ying-jeou's wife the Taipei Mayor candidate. *sigh* There is a deep yearning in the KMT for a royalty. Sad.
- Taipower to restart nuke plant. One of the islands major power problems is the unreliability of its nuke fleet
- A Weapon Without War: China's United Front Strategy
- Sex, primaries, and elections in Taiwan from D Fell at Taiwan Sentinel
- Efe Levent's absolutely hilarious piece on expats and sex in Taiwan. In four years of research, Levent was unable to overcome his own stereotyping of Taiwanese females, whom he has a patronizing contempt for. Sure wish people would treat Taiwanese females as rational choosers rather than passive victims. What a waste of time and effort....
- Microsoft to open R&D center in Taiwan
- Now Daimler apologizes for using Dalai Lama quote in a car ad.
- Taiwan deploying Hawk missiles to Orchid Island and elsewhere
- Prof Clive Hamilton's testimony in Aus about the China threat recommending left and right unite to oppose China's infiltration.
- Former AIT chief Steve Young reviews X-strait developments
- Taiwan Policy Program out of CSIS still accepting applications to end of Feb. Includes two week trip to Taiwan in June.
- GOP pressures Trump on Taiwan
- Rundown of American Twitch streamer cjayride in Taiwan doxed and attacked
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4 comments:
I'm not even going to try to wade into the whole CJayride thing, but this caught my eye:
"While littering may seem pretty inoffensive by Western standards, it is considered deeply disrespectful in Taiwanese culture. "
1.) What?
2.) What?
I mean, it's closer to Japan than, say, China when it comes to littering in Taiwan and it's generally frowned upon, but people do it and "deeply disrespectful in Taiwanese culture" feels like a bit of an over-exoticization of the general taboo on randomly littering here.
And in much of, if not most of the US you can bet your ass you'll be told off for littering if you get caught.
Dr. Fu Manchu has inspired me to submit a paper to that Turkish drama journal.
Is that in DaKeng?
Some exchange student from China pointed out that more people died during earthquake in remote area(Qinghai) under Chinese "Colonial" rule:
https://tw.appledaily.com/new/realtime/20180208/1294555/
No wonder China has to put internet under strict control.
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