The View from Taiwan

Buried in this article about US complaints regarding China's refusal to permit Taiwan to participate in global anti-terrorist organizati...

A visiting US Admiral said that China could not take Taiwan, and that the US will defend it . China's military capability is not suffici...

During the 1980s I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Meru District, near the town of Kangeta, where the world's best miraa is grown, doing...

Linda Arrigo sent me these notes from her interview with a former member of the Ministry of Justice who worked during the 1980s as an invest...

There's nothing on Taiwan, but there is the usual collection of Japan and China stuff...including the Michael Klare article I talked abo...

Just got this in the mail: ++++++++++ Call for Stories Are you crazy about Taiwan’s culture and can’t stop loving Taiwan? How do you love th...

Sorry about the hiatus. Traveling... Once in a while you get a letter from a student that makes everything you do worthwhile... +++++++++++...

I have no time to blog at the moment -- in fact, this week has been like being nailed to the castle wall and tortured by eunuch dwarves for ...

I have blogged on the bogus work 1421 in the past, and thought I'd alert readers to this new website by U of Singapore expert Geoff Wade...

I got this today: Michael, if you know anyone who is interested in a junior high or senior high job in Taichung, please give them the follow...

The Real Taiwan sent me a link to his blog, so I went and looked and saw an interesting pair of betel nut girl videos . The first is a few...

The last installment of this was the one from Lee Teng-hui discussing the problems of investment in China and how it has slowed Taiwan'...

WaPo reports today on the evolving decision by the Vatican to switch ties from Taiwan to China. This has become inevitable now that Taiwan h...

Another Sunday. Another week of fabulous experiences and educational encounters. Appropriate to a week that saw two blogger get-togethers,...

It seems that every neighborhood has little treasures that reveal themselves to you in ways and places that you never imagined. Just when I ...