The View from Taiwan

Lunch yesterday. Well, as predicted by many, including this blog, US ractopork is now becoming an issue in US-Taiwan relations. Anot...

Locked forever. What a success! 200,000 show up for the anti-nuclear demonstration across the island yesterday, rocking the Powers That Be...

A hornet grabs a drink. FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1969–1976 VOLUME XVII, CHINA, 1969–1972, DOCUMENT 136 136. Conv...

The kids playing air hockey in Keelung. UPDATE : Anti-nuke March today got tens of thousands. Enormous turnout. Very happy. Tsuna...

A few links..... Wild at Heart has the skinny on the anti-nuclear protests taking place across Taiwan on Saturday, March 9. The DPP is n...

This weekend I had the opportunity to spend some time in the Taiwan Moonscape, the area of badlands in southern Taiwan. I had never ...

Taken at the New Wu Er Train Station at the HSR. _______________________ [Taiwan] Don't miss the comments below! And check out my bl...

In Taiwan even the dogs dress like betel nut girls. The DPP says it will work to get the referendum law changed for the upcoming refere...

This weekend I had an extraordinary respite from politics as a guest on FTV's Time for Taiwan down in Kaohsiung. Saw some of the most ...

When Beijing Correspondents Write: How one security concern in Asia is quietly easing . I was going to rip this China-centered ditty until I...

Popular Mechanics , Sept 1924. Captioned: Formosa Women Struggling with the Family Washing in a Public Basic with Crude Stones (upper left...

Wow! The KMT government agreed to a referendum on the fourth nuclear plant in Gongliao, probably the dumbest public infrastructure project i...

The always admirable James Holmes has a piece in The Diplomat this week that exemplifies one of the major problems with commentators o...

AP's Peter Enav in Taiwan occasionally finds the time to produce longer review articles; last week he came out with a really good piece ...

GW brags : The George Washington University will soon be home to the GW Confucius Institute, an entity that will promote the study of Chines...