The View from Taiwan

Lot of fun stuff when around the net... It's scary how much better the commentary on the Ma-Xi meeting has been than the reporting. ...

Such a lovely day! Who wants to come home and write about the 馬習團 after ten hours riding in this? l'll talk to this Humungus! He...

Fishing. All the international media is entirely correct. This pony and dog show in Singapore does indeed herald a new era in China-Taiw...

Apple Daily Poll out this morning has 53.1% against, 38% for the meeting. China Post : Details emerge on the meeting TAIPEI, Taiwan ...

Two of my favorite fruits. The Washington Insider Nelson Report on the 馬習團. Doug Paal, who is quoted below, has long served the KMT. Richa...

Somewhere on the East Coast, all is calm. But not anywhere else in Taiwan today. Since this Ma-Xi circus stormed through late last night...

The top video, from Chris Nelson, is on the Wang Yeh boat burning festival in Donggang, Pingtung, a place I highly recommend for its wor...

The top image is the actual logo of the KMT Presidential campaign: "One Taiwan: Taiwan is power!" As the bottom image shows...

Out walking with the DSLR for the first time in a while. The electronics don't work. Need a new Canon body. And a new human body, come t...

A shot of a lacewing larva , which conceals itself by affixing debris to its body. From the Japan Christian Yearbook for 1938 . Interestin...

Orchid Island sightseers So the Taiwan ThinkTank poll gets passed around on Tuesday . It has the DPP's Tsai Ing-wen up 48-16 over KM...