Luckily for the world, China does not play politics with sports. Otherwise the Chinese delegation might have boycotted the World Games Opening Ceremony in Kaohsiung today.... ...oh wait. They did boycott the opening ceremony.... Boycotts during int...

Apologies for the light blogging; just swamped with work this week. The US State Department's latest version of its background notes on Taiwan are out, so it is appropriate that we glance at US-Taiwan-China relations.... The Taipei Times hosted a...

Happiness is an office decorated with my daughter's paintings. I was shocked, I tell you shocked, to learn that Premier Wu Den-yih, back before he received his promotion to his current exalted state, traveled to Bali Island in Indonesia with a...

Breaking news this evening as the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), which does not, as its title would suggest, help Taishang manage their mistresses in Shenzhen, announced that the fourth "informal" round of ECFA talks has been postponed. Huang...

What's moving about the blogs today? Real exchange rates in Asia actually on downward trend, says blogger.Global Voices on the LGBT parade this weekend. Poagao writes great post on his experience there, notes number of people out there motivated by the...

First, the meet up in Taipei, Nov 7, with a very special speaker. Then AmCham Taichung is having a walkathon on Nov 15. ++++++++++++ Jerome: The speaker for Breakfast Club on November 7th will be Joseph Wu, former Taiwan Representative in Wash. DC...