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Michael Turton sends you commentary about life in Taiwan from Taichung.
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China Boycotts Opening Ceremony at Which Ma Appears as Prez

Jul 17, 2009
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...

Humor: Taiwanese subvert Chinese pro-unification ad

Nov 22, 2009
ESWN, the popular translation-n-T&A blog out of Hong Kong, offered this find today. As he explains... First there was a mainland Chinese television ad for facial tissue. In this ad, the mainland children say, "Do you what is on the side of the ocean? ...

Miiltary, Congress & F-16s

Nov 21, 2009
Truth in advertising. FAPA says that another bill on F-16s has been introduced in the US Congress: One day after President Obama concluded his China trip and after the introduction of H.R.4102 in Congress of legislation highlighting the stalled U.S....

Decoupling the National and the Local

Nov 21, 2009
The Taipei Times reported on a phenomenon which I've been discussing for weeks now: the absence of KMT Chairman and ROC President Ma Ying-jeou from the local election campaign, now heating up as we approach December. The paper observed: Chinese...

Friday Night Lites

Nov 20, 2009
On video: FAPA's Bob Yang on Al Jazeera presenting the pro-Taiwan side, and academic Bonnie Glaser of the CSIS think tank, which represents the center-right corporate Establishment view that wants sell Taiwan to China in the (vain) hope that China will...

Chiang's Gold: where is it?

Nov 19, 2009
There's a persistent myth among KMTers and resentful PRC trollbots alike that the KMT stabilized the economy of Taiwan with the gold looted from China's treasury (I discuss why it is nonsense here). WSJ featured a letter yesterday that sheds light on...

China Boycotts Opening Ceremony at Which Ma Appears as Prez



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