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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...

Foreign Reporters Shut out of ECFA press conference

Feb 9, 2010
The Liberty Times has it in Chinese, but emails were flying around yesterday with the news that the administration of President Ma -- you know, the Harvard educated one -- didn't want foreign reporters at what is intended to become a monthly press...

Complaints from the Blue Team

Feb 9, 2010
Chen Shui-bian had another two months added to his detention this week. The judges say that Chen, under 24 hour guard as a former president, is a flight risk. Once again, I thank the KMT for keeping Chen in detention, ensuring that he does not disrupt...

Those Foreign Men

Feb 7, 2010
Anyone remember the tale of the young lady who had a catfight in the street over the affections of an alleged AIT employee? Reprise that tale on my blog, for the heroine of They're Rogering Our Women! is back with Rogered by Whitey: the Sequel. The...

Trifecta of the Terrible

Feb 6, 2010
Let's start with the just plain silly: China continues to make noise about the US arms sales. Yesterday at the Munich Security Conference, Chinese FM Yang complains that US arms sales to Taiwan are against international law, and says that Chinese news...

Rounding up ECFA (=Exploiting China to Forego Annihilation)

Feb 5, 2010
Today, in our electricity bill, the government was kind enough to include this pamphlet exhorting us to support ECFA. Note the use of the HSR to invoke visions of modernity and progress. Sorry, DPPers, but you can't complain -- remember when you hung...

China Boycotts Opening Ceremony at Which Ma Appears as Prez





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  Nice blog about Taiwan, updated often, nice pictures, informative posts, and wide coverage of issues.
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