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Aug 21, 2015

President Lee's comments on 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender

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First, the former President's two most attention-grabbing sentences in his article in Voice (you can buy access to the full issue for...
Mar 24, 2014

Protests

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I've been following protests in Taiwan with a great deal of sympathy for the students, admittedly lukewarm support for the details of t...
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Jan 9, 2013

KMT to support anti-monopoly campaign

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The KMT legislative caucus will be supporting  new amendments to Taiwan's media laws that will, among other things,  "include a re...
Nov 30, 2012

More Peace Agreement thoughts

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I don't have a whole lot of time to write about it right now, but this article will interest many readers: 兩岸 / 蘇嘉宏:兩岸和平協定取向 一些台灣觀點 ...
Oct 17, 2012

Prediction: Hsieh stays, his policy goes

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After Frank Hsieh's recent visit to China, you have seen a lot of discussion in the Green Media dissecting what his trip was aimed at, ...
Sep 4, 2012

Follow up: Cross Strait Dictionary of Common Phrases

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More news on the Cross Strait Dictionary of Common Phrases we talked about here a few days ago. The China version is finally being publ...
Aug 16, 2012

Irritating

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It's so irritating when Ma government guidelines get in the way of telling a story, like in this RTI article. 針對15日發生香港保釣人士赴釣魚台插上中...
Aug 14, 2012

Ma's really into this dictionary

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When I saw this recent article about Ma praising the publication of the new Cross Strait Dictionary of Common Phrases  《兩岸常用詞典》, I was ini...
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Aug 10, 2012

My bad

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I'll have to say, when the DPP created it's China Affairs Office shortly after Su took the chairmanship, I assumed it would be an o...
Jul 19, 2012

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Premier Sean Chen (陳沖), talking about the need to preserve aboriginal languages in Taiwan, said that the Executive Yuan's Council of I...
Jun 28, 2012

"Mutual non-denial," eh?

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China Times Headline: Taiwan Affairs Office: We oppose Taiwan signing agreements that have imply sovereignty (國台辦:反對台簽主權意涵協議) Because th...
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Jun 12, 2012

Wang Yi's title

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Wang Yi  is the head of China's Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台湾事务办公室), aka the Taiwan Affairs Office (国台办). Taiwanes...
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May 5, 2012

1363?

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This is my 1363rd post, which I find rather remarkable. As everyone's noticed, I've cut way down on blogging politics since movin...
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Mar 20, 2012

Pingtan: What's the Deal?

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One of the more interesting stories developing over the last few weeks has been China's efforts to push the Pingtan Experimental Develop...
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Jan 16, 2012

Revisiting single member districts

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Much to my surprise, there seems to be some rather thorough dissatisfaction in the legislature with the current single member district syste...
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