Political Links, August 23, 2006

Crowded with news...

Jerome Keating's piece from last week in the Taipei Times on the laziness of the international media was picked up by Asia Media. I love this line: When Taiwan is mentioned, the stock phrase appears: "Taiwan, which China considers a renegade province." Fair game, for that is what China considers Taiwan. Unfortunately, these journalists never say what Taiwan thinks of China....

....which reminds me. Last week Jerome asked whatever happened to Li Wen-Chen, the young man on the hunger strike to bring down Chen Shui-bian? He has gone on to a singing career. As the Liberty Times noted, if you're against Chen, you can do well.

Jason blogs on Taiwan's exciting new policy of entering the UN under the name of Taiwan, which is sure to succeed. And in other news, a flock of flying pigs alighted briefly on Taipei 101 before resuming their southward migration ahead of winter.

I'll do the ongoing Shih Ming-te Show in a separate post....

[Taiwan]