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This article is in response to the pro-Tibet banner hung near Olympic Park before the Olympics began.

Even before the Olympics began, the protests had begun. However, the perpetrators should be congratulated for defeating their own cause.

The merits of their Tibet argument aside, such tactics as shown the other day are highly ineffectual. China is currently at a high point for nationalism and patriotism. A high percentage of Chinese are reported to feel comfortable with their government, perhaps despite the low level of political freedom or perhaps because of their increasing prosperity. Since the Olympics is viewed by many as a way to show China's development to an international player, events that would cause the Chinese to lose face will be magnified.
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“Thai what?”, she stares at me with a silly look. “Sima… Sima! over here! did we ever have anybody go to - what did you say that country was again? Thai wand, he says… what’s the capitol of Thai wand?” and then I hear that Sima girl proclaim - “I checked, there’s no such country”.Yep, been there [...]
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Now in Israel - Chinese and Taiwanese fight over a Taiwan flag display in one small Israeli folk dance festival almost no one I know has heard of. Here’s from Taipei Times’  ”Dance turns nationalist at Israeli folkdance festival“:Chinese performers at an international folkdance festival in Israel touched off a diplomatic flap earlier this month by [...]
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Today’s headlines in the Israeli newspapers are detailing the incident of a lawyer by the name Amnon De Hartog (אמנון דה-הרטוך) who slapped an ultra-orthodox parliament member Yakov Cohen (יעקב כהן) on the face. Here’s from Haaretz :De Hartog struck MK Yakov Cohen after the lawmaker told him he was “more evil and terrible than [...]
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 Wonder what Taiwan would look like in 2050? Here’s an interesting project called "Vision of the Future - 2050" created by NCTU students :-I remember that while in Taiwan I saw a fascinating presentation in the Taipei City Hall, between the SYSMH and the Taipei 101, about Taiwan’s urban plans for the future. If you’re [...]
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Now that I know that I’ve been accepted to NCKU and NCTU in Taiwan, and that there’s the Taiwan scholarship to back that up, there’s the simple yet difficult issue of where I should go. There are so many small details and so much uncertainty that I’m sometimes not sure what the right direction is. [...]
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News travels fast. It’s quite extraordinary, really. I never thought that people from all over the world, some of whom I’ve never met, would take interest in what’s happening with me. So, yeah, it’s true. Taiwan has kindly awarded me the Taiwan scholarship for a 3 years degree, and I now have to choose between [...]
 
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Suppose you’re heading the tourism promotion team for your country, say China, Taiwan, Korea or Israel, and you have total control and no money constraints, what would you focus on?Last week, I talked with two Chinese who visited Israel and were extremely surprised  with what they saw here. Putting it nicely, they were expecting a [...]
 
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In case you didn’t hear about it, there was a small blogging conference in Taipei-Taiwan last week. Scott Sommers and David Reid were there and Michael Turton gave a presentation (in Chinese!) about Taiwan’s English blogosphere.
Here are some of the highlights from Michael’s presentation :

Most foreigners who blog in Taiwan don’t blog on Taiwan; they blog on their own lives, [...]
 
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Taiwan is a modern industrialized megalopolis clinging to the fringes of an ancient culture; a string of teeming cities at the feet of a glorious mountain range. It has traditional noodles from a 7-Eleven, aboriginal tribes in mini-skirts and a day of temple rituals followed by waterslide rides. (from Lonely Planet)

Go visit Taiwan.
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I had a [...]
 
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