Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
I swear, this sounds like a satire from the People's Cube:
A follower of a Chinese religious leader who has reportedly been persecuted for more than a decade and recently incriminated by the Chinese government for undertaking “illegal acts of goodwill” has come to Taiwan seeking assistance…
Guess they know what their audience likes…
All the Middle East's problems solved, overnight. The Onion has the scoop:
Everyone in Middle East given own country in 317 million-state solution
The broad and extensive compromise, which affects more than 3,000,000 square miles formerly occupied by the territories of Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Oman, Yemen, Egypt, and Jordan, will reportedly draw over 750,000,000 new borders in what experts claim will help drastically curb sectarian violence.
There are, of course, a few trifling kinks to work out:
The resolution, however, has not been without various complications, with the U.N. now struggling to accommodate its 317,000,183 member states, and the global economy still reportedly has yet to incorporate each of the 317,000,000 entirely new forms of currency.
River In China Mysteriously Turns Bloody Red Overnight
Xi Jinping's first-born son may not be sleeping well tonight…
Granted, it's not entirely impossible that the Ukrainians might have done it. But given that Putin's mercenaries and fifth-columnists have been destroying Ukrainian planes on a semi-regular basis, the preponderance of evidence points to Russian responsibility.
More sanctions. Now.
Visiting Communist Party apparatchik Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) must feel right at home watching President Ma of Taiwan brutalize the citizenry.
Using members of the Taiwanese mafia, no less – for plausible deniability. That PhD in law from Harvard sure does come in handy sometimes.
With a bloody face, a wound on his forehead and blood-stained clothing, Liang Po-chou (梁伯洲) told reporters at the square in front of the temple that he was assaulted by five or six people using steel blowpipes.
Liang said he was there with his father, Changhua County Councilor Liang Chen-hsiang (梁禎祥) of the Democratic Progressive Party, and other people trying to show Zhang posters with slogans against the cross-strait service trade agreement and slogans that the future of Taiwan is a matter for 23 million Taiwanese people to decide.
The “gangster-like people” began beating him when he was trying to argue with executive officers of the temple because he was angry that they asked staff to set off firecrackers on the streets in an attempt to disperse people who refused to leave, Liang said.
Perhaps the Strongman-In-Shortpants ran out of policemen willing to do his dirty work.
(Chinese mafia runs security for Taiwanese mob boss president Ma ("Fredo") Ying-jeou. Image from the Taipei Times.)
Professor Jerome Cohen must be very, very proud of his former student's scrupulous adherence to the rule of law.
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“China invaded Vietnam seventeen times. The US invaded Mexico only once, and look at how sensitive Mexicans are about that.”
— Vietnamese diplomat
