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    In lighter news.

    Taiwan announced a new ambassador to the US yesterday that raised some eyebrow



    Mr. Jin Pu Tsung is well known in Taiwan's political circle, despite never running for office or even really holding a big central government job, he's sometimes called Taiwan's underground President due to his very close tie with the current Prez Ma. the two have been close friends for a long time and are generally rather similar person in age / apperance / hobbie etc... so obviously there's also some (sometimes not so well intentioned) jokes that they must be gay lovers or something

    But Mr. Jin has another rather interesting identity.......

    He's a royal Manchurian... really! if the Qing dynasty were still in power today he might be the emperor heh. given that he was a closely related cousin to the last Emperor Aisengelo Pu Yi (the Manchus mostly changed their last names after the fall of the Qing dynasty in fear of persecution. the name Jin was rather popular since that was the first Manchurian dynasty name in China.)

    Mr. Jin mostly made a name for himself by being the chief strategist of his friend Ma Yin Jieo in his election runs. which he all won including two Presidential race . so some have called him Taiwan's greatest election strategist.

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    Looks pretty young.

    How awesome would it be to be related to a royal family? I was atching a documentary about castles or something like that and one of the surviving members of the Hapsburg family still owned the place.
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    well, probably not very awesome in early 20th century China i'd imagine

    he's actually 56 years old though, but looks considerablly younger, I guess it help that his hobby is the triathelon....
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    Still kind of cool. I don't care where you are.
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    Royal Manchurian eh, RW. Maybe they are hoping Obama wins and they can sucker him out of some extra cash. Just Joking RW.

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    havn't seen you in a while MMC

    For us it really doesn't matter who wins. as far as east asia is concerned Dems and GOP in practice all do the same thing anyway. Regan when he was running at one point promised to reverse Carter's decision to break ties with the ROC and even he didn't do that, there's no way that Romney could possibly go beyond that point.

    In practice, the US geopolitical operation in East Asia are about as stable as it's going to get, it is unlikely any single President now can do anything to really change that.

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    Well India is out of my general field of exepertise but this is interesting.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/20/wo...tml?hpt=ias_c2

    Indians are holding a huge strike the last few days over the government decision to let the great satan... aka Walmart into India. lost in the ruffle of complaints on China being protectionist and currency manipulating is the fact that India, a state often compared with China, is basically just as protectionist if not more so (and also sucking away almost as many jobs.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by RollingWave View Post
    Well India is out of my general field of exepertise but this is interesting.

    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/09/20/wo...tml?hpt=ias_c2

    Indians are holding a huge strike the last few days over the government decision to let the great satan... aka Walmart into India. lost in the ruffle of complaints on China being protectionist and currency manipulating is the fact that India, a state often compared with China, is basically just as protectionist if not more so (and also sucking away almost as many jobs.)

    Well they are shutting down Internet Service again in India as well. Major Protests still jumping off there today.
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    Taiwan had a fleet of some 70 fishing boats and some coastguards that sailed to the disputed island with Japan today, they basically reached it's shores (about 2 nauticle miles) but didn't land due to terrible weather. the Japanese coast guards tried to shoo them off and at one point both sides were shooting water cannons at each other.

    The situation doesn't look like it's going to really chill anytime soon at this point. China's survellience / coast guard ships slip in and out of the island's water every few days now. and Japan's coastguard is working overtime and concentrating a disportionate amount of assets into these islands. from China / Taiwan's prospective there is a calculation to try and shake Japan's "adminsitrative control" on the islands first, which is Japan's main advantage in this argument so far.

    Truth be told, nothing short of grand bargin or war will settle this for good.

    Meanwhile, one of the key men in the whole crazy 007 : China never dies saga (aka Bo Xi Lai scandal). his chief deputy and police chief Wang Li Jun (aka the guy that fled to the American embassy before being sieged out). was sentenced to 15 years... a relatively light punishment considering that he could have easily been trialed for treason. this probably means that Bo himself will get off realitvely unscatched (physically at least, politically he's toast).

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    Yeah looks like BO wont be executed. Thanks for finalizing that issue RW.

    Heard China celebrated Commissioning that Aircraft Carrier they bought from the Russians. Have they managed to at least put a Helicopter on that Ship? I heard they still had no planes on board. Is that True?
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