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    yeah, geography is an issue, the big cities in the US is usually a lot more spaced out which makes high speed train somewhat less attractive. In Taiwan the main issue is everything between the 2 major city is pretty highly populated too so there's a lot of major stops in between, the fastest normal train between the 2 city takes a bit more than 4 hours because of that, where as the high speed train is at most 2 hour (the once with only 1 stop will be there in 1:30)

    price of tickets for the 4 hour trip is about 28 bucks USD, high speed train is about 47.

    plane ticket is about 70 bucks, flight itself is 40 min but once accounting for the wait time (there's usually only 3 flights a day there, the high speed train units at least 3 an hour and usually more like 6) . and the distances of airport, it is likely to take LONGER to fly for nearly twice the money. so it's no wonder that passenger flight between the two went from 1.3 million passenger before the highspeed opened to ....25k this year before the last passanger company decided to stop that route (from as much as 7 company at it's height).

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    Happy new year everyone, here's a clip from Taiwan's famous new year attraction this year, the Taipei 101 firework


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    The on going struggle for the island in the east sea too another (unfortunate ) step yesterday, since the most recent round of debacle China has gradually pushed their military and paramilitary ship patrol into the waters close to the islands in question, now they're doing it by air too. Japanese air force had to take several emergency takeoffs over the last few days as Chinese warplane appear to be heading on a strait path towards the islands.

    One report even says that the Japanese fired off warning flares on the Chinese planes whom turned back before actually crossing into Japanese air space.

    These sort of things are problematic, in the south China sea where many claims overlap each other it's more of a free for all and this sort of thing happens a lot (the warning flare part aside, though it was in one such incident that a US plane crashed with a Chinese one a few years back.) But China have never really tested the Japanese like this before, as most assumed that the presence of the USAF would have deterred them from such tactics, but apparently not. (for what it's worth, Japan and Korea do this quite a bit too over their own disputed islands. )

    For China, the realistic goal in the shorter run is probably to force Japan and the UN/ US to acknowledge that the islands in question really is a disputed island, which so far they have not (especially Japan) .

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    Well, Japan has made big moves with a mega stimulus package, which has won the praise of Paul Krugman, I guess it would be interesting to see the ultimate Kenysian test being done on someone else dim, though given the suffocating stagnation Japan has taken over the years, almost any major change is welcome.

    Still, the Abe administration seem to be doing a lot of the same stupid things that made him resign last time around, this time his deputy minister (and ex-minister himself) made the interesting remark (in a public speech) that the best way to solve Japan's pension issue is if "old and sick people die quicker" ................... well that's not technically wrong, but it made you wonder how anyone in the ring of a big country's national politics can be dumb enough to say something like that.

    Meanwhile, Yukio Hatoyama, the recent DPJ priminister a few years back, visited Nanjing a couple days ago and became the first former high ranking Japanese official to admit that there really was a dispute around the Diayu Islands, this lead to the LDP to call him a traitor, so all's rosy in east Asia

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    Japan has been stagnate for two decades. Following Paul's advice....

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    Well, there was one thing that was obviously wrong on Krugman's argument of Japan's lost decade, he argued that it was a liquidity trap because Japanese people saved too much which in terms made banks too big to fail and in turn made a lot of corporations too big to fail as well... it's quite clear now that Banks often become too big to fail regardless of peoples saving

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    Right. He is focused on the wrong stuff. Savings are actually good for an economy.

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    I think that like most other things in the world , too much or too little of anything isn't going to be good. Too much saving tend to have a issue with that it means the consumer market may be under utilized, and at the end of the day someone's gotta be a buyer for something to sell. and an economy with too few end user is going to have problems. or in Japan's case, where everyone spend on limited durable goods (aka land). that is also a issue.

    But Krugman's approach is not uncommon for economist (or many other forms of academic) to stake out a particular aspect of a complex subject and then try to expand everyone around it.. generally not good when actually put into the real world IMHO, but pretty much all academics do it.

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    Well, the PM of Japan Shinzo Abe supposedly said while in Parliment today that he will consider putting a permenent station on the disputed islands with China.

    If that really go through, expect real fighting for sure. keep eye on this potential, if it's anywhere near materialising short all stocks and stock and go all in for gold .

    (I think the USA would sooner assassinate Abe then let him do that though)

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    A major war in Asia...

    I expect all this bluster to come to nothing but sometimes these things take on a momentum of their own.
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