NeoCon on Taiwan’s election

Written by John R. Bolton a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Bolton on Ma’s victory
Ma’s strong support for closer economic ties with China reflects the widely held expectation that such ties will improve Taiwan’s economic position. Moreover, in pursuit of those ties, he will downplay Taiwan’s political challenge to China, not because, as many [...]

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Why is Taiwan so desperate to get into the United Nations?

I met a couple of politically opinionated people tonight and had intense political discussions. During our conversation about how Taiwanese culture were susceptible to patriarchialism, i made an interesting pitch. I asked, is Taiwanese desire to be recognized by the United Nations a manifestation of Taiwan’s patriarchal trait?
In Taiwan, family with father at its center [...]

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Mainland Chinese like their Internet controlled

From Pew’s latest survey of Chinese opinion regarding Internet control
Since 2005, the percentage of users who say that online content about “politics” should be controlled or managed jumped from 8% to 41%, by far the biggest increase of any items tested.
If this is true, wow. The Communist Party is doing a great job controlling public [...]

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Political Compass

Try this site: http://www.politicalcompass.org/
and do the test see where you are on the political compass.
Here is my result:

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Reply to Neouto’s Question about FED bailing out Bear Stearns

At first glance on this issue, it seems to be a dilemma situation.  I don’t have solid stance against or for this policy. However, I would like to provide some opinions on it.
First of all, it is widely agreed by liberalism that one reason for a government  intervention in the market is the existence of externality, which [...]

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A Brief Complement

Herein I try to show more technically that rational candidates are inclined to mobilize supporters to vote. Assume that election is a game with 2 players (candidateI, candidateII). Each has 2 strategies (to Mobilize supporters to vote, Not to mobilize supporters to vote) to choose from. The outcomes of the game are characterized by the winning [...]

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A Brief Comment on “Why Vote when it won’t affect the outcome?”

After comtemplating on Neouto’s post about why rational people vote, I would like to give out some opinions, though I am not sure if it is logically convincing enough. I try to explain voting is a rational decision from the point of view of game thoery.

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Why Vote when it wont affect the outcome?

Just voted today in Taiwan’s presidential election, why did i vote when i know perfectly well voting wont effect the outcome of the election?
According to a research cited by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, “Of the more than 16,000 Congressional elections, in which many more people vote, only one election in the past 100 years [...]

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A Chinese Propaganda on Tibet

I am not a historian, I am not going to dispute the “facts” stated in this video.
Nor will i defend the now indefensible European imperialism, Japanese imperialism and Han-Chinese imperialism of the past.
(yes China was and still is an empire forge together by conquest over neighbouring nations)

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Bob Tsao’s misguided view of democratic governance 曹興誠錯誤的民主行政觀念

I was very impress with Bob Tsao (曹興誠)’s cross strait peaceful coexistence act (兩岸和平共處法), however his concept of democratic governance stuns me as misguided.
In a post he wrote following KMT’s election victory gaining control over 3/4 of the legislature seats.
一般沒有管理經驗的學者，通常會過度強調制衡的重要。可是「制衡」與「掣肘」、「牽制」、「搗亂」該如何區分？許多人就說不清楚了。按理說，不管總統、各級官員、立法委員或其他民意代表，通通是食國家俸祿的公務員；老百姓付他們薪水，是希望他們通力合作，為人民謀福利。如果這些公務員，正事不幹，天天就是彼此搗蛋、牽制，弄得國家一片混亂，那實在是笑話。然而不幸的是，台灣民主化以後，這樣的笑話，變成我們天天看到的現實。
以台北市來說，市民們以七、八十萬票選出了一個市長；接著又以三、五萬票選出一批市議員；如果這些議員主要的工作就是牽制市長，那豈非我們的左手與右手成天互相搗亂，而我們則像一個精神分裂的病患？

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