Posts tagged "taiwan"

[caption id="attachment_2591" align="alignnone" width="840"] Scooters at a Taipei intersection. Credit: Quatro Valvole/Wikimieda[/caption] I'm in Taiwan this month to study Mandarin. During breaks, I'll be posting occasionally about the island nation's... Read more →

I'm in Taiwan this month to study Mandarin. During breaks, I'll be posting occasionally about the island nation's demographics, politics and (sticky) weather. Like other East Asian democracies, such as... Read more →

While we watch the GOP candidates vie for their party’s nomination, the Taiwanese (including some of my wife’s family) are voting in presidential elections of their own — a race that could... Read more →

Elise and I returned yesterday from a 10-day trip to Taiwan, a country whose political status remains in dispute. After a decade of rule by a political party that supported... Read more →