2019 - 3rd Quarter
Hong Kong, Taiwan and 21st Century Zeitgeist
What constitutes the spirit of an age? What determines its zeitgeist? Should one join or oppose it? The answers to these and other questions are embedded in what is taking place in Hong Kong. ...
Hong Kong: Promises, Lies and Airports
The protests continue in Hong Kong with both sides seeking to claim the high ground. ...
Populism, Democracy and Taiwan
Taiwan is full of surprises, but one thing is certain, democracy is alive and doing very well. This comes in the strangest but not always the best ways. ...
Sorting the Wheat from Chaff in Taiwan's Elections
The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is in the midst of a new lengthy process to select a candidate for next year's presidential elections. They will announce the results after July 15. ...
Taiwan's Place in an Expanding Vast Universe
The universe is vast. In it, our solar system is but a dot in our galaxy and our galaxy is but a dot among the many, many galaxies. Scientists currently speculate that there are more than 100 billion of them, but even if that figure were to be totally low-balled into just 1 billion galaxies, it boggles the mind. ...