2019 - 3rd Quarter

Hong Kong, Taiwan and 21st Century Zeitgeist

Sunday September 1

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

Wednesday August 21

The protests continue in Hong Kong with both sides seeking to claim the high ground. ...

Populism, Democracy and Taiwan

Wednesday July 24

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

Tuesday July 16

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 expect the results are in on July 15. ...

Taiwan's Place in an Expanding Vast Universe

Tuesday July 2

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. ...