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Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies

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Metal Politics Taiwan

Taiwan’s diplomatic allies have been much on my mind lately, not so much on a national level like will Honduras be the next to flip but more along the lines of elements within the American government coming out on Twitter to support Taiwan,…

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The Four Stages of Life (as experienced through Taiwanese cuisine)

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The four stages of life as experienced through Taiwan food

SEO-destroying, algorithm-annoying preamble: A lot of my stories have stories of their own. This one about Taiwanese Cuisine (chew on that, WordPress SEO monitor) has two or three, so…read on or not. One of the pleasures of establishing a long-term working relationship…

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Influential Mothers in My Life

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The Alien Mother

Seeing as it’s mother’s day I thought I’d relate a tale from the early eighties concerning two influential mothers from my childhood. This story is a reprint, having run in Funny Times a few years back. Of course, it’s old…

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Eight Hour Taipei Layover, Midnight Special

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Eight hours in Taipei map

I used to write a lot of articles on the theme of short layovers around Asia. “Seven hours in Seoul,”  “A Day, a Night and Some Petty Larceny in Okinawa,” that sort of thing. When I was younger, I did…

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Grace versus brute force: Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan

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MMA in Taiwan

It’s five in the afternoon at Hsinchu’s Municipal Stadium, inside of which a crowd of about twelve hundred have gathered, their vibe rowdy, but polite. Welcome to the world of Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan. Heavy Metal music blares over…

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