While Ma and the KMT are fantasizing about the Taiwanese people coming around to the stories of their former glory, the people are busy fighting for their own right to define history and identity.
Latest from Taiwan includes Ko Wen-je’s visit to Shanghai, and a commando rescue at sea. Elsewhere, search for answers continue after bomb explosion in Thailand, and North Korea and South Korea exchange artillery fire.
Taiwan’s Confucian labor values are perpetuated by the grownups, which includes the government, through education. Innovation, and a functioning democratic state, requires the youth to question authority and be self-critical.
馬政府的執政不得民心，很大的一個原因就是台灣的人才庫已經不大，而馬英九仍然只選擇某單一族群認同的人才，這些不自覺的親中傾向也解釋了為什麼有些最近的政策已經失去平衡與合理性。
The aftermath of typhoon Soudelor, and justice in a case from last year’s Sunflower Movement. Elsewhere, nations continue to strategize as everyone focuses on China’s multiple depreciations of the yuan.