Taiwan election results could lead to testing times in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edit Canberra Times 19 Jan 2016
The thumping victories by Tsai Ingwen and her political party the DPP (Democratic Progressive Party) in Taiwan's elections last Saturday are a breath of fresh air ... Taiwan escaped Communist takeover in 1949 and has evolved a long way since then ... There has not been a hint of admiration or awe at the peaceful nature of the shift from Guomindang (Nationalist) rule to DPP rule, much less of respect for the rise of Tsai Ingwen ... ....

The Death of the “Pacifist” Constitution: Japan’s Return to Its Martial Roots

Edit CounterPunch 29 Sep 2015
The Japanese Diet’s passage of laws that allow for Japanese military action in support of a “close ally” when attacked represent a violation of Japan’s fundamental law, which (since 1947) has clearly banned the right of the state to go to war, period ... U.S ... could, in 1945, when China was led by the united front between Chiang Kai-shek’s Guomindang and the communists, assigned the disputed islands back to China with the stroke of a pen ... ....

Tibet and Taiwan

Edit Huffington Post 04 Apr 2015
McLeod Ganj, a town in the north of India where the Dalai Lama lives in exiled residency. On a warm October day in McLeod Ganj, a town in Northern India nestled between peaks of the outer-Himalayas, the streets were bustling with life ... "We are not going to the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] because they destroyed our monasteries," he told the Tibetan Review recently, highlighting his stance that the Guomindang is an ally ... _________ ... ....

Here Is Xi's China. Get Used to It.>

Edit Huffington Post 15 Dec 2014
Economic concerns quickly took over ... Achievements were sparse ... Anti-corruption drives were central early-stage tactics for Park Chung-hee (who brutally converted South Korea from crony-capitalist basket case to developmental success story in the 1960s and '70s) and Chiang Ching-kuo (who in the 1980s reined in the epic corruption of his Guomindang party and set Taiwan on a course for democracy and high-technology prowess) ... > ....

Herbert Marcuse and Absolute Struggle in 2013

Edit CounterPunch 16 Dec 2013
“One can delineate the domain of philosophy however one likes, but in its search for truth, philosophy is always concerned with human existence. Authentic philosophizing refuses to remain at the stage of knowledge […] ...Herbert Marcuse, “On Concrete Philosophy” (1929) ... the radical struggle () against domination ... that is, the as a tactical retreat from the Guomindang so as to regroup and ultimately defeat Chiang Kai-Shek’s forces ... ....
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