Sorry in advance but I’m jacking this thread... new baby born a couple of hours ago. First of the season. She’s ADORABLE!!!

Thank you! As I get older, I’m realizing just how inapropropriate it is for US/Southern culture to celebrate plantations. Yes, they are beutiful buildings but if people would just stop for one minute to think about the atrocities that went on there, they would hopefully realize that they weren’t these magical places…

I know the plantation -Drayton Hall - where people on my father’s side were slaves. Due to rape, I’m actually a descendant of the Drayton family. People get married there now.

New Zealand!

The US supports China despite their human rights violations for the same reason it supports Saudia Arabia. It’s all about the money. Viva la Capitalism!

That’s great. And yet we, as the paragon of democracy, have yet to do so.

Yeah, Chen was fun.

“All politic is local.”

It all depends on their economy over the next decade. If china can’t keep the economic boom going I’m sure they’ll start looking to Taiwan as a scapegoat.

You can totally tell that she was forced to apologize. She’s being punished by not being allowed to tour or something like that. It is appalling that JYP would force her to do that just to appease China, the country of human rights violations. Why do so many countries, the US included, do everything to get on China’s…

Great Briton, India, Canada, Germany, Australia; who did I leave out? All had women as heads of state. It’s time America.

This has “fuck you, China” written all over it—in Mandarin, Min, Hakka, Wu, and Cantonese.

She is also 1/4 Paiwan, one of the aboriginal tribe of Taiwan. Most of the populations are descented from Ming loyalists who went to Taiwan and defeat Dutch East Indie Company in 1661.

And was also the DPP’s Presidential candidate in 2012, and has been on-and-off chair of the DPP since 2008 (2008-2012 and 2014-today).

China invading Taiwan would be a spark that would ignite the powderkeg of simmering tensions in that whole region.

The U.S.-educated former law professor is the first woman to hold office.

Chen (President from 2000 to 2008) was much more confrontational with the PRC than Tsai is likely to be, and the PRC has its own internal problems these days. No issue.

An interesting situation happened days before the election. A Taiwanese kpop idol singer (16 female) Chou Tzuyu was hunted down by the Chinese online community for waving the Taiwanese flag and proclaiming she’s Taiwanese in Korea (the place where she’s active at), and hence according to them “she spread the false…

While I sincerely doubt that Beijing will move to take Taiwan by force in the next decade, it could be interesting how a non-KMT politician will play out. A woman, no less, dealing with the very male CCP.

Well, looking at google translate of the original article it looks like this is more of a tourist attraction than a place of worship. And that rather than maple leaves being served, it’s some kind of maple flavored food like a cake. Which makes much more sense, since that is a popular flavor of sweet in many parts of…