Month: May 2007

  • Off-topic: indexed. youtubed. gay'd.

    For a long time the RSS feed of indexed, with its index card distillations of popular sentiment, has been a favorite of mine. Today I happened to notice a link to this video on the indexed website. It’s an exceedingly complicated yet digestible narrative of many of indexed author Jessica Hagy’s entries. I just recently…

  • links for 2007-05-21

    Lawmakers ready trade bills as U.S., China talk – Yahoo! News Value of yuan likely to dominate U.S.-China trade talks – International Herald Tribune By Joe McDonald The Associated Press People’s Daily Online — Chinese, Japanese, ROK offcials converge for foreign affairs consultation Senior foreign affairs officials of China, Japan and the Republic of Korea…

  • McCain on N. Korea, Rearming Japan, and Taiwan (Oct. 2006)

    In a Hannity & Colmes interview last year devoted mostly to attacking U.S. efforts to control North Korea under President Bill Clinton, Senator John McCain—now a leading Republican presidential candidate—said if the United Nations doesn’t do enough to control North Korea, Japan will have to “rearm.” And he said, puzzlingly, that something he refers to…

  • links for 2007-05-20

    「ブッシュ政権の韓国に対する無理解が反米感情あおった」 | Chosun Online | 朝鮮日報 米NSC次期補佐官フレイザー氏、ブッシュ政権を批判 Xinhua: Cliff carvings may rewrite history of Chinese characters The images change over time, suggesting that many different cultures had used the site over the centuries. A Shining Model of Wealth Without Liberty – washingtonpost.com “The Iraq war isn’t over, but one thing’s already clear: China won.” is…

  • Roh Lauds EU, Scolds Japan, and Calls for Regionalism

    Japan Focus republished an April op-ed by South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun today. Choice quotes: “[T]he Europeans, befitting of a people who invented democracy based on rational thought, are writing a new history based on the lessons learned from their long string of wars. …”Many scholars define the 19th century as the Age of Europe,…