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...must loudly tell each of you, gay friends, if you live in Taipei city we will not commit any discrimination or harassment against you." Ma Ying-jeou, Taipei 's Mayor, during an event hailed as the first gay-pride parade ever to be held in a Chinese city...
...ensuing three decades, "One China," and the inexorable shift towards opening the Chinese economy to the West following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, began to change the terms of the relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington. Where Chiang had once represented the authoritarian strongman presiding over a booming capitalist economy offering low-cost manufactured goods to the U.S. market and raising the living standards of its people, today that role has been usurped on the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. The tension across the Taiwan Strait remains high, but its terms have changed. Today, Beijing's claim...
...University. "They're now focusing more on long-term interests instead of insignificant altercations across the strait." Still, politicians in Taiwan caution that subtlety doesn't mean China has softened its cross-strait stance. "Beijing may be showing self-restraint in public," says a high-ranking government aide in Taipei, "but in private they seem to be trying to give us hell." Indeed, China is steadily chipping away at Taiwan's sovereignty by stripping the island of nations that still maintain diplomatic relations with Taipei. Just last week, little Liberia switched allegiance to Beijing, possibly because China used its position...
This small contact, multiplied by Lee’s angst over his father’s death and his general disengagement with his life, turns into an obsession that culminates in his quixotic quest to change all the clocks in Taipei to Paris time. His mother takes a parallel path, denying the death of her husband, setting food out for him as before and even attempting to recreate other aspects of their relationship. This is not a film to see on a first date, or with an elderly relative...
...like, who is Mr. Kam? Or they call me Mr. Kim, and I have to remind them that I'm not Korean." He admits his shape-shifting attributes, which are a powerful acting tool, may stem from personal rootlessness. He owns two apartments, one in Tokyo and one in Taipei, but says that he's never in either long enough to decorate. "I don't have a sense that I live anywhere," he sighs. By nature, he suggests, he's a fickle character with no fixed center: "My thinking changes all the time. People may read an interview I gave...