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Why is China’s English disinformation still so crude?
The following article appeared in today’s Taipei Times: The comment arrived shortly after I’d posted the link on Facebook. The article, which was my first for Taiwan Business TOPICS, the magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan, was about burgeoning trade between Taiwan and Lithuania. Accompanied by the profile picture of an attractive […] -
Taiwan and Lithuania look to the long term on consumer goods trade
The following piece article appeared in the Taiwan Business TOPICS, the magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taiwan: What does Lithuania mean to Taiwan? Prior to 2021, perhaps only the presence of several of the country’s basketball players in the NBA. However, following donation in July and October last year of more than […] -
Baltic Biking III
Day 3: Pärnu- Svietciems (85.9km) Pikk morphs into Riga Mnt, which itself becomes the familiar E67 again as you leave town. Something approximating a cycle lane runs an uneven, dusty few kilometres from the centre, until you find yourself entering fragrant evergreen country once more. Although the road to the Latvian border is now […] -
Baltic Biking II
Day 2: Rapla-Pärnu (93.6 km) Get an early start down #27 and stop by Raikkula Manor, seat of the Von Keyserling clan, one of the foremost Baltic German families of the 19th century. Bismarck paid several visits here to his old school chum Alexander, a renowned geologist; grandson Hermann, a proto-liberal philosopher, also popped in […]
