The Foreigner in Formosa

I Can't Look at Hobbles and I Can't Stand Fences

Don't fence me in:

China's capital has started gating and locking some of its lower-income neighborhoods overnight, with police or security checking identification papers around the clock, in a throwback to an older style of control.

Used to think it was hyperbole to describe the PRC as "neo-fascist".  Maybe I was mistaken on that score.

Taiwan's Communist Party Blacklists Uighur Splittist

Rebiya Kadeer forbidden to enter Taiwan for three years by Ma Ying-jeou's cronies in Immigration. The story in today's Taipei Times.  Although curiously, the Times quaintly persists in referring to the party in question as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

But then, as dissident Yu Jie might have said to the Chinese Stasi during his recent interrogation, it's easy to mistake one axe-gang for another.