Tomas:
Writing about us as if we aren’t here, eh?
Now, where’s the best beach in Switzerland?
Tomas, you are obviously not of one “they.” 
YOU should, Alleycat, especially if you like medallions of pork (which you do). Costco’s meat is so many light years better than the stuff you get at Wellcome that you’ll be converted with a single trip. Cheap cheese and excellent meat are the main reasons I go there. Try their lamb and their pork tenderloins. You will not be disappointed.
Funny you should mention that, because those “made in Taiwan” maps show Kashmir as an independent country. I mean, from my shallow knowledge of the subject, I think Kashmir probably should be independent, but I just wonder why ROC government-approved maps show it that way.
Chinese maps also show Pakistan colored differently from India or Pakistan. (White, I believe…as if it could be colored red or green depending on how things work out!) The point may not be so much to support Kashmiri independence, as to indicate that the final status (in India or Pakistan) is yet to be decided, a la UN ruling number whatever.
On the other hand, they do still recognize Sikkim as an independent nation even though its people VOTED to join India.
Costco - great meat, cheap DVD’s and big, big bags of M&M’s!
I don’t see what there is to get upset about in one China globes (it is the belief of a sizable number of Taiwanese after all) but this one does strike me as ridiculous:
CETRA - the China External Trade Development Council
Agree with the comments of Blueface when he says that Cosco seems
to be going downhill. The four or five items I went there specifically to
purchase as I could not find them elsewhere in Taiwan have now
completely disappeared. I agree that it is not as clean as it was before.
Also, if you try to talk to someone about items that were sold before
and are no longer being sold you get the same answer you would get
if you went to the grocery store at Far Eastern Dept. Store or Carefour.
I tell them (in Chinese) that I often buy a particular product, I want to
purchase that product now, and ask why it is not longer being sold.
The response always is the same, “Nobody wants that product.” I
repeat that I want to buy the product and they always tell me that
“Nobody want that product”. So sometimes in Taiwan I guess we have
to be content with being “Mr. Nobody” or “Ms. Nobody”.
I used to be able to get construction paper, good dictionaries, art books,
etc.; most of those are unavailable now. It is all very disappointing as
I did like to shop in that store. But now, half the time I do not bother
to make the trip as I hate to be disappointed.