Anyone else catch his little martial arts demonstration on Xiao S’s show tonight? He nearly kicked her in the head (not that I would have minded). I was amused to learn that he quit his college teaching job in Pingtung because it didn’t pay well enough, opened a buxiban, and that’s how he got rich. I didn’t see the whole show, but from what I did see the toughest questions the hosts asked him were “Would you go out with Chen Chu? How about Annette Lu?” Taiwan media-politics at its most banal.
Supposedly the video is here, though I can’t get it to load:
I agree with that! Maybe more than a third in my opinion. What else can explain their flippy-floppy attitudes when it comes to defending democracy and their island which may or may not be a country. I’ve never heard tell of a place under military threat that would politically support a party that doesn’t want to spend money bolstering defenses. But that’s what we see in Taiwan. People actually seem to think Ma Ying-jou (sp?) will save their way of life somehow with his good looks. Who needs subs and airplanes when you can have a hero?
