The Vindicator
Date: November 12, 2017 @ 12:00 a.m.
By: Todd Franko (Contact)

If you are reading this first thing this morning, I am back again with you in this time zone.

A week ago, as I headed across the globe to Taiwan, it was confusing to describe time and place.

“Confusing” is a fitting way to describe the complicated life of Taiwan – which is what I and 20 other world journalists were invited to experience. (See last week’s column for more of an FYI on this trip.)

Taiwan is a vibrant country that we were invited to experience from the front row of life. We got a show – genuine and gracious; not gaudy and groping.

Yet Taiwan lives in a cloud that is China – its neighbor, its rival, its so-called enemy, its business partner and, essentially, part of its homeland.

China is China, and Taiwan, too, is China.    [FULL  STORY]