Frozen Garlic in the New York Times

I didn’t post nearly as much on this blog as I expected to last week. This is one of the reasons.

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6 Responses to “Frozen Garlic in the New York Times”

anon9999 Says:
January 13, 2020 at 12:43 am | Reply
Congrats! Now you are part of the establishment elite! ;P
Peter Gries Says:
January 13, 2020 at 12:45 am | Reply
Bravo! Congratulations, Nathan!
Chris Malloy Says:
January 13, 2020 at 3:14 am | Reply
This was an excellent and important piece. Bravo.
Rue Says:
January 13, 2020 at 6:09 am | Reply
I knew it had to be someone particularly knowledgeable about Taiwan politics to pen an op-ed in the New York Times that wasn’t the usual tripe about “Tsai, renegade province, China split 1949, provoke Beijing, 1992 Consensus,” etc. etc.
Julian Baum Says:
January 13, 2020 at 7:04 am | Reply
Nice piece & it’s encouraging that the often politically tone-deaf NYT published it. There are immediate lessons here for Democrats in US if they would listen. Julian
Mr. Wang Says:
January 14, 2020 at 1:38 am | Reply
I knew Han was doomed when my very blue parents-in-laws announced a few days before the election that they were voting for Tsai. They are retired civil servants who have voted KMT their whole lives. They hate what the DPP has done to their pensions. Just two years ago I overheard my mother-in-law say, “Tsai is worse than the Communists.”

They still don’t love Tsai, but Han’s populism turned them off. Populism is what my in-laws had accused the DPP of being for years. This year, in their minds, Tsai was the more rational, sober, and lesser of two evils candidate.

I suspect they would come back to the KMT in future elections if it runs a more mainstream candidate. But who knows.