Why Ma Pushes and Shoves for Taiping

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Ralph Jennings, How Taiwan Could Lose Its Claim To The South China Sea. Forbes, Mar 23, 2016 (blog).
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralp ... a-sea/#4ed95aff44a3

Note: "So Taiwan wants to show that its developed, coast guard-managed holding in the Spratly archipelago is no rock, even if it takes goats to make that point."

goat (n): "British informal A stupid person; a fool <just for once, stop acting the goat>"
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/goat