Election + Quemoy

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(1) Andrew Jacobs, Former U.S. Diplomat Rattles Taiwan Before Election. New York Times, Jan 14, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/1 ... q=taiwan&st=cse

() Robin Kwong, Calm Waters Between China and Taiwan? Financial Times, Jan 12, 2012 (online video).
http://video.ft.com/v/1384468102 ... n-China-and-Taiwan-

My comment:
(a) My posting dated Jan 13 (yesterday) featured
Robin Kwong,  Tsai Turns Focus from China to Economy in Taiwan Election; Presidential poll; The opposition leader is focusing on domestic issues rather than cross-strait tension. Financial Times, Jan 13, 2012.

In print, the report carried a window: "VIDEO  Kinmen: An island on the edge of China  www.ft.com/Kinmen"
(b) Watching the video clip, I am surprised to learn
(i) that reporter Robin Kwong is male. In my first year in US, my dorm mate in University of Illinois, a man, had first name Robin, too, who said before he had arrived on campus, his classmates had thought it would be a woman, solely based on the first name. You see, though Robin Hood was a man (I told my roommate), Robin has become almost exclusivly female.
(ii) that people in Kinmen/Quemoy, at least some of them, like Taiwan. I have had the impressions that outlying islands wants to re-join China.  Given the proximity, I can't blame them.
(iii) There is a university there, whose name is National Quemoy University (as opposed to Kinmen).

National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Kinmen Division became National Kinmen Institute of Technology, which was in 2003 upgraded to National Quemoy University. If then Pres Chen Shui-bian had a role in the name of the university, more power to him.
(c) Chinese Postal Map Romanization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Postal_Map_Romanization
(Quemoy)