The Obama Administration To Sell Arms

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Exclusive: Obama eyes arms sales to Taiwan. Reuters, Dec. 10, 2009.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B906Y20091210
(diesel-electric submarines, UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot PAC
missiles, "Po Sheng" (Broad Victory) command and control program)

Note: Po Sheng 博勝


----------------Separately
(1) Con Coughlin, Iran seeks nuclear parts through Taiwan; UN officials are
investigating claims that Iran has established a new smuggling network using
companies based in Taiwan to acquire specialised equipment that could be
used to make nuclear weapons. Telegraph, Dec. 10, 2009.
http://notepad.mail.yahoo.com/YYY,8a2a36/srt,0/?v=161&pv=164&CID=-1
("Recent intelligence reports have revealed that officials from Iran's
Ministry of Defence have held a series of meeting with companies based in
Taiwan to buy hundreds of pressure transducers, which can be used to produce
weapons-grade uranium.")

My comment: Other than the quote, there is no need to read the rest.

(2) Stephen Holden, Subsisting on Cellphones and Hope. New York Times, Dec.
10, 2009.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/movies/10yours.html
(movie review on Sincerely Yours, a movie about foreign labor in Taiwan)

(3) Jason Wu | Fashion Designer   New York Times, Dec. 8, 2009.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/jason-wu-fashion-designer/

My comment: Once in a while (but always on Sundays), New York Times
publishes a Style magazine. This past Sunday, there is a theme: Stephen
Heyman (text) and Robert Maxwell (photograph), The Originals | American
Dreamers; They Came (from the Far Corners of the Globe), The Saw (
Opportunity), and Boy, Did They Conquer--one of which is about Mr. Wu.

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