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Greetings from Taipei. It’s 6 AM here on Monday morning and I’ve just about recovered from the 12 hour Canada to Taiwan jet lag. Yesterday was spent touring museums and the countryside, guided by a protocol officer from the Taiwanese government. In a few hours I along with a delegation of international journalists will be sitting down to have a chat with the Taiwanese vice-president, Lu Hsiu-Lien Annette, in the run-up to the 2007 APEC summit in Australia.
I wanted to take a moment here to recommend a book that I was given by a representative of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Association during my layover in Vancouver, waiting for the 2 AM flight across the Pacific. I have barely started it, but what I’ve read of Jonathan Manthorpe’s betel nut girl phenomenon in Taiwan. I hadn’t heard of this before and I found it fascinating. Chicks in bikinis selling drugs. Fascinating. (Yeah, I needed sleep.)
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