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Taiwan breaks ground on fulfilling Chinese manifest destiny

One or two of these heroic deeds highlights about every block in Taipei.When the cabinet decided this year to dig Taiwan out of recession with a New Deal-style, job-intensive infrastructure development plan, I knew the moral of the story before the gavel... ...full story at Laowiseass

from Laowiseass on Sun, May 10 2009

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