The New York Times and others have applied to set up bureaus in Taiwan. Chinese hacking efforts are getting more sophisticated. Chinese Communist mouthpiece says something intriguing that may point to economic turbulence ahead. The TPP makes a pan-green move as DPP retreats and what this action might say about the TPP. Finally, I got something wrong on yesterday's show, but I learned that Han Kuo-yu's call for his supporters to skip the recall vote is much more mysterious.

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