America’s Gun Madness, as Seen From Europe

MIRA KAMDAR, The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/opinion/americas-gun-madness-as-seen-from-europe.html 

accessed Oct. 12, 2015

l  今日美國持槍濫射幾乎每天都有一起。2012年被槍殺人數在法國是140，在美國是11,622。

     林中斌 2015年10月12日

習仲勳與近平的父子情

2013-01-04 共識網 楊屏

http://www.21ccom.net/articles/rwcq/article_2013010474235.html

以下是2013年1月4日 “楊屏：習仲勳與近平的父子情”的摘錄。楊屏是習仲勛被下放監視時，村中的忘年交朋友。

林中斌 2015年1011日

Fascinating life of journalist who discovered WWII was about to begin

Mail Online, Oct 9, 2015

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3262251/The-woman-Hitler-s-tanks-Polish-border-discovered-WWII-begin-Fascinating-life-pistol-packing-journalist-dubbed-Scarlet-Pimpernel-helping-3-000-flee-Nazis.html?ITO=applenews

Alice and I went with her and other China/PCA watoners including Michael Swaine and Ellis Joffe to have afternoon tea at the Peninsula in Hong Kong. That was July 12-14, 1995. I had met her before and visited her later in her office when I was at Mainlda Affairs council (1998)

Chong-Pin Lin Oct.12, 2015

2015年8月22-31日蘇格蘭狂想曲
The Scottish Fantasy August 22-31, 2015

  蘇格蘭是古堡、精靈、彩虹之鄉。雖然，它更有名的是高爾夫、威士忌、和風笛之國。

The world doesn't have to fear Japan

Ian Bremmer, Time, Oct 5, 2015

http://time.com/4047863/the-world-doesnt-have-to-fear-japan/

 accessed Oct 5, 2015

l  It appears that Bremmer read my May/June 2015 Asian survey article “Behind Rising East Asian Maritime Tension with China: Struggle without Breaking”

Chong-Pin Lin Oct 5, 2015

The U.S. war against ISIS is going nowhere

Mark Thompson, Time, Oct 5, 2015

http://time.com/4047857/the-u-s-war-against-isis-is-going-nowhere/

  accessed Oct 5, 2015

l  U.S. primacy on the military power does not work and may backfire eventually.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct 5, 2015

From schoolboy to survivor

Chris Buckley and Didi Kirsten Tatlow, The New York Times, Sep 25, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-cultural-revolution.html

 accessed May 24, 2015

l  Note the story now Xi Jinpine was struggled against during the cultural revolution while his own mother denounced him. This has not been told before.

Chong-Pin Lin Oct.5,2015

Xi Jinping’s Inner Circle Offers Cold Shoulder to Western Officials

Edward Wong, The New York Times, Sep 25, 2015

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/26/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-president-inner-circle-western-officials.html

accessed Sep 25, 2015

 l  Xi relies mainly on his own knowledge and instincts in making decisions. Under Mr. Xi, there is no equivalent of Dai Bingguo, the chief foreign policy oficial of the Hu administration who met with White House officials. Yang Jiechi holds the same title.

全面實施卡式台胞證的背後

2015/09/23 旺報 燁清

http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20150923001011-260310

   accessed Sep 23, 2015

 l   政策的規劃不再是國台辦一家獨大。對爭取台灣民心，以往更多是通過特定利益團體壟斷買辦的角色，今後可能由傳銷轉為直銷。

共軍自曝 29場演習紅軍全敗

2015/09/29 旺報 蔡浩祥

http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20150929000687-260301

   accessed Sep 29, 2015