- Dec 12 Fri 2014 23:53
林中斌周末談台灣選後兩岸關係
- Dec 12 Fri 2014 23:07
林中斌:馬英九拉下藍營票
- Dec 12 Fri 2014 21:14
林中斌:習近平執政 八項超越
- Dec 12 Fri 2014 20:24
China's Checkmate: S-400 Looms Large Over Taiwan
China's Checkmate: S-400 Looms Large Over Taiwan
WENDELL MINNICK, Defense News, Dec. 6, 2014
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141206/DEFREG03/312060024/China-s-Checkmate-S-400-Looms-Large-Over-Taiwan

WENDELL MINNICK, Defense News, Dec. 6, 2014
http://www.defensenews.com/article/20141206/DEFREG03/312060024/China-s-Checkmate-S-400-Looms-Large-Over-Taiwan

Lin Chong-Pin, former deputy minister of national defense who also served as the first vice chairman of the Mainland Affairs Council, said the S-400 is “another increment of a growing package of ‘game changers,’ which began emerging a decade ago.”
Taiwan’s military advantages over China began eroding in the early 1990s. As a consequence, China’s strategy “evolved from a war of annihilation to a war of paralysis as the battle scenario on Taiwan.”
Now, Lin said, even a military operation on Taiwan based on a “war of paralysis ranks low among Beijing’s options, as Beijing has available so many other what I call ‘extra-military instruments’ — economic, media-related, diplomatic, psychological — to eventually ‘integrate’ Taiwan into China’s fold.”
Taiwan’s military advantages over China began eroding in the early 1990s. As a consequence, China’s strategy “evolved from a war of annihilation to a war of paralysis as the battle scenario on Taiwan.”
Now, Lin said, even a military operation on Taiwan based on a “war of paralysis ranks low among Beijing’s options, as Beijing has available so many other what I call ‘extra-military instruments’ — economic, media-related, diplomatic, psychological — to eventually ‘integrate’ Taiwan into China’s fold.”
- Dec 12 Fri 2014 19:56
大數據 預警犯罪 提早防範
這是淡江戰略所學姐黃引珊女士所寫的短文。當日在聯合報網路版獲得最多讀者按讚。難得的是:她辛苦全天候照料嬰兒之餘,夜深人靜時,點滴累積努力而寫成此文。
林中斌 2014.12.12
- Dec 12 Fri 2014 19:22
Civil Liberties in Peril Down Under
Civil Liberties in Peril Down Under
Raymond Bonner, International New York Times, NOV. 28, 2014

Liberal democracies in the U.S., Australia, and New Zealand have lost their moral high ground.
Chong-Pin Lin December 12, 2014
- Nov 29 Sat 2014 01:22
西班牙古城科多巴Cordoba, Spain

公元711年北非來的回教勢力攻佔科多巴,開啟長達幾乎八世紀回教主宰和影響西班牙時代。拉曼三世(891-961AD)是科多巴統治者也是當時西班牙最有權威的國王及回教教主。他在位50年,最後說:"我一生所享有純粹、真實的快樂日子:一共14天。"(請見拙作"只快樂十四天"聯合報
2014.8.4 http://blog.yam.com/CPLin/article/76642254)科多巴一度是歐洲數學、醫學等學術的中心。被稱為"光彩之城"。全歐洲派人來留學。在其全盛時代,基督教、回教、猶太教和平共處。回教國王重用賢德的猶太人為宰相。
Cordoba was the first Muslim capital in the Iberia Peninsula conquered by the Moors in 711AD. Once called the "shiny city,it was the center of science, math, and medicine in Europe, where students from all Europe came to study.King Abd Al-Rahman III, 891-961AD, was the most powerful ruler in Spain at the time who made himself the caliph, the highest religious authority in Spain as well. He is well known for saying at the end of his 50-yar rule that "I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14."
During the heydays of Cordoba, it saw peaceful co-existence of the Muslims, the Catholics, and the Jews. The Moorish king even trusted a wise Jewsih as his prime minister.
- Nov 28 Fri 2014 23:51
格拉納達,西班牙 Granada (Alhambra), Spain
格拉納達,西班牙 Granada (Alhambra), Spain
November 19-21, 2014
November 19-21, 2014
http://album.blog.yam.com/CPLin&folder=10530383


這是西班牙南部充滿歷史文化的山城。也是易守難攻雄偉的堡壘和細膩優美的宮殿。吉他作曲家Francisco Tárrega曾寫過蕩氣迴腸的"阿爾漢布拉宮回憶"
Recuerdos de la Alhambra":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjEw7XuKsA
眼見此仙境般的景色,才想起其曲中的情調,果然如此!!正是文字表達有所不及。此宮殿超出凡世之美,令人感嘆無窮。詩人寫道: "雖然宮牆早已荒廢破敗,人們仍然珍惜對它的記憶,那是夢與藝術最後的家園。當世界最後的夜鶯一息尚存,它會在阿爾漢布拉宮光榮的殘垣中吟唱永別之歌。"西班牙文的英譯如下:"Though the shadows of these walls have long since gone, the memory of them will live on as the final refuge of dreams and art. And when the last nightingale to breath on this earth will build its nest and sing its farewell song among the glorious ruins of the Alhambra." (poem dedicated to the Alhambra by F. Villaespesa).
This is an unbelievably beautiful city on top of a montain that evokes the image of a paradise.Granada means pomegranate. Indeed, it is a city full of fruit trees:pomegranate, persimmon, orange etc. Alhambra means "the red fort" in Arabic,it is also the name of a Moorish king,Muhammed ibn al-Ahmar ibn Nasr. the founder of the Nasrid dynasty (1238-1492). The muslim aristocrats, driven out of Sevilla and Cordoba in 1237, arrived in Granada. They constructed the castle palace, Alhambra and ruled until January 2, 1492 when the Catholic monarchs king Ferdinand and queen Isabella conquered the city and unified Spain. The Alhambra palaces is an artistic and architectural masterpiece. It fully demosntrates the superior muslim civilization at the time. Peaceful, spiritual, scientific, sophisitcated all in one. The Christian constructions added on to the older muslim ones paled in comparison. Our Spanish guide lamented that all the muslim fountains are quiet like whispering while the Christian ones are noisy like toilet water rushing out. The famous guitar piece"Recuerdos de la Alhambra" composed by Francisco Tárrega is an especially memorable tribute to the poetic beauty of the place:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjEw7XuKsA
Recuerdos de la Alhambra":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjEw7XuKsA
眼見此仙境般的景色,才想起其曲中的情調,果然如此!!正是文字表達有所不及。此宮殿超出凡世之美,令人感嘆無窮。詩人寫道: "雖然宮牆早已荒廢破敗,人們仍然珍惜對它的記憶,那是夢與藝術最後的家園。當世界最後的夜鶯一息尚存,它會在阿爾漢布拉宮光榮的殘垣中吟唱永別之歌。"西班牙文的英譯如下:"Though the shadows of these walls have long since gone, the memory of them will live on as the final refuge of dreams and art. And when the last nightingale to breath on this earth will build its nest and sing its farewell song among the glorious ruins of the Alhambra." (poem dedicated to the Alhambra by F. Villaespesa).
This is an unbelievably beautiful city on top of a montain that evokes the image of a paradise.Granada means pomegranate. Indeed, it is a city full of fruit trees:pomegranate, persimmon, orange etc. Alhambra means "the red fort" in Arabic,it is also the name of a Moorish king,Muhammed ibn al-Ahmar ibn Nasr. the founder of the Nasrid dynasty (1238-1492). The muslim aristocrats, driven out of Sevilla and Cordoba in 1237, arrived in Granada. They constructed the castle palace, Alhambra and ruled until January 2, 1492 when the Catholic monarchs king Ferdinand and queen Isabella conquered the city and unified Spain. The Alhambra palaces is an artistic and architectural masterpiece. It fully demosntrates the superior muslim civilization at the time. Peaceful, spiritual, scientific, sophisitcated all in one. The Christian constructions added on to the older muslim ones paled in comparison. Our Spanish guide lamented that all the muslim fountains are quiet like whispering while the Christian ones are noisy like toilet water rushing out. The famous guitar piece"Recuerdos de la Alhambra" composed by Francisco Tárrega is an especially memorable tribute to the poetic beauty of the place:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzjEw7XuKsA
- Nov 28 Fri 2014 21:58
西班牙古城塞戈維亞 Segovia, Spain
西班牙古城塞戈維亞Segovia, Spain
November 23, 2014
November 23, 2014
http://album.blog.yam.com/CPLin&folder=10530371

兩千年前羅馬帝國在此建造高聳天際的引水道,屹立至今。卡通白雪公主電影以此城中的中古時期城堡為藍本。塞戈維亞在西班牙首都馬德里西北91公里,公車路程70分鐘。也是國際文藝活動(木偶、民歌、電影)中心。
An ancient city known for the towering acqueduct constructed by the Romans in the first century AD. It prides itself on the castle built by the muslims in the 10th century which the drawing of the cartoon movie "Snow White" was based on. Segovia is 91 km northwest of Madrid.
An ancient city known for the towering acqueduct constructed by the Romans in the first century AD. It prides itself on the castle built by the muslims in the 10th century which the drawing of the cartoon movie "Snow White" was based on. Segovia is 91 km northwest of Madrid.
- Nov 28 Fri 2014 21:31
塞爾維亞,西班牙 Sevilla, Spain
塞爾維亞,西班牙 Sevilla, Spain
November 18 & 19, 2014
November 18 & 19, 2014

這是一度"全世界第一個帝國的首都"。當地人稱西班牙全盛期16世紀時,這也是全世界最富有的都市,因為南北美的金銀香料都經此運進歐洲。他們說此成之高塔也一度是全世界最高的建築物。This is once the capital of a world empire, the first in human history. People in Sevilla claim that it was once the richest city in the world, thanks to the treasures from the Americas shipped to Europe through this port after Christopher Columbus discovered the New World.