Saturday, February 25, 2006
A Love That Will Never Grow Old
a.k.a. Taiwan's poignant inability to quit us...
It struck me as sweet and sad that Taiwan's President commented yesterday that his country has a "Brokeback Mountain" relationship with the US. Some highlights:
"It motivates us...to understand all of us are bound to make difficult decisions in life, yet we must strive to dispel prejudice...," President Chen Shui-bian told more than 500 American business leaders in Taipei.
"There is a 'Brokeback Mountain' in each and every one of us."
He should have also said "if this democracy and independence thing catches us in the wrong place... at the wrong time... then we're dead..."
Brokeback director Ang Lee is of course from Taiwan, which is claimed by China, which has banned Brokeback Mountain, among other appalling deeds. "Brokeback" is playing to packed theaters in Taiwan, where Ang Lee is revered.
This is an aerial photo of Taiwan, which crams 22 million people, more than in Texas, into its 13,000 square miles, which is about the combined size of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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