Taiwan politics certainly is colorful.

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

In modern politics, even the leader of the free world needs help from the sultan of Facebookistan.

Ronald Reagan, when he was campaigning for President, said that he would break relations with Communist China and re-establish diplomatic relations with Taiwan. But when he got into office, he pursued a very different policy of engagement with China and of increasing trade and business ties with China.