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Frozen Garlic
Personal blog · frozengarlic.wordpress.compolitics
Frozen Garlic is a personal blog at frozengarlic.wordpress.com about politics. Since 2015, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite its posts as sources on Taiwan politics, the KMT's ties to China, and Taiwan-related topics such as romanization. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A Blog on Elections in Taiwan
What Hacker News says?
You should have seen Taiwan in the 1990s. It was a hot mess of older Western romanization systems, historical and dialectical exceptions, competing Taiwanese and pro-China sensibilities, a widely used international standard (pinyin), and lots of confusion in official and private circles about the proper way to write names and locations using the Latin alphabet. In 1998, the City of Taipei even made up its own Romani…
Comment linking /on-romanization/
on “Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years”> was incredibly pro-KMT, which is about as anti-CCP as you can get Here are some reference that shows how pro-CCP they are: https://international.thenewslens.com/article/116615 https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Taiwan-s-new-Kuomintang-lea... https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2015/05/09/chus-china-tri... https://www.quora.com/Why-does-the-Kuomintang-KMT-have-a-clo...
Comment linking /2015/05/09/chus-china-trip/
on “Asian Boss planted deep blue YouTuber and pretended he was a 'man on the street'”I honestly have no idea. There were some thoughts in English by a Taiwanese I found here: https://frozengarlic.wordpress.com/2015/11/04/quick-reaction... Ma promised when he was re-elected that he would never meet with the PRC as head of state. It's also likely this meeting is unconstitutional (Chinese text): https://tw.mobi.yahoo.com/home/%E7%AB%8B%E6%B3%95%E9%99%A2%E...
Comment linking /2015/11/04/quick-reaction-to-the-ma-xi-meeting/
on “Countries That Don't Exist”