San Francisco Citizen

At least according to the World Health Organization. See? (“Don’t you have _another_ passport you’d prefer to use as ID?”)

And yet, here’s Taiwan being treated like a regular country, just the other day in Union Square:

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Now, you wouldn’t have seen former Mayor Gavin Newsom at an event like this, I don’t think – he seems to strongly prefer the Other China, the China what doesn’t have elections.

But maybe things are changing these days, so having an annual party for this particular country / renegade province isn’t such a bad thing anymore.

Mmmmm….

Tags: 2011, bay area, california, China, CULTURAL, ed lee, edwin lee, Festival, Mayor, passport, people's, province, republic, San Francisco, taiwan, union square

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