tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post2131153399299106759..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Zhang Visit UnravelsMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90407784438157149432014-07-04T10:29:45.170+08:002014-07-04T10:29:45.170+08:00Regarding Chen Chu... I wonder if ties there are w...Regarding Chen Chu... I wonder if ties there are warming faster than we think. Apparently the landmark 85-floor tower in Kaohsiung has come into the hands of Chinese investors. I know that the contracts of the independent vendors in the department store were cancelled recently in preparation for a makeover by the new owners.<br />lesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-2558417209464600092014-07-01T15:41:01.232+08:002014-07-01T15:41:01.232+08:00.
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Loving the pictures showing the white paint ....<br />.<br />.<br />Loving the pictures showing the white paint all over Zhang's security officials!<br />.<br />.<br />.STOP Manoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-25583053656821435072014-06-30T10:32:31.888+08:002014-06-30T10:32:31.888+08:00"members of the pro-democracy Black Island Na..."members of the pro-democracy Black Island Nation Youth Front threw white paint and bundles of paper ghost money at Mr. Zhang's vehicle as he was getting out of the car. Mr. Zhang wasn't hurt but several security agents were splashed with paint.<br /><br />Earlier that morning, also in Kaohsiung, a young male protester sustained a laceration to his forehead during a violent quarrel with a group of China supporters in front of the hotel where Mr. Zhang was staying. The Chinese envoy was also almost hit by a water bottle thrown by a Taiwan independence activist as he arrived at the city's high speed railway station."<br /><br />Did you notice how we hear clearly who threw things at the envoy, but the injuries to protesters are in passive voice? This comes up again and again in international media. Radicals and troublemakers on the pro-Taiwan and 'something happened' to protesters, no idea who did it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-53232433697356640332014-06-30T04:39:47.154+08:002014-06-30T04:39:47.154+08:00Please, pay attention to Prof. Takehiro To (董建宏)&#...Please, pay attention to Prof. Takehiro To (董建宏)'s Formosan voice from Taichu:<br />千楓 Formosa_中社對張志軍訪台的看法_中社秘書長董建宏教授<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffGlsxwDTLE#t=235Jerome Bessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12958179528113268616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-70020177306263932722014-06-30T03:01:32.788+08:002014-06-30T03:01:32.788+08:00". . . those perennial "savages" fr...". . . those perennial "savages" from the savage island of Formosa. One who is probably sick of Formosa is Zhang Zhijun. The savages scared the bejesus out of him. Doused in white paint and joss paper?! That's way beyond the pale of civilized behavior the way Chinese understand it. I can hear Zhang Zhijun muttering, "the Japanese can have it back." under his breath.<br />Excerpted from my comments thread under Bloomberg Business Week's Bruce Einhorn June 26 " <br />China Official Uses Local Dialect to Sweet-Talk Taiwanese Skeptics":<br />http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-06-26/china-official-uses-local-dialect-to-sweet-talk-taiwanese-skepticsJerome Bessonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12958179528113268616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-11503535659869034562014-06-29T22:09:07.390+08:002014-06-29T22:09:07.390+08:00Not throwing paint would have led to the usual &qu...Not throwing paint would have led to the usual "warming ties" crap, but as it was the paint-throwing will allow Chinese media to paint the protesters as a bunch of monkeys. But that doesn't matter because they were always going to do that or similar in any case. <br /><br />At least the protesters haven't make the mistake of giving a fuck what anyone else thinks. How are Nike sales in China? If I were Lin Fei Fan, I'd try asking them for sponsorship.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.com