The South China Morning Post reports that the Great Chinese Navy, in its infinite kindness, will be protecting Taiwanese vessels from Somali pirates:The Chinese navy will begin guiding several mainland vessels - plus a Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship - through the dangerous waters off Somalia from today in its historic expedition to join international efforts in fighting rampant piracy in the area.Why are there Somali pirates? I found this thought-provoking discussion at Huffington Post.
A ship from Taiwan may also be among the vessels being protected by the PLA naval mission.
An official from the China Shipowners' Association said owners of the Taiwanese ship had approached the association seeking protection. But since the group was not authorised to handle applications from outside the mainland, the shipping company was referred to the Straits Exchange Foundation, the body that deals with Taiwan-related affairs.
In local news, the KNN feed notes that KMT legislator Diane Lee, she of the dual-citizenship case, has been charged with fraud and embezzlement:
Now that all our factories are in China, the only growth industry left on Taiwan is prosecution....
Last March, DPP legislators William Lai, Chiu Yi-ying, and Chen Ting Fei claimed that KMT legislators Diane Lee held U.S. citizenship. In addition, they also filed charges against Lee at the Taipei District Prosecutors Office. The Prosecutors Office studied the documents supplied by the U.S. government last December and found that Lee was still a U.S. citizen. As she campaigned in legislative elections while possessing dual-nationality, the prosecutors determined that she had violated the provisions on embezzlement by fraudulent means in the Statute on Punishment of Corruption and had also committed the crime of document forgery as stipulated in the Penal Code. Therefore, prosecutors yesterday decided to ask the National Immigration Agency and the Coast Guard Administration of the Executive Yuan to bar her from traveling abroad.
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I think you've hit on something...
ReplyDeleteEvery living room is a factory... and ever basement is a dungeon.
Can you imagine what that would do for tourism. Screw the Chinese and their 150 a day. Kinky Europeans would be here in droves.
Can you imagine what that would do for tourism. Screw the Chinese and their 150 a day. Kinky Europeans would be here in droves.--
ReplyDeletecan translate it into normal english please..
In the 1970's there was a popular slogan: Every Living Room is a Factory. This was to inspire small entrepreneurs to do piece work and help the economy.
ReplyDeleteThe joke is... that if Taiwan's most viable and profitable economy is based around the prosecution (and imprisonment) of people i.e. jail (dungeon) you could get all those kinky people who are into kinky dungeon sex and role playing to show up and be prosecuted and imprisoned.
Since "Europeans" are often stereotyped as being sexually liberal and "kinky" i.e. Swedish made penis enlarger... Taiwan could attract those kinky tourists, like the head of FIFA, rather than the disappointing and much anticipated Chinese tourists who are averaging 150 per day or whatever.
... to be long about it. Sorry.
From the Somalia link:
ReplyDelete"Then, after the 2005 tsunami, hundreds of the dumped and leaking barrels washed up on shore. People began to suffer from radiation sickness, and more than 300 died. Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN envoy to Somalia, tells me: "Somebody is dumping nuclear material here."
I call unmitigated Shenanigans. 300 people may have died for whatever reason, but it was not radiation poisoning.