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Friday, June 07, 2013

Phils/Taiwan Cringe: ROC reps pass this around

Here are the two pages of a brochure the TECRO (ROC representative) offices in the US are passing around. Look carefully at the map on page 1, it includes the Senkakus, showing how these territorial claims are linked in ROC (Chinese expansionist) propaganda and shows the "overlapping" EEZs of Philippines and Taiwan. Its use of international law is selective, to say the least: as a friend pointed out, there's no territorial waters around the Japanese islands and no EEZ extending into the Taiwan Strait. There's a bigger view of it on my Flickr account here.
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 9:59 AM

    This desperate attempt without even having the official conclusion and findings of both sides suggest that Taiwan is covering up something. Otherwise, they should be confident that truth and righteousness is in their side. Governments promoting propaganda are governments that are insecure or are hiding something.

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  2. DerelictJune 7, 2013 at 12:31 PM

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  3. DerelictJune 7, 2013 at 12:32 PM

    haha are they joking, they say it's unacceptable to use 'unintended loss of life' while the investigation is on going. And then go on to make a list of demands including an apology and compensation. Wait ...but I thought the investigation was ongoing?! WTF!? How does this make sense? No wonder no one is taking them seriously.

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  4. AnonymousJune 7, 2013 at 10:51 PM

    @Anonymous suggest that Taiwan is covering up something.

    It's the ROC government that is covering up, probabily because ROC is an in-exile government, whose governing authority over Taiwan is illegal.

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  5. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 2:18 AM

    Admittedly the Philippines (my country) is the sick man of Asia. We are the weakest military in the world.

    We are easy targets.

    Taiwanese fishing vessels have been poaching and stealing for decades. They have been spotted even near the Visayas.

    We feel bad as other nations can use force to stop poaching while the Philippines is threatened with:

    "Taiwan: We should not fear war with the Philippines. We have 26 warships and only one (1) can destroy the entire Philippines."

    Expectation for equal sovereignty? We can only pray.

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  6. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 10:22 AM

    Has this been discussed? How is it, with all those bullets that no one else was injured or killed? I think that's amazing judging from the photos.

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  7. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 8:39 PM

    @ Admittedly the Philippines (my country)

    "Taiwan: We should not fear war with the Philippines. We have 26 warships and only one (1) can destroy the entire Philippines."

    (I am a Taiwanese). Most foreigners are confused between the ROC government and Taiwan. The ROC government is the government set up by the Chinese in exile in Taipei. They are a bunch of extreme Chinese nationalists. The ROC government brutally oppressed Taiwanese since they escaped to Taiwan in 1949. I sympathesize with the Philippines when they are bullied by the ROC military. Those Chinese have brutally murdered tens of thousands of Taiwanese since their arrival in Taiwan.

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  8. AnonymousJune 8, 2013 at 8:51 PM

    Taiwanese fishing vessels have been poaching and stealing for decades.

    (I am Taiwanese) The aggressive poaching behavior is encouraged by the ROC government because it serves one purpose: that is to make Taiwanese have no friends in the world, making it easier for Chinese to control Taiwan.

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  9. AnonymousJune 9, 2013 at 5:28 AM

    To the Taiwanese who responded to my post above.

    We (Filipinos) are not aware of political dynamics within the Taiwanese social system. For us that is hearsay, so we will not comment about it to avoid further tension.

    But we are aware of nationalist and even the pro-independence Taiwanese. We have received with warmth both pro-independence and nationalist Taiwanese (even Jews during the holocaust). They sought refuge during the armed conflict with PLA. Many are still living here and a lot are now integrated within the community.

    I have many Taiwanese classmates 100% are pro-independence. They even had shouting matches with one of our professors (who is pro-China) wherein they passionately maintain they are "Taiwanese" and not "Chinese".

    We are generally pro-Taiwan the "one-China policy" is forced upon us by the military and economic might of Beijing. Sadly this is now going to change as Hongkong, Macau and China didn't use Filipinos as primary bargaining chips.

    Our businesses prefer Taiwanese goods over Chinese goods but right now due to multiple economic threats/sanctions that is going to change too.

    We are a poor nation. We have difficulty sourcing food supply. I beg of Taiwanese people to have mercy on us and respect our food supply, our territorial rights, and "median EEZ" with China.

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  10. AnonymousJune 9, 2013 at 11:12 PM

    @ We (Filipinos)
    We are a poor nation. We have difficulty sourcing food supply. I beg of Taiwanese people to have mercy on us and respect our food supply, our territorial rights, and "median EEZ" with China.

    Let's hope that Taiwanese's party, Democratic Progressive Party, will win the presidential election again in the future. DPP will be more willing to see from Filipinos's perspective because DPP's foreign policy is to have more non-Chinese suppport.

    The above Taiwanese

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