tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post4787770574754815632..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Daily Links, Nov 13, 2008Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-26718709667973111092008-11-14T21:43:00.000+08:002008-11-14T21:43:00.000+08:00"The KMT doesn't seem to have any real reason to b..."The KMT doesn't seem to have any real reason to be pandering holding 75% of seats."<BR/><BR/>Totally disagree with you, anon. When you are in power and you hold a position that is at odds with that of the general population, it is indeed in your interests to pander, lest you be thrown out of office.Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552370490869601403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-88033486164873803862008-11-14T15:24:00.000+08:002008-11-14T15:24:00.000+08:00Worried these days. I believe Chen is guilty, but ...Worried these days. I believe Chen is guilty, but having reunion talks in parallel with arrests of (other) opposition leaders is worrying. And no formal charges are made, people can be detained up to 4 month without them. Will we have free elections in 2012?"Ludigel"https://www.blogger.com/profile/12005274654474510877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-46208192604800311932008-11-14T11:31:00.000+08:002008-11-14T11:31:00.000+08:00Quite a few times this year, watching deep-Blues a...Quite a few times this year, watching deep-Blues and waisheng politicians on TV, really, you'd be absolutely shocked at what they were saying as compared to 8 years ago. Saying things like "I'm not Chinese" or "Taiwan=ROC". Maybe it's all just for show. I don't know. The KMT doesn't seem to have any real reason to be pandering holding 75% of seats.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-78095991730346072262008-11-14T03:54:00.000+08:002008-11-14T03:54:00.000+08:00You wrote:- - -Laughably, AP suggests in a poorly-...You wrote:<BR/>- - -<BR/><I>Laughably, AP suggests in a poorly-balanced article</I> [...]<BR/>- - -<BR/><BR/>... an article in which Peter Enav wrote [bold emphasis mine]:<BR/>- - -<BR/><I>As Taiwan's leader from 2000 to May 2008, Chen Shui-bian made formal independence from China a sacred cause - doing everything he could to emphasize its political and cultural separateness from <B>China, from which it split amid civil war in 1949</B>.</I><BR/>- - -<BR/><BR/>And Enav <A HREF="http://michaelturton.blogspot.com/2008/07/random-photos-from-rainy-time.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="''Weren't you just excoriating us for our coverage?''">wonders why he gets excoriated</A>. <B>I</B> wonder why he isn't excoriated <I>more often</I>.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://taiwanmatters.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="Taiwan Matters!">Tim Maddog</A>Tim Maddoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16943522529132663780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-84850576075883127712008-11-14T01:34:00.000+08:002008-11-14T01:34:00.000+08:00Despite the lack of acknowledgment of Bush's failu...Despite the lack of acknowledgment of Bush's failure on foreign policy, the redstate.com does have a point. The Democrats has some "wussiness" when dealing with PRC in the past (*cough* Carter *cough*). I wouldn't be surprise some elements within Obama administration are leaning this way.<BR/><BR/>However, after the election, US seems be on the "moral highground" again amazingly. This does provide great flexibility for US foreign policy, which does need to include both toughness and cunning when needed. Let's face it, some people only respect those as oppose to the "wishy-washy group-think".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-7470088791385644202008-11-13T23:41:00.000+08:002008-11-13T23:41:00.000+08:00Funny how the independence movement is dead yet ov...Funny how the independence movement is dead yet over 70 percent of Taiwanese are independent. <BR/><BR/>One pet peeve of mine are simplistic articles in the foreign press that keep saying that almost 1/3 of Taiwanese want independence because they can't recognise the fact that most of the "status quo" people see Taiwan as independent but don't see the need for the war that an official declaration would cause.Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13552370490869601403noreply@blogger.com