tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5021151249644993646..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: NYTimes: Ripe badness turning purplish-black in the harsh light of the factsMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-41190662403404645212012-01-06T18:12:16.350+08:002012-01-06T18:12:16.350+08:00Taiwan's jailed ex-leader Chen Shui-bian addre...Taiwan's jailed ex-leader Chen Shui-bian addressed hundreds of supporters in a 20-minute speech <br /><br />"I want to thank my mother-in-law for giving me a good wife to encourage me to be brave and insist on Taiwan sovereignty during my eight years," Chen, who was president from 2000 to 2008, said via loudspeaker.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-21931714160821956572012-01-06T18:11:24.692+08:002012-01-06T18:11:24.692+08:00stop the presses: !!!
THIS JUST IN:
Will this Ch...stop the presses: !!!<br /><br />THIS JUST IN:<br /><br />Will this Chen surprise victory speech help Tsai or hurt her chances? Please comment! RE:<br /><br />''Taiwan's jailed ex-leader Chen Shui-bian addressed hundreds of supporters in a 20-minute speech at a ceremony for his late dead mother-in-law, 85, Friday, just a week before the nation goes to the poles.<br /><br />Chen, allowed to leave Taipei Prison under copper escort for the event, made his longest public statement since being jailed over two years ago at a sensitive time when his old party is struggling to regain the nation's presidency.<br /><br />"I want to thank my mother-in-law for giving me a good wife to encourage me to be brave and insist on Taiwan sovereignty during my eight years," Chen, who was president from 2000 to 2008, said via microphone hacked into a loudspeaker.<br /><br />The ritual took place at a funeral home in the southern city of Tainan, a centre of support for the anti-China Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), once chaired by Chen, who now serves a jail term of 17 and a half years.<br /><br />More than 300 supporters turned up outside the venue, some of them waving campaign flags for Tsai Ing-wen, the current chairwoman of the DPP who is running for president in the January 14 election.<br /><br />"I'm very moved and very saddened by Chen's talk," said one of the backers, Yang Chao, as she clutched a doll with the former president's likeness.<br /><br />"I hope Tsai Ing-wen will win the election so she can pardon Chen and release him from prison and also protect Taiwan from China."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-48783374816876791592012-01-06T18:07:45.592+08:002012-01-06T18:07:45.592+08:00that is wrong, Jacobs is not married.
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'&#...that is wrong, Jacobs is not married.<br /><br />re<br /><br />''Ah, Andrew Jacobs is that sometimes travel writer that is married to a waisheng woman from Taiwan. This is seriously gross that he wrote an article based on the opinions and political preferences of his wife...''Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-55152137072859004452012-01-06T18:06:40.045+08:002012-01-06T18:06:40.045+08:00you can reach Jacobs here: send an email here:
ht...you can reach Jacobs here: send an email here:<br /><br />http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/j/andrew_jacobs/index.html<br /><br />click on the SEND AN EMAIL partAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-11196083615580215012012-01-06T18:03:55.458+08:002012-01-06T18:03:55.458+08:00re
''By ANDREW JACOBS
Published: January 4...re<br />''By ANDREW JACOBS<br />Published: January 4, 2012'' <br /><br />Sir, it is important to note that the reporter for that NYT article is Andrew Jacobs, who has been stationed in Beijing for the past 4 years, and is obviously in the hands of his Beijing handlers. Why don't you interview Mr Jacobs and ask him who butters his bread sticks?<br /><br />Mr Jacobs is a veteran NYT reporter from the East Coast of the USA. Ask him if his editors edited his piece or if that was really what he wrote. Sometimes editors back in NYC change things to fit the Times policy "everything that fits" our bottom line....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-87838876564541312332012-01-06T13:47:08.747+08:002012-01-06T13:47:08.747+08:00WBS said: Even if Tsai were to win Taiwan's pr...WBS said: Even if Tsai were to win Taiwan's presidential election, she would not be able to get her policies passed. All her promises become empty and worthless promises.<br /><br />Well, they hold a majority only because they're re-elected. The obvious solution is not to vote for them. It should be the electorate's responsibility to ensure that government will be effective and representative.<br /><br />The Taiwan LY is ranked one of the worst parliaments in the world, and there should be a sense of shame among these lawmakers. If the electorate don't demand more from these lawmakers, then it may not matter who's president, since they really don't get anyone's business done unless it requires a rubber stamp.<br /><br />Finally, many of the best lawmakers (and those who would make good ones) are, I believe, discouraged, isolated or, sometimes threatened and murdered. It will take time to reform government to make it truly a representative of the people, but a good time to start doing that would be now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-84878722681628924542012-01-06T13:46:14.227+08:002012-01-06T13:46:14.227+08:00Wu Bang Shui...
I wonder if you are aware that ap...Wu Bang Shui...<br /><br />I wonder if you are aware that apart from presidential elections next week, there are also legislative elections and although under current electoral system it is very difficult to make predictions, I can assure you that KMT will no longer have 76% majority, it wil be much less...moreover, Tsai is not Chen, she will find a way to get to terms with LY on case by case basis if there will be KMT majority.Michal Thimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10715858990724184481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-14904111234329531292012-01-06T10:51:51.123+08:002012-01-06T10:51:51.123+08:00Kuomintang and its allies have a 76% majority in ...Kuomintang and its allies have a 76% majority in Taiwan's Legislative Yuan. A majority vote is required for any laws to be passed.<br /><br /> Even if Tsai were to win Taiwan's presidential election, she would not be able to get her policies passed. All her promises become empty and worthless promises.<br /><br /> Food for thought.Wu Bang Shuinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-54045104830179160142012-01-06T06:41:43.649+08:002012-01-06T06:41:43.649+08:00I suppose there's reason for that, although as...<b>I suppose there's reason for that, although as the Ballots and Bullets piece you linked to pointed out, Ma made a big deal in his inauguration speech of avoiding this kind of thing. </b><br /><br />Well, I don't consider NEXT a credible source, but Tedards is right, it is the nearest thing to a real muckraking rag Taiwan has. But the form is pretty damning. And it is very unlikely, as Tedards pointed out, that NEXT would simply make that shit up. <br /><br />When Ma makes a big deal of not doing something you can be sure it is exactly what he is doing.Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-5850288323484174442012-01-06T01:58:53.860+08:002012-01-06T01:58:53.860+08:00http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/world/asia/inter...http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/world/asia/interview-with-taiwan-president-ma-ying-jeou.html<br /><br />The timing of the interview is really suspicious.green sleeeveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03952901787612003242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-46679173887980656612012-01-05T23:11:26.133+08:002012-01-05T23:11:26.133+08:00I didn't react so viscerally to that NYT artic...I didn't react so viscerally to that NYT article but it really did make me wonder what I'm getting when I read articles like that one about countries I know nothing about. Maybe I shouldn't have so much faith in NYT.<br /><br />What about the Next Magazine story. I had a chance to read it today and thought it was pretty questionable. The intelligence agencies said they were monitoring Tsai to prevent another shooting or something like that happening. Ok, so some people will say "I don't believe anything from a KMT government", and given the history I suppose there's reason for that, although as the Ballots and Bullets piece you linked to pointed out, Ma made a big deal in his inauguration speech of avoiding this kind of thing. So what if it's just a simple security matter? Another good point in that Ballots and Bullets essay was that this is like Watergate, in the sense that if it's true it will probably take months if not years to unravel.<br /><br />The Next Magazine article played up two things. One, that people from intelligence had met with the investigators and when they came back this "lady supervisor named Liu" organized the materials and they were given to the chief and he passed them (somehow) to Ma. No evidence for that at all other than an inside source, and of course the intelligence people said all meetings were regular ones. Their evidence was all for the investigation itself, and the second thing Next got all excited about was a form local investigators were asked to fill out, asking about who Tsai met with. These investigators were asked "how many votes will this person bring if he/she supports Tsai", and to Next this was evidence that it was a political operation. But do you really think the KMT political outfit relies on investigators to tell them how many votes a local (especially pan-Blue) figure could bring Tsai? To me it sounds more like the kind of "risk index" question a pencil-pushing spy would come up with.<br /><br />Outing the low-level investigators was pathetic and showed that Next's key interest is in embarrassing people. <br /><br />Who knows. But public interest in this does not seem particularly high?Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-55237611584720928882012-01-05T21:33:27.662+08:002012-01-05T21:33:27.662+08:00Ah, Andrew Jacobs is that sometimes travel writer ...Ah, Andrew Jacobs is that sometimes travel writer that is married to a waisheng woman from Taiwan. This is seriously gross that he wrote an article based on the opinions and political preferences of his wife...Proustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-32901934686506306792012-01-05T21:32:07.314+08:002012-01-05T21:32:07.314+08:00This article is so factually wrong that if the edi...This article is so factually wrong that if the editor found out about i, there would be serious consequences.TEnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-25104329811630934022012-01-05T17:00:39.410+08:002012-01-05T17:00:39.410+08:00If I were Tsai
I would rebuke both the KMT AND th...If I were Tsai<br /><br />I would rebuke both the KMT AND the DPP for the negative campaigning and smear-mongering. Distance myself from the train wreck and appear to stand above it all. <br /><br />Then demand that both campaigns refocus on issues. <br /><br />She needs to show she is the adult in the room.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-24200187202795221742012-01-05T16:11:25.016+08:002012-01-05T16:11:25.016+08:00No, I suppose their orgs have bios on tap.
Jacobs...No, I suppose their orgs have bios on tap.<br /><br />Jacobs is on Chinapol so no doubt he will hear from some of the people there. I know he did last time when Paul published that thoroughly awful "satire."Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-20757618388798740592012-01-05T15:36:04.844+08:002012-01-05T15:36:04.844+08:00I'm wondering:
Does anyone know the bios of An...I'm wondering:<br />Does anyone know the bios of Annie Huang (Associated Press), Peter Enav (Associated Press), Andrew Jacobs (NY Times), Benjamin Yeh (NY Times), and Ralph Jennings (Reuters)? These are the authors that seem to pop up a lot when reading English articles about Taiwan. Unfortunately, I can't find anything about these people (like where they went to school, what experiences do they have about Taiwan). Some articles seem balanced. Others, like the NY Times article by Andrew Jacobs seem so biased.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com