tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post5196701866705769142..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: 10 Resolutions the International Media Should Make for 2016 Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-59164310875433735892016-01-05T20:21:45.538+08:002016-01-05T20:21:45.538+08:00Powerful stuff.Powerful stuff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-69696652331422623992016-01-05T10:49:26.429+08:002016-01-05T10:49:26.429+08:00This was an excellent and fact-filled vent. I don...This was an excellent and fact-filled vent. I don't know if you feel better, but I do!P. S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11503894022260641010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-91737454879042187092016-01-05T10:49:12.202+08:002016-01-05T10:49:12.202+08:00This was an excellent and fact-filled vent. I don...This was an excellent and fact-filled vent. I don't know if you feel better, but I do!P. S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11503894022260641010noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-51628080045658119562016-01-04T01:42:00.209+08:002016-01-04T01:42:00.209+08:00In this instance I agree with you entirely; all te...In this instance I agree with you entirely; all ten of those resolutions are basically just common sense. However, the wankers at the BBC and elsewhere don't have any common sense - which is why, among other things, they are at the BBC in the first place.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-18437799335839328482016-01-03T03:08:45.397+08:002016-01-03T03:08:45.397+08:00.
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In additi....<br />.<br />.<br />Great list to reference, Michael.<br /><br />In addition to what you said with the "so-called" 1992 Consensus, I think it's worth pointing out -- again -- the fundamental logistical elephant in the room...<br /><br />A priori, you cannot call something a "consensus" if two parties are "agreeing to disagree" about the fundamental definition of what the parties are disputing.<br /><br />In other words, even if this so-called consensus was "real", it is meaningless.<br /><br />It's like saying theists and atheists reached the "1992 Ontological Concensus".<br /><br />The use of this so-called agreement (real or not real) is just plain silly.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, why is the media giving it any attention at all?!<br />.<br />.<br />.<br />STOP Equivocationnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-51862943918995559542016-01-02T23:45:34.054+08:002016-01-02T23:45:34.054+08:009. A problem in parallelism I think with "Ken...9. A problem in parallelism I think with "Kenya is divided from the United Kingdom". A better example matching your basic argument would be "Kenya is divided from the Canada".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90953263898939126942016-01-02T19:54:32.092+08:002016-01-02T19:54:32.092+08:00I won't mind the rest, but I do think #4 is an...I won't mind the rest, but I do think #4 is an interesting development. First, just because it is not a democracy doesn't means laws aren't passed. The CCP is not a democracy but it is not a one man dictatorship either.<br /><br />Second, it is true that in the past, they might just have attacked on the authority of an Order or Decision coming from the Politburo, but the transition to using a law that was passed (even if one argues it was rubber-stamped) by the NPC marks an attempt to transition to a rule of law system and formalizing some rules that restrict even the state's action, at least to a greater extent than the old situation where everything was decided by an on-the-spot, rule-by-man Decision. They are starting to feel like they need a law to justify and confine these actions, and that in itself is a kind of progress.arkhangelskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15247250672432027166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-15983075049341361302016-01-02T17:42:47.414+08:002016-01-02T17:42:47.414+08:00(raises hand)
I'M anti-China!(raises hand)<br /><br />I'M anti-China!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-31368488231492153242016-01-02T12:55:22.535+08:002016-01-02T12:55:22.535+08:00Brilliant list, sir. Brilliant list, sir. Domenichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09947783577035194447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-35314694045545099972016-01-02T12:44:55.886+08:002016-01-02T12:44:55.886+08:00I always feel that the international media is enga...I always feel that the international media is engaged in 1984-esque Newspeak when it comes to Taiwan (particularly, the concept of 'blackwhite'). Poor, defenseless China, with its thousands of missiles deployed specifically to attack Taiwan, not to mention its endless annexation rhetoric, is the innocent victim of Taiwan's hurtful democracy. <br /><br />I feel part of the media's problem is that it equates Taiwan/China with South Korea/North Korea. The better comparison would be the KMT/CCP with South Korea/North Korea, but the KMT did an outstanding job of silencing Taiwanese voices. I'd like to popularise the following calculation - if we consider that existent written records of the area we commonly refer to as China began around 3,500 years ago, then a government based in China controlled Taiwan for only 6% of China's recorded history (212 years of limited and hands-off Qing control, plus the not-quite 4 years of Nanjing mismanagement from late 1945 until 1949). And that percentage decreases every day.<br /><br />China always puts me in mind of an abusive ex-boyfriend, tearfully punching Taiwan, and screaming, "look at what you made me do!! Why must you make me angry?! Can't you see I love you?!!!"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-45621764162739439212016-01-02T09:57:22.268+08:002016-01-02T09:57:22.268+08:00Thanks for this Michael, I'll bookmark this on...Thanks for this Michael, I'll bookmark this one and henceforth point writers to it when corrections to Taiwan related articles are required. It saves me having to spell it out in detail each time.<br /><br />Should also come in handy for the trolls on Taipei Times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-90601575822703854602016-01-02T09:52:06.161+08:002016-01-02T09:52:06.161+08:00It seems like the biggest single issue is conflat...It seems like the biggest single issue is conflating "China" with the "PRC". Taiwan was much once part of China, much like half of Europe was part of Prussia. But it's never been part of the People's Republic of China.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652288045145591799noreply@blogger.com