tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post6525768282878980399..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Ma Mends Fences With JapanMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-25250067984986533082009-05-12T01:46:00.000+08:002009-05-12T01:46:00.000+08:00Here's yet another example of what appears to be a...Here's yet another example of what appears to be a pattern of anti-Japan efforts by the current administration:<br /><br /><A HREF="http://udn.com/NEWS/LIFE/LIF1/4897856.shtml" REL="nofollow">Fiji apples rejected for having pesticide residue</A>This is interesting because the amount found is actually very low. Apples would pass if the standard for other vegetables/fruit were used. But there is no standard for apples in Taiwan because Taiwan doesn't grow apples. The executive in Taiwan could have made a reasonable decision to set a standard and allow them in (since it's the apparent standard for other fruits), but they chose to simply send them back to Japan, causing who knows how big of a loss.<br /><br />The stuff out of China smuggled illegally into Taiwan is like a hundred times worse with real health dangers, but our government is picking on these apples because they are from Japan and they hate Japan. Great.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-41760557382853245062009-05-12T01:39:00.000+08:002009-05-12T01:39:00.000+08:00--They hate Japan ideologically, ---
seriously. n...--They hate Japan ideologically, ---<br /><br />seriously. noone likes Japan idiologicaly. to much shinto-millitarism and blue blood empireism.. But how much are chinese ocupants in Taiwan conected to the Nanjing bashing? Do KMT celebrate this massacre like holy kill the japs day or is it just "dont talk about. Chiankaishek let them root there"?<br /><br />sorry for complicated dumbglish.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-48576220335987797542009-05-11T15:47:00.000+08:002009-05-11T15:47:00.000+08:00There is a concerted, below-the-radar effort by Ma...There is a concerted, below-the-radar effort by Ma Ying-jeou and his administration to cause friction between Taiwan and Japan. They want to blow up any little issue as big as they can. They hate Japan ideologically, and there's the added bonus that it pushes Taiwan towards greater reliance on China.<br /><br />Besides the incidents you have nicely recalled for us, now the health ministry has issued a travel advisory for Japan and blamed them for not releasing information to Taiwan in time. At the same time, in Taiwan, they have ads on TV telling people not to worry at all; the swine flu has a death rate the same as regular flu.<br /><br />Michael, you may be interested in looking for more information, but the KMT central and local governments have increased the pace at which they are tearing down historical buildings, namely, anything from the Japanese era.<br /><br />It's pretty gross what they are doing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-8396743853645525632009-05-11T01:55:00.000+08:002009-05-11T01:55:00.000+08:00surely it's faux pas?surely it's faux pas?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04171208450324570660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-20755434080929931972009-05-10T02:32:00.000+08:002009-05-10T02:32:00.000+08:00Well. After East Asian Union as a oposition to PRC...Well. After East Asian Union as a oposition to PRC was dead right after the idea was born, everyone in Asia knows that after Taiwan will became yellow race motherland chinese will claim their country too. so why to rush into the monkeys yap?here comes the fart flying alongnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-89206637520301796832009-05-09T23:18:00.000+08:002009-05-09T23:18:00.000+08:00Hey, that Economist piece is really good! Talking...Hey, that Economist piece is really good! Talking about the civil war between the KMT and CCP without implying Taiwan had been part of it, the frog slowly being boiled analogy, calling out the KMT for what it really is and a good, accurate description of the current politicaly situation:<br /><br /><B>"The sanctimony of the KMT, once one of the world’s most thuggish and corrupt political parties, but largely spared by the present judicial system, is grotesque. Yet Mr Chen and his approach are discredited, the DPP in tatters."</B>The author is good; his Chinese is decent or he reads good translations. The terms that are common in Chinese but don't necessarily make sense in English he uses quotes: international space, diplomatic truce (waijiaoxiubing)...<br /><br />Though it is somewhat unfortunate he keeps saying "mainland", a term used by the KMT to reinforce their "one China" brainwashing.<br /><br />The Taiwanese democrats have an ally in the Economist, telling things like they really are.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-9215740475887356162009-05-09T22:55:00.000+08:002009-05-09T22:55:00.000+08:00Once again CCP and KMT look more and more alike. ...Once again CCP and KMT look more and more alike. CCP had the similar policy toward Japan and Taiwan. Some people call it "2 hands strategy," and Ma is now learning to use it.<br /><br />Remember during Chen Yun-Ling's visit, the police suppress protests heavy handedly and during the same time Ma said "carrying flag should be allowed...etc etc."<br /><br />Same with the students got beat up in Tainan incident.Dixteelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05689510846926854542noreply@blogger.com