tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post7748718508110546141..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Lafayette: Taiwan wins victory?Michael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-59943350206783437312010-05-08T20:49:54.330+08:002010-05-08T20:49:54.330+08:00Could be. Could well be. But it would help immense...Could be. Could well be. But it would help immensely if the numbers were broken out differently. I was more interested in the fact that the data is not available than in the claims of FT. <br /><br />I think the "younger demographic failure" is a thing well worth exploring. Blog on that man, I had no idea that we had become passe in Japan.<br /><br />MichaelMichael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-81302941193358458972010-05-08T20:41:55.547+08:002010-05-08T20:41:55.547+08:00Seems to me Chinese tourists have had a positive i...Seems to me Chinese tourists have had a positive impact on the economy. I'll concede the lack of growth in Japanese arrivals could be related to some sort of "crowding out", but I'm more inclined to attribute this to a weak Japanese economy and Taiwan's inability to connect with a younger demographic.<br /><br />By the numbers...... <br /><br />Taiwan Tourism First Quarter 2010 <br /><br />Chinese visitor arrivals: + 98% <br />Japanese visitor arrivals: - 0.93% Number of international standard hotel rooms: + 4.71%<br /><br />http://www.motc.gov.tw/mocwebGIP/wSite/ct?xItem=4882&ctNode=213&mp=2<br /><br /><br />Japanese Tourist Arrivals 2009<br /><br />Canada: -28.4%<br />New Zealand: -23.5%<br />Thailand: -16.5%<br />Singapore: -14.1%<br />Hong Kong: -9.1%<br />Malaysia: -8.7%<br />Taiwan: -7.9%<br />China: -3.7% <br />Macau: +3.3%<br />Korea: +28.4<br /><br />http://www.tourism.jp/english/statistics/outbound.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-59628572257940540982010-05-08T11:01:01.166+08:002010-05-08T11:01:01.166+08:00Thinking about it, the kickbacks to Beijing deal i...Thinking about it, the kickbacks to Beijing deal in the early 90's may have been when the the KMT first started to take a different viewpoint of the CCP. <br /><br />(mutual corruption so every fatcat elitist is happy).mxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-70406126271414884862010-05-07T21:50:19.019+08:002010-05-07T21:50:19.019+08:00"kickbacks to Beijing" -- the story was ..."kickbacks to Beijing" -- the story was that France paid off Beijing to avoid its anger over the frigate sale.Michael Turtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-780539641427349812010-05-07T21:25:39.367+08:002010-05-07T21:25:39.367+08:00"Kickbacks to Beijing".....what on earth..."Kickbacks to Beijing".....what on earth?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-26987312332213414832010-05-07T20:31:25.842+08:002010-05-07T20:31:25.842+08:00I find it incredulous that the pan-blue political ...I find it incredulous that the pan-blue political talk shows have appropriated the Lafayette case to slag off CSB again and talk about his guilt in the matter, even going as far as allowing suggestions that funds could have been misappropriated into his accounts! They really are obsessed with him!Pekingesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11625065471095165181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-41558362674596183752010-05-07T13:19:52.763+08:002010-05-07T13:19:52.763+08:00@mx
of course everyone knows. or is pretty sure ab...@mx<br />of course everyone knows. or is pretty sure about it.<br />but it feels like no one cares about corruption, if he can take a small part of the bacon, too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-46948937045308196232010-05-07T12:38:09.279+08:002010-05-07T12:38:09.279+08:00Come on. The Tourism Bureau doesn't need to go...Come on. The Tourism Bureau doesn't need to go to the trouble of collecting data. We've all seen interviews with Chinese tourists on those ever so impartial news channels. They treat the NT dollar like monopoly money.<br />Everything's going to be ok...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-88834542975926614722010-05-07T12:16:35.184+08:002010-05-07T12:16:35.184+08:00So, is the legislature going to ask KMT to pay the...So, is the legislature going to ask KMT to pay the 400m back into the treasury? Where is the outrage that the taxpayer's money went to bribing PRC officials to turn a blind eye to the arms deal?<br /><br />*crickets*<br /><br /><br />I also wonder if any Chinese generals got a bullet in the head for this, and far up the chain of command that corruption went. If it came out in China that someone on the politburo or CSC took cash to let Taiwan have frigates...Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08682148923201795830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-70242255786754410212010-05-07T10:46:05.790+08:002010-05-07T10:46:05.790+08:00Can there be any doubt....
thief = theft
sorry, I ...Can there be any doubt....<br />thief = theft<br />sorry, I screwed that comment up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-54200547225368149802010-05-07T00:10:19.141+08:002010-05-07T00:10:19.141+08:00Can there is any doubt that the KMT is just a bunc...Can there is any doubt that the KMT is just a bunch of thieving criminals? I mean, how blind and obtuse do you need to be to think otherwise. Yeah, sure CSB fu*cked up and I am disgusted what his family did, but that was minor compared to the thief involved in this case. How can the Taiwanese put up with this? Even the westerners here know this story inside and out.mxnoreply@blogger.com