Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
Chinese unilaterally declare Japanese air-zone as their own.
If he were an honest man, Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post would now write a column apologizing for being hoodwinked by claims of "China's Peaceful Rise".
IF he were an honest man…
UPDATE: Ha. Missed this quote from Yang Yujun of China's Ministry of War:
China "has always respected the freedom of over-flight in accordance with international law".
Sure. With exactly the same respect it affords the territory of its neighbors.
That works out to about 14¢ per Filipino left homeless (given that there are about 700,000 left homeless after Typhoon Haiyan).
Or in other words: just about enough to buy each of them half-a-can of Coke.
Postscript:
A day-laborer, Bill Gates, and Xi Jinping walk into a bar. Each gets a beer, but each finds his mug has a fly in it.
The workman pours off the fly and drinks the rest. Bill Gates sets his glass aside and buys another.
Meanwhile, Xi Jinping grabs the insect by its wings - violently shaking it while screaming:
"Spit it out! Spit it out!"
[Cheapskate jokes. I love 'em!]
UPDATE (Nov 13, 2013): CNN now reporting that 2 million people in the Philippines require food.
Evidently, the Chinese are either too stupid or heartless to realize that half-a-can of Coke isn't going to make much difference…
Zhongnanhai frowns upon exposes of Princeling corruption:
Mr. Winkler defended his decision [not to publish an investigative report about Chinese Communist Party corruption], comparing it to the self-censorship by foreign news bureaus trying to preserve their ability to report inside Nazi-era Germany, according to Bloomberg employees familiar with the discussion.
Sinofascism is not a dinner party.
Chinese Communists publish their nuclear attack plans against America
(Image from the Washington Times)
Hey, remember the last time Great Britain trumpeted its nuclear strike strategy against the U.S.?
Me neither!
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To seek revenge on its political refugees.
Readers are no doubt aware that Communist China currently games the Interpol system to victimize its Uyghur refugees as well.
In the form of a kids movie about giant robots battling cartoonish monsters:
Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim is a box office smash in China, but the Chinese military doesn't like it one bit, calling the movie blatant propaganda used to spread "American values and ideas."
The story's over a month old – don't know how I missed it.
But somehow, I find it strangely comforting that the officer corps of the PLA is composed of a bunch of cowardly bedwetters.
Ran across some commenters at Michael Turton's site asking for the original link to a piece by a Chinese Communist Party militarist. (Fella by the handle of Long Tao demands that the People's "Liberation" Army Navy initiate a bloody war-for-oil against Vietnam and the Philippines in the South China Sea.)
Anyways, here's the original:
Time to teach those around the South China Sea a lesson
Which reminds one of the Aesop's fable:
A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, decided not to attack the lamb, but to find some reason to justify to the Lamb why the Wolf had the right to eat him. So the Wolf said:
“Sir Lamb, last year you greatly insulted me.”
“But,” bleated the Lamb mournfully, “I was not born last year!”
Then the Wolf said, “You feed in my pasture.”
“No, good sir,” replied the Lamb, “I have not yet tasted grass.”
Again the Wolf said, “You drink water from my well.”
“No,” exclaimed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.”
Upon which the Wolf seized the Lamb and ate him up, saying, “Well! I won’t remain supper-less, even though you refute every one of my accusations.”
Moral: The tyrant will always find an excuse for his tyranny.
(Wolf-in-Panda's-clothing image from Nelson Minar)
UPDATE: Here's a blast from the not-so-distant past. Taiwan's Chinese Communist-funded newspaper, the China Post, argues that Vietnam is solely to blame for tensions in the South China Sea.
Yeah, you heard me: Vietnam. Not China. (Please don't ask the paper to speak ill of Communist governments that lavish it with heaps of advertorial money…)
It's true that Vietnam is trying to manufacture a war scare over the Spratly Islands, a large archipelago that rides atop very rich oil reserves in the South China Sea.
The way the paper makes common cause with their ultra-nationalist brethren across the Taiwan Strait should raise a few eyebrows, too:
We are positive that no armed conflict will occur over the Spratlys. Despite the hollow saber-rattling, Vietnam and the Philippines have no stomach for a war against Taiwan and China. [emphasis added]
Taiwan AND China. Interesting proposal for a military alliance there.
Yet another reason why Taiwan will never be offered F-16C/D fighters…
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Google must have figured out I was perusing sites about rare earths after China recently cut off its supply, both to Japan and to the West. So today, AdSense intuited that I might wish to see a banner ad for this site (a Mongolian rare earth mining venture).
Give them credit: that "Checkmate China!" slogan certainly DOES attract one's attention…
The company's transport lines do that, as well. Can anyone spot which neighboring country they AVOID sending cargo through? Why, it's almost as though they anticipate China might engage in politically-motivated export interruptions, or something . . .
Bright lads. Noticing that China's notorious unreliability as a supplier represents a unique marketing opportunity — for the competition.
(Image from RareEarthExporters.com)
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Till today, I never knew the fellow-travellers there were actually on the take — receiving advertorial money on a regular basis from the Butchers of Beijing.
From their grotesque opposition to defensive weaponry for Taiwan, to their sly anti-Dalai Lama rhetoric, to their enthusiastic support of the Politburo's demeaning "Chinese Taipei" appellation for the R.O.C., down to their unseemly cheerleading for the modern Chinese economic model (& on occassion, its political leadership as well) — all these stances for several years now have made the paper's sell-out apparent to all.
But I'd always chalked-up the KMT mouthpiece's new-found pro-Communist leanings to the sentiments of Chinese ultranationalists who had made their peace with 'Communism' (if not 'communism'). How wrong I was.
As the paper was once fond of saying, cui bono?
That's Latin for, "Who benefits?" Or in the modern vernacular, "Follow the money".