Category: China – Politics

Lien Chan Returns After Celebrating The Marvelous Exploits Of The People’s Liberation Army

If the KMT's chairman emeritus wishes to tie his party to the Butchers of Beijing and their PLA stormtroopers, that can certainly be arranged.

The KMT's Lien Chan and Hung Hsiu-chu with an image of bloody Chinese tank treads running over a bicycle at Tiananmen Square.

Welcome back to Taiwan, Lien Chan. Not everyone has a good time at Tiananmen Square, but you enjoyed yourself.

And that's the important thing.

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KMT Chairman Emeritus Lien Chan Disappointed With Paucity Of Communist Propaganda In Taiwanese History Courses

Helpfully offers to rectify this unbearable situation by allowing joint teams of propagandists from the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party to re-write the history books

A seated Lien Chan saying, 'Will collaborate with Communists for business concessions.'

 

Joe Hung saying, 'Collaborate? Did someone say, Collaborate?'

I think Lien's found his first volunteer.

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With KMT Poised For Defeat In Taiwan’s Next Presidential Election, Its Supporters Extol The “Virtues” Of Dictatorship Once Again

The aura of Loserdom is strong with this one:

Taiwan's China Post declares that autocracy works under "wise" leadership

The paper's argument rests upon three examples: Singapore, China and South Korea.

With regards to the first country, it must be asked: If autocracy in Singapore works so well, why do over half its citizens wish to emigrate? Is it possible there's something Singaporeans know about Singapore that the China Post does not?

Perish the thought. The people can NEVER know more than their would-be masters.

As for China, it's telling that the Post omitted any defense of the wisdom of the Chinese Communist Party's Nazi-like policy of exterminating religious minorities for the purpose of organ harvesting. (But how splendid though, that the Butchers of Beijing make the cattle cars to their ghoulish death camps run on time.)

Lastly, we come to South Korea, which represents a full third of the author's defense of autocracy:

South Korea is another case in point…The free economic zones promulgated by the government have won support from the public majority, and are en route to attracting more foreign investment.

That would be an admirable achievement for autocracy…if indeed it was an autocracy that had conceived and implemented it!

(The facts however, show that the first of South Korea's economic zones was set up in 2003. At which time, Korea was a democracy…)

Welcome back from your operation, Joe Hung. It's good to see the quality of your columns has not suffered despite your convalescence: rest assured, they are as error-riddled and badly-argued when their author ingests mind-altering pain medication as when he does not.

The Chinese Aren’t Threatening Europe

…they're just fantasizing:

China has made a major diplomatic faux pas by illustrating its Moon Rover exhibit with a stock image of a nuclear mushroom cloud over Europe.

China Threatens Europe With Nuclear Destruction. A mock moon-rover is displayed at a trade show, with a stock poster featuring a nuclear strike on Europe behind it.

(Sinofascist dreams of nuclear holocaust. Image from TheWeek.com)

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Communist China Demands Britain Return Artifacts

From News.com.au:

One of the most popular questions [posed to British Prime Minister David Cameron on the Chinese Twitter copycat-site] was posted by a prominent Chinese think-tank, the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, which is headed by former vice-premier Zeng Peiyan and includes many top government officials and leading economists among its members.

"When will Britain return the illegally plundered artefacts?" the organisation asked, referring to 23,000 items in the British Museum which it says were looted by the British army.

Interesting question. While the Foreigner is not necessarily opposed to returning plundered artifacts, he does wonder when China will volunteer to return all the tribute it illegally plundered from foreign countries during its Imperial period.

To take but a single example:

Slaves from tributary countries were sent to Tang China by various groups: the Cambodians sent albinos, the Uyghurs sent Turkic Karluks, the Japanese sent Ainu, and Turkish and Tibetan girls were also sent to China.

Anyone care to monetize the value of all those slaves in 2013 dollars?

Communist China Leans On Western Media To Spike Unfavorable Coverage

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 Communist Party Uncovers Insidious American Plot

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.