Category: Taiwanese Politics

The Future’s So Bright They Gotta Wear…

Aw, you know.  And just when I thought I'd done the whole "Ayatollah Ma Ying-jeou" thing to death, the ruling KMT party graciously provides more material:

Supreme Leader of Taiwan: Ma Ying-jeou. Supreme Leader of Iran: Ayatollah Khamenei. Both wear sunglasses. Caption: Chinese Ultranationalist government of Taiwan seeks closer relations with Iranian Islamofascists.

Great fun at the China Post's comments section there.  With anti-Semitic Chinese knuckledraggers who are apparently still unaware that Israel left Gaza a few YEARS ago.  And a buffoon who insists the issue is a sacred matter of R.O.C. sovereignty — after voicing in a previous thread his approval for Peking to determine Taiwan's immigration policies.

UPDATE:  Has anyone in Taiwan had the gumption to ask the urbane, American-educated Ma what his position is on the stoning of adulteresses?  Or is that something they didn't cover at Harvard Law School?

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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou Vows To Clamp Down On Corruption

Perhaps one of these days he'll demonstrate all that sincerity of his by having a good talking to that premier he appointed.  You know, the guy who vacations with double-murdering Chinese mafiosos.

Chinese Communists Would Conquer Taiwan In Three Days

According to the most recent computer wargame simulations conducted by the island nation's Ministry of National Defense.

The ruling Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan was said to be horrified by the revelation, and vowed to rectify the country's precarious situation by blocking all weapons procurement bills at least 60 times over the course of the next two years.

Taiwan’s Communist Party Blacklists Uighur Splittist

Rebiya Kadeer forbidden to enter Taiwan for three years by Ma Ying-jeou's cronies in Immigration. The story in today's Taipei Times.  Although curiously, the Times quaintly persists in referring to the party in question as the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

But then, as dissident Yu Jie might have said to the Chinese Stasi during his recent interrogation, it's easy to mistake one axe-gang for another.

Technically Speaking

Doesn't this count as "Desinification"?  A Cultural Revolution even?

Births have traditionally dropped during the Chinese Year of the Tiger, as many believe that [Year of the] Tiger babies could be vicious and bring harm to relatives.

[KMT] Education Ministry official Yang Chang-yu challenged the belief that it is inauspicious to have babies in Tiger years, and noted many successful people are Tigers. People should try to have babies during this Year of the Tiger, insisted Yang.

And in order to debunk the traditional Chinese belief that Year of the Tiger babies are vicious and harmful, Yang presents Exhibits A and B:

People born in the Year of the Tiger include President Ma Ying-jeou, born in 1950, and Vice President Vincent Siew, born in 1938, Yang said.  [emphasis added]

Honey, pass the prophylactics.

Stevie, what are your thoughts on all this?

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Bye Bye Johnny

While living in Taiwan, I was a big fan of Johnny Neihu in the Taipei Times.  Breezy, well-written stuff.  So I was very saddened to read last week that his weekly column has come to an end.

I'm sort of scratching my head over his final piece for the Times, though.  I know he's saying something beneath the surface, but it's all a bit impenetrable to me.  Whatever it is, my condolences on the death of your mother, Johnny.

Bye bye.

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There is No Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe

Likewise, there's No Finlandization of Taiwan.  And there never will be under a Ma administration!

And finally, just so's we're clear on this, there are No Dissidents in China.  Never had 'em, never will.

That is all.

Q: Why Did Taiwan’s Premier Take a Vacation With a Mobster Convicted Of Double Murder?

A:  Because O.J. wasn't available that weekend.

Yeah, yeah — the story's a few months old: 

Amid allegations over his relationship with a convicted double murderer and former Nantou County gang boss, Premier Wu Den-yih (吳敦義) yesterday said he would resign if the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) could provide any evidence of irregularities in their relationship.

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The DPP has continued to question the premier’s links to Chiang since local media on Wednesday reported Wu and his wife were caught on camera vacationing in Bali with Chiang and Lee Chao-ching.

KMT Premier Wu Den-yih. He is graying with short hair, and wears a suit and tie.

(There he is, clean as a whistle.  Taiwan's KMT Premier, Wu Den-yih.  When he's not taking vacations in Bali with his double-murdering, Chinese mafia pals.  Image from Daylife.com.)

And in more recent (and somewhat related news), World Uygher Congress president Rebiya Kadeer has received a second invite to visit Taiwan.  Saturday's Taipei Times has the story, and recaps how Chinese Nationalist Party sycophants in Taiwan prevented her visit last year in order to curry favor with their Communist Party overlords.  (And note that "sycophant" is employed here in both the modern and ancient meanings of the word.) 

The government [in 2009], however, denied Kadeer entry to Taiwan on the grounds that her visit would harm the national interest.

At the time, Minister of the Interior Jiang Yi-huah (江宜樺) said Kadeer, president of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC), should not be allowed into the country since she had “close relations to a terrorist group.”

So my question is:  If Kadeer's entry in 2009 was deemed harmful to Taiwan's national interest because she had "close relations to a terrorist group" *, shouldn't Taiwan's second highest political office-holder be similarly blacklisted from the halls of government for his PROVEN close relations with a double murdering gangster?

"The new administration will push for clean politics and set strict standards for the integrity and efficiency of officials."

— Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou's Inaugural address.  May 21, 2008

Epic fail on those "strict standards for integrity" there, Hoss.

*  Unsubstantiated charges made by the Butchers of Beijing and repeated uncritically by the Toadies of Taipei.

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Like a Virgin (Sorta)

"I flinch, I shy, when the lass with the delicate air goes by
I smile, I grin, when the gal with a touch of sin walks in.
I hope, and I pray, for Hester to win just one more "A"
The sadder-but-wiser girl's the girl for me.
The sadder-but-wiser girl for me."

Hate to hear about the inevitable quality-control problems on THIS one:

Hymens: Now Made in China

Egypt may be up in arms over the latest stroke of Chinese manufacturing brilliance—a synthetic hymen . . .

. . . conservative officials across the Muslim world fear it might find more nefarious uses in countries where virginity is a prerequisite for marriage. Egypt has gone so far as to attempt a ban against the artificial hymen, calling peddlers "bandits" and charging that the device will corrode the moral standards of the country.

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In places where honor killings are practiced against women who can't prove they were virgins on their wedding nights, this little, seemingly innocuous sex toy has opened quite a can of worms.

Still no official denunciation of this dire threat to Islamic decency and virtue by the Taliban wing of Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).