Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱) yesterday said that the Republic of China (ROC) Constitution calls for “ultimate unification with China…”
“At the end of the road, it is unification, be it in 50 years or 100 years,” Hung said.
Category: Taiwanese Politics
China Post: “What Taiwan’s Government Really Needs Is Less Transparency”
Taiwan’s China Post argues that the only point of democracy is to give people the illusion of having control over their own lives.
(Did 500,000 Taiwanese students protest in favor of MORE or LESS governmental transparency last year? Follow the link to find out!)
UPDATE (Oct 1 / 2015): What’s truly ironic is that the China Post continues to push a policy which is responsible for the KMT’s current abysmal showing in the polls.
It’s as if they’ve learned absolutely nothing this past year-and-a-half.
UPDATE (Oct 16 / 2015): The China Post bases its call for less governmental transparency upon Obama’s Iran deal, which it characterizes as “much-praised” and “presentable”.
If by “much-praised” the China Post means that 47% of the American public favor it while 49% disapprove, then yes, it is “much-praised”.
(But then, given those polling numbers, it would be more accurate to describe it as being “much-condemned”.)
And of course, 69% of Israelis condemn it as well…
ייִדיש משלי With a fairy tale and with a lie you can lull only children to sleep. #Jewish #Quotes #Yiddish #Proverbs
— Yiddish Proverbs (@YiddishProverbs) October 1, 2015
UPDATE #3: Whoops! Barack Obama’s Iran deal violates U.S. federal laws.
So sorry. Didn’t you know laws are only for the little people?
UPDATE #4: Shazam! Iran tests ballistic missile in violation of UN sanctions.
Nice work, chump.
i-1
That Is Why You Fail, Part San
[Hung Hsiu-chu] said on a political talk show on Monday night that if she loses by a landslide in the Jan. 16 election “it would not look good for [KMT Chairman] Eric Chu (朱立倫) either.” [emphasis added]
i-1
As Good An Explanation As Any For The KMT’s Nomination Of Hung Hsiu-chu
The American Interest on why Jeremy Corbyn took the top spot of the British Labor Party. But this sounds like a good working theory for why Hung Hsiu-chu is the Kuomingtang's presidential pick in Taiwan as well:
“If you are doomed to lose whatever you do, you might as well let your freak flag fly.”
Sure, nominating kooks politicians of dubious electability might feel good if they promote views hardcore elements of the party strongly adhere to. But as I see it, the problem with "letting your freak flag fly" is two-fold:
First, nominating radicals poses the danger of splitting a political party — something we're already hearing murmurs of in both Britain and Taiwan.
And second, in doing so, a political party sends the electorate the message that the party in question is fundamentally unserious and not to be trusted near the levers of power.
Not being either a British Laborite or a Chinese Ultranationalist, I'm entirely comfortable with both of those consequences.
POSTSCRIPT: The Taipei Times, suggesting that Hung's goal isn't to win the presidency at all, but merely to change the terms of the debate within the KMT. (That is to say, she wishes to marginalize the KMT's "Taiwanese" faction, and strengthen the party's Chinese unification faction.)
“I want to make changes to the party I belong to,” Hung said with tears in her eyes on Saturday.
[…]
…there is no room (and no need) for Hung to step back, especially if her goal is to foil the growth of the local factions within the party, which could lead the KMT away from its “core [unificationist] values.” She has little to lose, too, except a KMT founded on expedient coalitions, and she is obviously willing to trade a big KMT for a smaller one with stronger faith. [Emphasis added]
Will The KMT Tap Comrade Historian Joe Hung To Revise Taiwanese Textbooks?
Joe Hung, the veteran China Post columnist goes full Maoist in his latest. He used to try to dance around it a bit more, but he's not gettin' any younger, and #YOLO:
"Then, Mao sent his Army to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea to fight the Americans in the Korean War…" [Emphasis added]
If it's a Joe Hung column, one expects bizarre Sinofascist Big Lies, and Hung fails to disappoint:
"…rising China…may turn out to be the true caretaker of the United States to keep world peace." [Emphasis added]
Yeah sure, Comrade Historian. That could happen.
But only if Beijing can exercise enough self-control to abandon its belligerent threats against its neighbors and drop its illegitimate territorial claims against Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and India.
Oh, and resist the temptation to manufacture any NEW territorial claims…
i-2
Mind: Blown
Little Emperor William Hsu (KMT) Threatens To Sue Everyone Critical Of His Slanderous Sexual Slurs
And y’all know where he wants it…
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor William Hsu (徐弘庭) has threatened to take legal action against [about 400] netizens who posted vitriolic replies on Facebook after he [suggested Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) had a special sexual relationship with another man].
(Image of William Hsu from ettoday.net)
i-1
That Is Why You Fail, Part Deux
The last remnants of the old republic have been swept away:
[KMT presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu] sparked controversy during a meeting with business leaders by saying that if [Taiwan's] legislature could not be reformed, then she would shut it down…
(Russian tanks firing upon their country's parliament building. 1993. Image from Wikipedia)
i-1
Driving Under The Influence (of democratic values)
A Chinese man on Taiwanese bus tour complains about a negative portrayal of Mao Tse-Tung being shown in a BBC documentary. Upon hearing this, the Chinese Communist Party proceeds to lay down the law:
…the Chinese travel agency organizing the tour demanded that the Taiwanese travel agency stop showing anti-Communist documentaries on tour buses carrying Chinese tourists, … [and] it also demanded that Taiwanese guides refrain from expressing points of view different from their Chinese clients. [emphasis added]
Fortunately, the Taiwanese Tourist Bureau told the CCP to get bent. Whether it would respond similarly under a Hung Hsiu-chu administration however, is a question we will fortunately never have the misfortune of ever having to answer.
Investment Opportunity For Lien Chan And Like-Minded Quislings
Chinese Communists seek outside investment to fund their military ship-building program
Who knows? For his generous contribution, the ChiComs might even name an aircraft carrier after the old boy.
(KMT chairman emeritus Lien Chan in his new People's Liberation Army duds following his disgraceful attendance and endorsement of a Communist military parade. Image from Holy Mosquito)
i-1