Category: Taiwanese Politics

A Tale Of Two Building Occupations

First, in Ukraine:

Ukraine's acting president Oleksandr Turchynov is promising amnesty for pro-Russian demonstrators if they give up their weapons and abandon government buildings under siege in two eastern Ukrainian cities.

Second, in Taiwan:

Students who have broken the law during protests against the cross-strait service trade agreement will not be treated differently from other lawbreakers, Minister of Justice Luo Ying-shay (羅瑩雪) said yesterday.

Curiously enough, no KMT members were ever arrested when they broke the law in 2006 while protesting against former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian.

But, I guess the law just doesn't apply to you if you're a KMT man…

KMT Continues To Lie About The Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement

Yesterday:

With the implementation delay of the Cross-Strait Trade in Services Agreement, many countries have placed a hold on their current trade negotiations with Taiwan, said Economic Minister Chang Chia-juch (張家祝) yesterday.

Today, one of Taiwan's trade partners called Chang on his bullshit:

The current dispute over the cross-strait service trade agreement would not negatively affect the US’ position on Taiwan’s bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) spokesman Mark Zimmer said.

KMT Admits Their Trade Pact With Chinese Communists Strip Taiwanese Of Democratic Liberties

From today's Taipei Times:

Former Executive Yuan spokesperson Hu Yu-wei (胡幼偉) has recently come under fire for posting a message on Facebook saying that students who participated in the Sunflower movement [a protest movement against a service trade agreement made between the KMT & the Chinese Communist Party] could face job-hunting difficulties due to their “perceived anti-establishment tendencies.”

Hu…said several high-level managers at private corporations had told him they planned to include questions such as “Did you participate in the student movement?” and “Do you support the student protesters’ anti-establishment behavior?” into their list of routine job interview questions.

Know your place, peasants. You may think you have some sort of right to "free-speech" and "freedom of assembly"…but pro-Communist Red Fat Cats will do their damndest to make sure you'll never work in Taiwan again!

Hu Yu-wei has done the people of Taiwan an enormous favor by this frank admission. But he would do them an even greater favor if he were to name which companies have adopted this policy of Communist repression.

That would provide democracy-loving Taiwanese the information they need to boycott traitorous freedom-hating companies and bankrupt them.

Punch back twice as hard.

Postscript: Of course, there is no need for the thuggish Hu Yu-wei to name names.

All that is necessary is for but a single student to be asked an irrelevant political litmus test question during a job interview, and the 500,000-strong student movement can arrange the rest.

The China Post Projects Its Own Love Of Autocracy Onto Others

Taiwan's worst English-language newspaper put out a howler today:

…the Sunflower students, who violated the law by hijacking the parliament and storming the government house of the Executive Yuan, [conducting a peaceful sit-in at government buildings against an economic surrender agreement with Communist China] have succeeded in imposing their “people's democracy” on Taiwan. Theirs isn't democracy. It's monocracy. [Emphasis added]

Monocracy? Mono, as in ONE?

500,000 Taiwanese students came out to protest the KMT's dangerous backdoor economic deal with the Communist Party of China.

Hate to break it to ya fellas, but:

500,000 >>> 1

Guess that old trope about Asians being really good at math was just a myth…

Oh, but wait, the best part comes at the end of the China Post's latest editorial:

The last card President Ma may play may be to invoke the Statute Governing the Relations between the People in the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area to have the trade in services agreement go into force by an executive order. [emphasis added]

..it's probably the only way to ensure Taiwan's economic survival.

Evidently, the only way for Taiwan to avoid the dangers of monocracy…is for its president to govern by dictat!

Joe Hung Still Counsels Surrender To Communist China

Joe Hung's latest:

…will the grandiose Sunflower activists call it quits? They believe they are tough and strong, but there is another interpretation of “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” It means: when the situation becomes almost impossible, those who are truly strong are wise enough to pull out, rather than being totally decimated.

Well, no, it doesn't mean that at all. As usual, "Traitor Joe" gets it completely cockeyed once again.

Perhaps Joe Hung refers to a facetious screwball interpretation however, which suggests that apathy and cowardice are preferable to perserverance and resolution.

Understandably, such an aphorism holds greater appeal to a man who's sold his soul to the Communist Party of China:

Satire: The China Post's Joe Hung regarding basic English expressions: 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going. So if you'll excuse me, I must be going!'

Better Red than dead, huh Joe?

UPDATE: Students obtain promise from speaker of the legislature, Wang Jin-pyng, to push for a law for the monitoring of agreements made between democratic Taiwan and Communist China.

Which is something the Taiwanese wouldn't have received had its students taken Joe Hung's ill-considered advice.

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Is Joe Hung Taiwan’s Slimiest Liar?

Admittedly the competition is stiff, but Joe Hung goes full Goebbels with his latest screed on March 24th's government eviction of student protesters from Taiwan's Executive Building.

Claims Joe about Ma Ying-jeou's bloody crackdown:

"The force used to expel the Black Island Nation Youth Front mob wasn't violent at all." [Emphasis added]

Refutation comes from the equivalent of a thousand words:

Student with bloody head after being beaten by police truncheons during Ma Ying-jeou's bloody crackdown on students at Taiwan's Executive Yuan.

(Image from 4am.tw)

No violence, you say, Joe? Perhaps this man just went to a REALLY bad barber then, eh? Took a little too much off the top. Happens all the time!

Or maybe it's spontaneous hemorrhaging. Brought on by…ebola! Yeah, that's the ticket!

Or, when in doubt, why not return to one of Joe Hung's pet tinfoil-hat conspiracy theories? The devious man in this photo quite obviously faked his own assault by snatching a riot stick from a virtuous policeman's hands and beat himself over the head with it to gain sympathy.

Oh, the lengths these sneaky devils go to!

The China Post's Joe Hung begins his latest column by informing his readers of the meaning of "grandiosity".

Instead, he might have been better served looking up the definition of violence, in order to avoid making a complete ass of himself.

Postscript: Heh. A good journalist would instantly recognize that "mob" probably doesn't apply to those who are peacefully seated.

But this is Joe Hung we're talking about, so standards of good journalism don't really apply.

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Congratulations To The REAL “Supreme Leader” Of Taiwan: The Taiwanese People

Well done!

A half-million Taiwanese protest against KMT-Communist Party of China trade and service pact negotiated by KMT President Ma Ying-jeou.

(Half-a-million Taiwanese protest a KMT-Chinese Communist Party service trade pact which they fear will strip them of their liberties. Image from the Taipei Times.)

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More Fabulism From The China Post

From today's China Post:

Almost everybody knows that the signing of the [services] trade agreement [between Taiwan and Communist China] is the right thing to do. [Emphasis added]

That would be true…if "almost everybody" was defined as "34% of everybody". From the Asia Times:

A survey of 1,008 Taiwan adults released in late July by Taiwan Indicators Survey Research found that 48% opposed signing the services trade pact [with Communist China], while 34% were in favor. [Emphasis added]

To the editors of the China Post: 34% << "Almost everybody".

I know math is hard, but you could at least try a little.