Birds of a Feather

Surprise, surprise:  Chinese Sino-Imperialists arm Iranian Islamofascists with lots and lots of shiny new Dalian riot control trucks.  ("Tiananmen Square" brand billy clubs cost extra, apparently.)

Chinese Dalien riot control truck. Scary black truck with a cowcatcher in the front.

(Image from Popular Science.)

She's a beaut, ain't she?  I'll bet Chiu Yi is kickin' himself he didn't have one of THESE babies during the KMT election riots of '04.

Cheer up, Chiu.  You've still got 2012 to look forward to.  Why, in a few years time, you'll be out there crackin' heads with the rest of 'em!

And moving not so far off topic I see that Iran has joined China in their jihad against Google.  (Good news indeed, for China's new Google substitute.)

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Tom Friedman Throwdown

Dr. Jerome Keating did a pretty good job last month.  But for bust-out funny, Iowahawk's the man to beat:

One-party autocracy certainly has its drawbacks. For example, some argue that one-party autocracies might not always do stuff Thomas Friedman agrees with. But this risk can easily be avoided if the one party is a reasonably enlightened group of people, such as China, and/or Thomas Friedman. Only through this one party system can we impose the politically difficult but critically important policies needed to move a society forward into a thousand-year empire of benevolent, iron fisted enlightenment.

Come to think of it, Iowahawk sounds like Sino-Imperialist Bev Chu over on Lew Rockwell's site.

(Only difference being Iowahawk has tongue planted firmly in cheek, while Bev is dead serious.)

Chinese Securitate Get REALLY Tough on Google

Heh.

UPDATE:  Wow.  The Chinese Communist Party's fiendishly clever Plan B:  Operation Create Google Substitute.

Which come to think of it, strongly resembles their campaign over at Topix:

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

When the Hokklo Taiwanese came from China 400 years ago they didn't learn the Aboriginal languages!!!  Why??? 

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

When the Hokklo Taiwanese came from China 400 years ago they didn't learn the Aboriginal languages!!!  Why??? 

Sockpuppet dog wearing a mustache

It's the way of the future . . . the future . . . the way of the FU-ture . . .

Sockpuppet dog that's taken off his mustache and holds it under his arm

Whoops, sorry.  **Phew**  Well, that's a good question I asked.  I mean, you — YOU asked!  …Uh, three times.  Anyhoo.  Anyhoo, I'll tell you why.  They didn't learn the aboriginal languages because they're nothing but a bunch of no-good racists!

Sockpuppet dog wearing a curly mustache

No-good racists, you say?  I did not know that, my clean-shaven friend.

Shouldn't Beijing then discipline those wayward, spoiled children?  As they say in the Han race-nation, blood is thicker than water.  So why, oh why, don't the Chinese invade and mass deport all of those Taiwanese racists back to China?

Sockpuppet dog that's taken off his mustache and holds it under his arm

Ethnically-cleanse all 23 million of them?  As punishment for not learning a language 400 years ago?

Hmmm . . .  That's tough, but fair . . .

Sockpuppet dog wearing Groucho glasses, nose, and eyebrows

I second the motion!  A capital idea!  And then, once the People's Liberation Army promptly leaves (as we can surely trust them to do) then we can set up a Naruwan aboriginal Republic under UN auspices!

Sockpuppet dog with sunglasses and banjo

Hee-hee!  With my amazing Moktar Stealth Haze, no one can tell they're all just me!  Do da do da do . . .  Just a wild and crazy anarchist – like that V for Vendetta guy!  (Images from Patterico.com)

Bravo, Topix.com, for a site that's so bad it's actually kind of awesome.

UPDATE 2:  Unrelated, but fun nonetheless.  Feng shui:  Is there anything it CAN'T do?

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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.

[…]

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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Nice Little University Ya Got Here

Be a shame if anything happened to its accreditation…

Three months [after awarding an honorary degree to the Dalai Lama], the University of Calgary [in Canada] was dropped from the Chinese Ministry of Education’s accreditation list of universities for Chinese students desiring to study abroad, the Calgary Herald newspaper reported on Thursday.

The Hotline for Overseas Studies Service Center in Beijing had the following advice for Chinese students: “If you don’t already go to that school, it is better not to go because you will face risks.”

[…]

About 600 students from China and Hong Kong are enrolled at the University of Calgary.  [About 2.5 % of the student body — The Foreigner]. On average, tuition for foreign students is three times higher than for local students.

Which has absolutely nothing to do with Taiwan.  Except for the fact that the Chinese Nationalist Party government has previously stated it wishes to "flood" Taiwanese universities with students from China –rendering Taiwanese higher education prone to similar political domination.  Not over the Dalai Lama — the Communist Party collaborationists within the KMT will make sure THAT one never steps foot in Taiwan again.  More likely over curricula or the presence of China sceptics within the halls of academe.

Set a course for the Borg tractor beam, Number One.

Full speed ahead. 

Politics and Economics: Still Kept Miles Apart in PRC

Been meaning to link to this brief (but eye-opening) note on management's decision to light up the Empire State Building to celebrate the founding of Communist Party rule in modern China.

One wonders whether the board of Taiwan's Taipei 101 skyscraper will  be willing to sell themselves quite so cheaply.

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.

[…]

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).

Toadies of Taipei Suppress Chinese Dissidents for Butchers of Beijing

The ruling Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) of Taiwan has made it abundantly clear that foreign activists devoted to the cause of human rights in China are NOT WELCOME in the island nation.  First, there was the sorry case of the Dalai Lama last month, who was originally told not to visit, and finally slapped with a government-issued gag order when he was grudgingly permitted to enter the country.  Then to top things off, only a few weeks later the KMT placed the head of the World Uigher Congress, Rebiya Kadeer, also on their rapidly-growing blacklist.

Contrast that with the KMT's treatment of PRC zoo animals with annexation-oriented propagandistic names.  Why, those are hailed and welcomed by the current Taiwanese government with open arms.  Because THEY'RE not political !

Tiananmen Square demonstrators, can you take the hint?  In Ma Ying-jeou's Taiwan, Orwell's dictum now applies.  Four legs good, two legs bad.

On September 25th, Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist Party attempted to rationalize their blacklist in this way:

KMT spokesman Lee Chien-jung (李建榮) said US President Barack Obama had recently decided not to meet the Dalai Lama during his trip to the US to protect the country’s national interests. Japan had also prevented visits by former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) for the same reason.

“The decision made by the government today [to bar Rebiya Kadeer] is based on national and public interests,” he said.

Gee, only three days before Confucius' birthday, and the KMT demonstrates that it has a firm handle on the ethics of eight-year olds:

"Chinaaa hit me in the hallway!  But he was too BIG for me to hit back, so that's why I hit little Rebiya instead!"

Perhaps though, they were merely following the Confucian Silver Rule.  For who among us is unfamiliar with the Great Sage's moral imperative:

"Do unto others, as the Chinese Communist Party would do unto you."

Or something like that.  The Analects tend to lose a little in the Chinese Nationalist translation.

UPDATE:  LOL.  Taiwan's Mainland Affair Council (MAC) announces, "Taiwan can help accelerate democratic development in China."

Left unexplained is how this is to happen when the KMT MUZZLES Chinese democracy advocates.  But I'm sure somebody smart can explain it to me.

Barack Gets Rolled

According to the Washington Post, the Chinese were apparently resigned to the American president meeting with the Dalai Lama in October, but in an act of Picardian sensitivity, Obama called the whole thing off.

Money quote from web page 2:

"We've got the classic case of a Western government yet again conceding to Chinese pressure that is imaginary long after that Chinese pressure has ceased to exist," said Robert Barnett, a Tibetan expert at Columbia University. "The Chinese must be falling over themselves with astonishment at what Western diplomats will give them without being asked. I don't know what the poker analogy would be. 'Please, see all my cards and take my money, too?' "

If it's any consolation, Western governments ain't the only ones doin' that . . .

UPDATE (Feb 20, 2010):  The Weekly Standard describes the Dalai Lama's visit when it finally went through:

It takes a special talent to aggravate the Chinese government, the White House press corps, and the followers of the Dalai Lama all in one fell swoop. But the Obama administration managed to pull off that trifecta on Thursday with its poor handling of the Dalai Lama's meeting with the president.