Tag: China Post

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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Does David Kan Ting Take Pleasure In Innocent Chinese Being Mowed Down By Machine Gun Fire?

Honest question. Let's look at the evidence:

On the one hand, David Kan Ting appears to be a fan of Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Soong May-ling), whom he describes as, “the legendary Mei-ling Soong, wife of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who has been hailed as “the eternal first lady of China.” ✵

Soong May-ling herself was quite unequivocal on the matter of Tiananmen Square, describing the perpetrators as "dastardly Communist poltroons" and "demonic butchers" (The China Post, June 13, 1989 †).

So on the basis of this, I'd have to say, no, David Kan Ting of Taiwan's China Post DOES NOT take pleasure in innocent Chinese being mowed down by automatic machine gun fire.

But not so fast. You see, Soong May-ling is long dead-and-gone. And now, David Kan Ting has a new female hero. (A she-ro, if you will.) His latest idol de jour is Peng Liyuan, first lady ogress of China.

Peng Liyuan's reaction to Tiananmen Square could not possibly have been more different from Madame Chiang's. Whereas Soong May-ling seized the moment to denounce the Communist authors of this hideous crime, Peng Liyuan chose to laugh and clap and dance and sing at the deaths of thousands of Chinese at the hands of the People's "Liberation" Army.

Evil Chinese cunt Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese dictator Xi Jinping, rejoicing and entertaining the troops after the Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989.

(Peng Liyuan, entertaining PLA troops after the Tiananmen Massacre. Unlike Elvis, she don't look "all shook up". Thousands of Chinese murdered? Time to par-tay!
Image from the International Business Times)

So we come once more back to the original question: Does David Kan Ting of Taiwan's China Post take pleasure in innocent Chinese being mowed down by automatic machine gun fire?

Given Dave's rather eclectic choice of heroes, the best that can be said is that the answer is…inconclusive.

✵ Contra to Ting, Madame Chiang Kai-shek has ALSO been hailed by Taiwan's democratic opposition as, "the most evil woman to wield any kind of power during that bleak 100 years [ie: the 20th Century] and that her influence on almost anything she touched was corrupting and malign."

But I digress. My goal here is not to investigate Soong May-ling's place in history, but to ascertain her attitude concerning the Tiananmen Massacre.

† Since the China Post does not have online archives extending as far back as 1989, this is a second-hand quote by Soong May-ling, from a source whose reliability is suspect (to say the very least!)

Nevertheless, the quotes are in keeping with another (more reliable) second-hand source, so I therefore regard them as authentic.

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“Surrender…May Be Our Only Option!”

Doctor Lazarus looking concerned on board the NSEA-Protector. From Galaxy Quest.

What's the difference between a KMT appeaser and a garden-variety appeaser?

Both feed the crocodile.  But the KMT appeaser hopes it'll eat him FIRST.

Taiwan's China Post renews its perennial call for Taipei to sign a formal document of surrender to the Chinese Communist Party.

Except that "formal document of surrender" doesn't test well with Taiwanese focus groups.  For some reason or another.  So the paper gets out the lipstick, and dubs their red-lipped porker "a peace accord".

One wonders why the paper doesn't go all-out, and insist the agreement consist of 17 points…

(YouTube — Never Smile at a Crocodile by Rolf Harris)

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“Talking Is Something You Can’t Do Judiciously Unless You Keep In Practice”

Apparently, Taiwan's China Post feels the same way about lying as well:

Frank comments by Central Bank Governor Perng Fai-nan (彭淮南) that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's proposal of a referendum on the latest 130-billion-euro bailout plan could be like “a bomb dropped on the global financial market” made news around the globe as the world weighs in on the latest eurozone crisis. [Emphasis added]

Now, I've never been to journalism school. But I am pretty sure one thing they don't teach is to just casually make shit up. (In the VERY FIRST SENTENCE of your editorial, no less.)

Perng Fai-nan's comments made news around the globe? Pray tell, in which alternate universe did his pronouncements raise such a stir?

Because in the one I currently inhabit, there's nothing about this in the New York Times.

Nothing in the Washington Post.

Nor in London's Daily Telegraph. Nor the Daily Mail.

Googling Perng Fai-nan Canada brings up a big goose egg. As does Perng Fai-nan Australia. Same for New Zealand as well.

While by no means the biggest lie the Post has ever perpetrated, it is amusing nonetheless. That a paper should have the face to start a piece explicitly pandering to the "China is the center of the world" prejudices of its ultra-nationalist readership . . . and then complain about POLITICIANS who engage in "populism".

Update: The Post again:

"Of course, if the referendum is indeed held, the Greek public may possibly pay little attention to the opinion of a Taiwan central bank chief." [Emphasis added]

Whoa. You called THAT one, dudes.

Update #2: Wanna know exactly how much of a non-event Perng's statements were on the world stage?

I'm as surprised as anyone to see the top search engine result for "Perng Fai-nan New York Times".

ROTFLMAO.

The Dog That Didn’t Bark

What, no editorials from Taiwan's China Post, cheering on Liu Xiaobo for the Nobel Peace Prize?  Whose struggle for freedom and democracy is something that Chinese everywhere can take justifiable pride in?  Not a word from the newspaper which has stated that after a century, it's HIGH-TIME for a person of Chinese extraction to win?

Nope, guess not.  Where once were glowing paeans for Beijing's '08 Olympics, are now only crickets for the frontrunner poised to become China's FIRST-EVER winner of the award.  Chinese nationalists, indeed.

(But then, when one takes the position that democracy is the worst political system ever tried (bar none!), it's not surprising that by default one roots for Communist jailors instead.)

Cartoon captioned: In China, No Presents For Christmas. Cartoon shows a PRC policeman in Santa's pack snatching Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo from the street. (Liu's sentence was expected to be delivered on Christmas Day, 2010.)

(Image from Reporters Without Borders)

UPDATE:  An Irish gambling company which allows people to wager on who will win the prize is apparently so confident that Liu Xiaobo will come out on top that they've stopped taking bets and started paying-off bettors 48 hours before the actual announcement.

Parting with their money before they absolutely have to suggests that they're completely nuts.  Or that they know something the rest of us don't…

UPDATE #2:  Beijing threatens to bring Norway its knees by withholding vital supplies of heavy metal-laced cigarettes.  Which will be difficult for the Norwegians to substitute, since China controls at least 92% of all the world's rare earths cadmium-flavored tobacco products.

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