At the very least, it's tapering off.
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Tag: China
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
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?
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!
Congratulations To The REAL “Supreme Leader” Of Taiwan: The Taiwanese People
Well done!
(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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China Ponders Putin’s Georgian & Crimean Precedents
Is Vladimir Putin just about the world's greatest fool?
There is, however, one country with an imperial past and a renewed craving for empire that has territorial ambitions which make of it a threat to Russia, and that country is China…The majority of those who live there [Siberia] today are not Russian. Many of them are Chinese who have journeyed north in search of well-paid work; and China, which is just across the border from Siberia, is an economic juggernaut increasingly desperate for resources of the very sort that are found in abundance in Siberia.
Vladimir Putin should think hard about the precedent he is setting in the Crimea. The day may come when China does to Russia in Siberia what he is trying to do right now to the Ukraine in the Crimea. Putin's government piously states that its only concern is to protect the majority Russian population in the Crimea from the Tatars and the Ukrainians there. China, in time, will say the like about the Chinese in Siberia. And when that day comes, he will have alienated everyone of any significance who might otherwise have rallied to Russia's defense. [Emphasis added]
More on Putin's folly.
The Chinese Aren’t Threatening Europe
China has made a major diplomatic faux pas by illustrating its Moon Rover exhibit with a stock image of a nuclear mushroom cloud over Europe.
(Sinofascist dreams of nuclear holocaust. Image from TheWeek.com)
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Communist China Demands Britain Return Artifacts
From News.com.au:
One of the most popular questions [posed to British Prime Minister David Cameron on the Chinese Twitter copycat-site] was posted by a prominent Chinese think-tank, the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, which is headed by former vice-premier Zeng Peiyan and includes many top government officials and leading economists among its members.
"When will Britain return the illegally plundered artefacts?" the organisation asked, referring to 23,000 items in the British Museum which it says were looted by the British army.
Interesting question. While the Foreigner is not necessarily opposed to returning plundered artifacts, he does wonder when China will volunteer to return all the tribute it illegally plundered from foreign countries during its Imperial period.
To take but a single example:
Slaves from tributary countries were sent to Tang China by various groups: the Cambodians sent albinos, the Uyghurs sent Turkic Karluks, the Japanese sent Ainu, and Turkish and Tibetan girls were also sent to China.
Anyone care to monetize the value of all those slaves in 2013 dollars?
China’s Peaceful Rise? Beijing Slavers For War
Chinese unilaterally declare Japanese air-zone as their own.
If he were an honest man, Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post would now write a column apologizing for being hoodwinked by claims of "China's Peaceful Rise".
IF he were an honest man…
UPDATE: Ha. Missed this quote from Yang Yujun of China's Ministry of War:
China "has always respected the freedom of over-flight in accordance with international law".
Sure. With exactly the same respect it affords the territory of its neighbors.