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Tag: Communist Party of China
How China Is Targetting America’s Military
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 Milk Of CCP Kindness
Chinese Communist Party sentences Zhao Lianhai to 2 1/2 years in prison. For the heinous crime of attempting to inform Chinese parents about the toxic milk scandal:
Last November, he was arrested by the police and then charged in March with "creating a disturbance". His lawyer, Li Fangping, said the evidence for the charge had been that Mr Zhao had given a media interview on a public pavement, held a dinner in a restaurant for a dozen parents of other victims, and that he had held up a small sign in protest outside a trial of milk company executives responsible for the poisoning.
Yet another wicked reprobate. Whom Taiwan's Lien Chan will also refuse to speak on behalf of.
Jia Yo, Liu Xiaobo
Congratulations to Liu Xiaobo — China's very own Vaclav Havel — on his historic Nobel Peace Prize win.
An honorable mention to President Hu Jintao and the Chinese Communist Politburo as well. (For without their tireless efforts, Liu's victory would scarcely have been possible!)
UPDATE: Will the current Nobel chairman publicly make the Carl von Ossietzky – Liu Xiaobo connection?
UPDATE #2: I knew that Liu had been sentenced to 11 years by the Communist politburo…but wasn't aware that Liu & his lawyers had only 14 minutes to defend him at trial. Can't wait to see Bev Chu & Taiwan's China Post spin the proceedings of that kangaroo court as a "fair trial".
UPDATE #3: "I have long been aware that when an independent intellectual stands up to an autocratic state, step one toward freedom is often a step into prison. Now I am taking that step; and true freedom is that much nearer." – Liu Xiaobo
UPDATE (Oct 9/2010): Gotta give Ma Ying-jeou & the KMT credit for at least pretending to be pleased with Liu's win. Hypocrisy may be the homage vice pays to virtue, but that's certainly more than Taiwan's China Post has done so far.
[Don't be so cynical, Foreigner — school bullying is a huge, HUGE story! Way bigger than the first Nobel Peace Prize won by a Chinese!]
From yesterday's Taipei Times:
Hours after the announcement, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) congratulated Liu for winning the prize and called on China to address human rights issues with a more liberal attitude.
The General-wuss-imo must be really worried about the coming elections, if he's that willing to piss off his Communist masters. What's next? An invitation to Rebiya Kadeer and the Dalai Lama to come help campaign for him?
UPDATE #5: Beijing summons the Norwegian ambassador for a dressing-down. Yet another Hitler "Downfall" parody in the making…
UPDATE #6: Heh. "…peaceful and friendly China" vs. "antagonistic and belligerent Norway."
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