News at the Taipei Times.
Don't imagine he'll ever make it out alive. Because to paraphrase Casablanca's Captain Renault: The Chinese Nationalist Party still hasn't quite decided whether he'll commit suicide or die while trying to escape.
Tag: KMT
Give ‘Em An Inch And They Won’t Just Take An Isle
They'll take the whole archipelago. Chinese ultranationalists at Taiwan's China Post salivate not just over the Senkaku Islands, but over ALL the islands in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture.
The Senkakus? Merely an appetizer.
UPDATE: In claiming the Senkaku Islands for "China", the China Post of Taiwan refers to a Japanese map from 1783 (on which the islands are given the same color as China).
Hayashi Shihei, Japan's first cartographer, positioned the Senkakus as belonging to China in the eighteenth century.
This all leads to a place where the Chinese ultranationalists of the Post most certainly did intend to go. Because interestingly enough, that very same map represents Taiwan with an entirely different color from China. (China & the Senkaku Islands are colored pinkish-red on the map, while Taiwan is colored yellow.)
Ergo, if you believe the Japanese map is irrefutable proof of China's ownership over the Senkakus, then you must also hold it to be irrefutable proof that Taiwan is an country independent of China.
Q.E.D.
(Hat tip to Ampontan, who was the first to make this observation)
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Give Chinese Ultranationalists An Inch, And They’ll Take An Isle
There's Taiwan's revanchist president, Ma Ying-jeou, still trying to stir the pot. Not for him, the blessings of peace. Or a once-a-year attempt to join the U.N.
Instead, a once-a-year provocation of Japan (almost like clockwork) over a few specks in the ocean is more his style.
Funny though, how we never hear of Taiwanese fishing boats trying to lay claim to islands owned by the P.R.C. No, just Japan. That, despite the Chinese Nationalist Party's insistence that ALL of China belongs to the R.O.C…
Why is that, I wonder?
More Senkaku Fallout
1) China finds the excuse it needed to avoid signing a gas field treaty with Japan.
2) What's your's is mine: Beijing orders a Japanese coast guard ship to stop surveying — in Japan's own Exclusive Economic Zone.
3) War & rumors of war: Chinese dispatch quasi-military ship to the Senkaku islands. At the same time a Hong Kong group will charter a Taiwanese fishing vessel to also make a trip to the Japanese-owned islands. Convenient timing.
[That last story also mentions that Captain Ramboat's grandmother passed away in China during his incarceration for violating Japanese waters. Which is sure to calm the passions of Chinese jingoists.]
4) Taiwanese KMT legislator fans the flames: "“Without government support on both sides of the Strait, efforts by civilian associations of [Taiwan, China and Hong Kong] alone will not be enough and will be to no avail [for Taiwan to help seize the Senkaku Islands from Japan]."
Er, just what are the odds that that "civilian association" [Hong Kong's "Action Committee for Defending the Diaoyu Islands"] is actually a Chinese Communist Party front group? Leading everybody down the garden path to war?
Chinese Ultranationalists Continue To Destabilize Region
Not content with Captain Ramboat's recent attempt to occupy Japanese territory, revanchists from Hong Kong plan a second expedition to the Senkaku Islands. And in collusion with at least some elements of Taiwan's Chinese Nationalist government:
Taipei County Councilor King Chieh-shou (金介壽) said planning for the protest will be discussed this morning in Jhonghe City [emphasis added] at a forum on the territorial rights of the Diaoyutai Islands. Details regarding boat rental and activities of protest will be fleshed out at the meeting.
UPDATE: Fascinating how newspaper accounts continue to maintain the fiction that Captain Ramboat "collided" with two Japanese vessels, after informing us that bow met stern.
(Oh no officer, I didn't assault that man. His face just collided with my fist!)
The Future’s So Bright They Gotta Wear…
Aw, you know. And just when I thought I'd done the whole "Ayatollah Ma Ying-jeou" thing to death, the ruling KMT party graciously provides more material:
Great fun at the China Post's comments section there. With anti-Semitic Chinese knuckledraggers who are apparently still unaware that Israel left Gaza a few YEARS ago. And a buffoon who insists the issue is a sacred matter of R.O.C. sovereignty — after voicing in a previous thread his approval for Peking to determine Taiwan's immigration policies.
UPDATE: Has anyone in Taiwan had the gumption to ask the urbane, American-educated Ma what his position is on the stoning of adulteresses? Or is that something they didn't cover at Harvard Law School?
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Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou Vows To Clamp Down On Corruption
Perhaps one of these days he'll demonstrate all that sincerity of his by having a good talking to that premier he appointed. You know, the guy who vacations with double-murdering Chinese mafiosos.
Chinese Communists Would Conquer Taiwan In Three Days
According to the most recent computer wargame simulations conducted by the island nation's Ministry of National Defense.
The ruling Chinese Nationalist Party of Taiwan was said to be horrified by the revelation, and vowed to rectify the country's precarious situation by blocking all weapons procurement bills at least 60 times over the course of the next two years.
