Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
Sounds like the CCP is circumventing few laws, if not violating them outright:
Su declined to describe how he makes money when most of the U.S. stations [delivering his Chinese Communist Party propaganda] air virtually no commercials. He also declined to say how he got the money to finance his radio leases and acquisitions.
UPDATE (Nov 6 / 2015): Some commentary from Forbes.
Joe Hung of Taiwan’s China Post explains how the West LOST the Cold War:
The United States tried to contain the Soviet Union in vain. [Emphasis added]
Nice tin foil hat. Really goes with the suit.
In the same paragraph, Comrade Historian also rewrites the history of Asia to better suit his Zhongnanhai-directed Communist narrative:
Uncle Sam continued to contain Mao Zedong’s China after the chairman had sent his army to fight the Korean War. The containment did not work, of course, and it took President Richard Nixon ending it to pave the way for concluding the normalization of relations between the United States and the People’s Republic in 1979. [Emphasis added]
Now, I’m no doctor of history, but I DO know multiple sources confirm that no Soviet army overran Western Europe in 1963. Nor did any Chinese Communist army step foot in Taiwan.
So whaddya know? Maybe containment DID kinda work after all, huh?
UPDATE: Perhaps credentialed (but uneducated) Comrade Historian Joe Hung confuses the strategy of Containment with that of Rollback?
Because they are two very different things, you know. Not that a PhD-holder from Georgetown University could ever understand such highly-advanced concepts…
UPDATE (Nov 3 / 2015): Apparently, 33 U.S. servicemen were killed protecting Taiwan from Communist China.
A great pity a worthless Communist lickspittle like Joe Hung benefited from their sacrifice.
UPDATE (Nov 4 / 2015): Like most liars, Joe Hung struggles to keep his stories straight:
It took U.S. President Harry S. Truman — who had written off Chiang — to neutralize the Taiwan Strait right after the Korean War broke out in 1950 to prevent Mao Zedong from “washing Taiwan with blood.” With American military and economic assistance, Chiang was able to reorganize his defeated armies into a defense force strong enough to deny Mao a takeover of Taiwan by force…
That sounds suspiciously like saying Mao Tse-tung was successfully contained to me.
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Taiwan’s China Post argues that the only point of democracy is to give people the illusion of having control over their own lives.
(Did 500,000 Taiwanese students protest in favor of MORE or LESS governmental transparency last year? Follow the link to find out!)
UPDATE (Oct 1 / 2015): What’s truly ironic is that the China Post continues to push a policy which is responsible for the KMT’s current abysmal showing in the polls.
It’s as if they’ve learned absolutely nothing this past year-and-a-half.
UPDATE (Oct 16 / 2015): The China Post bases its call for less governmental transparency upon Obama’s Iran deal, which it characterizes as “much-praised” and “presentable”.
If by “much-praised” the China Post means that 47% of the American public favor it while 49% disapprove, then yes, it is “much-praised”.
(But then, given those polling numbers, it would be more accurate to describe it as being “much-condemned”.)
And of course, 69% of Israelis condemn it as well…
ייִדיש משלי With a fairy tale and with a lie you can lull only children to sleep. #Jewish #Quotes #Yiddish #Proverbs
— Yiddish Proverbs (@YiddishProverbs) October 1, 2015
UPDATE #3: Whoops! Barack Obama’s Iran deal violates U.S. federal laws.
So sorry. Didn’t you know laws are only for the little people?
UPDATE #4: Shazam! Iran tests ballistic missile in violation of UN sanctions.
Nice work, chump.
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The last remnants of the old republic have been swept away:
[KMT presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu] sparked controversy during a meeting with business leaders by saying that if [Taiwan's] legislature could not be reformed, then she would shut it down…
(Russian tanks firing upon their country's parliament building. 1993. Image from Wikipedia)
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A Chinese man on Taiwanese bus tour complains about a negative portrayal of Mao Tse-Tung being shown in a BBC documentary. Upon hearing this, the Chinese Communist Party proceeds to lay down the law:
…the Chinese travel agency organizing the tour demanded that the Taiwanese travel agency stop showing anti-Communist documentaries on tour buses carrying Chinese tourists, … [and] it also demanded that Taiwanese guides refrain from expressing points of view different from their Chinese clients. [emphasis added]
Fortunately, the Taiwanese Tourist Bureau told the CCP to get bent. Whether it would respond similarly under a Hung Hsiu-chu administration however, is a question we will fortunately never have the misfortune of ever having to answer.
There is a man who runs an orphanage in China, and schools, who, during the terrible years before we adopted her, was the only father, helper, and protector my daughter ever knew.
His name is Xin Lijian, chairman and founder of the Xinfu Education Group. My daughter just calls him ‘The Chairman.’
[…]
He was arrested in the middle of the night by Chinese authorities and is being held without access to his lawyer.
(Image of political prisoner Xin Lijian from ScifiWright.com)
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From today's Taipei Times:
“The Taiwan issue will not remain unresolved for a long time. We will not abandon the possibility of using force; according to the law, it is also an option to resolve the issue by military means if necessary,” said Liu [Jingsong], a former president of the influential Chinese Academy of Military Sciences. [emphasis added]
In response to the Communist Party's barbarous threat, veteran political commentator Joe Hung of Taiwan's China Post enthusiastically gushed:
That's truer than you know, Joe. Truer than you know.
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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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The Weekly Standard on China's practice of harvesting organs of its Uighur population.
…Beijing traditionally depicted all Uighur nationalists—violent rebels and non-violent activists alike—as CIA proxies. Shortly after 9/11, that conspiracy theory was tossed down the memory hole. Suddenly China was, and always has been, at war with al Qaeda-led Uighur terrorists.
…and yet, if the Chinese government claims that the Uighurs constitute their own Islamic fundamentalist problem, the fact is that I’ve never met a Uighur woman who won’t shake hands [with a man] or a man who won’t have a drink with me. Nor does my Jewish-sounding name appear to make anyone flinch. In one of those vino veritas sessions, I asked a local Uighur leader if he was able to get any sort of assistance from groups such as the Islamic Human Rights Commission (where, as I found during a brief visit to their London offices, veiled women flinch from an extended male hand, drinks are forbidden, and my Jewish surname is a very big deal indeed). “Useless!” he snorted, returning to the vodka bottle.
…the Xinjiang procedure spread. By the end of 1999, the Uighur crackdown would be eclipsed by Chinese security’s largest-scale action since Mao: the elimination of Falun Gong. By my estimate up to three million Falun Gong practitioners would pass through the Chinese corrections system. Approximately 65,000 would be harvested, hearts still beating, before the 2008 Olympics. An unspecified, significantly smaller, number of House Christians and Tibetans likely met the same fate.
(Organ Donor sketch from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. This was funnier back when it WASN'T true…)
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