Tag: Taiwan

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Multiple fines issued to Taiwanese farmer for selling cabbage in streets of the southern city of Tainan:

A 59-year-old farmer [surnamed Chen (陳)] from Tainan’s Kuantien District (官田) faces multiple fines after attempting to sell his produce on the streets of the city over several days last month.

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“I come into the city like this only once or twice a year; I do not want to see all my hard work be for nothing. These fines are really a big blow to me,” Chen said.

Police said Chen was fined according to Article 82 of the Act Governing Punishments for Violations of Road Traffic Regulations (道路交通管理處罰條例), which stipulates that vending on the roadside without a permit may result in fines from NT$1,200 to NT$2,400.

Police said they would only continue to fine Chen if they received complaints from residents, adding that if any vehicle accidents occur as a result of Chen’s activities, he could face criminal charges.

Bit absurd to fine someone for selling cabbages, but one can see where the police are coming from. Surely the farmer could have rented a stall at a night market somewhere in town to avoid creating a vehicular hazard.

But if the rental fees there were too steep, one possible solution might be to rent space to small entrepreneurs like this in one of the city's "mosquito halls". (For those not familiar with the term, a "mosquito hall" in Taiwan is a government building constructed with legislative pork, which then sits idle most of the time — attracting only mosquitoes.)

It'd be win-win all the way around. The government would generate at least some revenue from under-utilized facilities, and part-time vendors would obtain low-cost floor space. Given that the February 28 Massacre and the Arab Spring were both sparked by heavy-handed police responses to poor people just trying to earn a buck, I wouldn't call this charity. It's instead an investment in maintaining social peace.

(Although on second thought, there would be ONE loser: the local politician who squandered taxpayer money in constructing a building that was never needed in the first place. Oh my god, what was I thinking! My proposal is utterly unfeasible! Politicians can't be made to lose face now, can they?)

Wikileaks: Hillary Clinton Considered It “Clever” To Sell Out Taiwan For Cold, Hard Cash

From today's Taipei Times:

… a personal e-mail of former US secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton recently leaked by WikiLeaks suggested an adviser, Jake Sullivan, once shared with her an article titled “To save our economy, ditch Taiwan” by Paul Kane, a former international security research fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. [Emphasis added]

In the article, Kane suggested that US President Barack Obama could bolster US economic security by ending its military assistance and arms sales to Taiwan, in exchange for a write-off of US$1.14 trillion in US debt held by China.

“I saw [Paul Kane's proposal to sell out Taiwan] and thought it was so clever. Let’s discuss,” said Clinton… [Emphasis added]

The veracity of this is open to question, given Wikileaks' status as a likely Russian front group. It would therefore be helpful if America's supine press asked Secretary Clinton to confirm or deny whether it would have been the policy of her government to stab fellow democracies in the back.

Helpful, yes. But it's pretty difficult to picture this planeload of throne-sniffers ever asking the Haggard Queen any tough questions:

Postscript: Paul Kane's from the JFK School of Government? For real?

"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty…Offer not applicable if one trillion dollar bribes are on the table." —John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Inaugural Address, probably

UPDATE: The original Wikileaks document. Not much different from the Taipei Times' account, though it does include Paul Kane's article in its entirety.

Communist Party Informant Huang An Begs Mobster For Protection After Ratting Out 16-Year-Old Girl

Young Taiwanese songstress waves Republic of China flag; washed-up elderly Taiwanese musician dutifully reports her to his Beijing masters.

And an old-fashioned blacklisting followed:

Accusations that the Taiwanese member of the South Korean pop group TWICE, Chou Tzu-yu (周子瑜), was a “pro-Taiwanese independence” activist has caused China’s Huawei Technologies Co (華為) to demand LG Uplus drop Chou from endorsing its Y6 chain of cellphones.

Hey, remember that "1992 Consensus" — the one which allows that there's only one China, but China & Taiwan are both free to define that One China however they wish?

You didn't really believe that fairy-tale bullshit now, did you?

If you were stupid enough to believe it, just picture poor little 16-year-old Chou Tzu-yu, who in her innocence, thought it was OK to define One China as Taiwan, and wave her country's flag.

Let us return to learn a little more about Huang An, shall we?

Huang, despite being Taiwanese by birth, began developing his career in China in the late 1990s. Huang has made a name for himself in recent years by informing the Chinese government and netizens about what he regards as pro-Taiwanese independence individuals and their activities. [emphasis added]

Bravo, Huang An. It's not everyone who can boast of possessing Taiwan's most punchable face:

Chinese Communist Party quisling Huang An on telephone

(Backpfeifengesicht Huang An, hard at work naming names to Communist China's secret police. Ka-ching!)

Once Huang's treachery became known, he immediately ran under the skirts of "former" Taiwanese mob boss Chang An-le.

Because, you know: punchable face.

Meanwhile, Huang has returned to Taiwan ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday and is said to be fearing for his safety [from angry Taiwanese]. Huang has reportedly written to former Bamboo Union (竹聯幫) gang leader Chang An-le (張安樂), known as “the White Wolf,” asking for protection.

There is a story – probably apocryphal – which says that some years after sentencing Socrates to death, the citizens of Athens repented of their decision. Unable to restore life to the old man after the fact, they did the next best thing: they shunned one of his prosecutors.

This was more severe than it sounds, for it went beyond mere social disapprobation. As part of this informal punishment, they refused to have anything to do with him — not even buying or selling or engaging in the simplest of commerce.

Under these conditions, the prosecutor of Socrates was unable to procure so much as a crust of bread to sate his hunger, and is said to have starved to death within a week.

Just throwin' that out there…

UPDATE: A stunned and pallid Chou Tzu-yu bows and apologizes, lifelessly reading a scripted self-criticism straight out of the Mao Tse-tung era.

It's like watching an ISIS captive ritually denouncing his home country at gunpoint. About the only thing missing is her eyelids blinking out in Morse code:

T-H-E-Y
H-A-V-E
M-Y
F-A-M-I-L-Y

Of course, I don't know Morse code, so maybe I missed it.

UPDATE #2: Huang An represents Chinese nationalism at its finest.

Call me crazy, but I don't think the Communist Party's brutal decision to demand this the day before Taiwan's presidential election is going to win the CCP's preferred candidate Eric Chu (KMT) any votes.

This is the "friendly" cross-Strait relations the KMT has been bragging about?

UPDATE #3: Like many other snakes, Huang An has a detachable lower jaw. In this photo, the ophidian Huang illustrates the girth of the Chinese Communist phalluses he routinely fellates.

Huang An sucks Chinese Communist cock.

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KMT Caught Red-Handed Indoctrinating Taiwanese With Communist Propaganda Films

One China, one interpretation:

Parents and politicians on Tuesday were infuriated when they found a government-sponsored educational Web site to promote national defense concepts showing a video of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on parade, along with about 40 World War II movies that were produced by the Chinese [Communist] government.

Faced with criticism, the Kuomingtang backed down and removed the Chinese Communist Party's videos, blaming a nameless assistant for the "misunderstanding".

Meanwhile, a solitary figure in KMT Central Headquarters was heard muttering:

The China Post's Joe Hung saying, 'Curses! Foiled again!'

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China Post: “What Taiwan’s Government Really Needs Is Less Transparency”

Taiwan’s China Post argues that the only point of democracy is to give people the illusion of having control over their own lives.

But all REAL decisions must be made in smoky backrooms by shadowy figures who are unelected and unaccountable.

A half-million Taiwanese protest against KMT-Communist Party of China trade and service pact negotiated by KMT President Ma Ying-jeou.

(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…

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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Will The KMT Tap Comrade Historian Joe Hung To Revise Taiwanese Textbooks?

Joe Hung, the veteran China Post columnist goes full Maoist in his latest. He used to try to dance around it a bit more, but he's not gettin' any younger, and #YOLO:

"Then, Mao sent his Army to resist U.S. aggression and aid Korea to fight the Americans in the Korean War…" [Emphasis added]

Pro-communist KMT presidential candidate Hung Hsiu-chu saying, 'I like the cut of his jib!'

If it's a Joe Hung column, one expects bizarre Sinofascist Big Lies, and Hung fails to disappoint:

"…rising China…may turn out to be the true caretaker of the United States to keep world peace." [Emphasis added]

Yeah sure, Comrade Historian. That could happen.

But only if Beijing can exercise enough self-control to abandon its belligerent threats against its neighbors and drop its illegitimate territorial claims against Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia and India.

Oh, and resist the temptation to manufacture any NEW territorial claims…

Sinofascist fuckwit Joe Hung saying, 'Communist China may someday preserve world peace! So keep an eye out for that. And also for the monkeys that may soon fly out of my butt.'

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Little Emperor William Hsu (KMT) Threatens To Sue Everyone Critical Of His Slanderous Sexual Slurs

His Majesty 徐弘庭 commands you peasants to cease all your criticism AT ONCE and give him a tongue bath.

And y’all know where he wants it…

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei City Councilor William Hsu (徐弘庭) has threatened to take legal action against [about 400] netizens who posted vitriolic replies on Facebook after he [suggested Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) had a special sexual relationship with another man].

Taipei City Councilor William Hsu threatens to sue netizens critical of his slur that the mayor of Taipei is homosexual.

(Image of William Hsu from ettoday.net)

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That Is Why You Fail, Part Deux

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 attacking Russian parliament (aka, the 'White House') in 1991.

(Russian tanks firing upon their country's parliament building. 1993. Image from Wikipedia)

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Driving Under The Influence (of democratic values)

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.

Investment Opportunity For Lien Chan And Like-Minded Quislings

Chinese Communists seek outside investment to fund their military ship-building program

Who knows? For his generous contribution, the ChiComs might even name an aircraft carrier after the old boy.

Cartoon of former KMT chairman Lien Chan wearing a People's Liberation Army uniform while saluting in front of the flag of Communist China.

(KMT chairman emeritus Lien Chan in his new People's Liberation Army duds following his disgraceful attendance and endorsement of a Communist military parade. Image from Holy Mosquito)

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