Chinese Communist Party outlaws "Winnie The Pooh".
Pooh Bear was just too darn subversive for 'em.
Taiwan, China, and other things. Recovered from the defunct TypePad platform.
Chinese Communist Party outlaws "Winnie The Pooh".
Pooh Bear was just too darn subversive for 'em.
Xi Jinping murdered Liu Xiaobo by medical neglect, just as surely as if he had ordered a halt to Liu's food or water in that political prison.
“The last Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to be effectively killed by his own government was Carl Ossietsky, in Germany in 1938,” [Bill] Bishop notes. “Does Xi care that the the likely precedent here for Beijing will be pre-World War II Nazi Germany?”
(Image from Twitter.com)
In an uncharacteristic move, Taiwan's China Post reported on the fate of President Xi's other victims:
"In what amounts to nothing less than a 'war on law' that is unprecedented in its scale and severity," the New York [City Bar Association] said, "Chinese human rights lawyers and activists have been summoned for questioning, kidnapped by secret politic, detained incommunicado in 'black jails' and other prisons, humiliated and subjected to marathon interrogation sessions and other forms of sadistic psychological and physical torture, including sleep deprivation, forced medication (often with grave consequences for mental and physical health), brutal beatings, electric shocks, prolonged subversion in water, death threats, and months of solitary confinement."
If the China Post had been this honest about China over the past 15 years, it might still have a print edition.
But instead, the Post elected to be Chinese Communist Party shills, thereby driving their 65-year-old newspaper into the ground.
Just sayin'.
i-1
A revealing exchange from the meeting between the presidents of China & Taiwan:
During the meeting, Ma raised the issue of Taiwanese concern over China’s military deployment against Taiwan…
According to Ma, Xi said that “the [PLA] deployments do not target Taiwan.” [Emphasis added]
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 (November 12 / 2015): From today's Taipei Times:
Ma said nothing in response [to Xi's contention that China's missiles were not targeted against Taiwan]. He did not point out the obvious: Taiwan is the only nation in sight in the direction and range of China’s nearly 1,600 short-range missiles along its coast across the Taiwan Strait.
If, as Xi claims, the missiles are not aimed at Taiwan, what are they aimed at? Xi cannot possibly be suggesting that the missiles are targeting bluefin tuna off the coast of Pingtung County or humpback dolphins of the coast of Changhua County, can he?
My first reaction to the recent meeting between President Mister Ma Ying-jeou of Taiwan and President Mister Xi Jinping of China:
Over the past 10-15 years, other observers have noticed the similarity between Taiwan's KMT and cargo cultists — particularly as the KMT touted economic relations with China as a panacea for curing all of Taiwan's woes.
After nearly 8 years with Ma in the presidency, voters don't believe Chinese manna's going to fall from heaven anymore, so the KMT's cargo cult has morphed from the economic to the political realm.
Got a tough election coming up?
The correct response isn't to fight a tough campaign or even prepare to retrench in the face of potentially-large losses at the polls.
No, the correct response is to go crawling to Beijing for a contentless photo-op with China's Communist dictator.
'Cause remember those 500,000 people who marched last year against closer trade relations with China? Well, when they see Ma shaking hands with Xi, they're gonna have a complete change of heart and demand MOAR ONE CHINA.
Or so the theory goes.
(Image from CBS News)
Now personally, I would be inclined to vote against the KMT for pulling a stunt like this to influence the outcome of an election only 2 months away. (Recall how bitterly the KMT bitched and moaned for 4 years about "sympathy votes" after an assassination attempt prior to the presidential election of 2004. Now however, the party seems positively smug about DELIBERATELY manufacturing a "November Surprise".)
But that's just me. I very much want to see how Taiwanese voters react.
i-1
So why the hell should his motives NOT be viewed in the harshest possible light?