In search of military consensus - Taipei Times

In search of military consensus - Taipei Times: "Although President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has on several occasions demanded that China remove the missiles it aims at Taiwan, both the incumbent and former national defense ministers have told the legislature that doing so “is of no substantial military significance.”

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Police mobilize for cross-strait talks - Taipei Times

Police mobilize for cross-strait talks - Taipei Times: "OPERATION CHI HSIN’:Thousands of police will keep a close eye on ARATS Chairman Chen Yunlin, which the DPP said showed a lack of faith in Taiwan’s democracy

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EDITORIAL: Human rights at bottom of the heap - Taipei Times

EDITORIAL: Human rights at bottom of the heap - Taipei Times: "The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) proposal, if passed, would “urge” China to “be nice to dissidents,” and to let Liu “out of prison as soon as possible.”

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KMT gang links cause for concern - Taipei Times

KMT gang links cause for concern - Taipei Times: "Amid all of the public “sympathy” for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on the night of Nov. 26 and during the elections the following day, it was easy to miss the major implications the shooting of Sean Lien (連勝文) had for Taiwan.

After the shooting death of Huang Yun-sheng (黃運聖) and the wounding of Lien, the KMT orchestrated a wonderful media blitz campaign which, although far from subtle to most knowledgeable observers, appears to have had a major effect on the election results.

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The happy day of pro-china Ma

Chen transferred to penitentiary - Taipei Times: "Former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was moved yesterday from a detention center to a nearby penitentiary to formally begin serving his sentence after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction on wide-ranging graft charges.

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EDITORIAL : Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu connected - Taipei Times

EDITORIAL : Aung San Suu Kyi, Liu connected - Taipei Times: "However, Aung San Suu Kyi rejected the poll on the grounds of blatant manipulation by the junta, and she has not ruled out challenging the result through the courts. Now that she is free, Myanmar’s opposition forces are sure to rally anew. Possible outcomes include anything from the ouster of the government to the return of Aung San Suu Kyi to detention. Her release, then, signals only the calm before the storm.

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Japan may place troops close to disputed islands - Taipei Times

Japan may place troops close to disputed islands - Taipei Times: "Increased Chinese naval activity has led Japan into mulling the deployment of more forces to its scattered southern islands and away from Cold War-era locations in the north near Russia.

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200 未讀 - Worship 228 to create a country ROT - hsutung [228 gods] 在 Plurk

200 未讀 - Worship 228 to create a country ROT - hsutung [228 gods] 在 Plurk: "- 已使用 Google 工具列寄出"Several DPP politicians, all of whom were at the dinner on Sunday night, originally told the Taipei Times on Tuesday that the incident was first mentioned by a Japanese representative at the dinner party.

In the icy tip of Afghanistan, war is as remote as the tropics - Taipei Times

In the icy tip of Afghanistan, war is as remote as the tropics - Taipei Times: "finding it easier to work here than in more violent parts of Afghanistan.

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Sensitive spots dampen Ma’s dream - Taipei Times

Sensitive spots dampen Ma’s dream - Taipei Times: "Unfortunately for Ma, the fact that the committee gave the prize to Liu makes it obvious that they continue to base their decisions on the universal values of liberty, democracy, human rights and the rule of law rather than on the positive fallout from cross-strait detente aimed at surrendering Taiwan to the CCP.

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Taiwanese pride suffers under Ma: poll - Taipei Times

Taiwanese pride suffers under Ma: poll - Taipei Times: "about 75 percent said they did not feel more proud to be an ROC citizen

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China threat ‘has never diminished’ - Taipei Times

China threat ‘has never diminished’ - Taipei Times: "Beijing was sweetening the carrots and hardening the sticks

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US government site to change ‘province of China’ reference - Taipei Times

US government site to change ‘province of China’ reference - Taipei Times: "The US government this week issued its annual report on the diplomatic niceties of dealing with Taiwan — and stumbled right into a protocol blunder, as the US Department of Homeland Security was caught referring to Taiwan on its Web site as a “province of China.”

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Taipei Times - archives: "“The overpriced canvases and billboards are yet another example of the municipal team’s failure to maintain a reasonable budget for the event.

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Taipei Times - archives: "that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) could lose four out of the five mayoral seats up for grabs in November’s special municipality elections.

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Taipei Times - archives: "In a stunning turn of events in a 23-month-long court battle, a judge has decided to suspend the hearing and ask for a constitutional interpretation on whether illegal restrictions have been placed on the public’s right to assembly and on freedom of speech.


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Taipei Times - archives: "No matter how hard the rain, or how dark the night, the will of the Aboriginal people sitting on Ketagalan Boulevard remained undaunted. They had sworn to rise to the challenge of reconstructing their devastated homeland and keeping it safe. Their plight brings to mind a passage from Frantz Omar Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, their actions a practical lesson in civic education that Taiwanese society would do well to embrace.

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Taipei Times - archives: "However, it is the growing disparity in our society that people are most concerned about, rather than GDP growth. The statistics released by the DGBAS showed that the household income gap widened last year, with the average annual disposable income of the most prosperous 20 percent of the population — those who earn around NT$1.79 million (US$56,100) — reaching 6.34 times that of the poorest 20 percent. That was the highest since 2001, when the factor was 6.39. Without factoring in the government’s social welfare subsidies and tax benefits, the gap factor surged to an all-time high of 8.22 last year.

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Taipei Times - archives: "The pages of this newspaper and other liberal publications are filled with beautiful slogans about the need to “protect” Taiwan based on lofty principles such as democracy, justice and human rights. Commendable as these prescriptions may be, in and of themselves they are impotent in the face of the present challenges confronting this nation.

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Taipei Times - archives: "Following a third failed attempt by opposition parties to hold a referendum on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) caucus yesterday called on the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) to support another referendum proposal or face a boycott at next week’s provisional legislative session.

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Taipei Times - archives: "The latest computerized scenario carried out by the military showed that in a war with China, Taipei would be occupied by enemy forces in just three days, a magazine report said yesterday.

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Taipei Times - archives: "resident Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is both president of Taiwan and chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). When it comes to the so-called Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA), which he has yet to fully explain to the Taiwanese public, he seems to be favoring the latter role. He recently bundled off former KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) to Beijing on his behalf to speak with Ma’s counterpart, Chinese President and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Hu Jintao (胡錦濤). Wu’s remit was to convey Chairman Ma’s gratitude and to report his successful reconstruction of the party-state system, meaning he not only has his party, but also the public, under his thumb. Shades of Chairman Mao (毛澤東), surely?

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nothing for Ma

Taipei Times - archives: "Farmers yesterday ended their overnight protest in front of the Presidential Office against land seizures by the government, but despite their persistence, representatives were not granted a meeting with President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).

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Taipei Times - archives: "Guts United Taiwan (GUT) yesterday slammed the government for putting World Uyghur Congress president Rebiya Kadeer on a three-year blacklist and declaring her a potential threat to social order in Taiwan.

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Taipei Times - archives: "On Wednesday, several groups of environmental activists and oyster farmers from Changhua County jointly applied to the government to set up a trust fund to purchase coastal wetlands near the estuary of the Jhuoshuei River.


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Monopoly is the world’s most-played board game that both young and old can enjoy. Although it simulates how people seek to amass a fortune by dominating assets or properties to maximize gains, the game was originally designed to teach us how monopolies would end up bankrupting the many while giving extreme wealth to one or two individuals.

Taipei Times - archives

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Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in downtown Taipei City yesterday, braving heavy rain as they voiced displeasure with the government’s plan to sign a controversial trade deal with China on Tuesday.

Taipei Times - archives

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Concerns that a protest planned for Saturday could turn violent were expressed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday, citing a tip received from Taipei City police that a number of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politicians could potentially disrupt the march.

“We have heard from police authorities that our rally could be interrupted by the KMT,” DPP spokesperson Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) said. “We are asking they stay away from our event to prevent scuffles or clashes.”

Taipei Times - archives

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There is a stark contrast between this High Court ruling and the one handed down by the Taipei District Court to President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), on trial for the improper use of special expenses when he was Taipei City mayor. At the time, the District Court ruled that Ma had not abused the special expenses fund, despite procedural irregularities for which his then-secretary Yu Wen (余文) was charged with falsifying documents. This High Court ruling has now set a precedent, both for the name of the crime and the maximum punishment applicable that will govern sentencing on thousands of officials, big and small, accused in the future of corruption for abusing special funds. Civil servants get no more than seven years for falsifying documents, so it is quite a leap from this to hand down a life sentence for corruption in the service of the state. This is the reason the High Court reacted to the different treatment given to Ma and Chen.

Taipei Times - archives

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Hon Hai Group (鴻海集團) has announced two salary raises in a week for its Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, resulting in a total raise of 122 percent. The event has shaken the Taiwanese stock market, shocked Taiwanese businesspeople along the southern China coast and changed the environment for China’s export-­oriented processing industry. Many Taiwanese investors and other foreign businesspeople now worry that the era when China was a low-cost paradise has come to an end with Hon Hai’s massive salary increases.

Taipei Times - archives

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The suicides by employees at Taiwanese company Foxconn’s plant in China are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the negative social effects generated by the Chinese development model. Three characteristics of this model are a lack of human rights, high levels of exploitation and few social welfare benefits.

Taipei Times - archives

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As one of the great popular actors of our time, Harrison Ford, is much admired by filmgoers in Taiwan and overseas. However, in a Ford-produced movie that sees him playing the role of a Midwestern medical researcher looking for a cure for a rare muscle disease, released earlier this year in theaters in the US and now worldwide on DVD, titled Extraordinary Measures, Ford neglected to give credit to the actual scientist who found the cure for Pompe Disease — Chen Yuan-tsong (陳垣崇) of Taiwan.

bloody history

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In 2008, President and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) expressed the hope that the KMT’s Youth Corps could “produce a [Chinese President] Hu Jintao” (胡錦濤). A classic remark, indeed, in view of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) bloody history and the fact that it still has more than 1,000 missiles targeting Taiwan. Ma’s hopes that the KMT can produce a communist-style leader reveals a complete ignorance of what “evil” means.

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作者 陳水扁總統 | 贊凡

2010/05/26, Wednesday

（請點選上列小圖，觀看大圖） 魔法阿嬤贊活同修，您好！ 謝謝您5月13日的來 函，以及寄來4種聖 山pan店的麵包，色香味俱全，光是用看的都覺得很好吃，不禁流下口水。希望很快地可以實現聖山之約的許諾，並與同修們分享您親手所烘焙的可口 「聖山Pan」。 拜 台灣神，其實是學習台灣精神，透過台灣神一生的事蹟，讓我們有效法的榜樣、追求的標竿，特別精神感 召，使得我們，不管是從事什麼工作，也不管是來自何方，因台灣神的共同信仰，把我們緊緊地擁抱在一起。也因為這樣，在台灣神的引介下，我們成為同修，這是 機緣、也是福分。 誠如師孟兄所言，真正的幸福是「一群思想理念相同的人，共同做出超越心中定義的事」，大地同修如此，阿 扁們何嘗不是！佩服您的自信與毅力，瘦了三公斤終於學會電腦，當您確定能為這塊土地做點事而流下高興的眼淚，幸福的眼淚，那一幕 是那麼的感人，這也是台灣人蕃薯仔的精神。蕃薯不驚落土爛，只求枝葉代代湠。 綠色逗陣工作室所製作的廣播 節目頗具水準，也是我在這個鬼地方必聽的好節目，想不到遠在花蓮的您跟我在空中交會，都是快樂三口組的 忠實聽友。 不必說對不起，而是我努力不夠。兩任總統，您都沒有選我，這是正常的。2000年我得票39.3%，換句話說有60%的人沒投我的票，2004年我得票 50.1%，表示還有一半的人沒支持我。花蓮是我在台灣各縣市得票率最低的地方，原來花蓮人心目中只知道只有國民黨而已，什麼民進黨，花蓮人都不知道，也 不知道什麼是台灣人、台灣國、台灣獨立，甚至台灣中國，一邊一國。 明天520，是馬騜上任2週年，您說因為阿九做得太爛太沒人性，把一些中間選民的心激醒了。或許這是馬騜對民主沙漠──花蓮所做的貢獻。我出生的台南縣在 25年前我下去選縣長前也是民主沙漠，是國民黨的禁臠，雖然沒成功，但播下的民主種子在8年後，終於開花結果，台南縣經歷4任16年綠色執政，如今比宜蘭 民主聖地還民主聖地，2000、2004、2008連續3次總統大選，都是民進黨贏得最多的縣市。相信花蓮縣有一天也可以綠化成功，民主 沃土一定可以結出民主果實。 看到您的來信，讓我對花蓮、對台灣更具信心。謝謝您的鼓勵與期勉，也祝福您及家人平安順遂！ 陳水扁 2010.5.19 23.00pm 延伸閱讀： 給阿扁總統的一封信：堅定的魔法阿嬤 更多與阿扁總統（贊凡同修）的往 來信件 阿 扁與台灣神的生死之約 幫 阿扁念經祈福 分享：

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Any doubt that this is not the case was dispelled on Sunday after the Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister paper) reported that customs authorities in Shenzhen City’s Yantian Port, one of the largest container ports in the world, said they would strictly enforce “country of origin” rules, meaning products made in Taiwan would have to be labeled “made in Taiwan, China” or be barred entry into the Chinese market.

Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives
A large group of Taiwanese-Americans have launched a three-pronged attack on an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China, claiming that it is no more than “a fast track toward annexation of Taiwan by China.”

Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives
Since taking office, Ma has placed priority on cross-strait policy above diplomatic policy and international trade policy. He has resorted to a rapid China-centric course that plays down Taiwan’s sovereignty or tentatively broaches “the sovereignty of the Republic of China,” while lacking a hedging policy toward China

Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives
“Never say never” are words to live by, not only for ordinary people, but especially for politicians.

When President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) declared in a recent interview with CNN that “We will never ask the Americans to fight for Taiwan,” he committed a big blunder, especially as the president of a country.

In this instance, he did not speak for the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese.

Taipei Times - archives

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It is a different matter, however, when the Chinese officials return Taiwan’s hospitality and friendliness with dubious promises and unsubstantiated declarations of large investments.

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Taipei Times - archives
This has happened before in Taiwan’s history. Before the Japanese army occupied Taipei in 1895 there was a short-lived Republic of Formosa, but everyone involved, from the republic’s president Tang Ching-sung (唐景崧) down to its common soldiers, saw themselves as abandoned subjects of the Qing empire. Until the end of World War II, Taiwanese were busy learning to be Japanese. Taiwan-centric consciousness burgeoned during the terms of former presidents Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).

Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives
Former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) mother yesterday said at a protest against his detention that she was saddened by the fact that for the past two years her son has been unable to call her on Mother’s Day.

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The victory in the Lafayette arbitration court case is of major significance to Taiwan. The huge sums involved in the Lafayette frigate deal led to the death of Navy Captain Yin Ching-feng (尹清楓), a major navy personnel reshuffle, several years of domestic political conflict, several political scandals in France and several international court cases in Taiwan, France and Switzerland.

Taipei Times - archives

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“If delegation members make any pledges on purchases, they must face questioning if they don't honor their promise,” Liu said. “However, we are more interested in the data published by the economics ministry.”

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Taipei Times - archives
Last Sunday, the leaders of Taiwan’s governing and main opposition parties held the first-ever debate on the government’s proposal to sign an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China. Disappointingly, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who has been pushing for an ECFA, used the occasion to play word games, showing off his quick wit and nimble tongue, while failing to give a clear and complete account of his government’s policies.

Taipei Times - archivesTaiwan as a “free and independent sovereign state.”

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In a dramatic presentation to congressional staff on Wednesday, Democratic Representative Robert Andrews declared that he wanted to go further and would push US President Barack Obama to recognize Taiwan as a “free and independent sovereign state.”

Taipei Times - archives

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To many in the West, China seems to have gone from a country that “keeps a cool head and maintains a low profile” in Deng Xiaoping’s (鄧小平) formulation, to one that loves a good international bust-up. Putting an Australian mining executive behind bars for 10 years, squeezing out Google, keeping the EU at bay for an important dialogue and letting a mid-level official wag his finger at US President Barack Obama at the Copenhagen Climate summit is not, after all, the best way to convince partners of your constructive intentions.

Taipei Times - archives

Taipei Times - archives
These meetings are meant to open a public dialogue to help the DPP map a 10-year policy platform. Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) has given the project the highest priority, although she says it will not replace fundamental party values.

Beijing boss saying

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Ma is highly unpopular in Taiwan but he enjoys Beijing’s backing. The trade pact threatens to blur the lines between what distinguishes Taiwan from China — especially in light of comments made by Ma and other officials in his Cabinet that an ECFA is only “transitory” and could lead to a “common market.”

too late for this time ?

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Chang Huan-chen (張煥禎), leader of the team and superintendent of Lishin Hospital in Taoyuan County, said before departure that the team consists of medical personnel from Taipei City Hospital, National Cheng Kung University Hospital in Tainan City and Lishin Hospital.

too many secrets there

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China yesterday declined Taiwan’s offer of assistance in the wake of a deadly earthquake that struck a mountainous area of Qinghai Province killing more than 600 people, saying sufficient rescue resources were in place to deal with the situation.

against ECFA

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Michelle Wang (王美琇), an official with the Taiwan Rescue Action Alliance and one of the organizers of the planned demonstration, said yesterday that they wanted the international community to know that not all Taiwanese support the trade pact and that “the people are fed up” with the government's continued push to sign it.

no time for ma to play

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As for the US, with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) enjoying a comfortable majority in the legislature and Washington initially willing to show support for Ma’s bid to lower tensions in the Taiwan Strait, relations got off to a good start, which culminated in the approval of a long-delayed US arms sale to Taiwan. However, Taipei’s mishandling of the lifting of a ban on US beef and signs that the Ma administration was drifting uncomfortably into the Chinese sphere of influence have since cooled enthusiasm for Ma in some US diplomatic circles.

Red Taipei?

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“I wave signs peacefully and I don’t stalk or provoke [Chinese tourists]. Why was I fined? Is Taiwan becoming the same as China, which oppresses Falun Gong?” asked Hsu, who appealed his case to the Taipei District Court.

no way for democracy in china

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Therefore, all the talk of Western democracy as the way to go for China and other authoritarian regimes in the world is nonsense. China’s one-party rule, indeed, is a superior model for the world.

they have no ethnic group status

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Having actively fought for their recognition for more than two decades, the Pingpu are still not recognized. Despite being an Austronesian people native to Taiwan, they have no ethnic group status (unlike the other ethnic minorities and the 14 official Aboriginal tribes in Taiwan). They have no recognition and no basic Aboriginal rights.

Because the government and the council do not recognize them, shutting the door for all social, educational, health, economic and cultural programs, the Pingpu receive no support in Taiwan, while they are trying desperately to save their dying culture, their languages and their valuable traditional knowledge.

RED ECFA

Taipei Times - archivesPresident Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) government views investments by local businesses in China as one of the solutions to the economic uncertainty and is making every effort to push for the signing of an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) between Taiwan and China.

for peaceful meaning

Taipei Times - archivesThe petition asks Obama to reaffirm the US’ Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) and to “voice concern about the erosion of freedom of speech and assembly and the loss of judicial independence on Taiwan.”

It also asks Obama to send a Cabinet member to Taipei, allow US Navy ships to call at Taiwanese ports and deploy two aircraft carrier task forces to the Western Pacific to maintain the capacity to resist any Chinese attack on Taiwan.


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作者 台灣大地文教基金會

2010/03/24, Wednesday

點擊上圖可看更多照片 影片（共2段，可連續播放） （Video Edited by Aries ;  Embed: Youtube） 大綱： 第1段(5.0 min)：Dalai Lama的肉身，是圖博人希 望的圖騰 第2段(5.5 min)：何謂天命？天命是自然而然的瞭悟到，有些事不做不行。接天命的人 ，表面可能損失，但增加無形資產。 相關閱讀： 希 望（含影片） 看 見228的陽光 延伸閱讀： 【影片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(6) 【影 片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(5) 【影片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(4) 【影片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(3) 【影 片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(2) 【影 片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政 【影 片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山講古(2) 【影 片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山講古 【影 片】六四英靈坐鎮，加快因果現世報  分 享：

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第2段(5.5 min)：何謂天命？天命是自然而然的瞭悟到，有些事不做不行。接天命的人 ，表面可能損失，但增加無形資產。


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大綱：
第1段(5.0 min)：Dalai Lama的肉身，是圖博人希望的圖騰
第2段(5.5 min)：何謂天命？天命是自然而然的瞭悟到，有些事不做不行。接天命的人 ，表面可能損失，但增加無形資產。


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http://help.funp.com/lib/exe/fetch.php/funp/tools/tools_postbtn_script.png?cache=cacheFormer National Security Council (NSC) secretary-general Su Chi (蘇起) yesterday confirmed he would attend the Boao Forum in China next month, saying that he wanted to energize himself and make some friends.

Local media reported yesterday that Su was likely to participate in the Boao Forum scheduled for April 9 to April 11 in Hainan Province.

Confirming the report, Su, who had previously commented he could “resurface” after leaving his post at the NSC, said he could now speak and act more freely. After visiting China, Su said he would also attend several international conferences in Europe and the US.

liar ma do as hagemony

Taipei Times - archivesLin Wen-cheng (林文程) said he resigned as executive director of the Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) under pressure from President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九).

The foundation, founded in 2003 under the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration, was established with government funds with the aim of promoting human rights and democracy worldwide.

Lin resigned on Thursday night during the foundation’s board meeting. The board then appointed former Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmaker Huang Teh-fu (黃德福) to succeed him.

Ma sell out Taiwan

Taipei Times - archivesOnce Taiwan buys into the “one China” principle, Beijing will be taking a mile for every inch given to it and say “thank you very much.” It will be reaping its “early harvest,” alright: a present of Taiwan’s sovereignty. It may even well mete out its concessions and remove the odd missile or two, orchestrating a “warming” of the Taiwan Strait situation and pushing for “peace talks.” This would, in turn, make all the more plausible China’s case to the US that there is no real need to sell arms to Taiwan.

Beijing saying

Taipei Times - archivesSino-American relations are, once again, in a downswing. Beijing objected to US President Barack Obama’s receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration’s arms sales to Taiwan. There was ample precedent for both US decisions, but some Chinese leaders expected Obama to be more sensitive to what China sees as its “core interests” in national unity.

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Taipei Times - archivesLabor and farming organizations, however, have criticized the proposed pact, fearing it could marginalize farmers and increase Taiwan’s economic reliance on China.

Michelle Obama heaps praise on Taiwan’s Jason Wu

Taipei Times - archivesUS first lady Michelle Obama has heaped praise on Taiwanese-born designer Jason Wu (吳季剛), who created her inaugural gown.

Obama was speaking at a special ceremony on Tuesday at which the gown was unveiled as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History display of US first ladies’ gowns.

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Taipei Times - archivesThe real cause of the 228 Incident
By Kuo Cheng-deng 郭正典

Monday, Mar 08, 2010, Page 8

It has been 60 years since the 228 Incident occurred on Feb 28, 1947. All Taiwanese should know the cause of the incident, perhaps one of the most important events in Taiwan’s history, so that history is not repeated.

Opinion on the cause of the incident is widely divided. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) calls it a rebellion against misgovernment, and one academic calls it a result of cultural differences. Neither of these views explain why the military and police from the “motherland,” who were enthusiastically welcomed when they arrived, stole the assets of Taiwanese and Japanese with abandon and slaughtered people.

Nor do they explain why an isolated incident led to a nationwide massacre, White Terror, and the 38-year-long Martial Law Era, not to mention the shocking murder of three members of former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Lin I-hsiung’s (林義雄) family on Feb. 28, 1980, more than three decades later.

On Dec. 3, 1943, the leaders of the Republic of China (ROC), the US and Britain issued the Cairo Declaration, demanding Japan surrender unconditionally and return Chinese territories — the four provinces in northeastern China, Taiwan and Penghu — to the ROC. But the three leaders did not sign the declaration, which was thus invalid and merely a “news communique.”

Because of former president Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) deception, this is unknown to most people, who think the allies returned Taiwan and Penghu to the ROC. Chiang must have known that the ROC did not have legal ownership over Taiwan and Penghu.

On Sep. 8, 1951, the San Francisco Peace Treaty was signed by 49 countries, including Japan. The treaty officially came into effect on April 28, 1952. Until then, both Taiwan and Penghu were Japanese territories, something Chiang and the executive administrator of Taiwan, Chen Yi (陳儀), must have known.

This is also why the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) troops that arrived here treated Taiwan as the territory of the Japanese enemy and the Taiwanese who welcomed them as surrendering Japanese citizens, and that is why they so unscrupulously stole the assets of Taiwanese and Japanese, and why the anti-tobacco smuggling campaign resulted in slaughter. That is also why the slaughter continued on a nationwide scale.

When the KMT’s troops were defeated in China in 1949, the KMT government had no choice but to relocate to Taiwan and Penghu despite the fact that these were not ROC territories. Since it had no place to go except for this illegally occupied land, it adopted repressive rule to achieve its goal of military occupation, resulting in martial law and the White Terror. A rebellion against misgovernment or cultural differences cannot explain these brutal actions.

If such claims can explain the long-term bloody crackdown, shouldn’t there be endless bloody conflicts since cultural differences exist everywhere in the world? The cultural differences between Taiwanese and Americans is greater than that between Taiwanese and Chinese people. So why do Taiwanese people get along peacefully with Americans?

The cause of the 228 Incident was occupation, pillage and oppression. Neither rebellion against misgovernment nor cultural differences were the real cause of the incident.



Kuo Cheng-deng is chairman of the Healthy Taiwan Society.

Taiwan's 228 Massacre recognized by Republicans in Congressional Record

Taiwan's 228 Massacre recognized by Republicans in Congressional Record

Although Democrats like to consider themselves the champions of human rights, it was two Republican members of Congress that spoke out in Washington recently and recognized the tragedy of the infamous 228 Massacre in Taiwan.

U.S. Representative Kenny Marchant (R-TX) and Scott Garrett (R-NJ) both inserted remarks into the Congressional Record to note the anniversary of the massacre when Chinese Nationalist troops of the Republic of China murdered and tortured thousands of Taiwanese in 1947 while acting as America's occupation proxy government of the island following Japanese surrender in World War II.

The Congressmen tell the unhappy story in their remarks.

Representative Marchant quoted U.S. Ambassador John L. Stuart, "the economic deterioration of the island and administration of the mainland officials became so bad that on February 28th, 1947, popular resentment erupted into a major rebellion."

Marchant then described in his own words the triggering incident.

"The flashpoint came on the evening of February 27th, 1947, when in Taipei a dispute between a female cigarette vendor and certain armed Monopoly Bureau agents and special police agents triggered civil disorder and open rebellion that lasted for days."

Marchant explains the rebellion, "was violently suppressed during the following weeks by soldiers that had been sent from China by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. Estimates of the number of deaths vary from 10,000 to 30,000."

Representative Garrett also noted the anniversary of the massacre last year comparing it to the Boston Massacre. Garrett described the aftermath of the uprising.

"During the following days, government troops arrived from mainland China. The Chinese soldiers began capturing and executing leading Taiwanese lawyers, doctors, students, and other citizens. It is estimated more than 18,000 lost their lives. During the following four decades, the Chinese Nationalists continued to rule Taiwan with an iron fist under Martial Law that was not lifted until 1987."

"The Massacre had far reaching implications. Over the next half-century, these events helped galvanize Taiwan's struggle for independence."

However, independence never came to the island.

Taiwan remains governed by the Republic of China in-exile. Not recognized by the United States, barred from the United Nations, restricted from the World Health Organization, under threat of invasion from the People's Republic of China, the island is caught in a "strategic ambiguity" that keeps it isolated from its place in the international community.

Last year the District of Columbia U.S. Court of Appeals described the people of Taiwan as "stateless" and living in "political purgatory" and urged President Barack Obama to act "expeditiously" to resolve the matter.

President Obama has not acted on the request from the federal appellate court but instead authorized a $6.4 billion arms deal keeping Taiwan locked in its purgatory and ruled by an exiled Chinese government.

Taiwan's 228 Massacre gets mention in Congressional Record

Two Republican Congressman spoke out about the infamous 228 Massacre while only silence came from the Obama administration. No one in Washington mentioned the U.S. role in the tragedy.

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Beijing issues new warnings on Tibet and Taiwan

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Beijing issues new warnings on Tibet and Taiwan

AFP, BEIJING
Friday, Mar 05, 2010, Page 1

China yesterday launched a new warning to other countries not to interfere in its affairs in Tibet and Taiwan.

Washington irked Beijing in January when it approved the sale of a US$6.4 billion package of arms to Taiwan, and then again a month later when US President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House.

Without referring specifically to the US leader, Li Zhaoxing (李肇星), former foreign minister and spokesman for the National People’s Congress (NPC), said Western leaders should have better things to do than meet the Dalai Lama.

“Although Western leaders are very busy with their work ... they still take the time to see the Dalai Lama,” Li told a press conference.

“We can’t understand this, and when Chinese people hear about this they are very angry,” Li said. “Some people believe the sweet words of the Dalai, he says that he doesn’t support Tibet independence, but more importantly we watch his actions.”

He said it was “totally unacceptable” for foreign governments to interfere in China’s affairs by selling arms to Taiwan, adding: “At a time when the Chinese people across the Taiwan Strait are carrying out friendly exchanges as brothers, the advanced arms sales to Taiwan by a certain country is like handing a dagger to one person when he is hugging his brother.”

Meanwhile, Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang (秦剛) said yesterday the US has pledged to work to improve relations with Beijing.

US Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg held an “in-depth and candid exchange of views” with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (楊潔箎) and other officials during a three-day visit this week, Qin said.
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yes, We are on the same boat

Taipei Times - archivesTseng and Chang made a positive impression on each other. The age difference is five years, they both hold doctorates, share the same ideals and insist on finding a Taiwanese spouse. Now that they have found a common friend, Hsu hopes that the two will have the opportunity to become lifelong friends.

228 massaccre

Taipei Times - archivesFollowing the end of World War II, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government sent Chen Yi (陳儀) to head its occupation of Taiwan. Chen, his underlings and the armed forces under his command plundered Taiwan at will, with no notion of the rule of law.

Then came the Jiangsu-­Zhejiang banking and commercial conglomerate (江浙集團), which unscrupulously took essential goods from Taiwan for sale in Shanghai and Hong Kong. This resulted in shortages of the goods needed for everyday life in Taiwan, and in unprecedented poverty and hardship.

What the Taiwanese could never have expected, however, was that the KMT government in Nanjing would dispatch troops from China to Taiwan to end protests with a massacre, indiscriminately killing many innocent victims from among the nation’s prominent citizens and stifling demands for the rule of law.

The KMT imposed a “White Terror” on Taiwan during 38 years of martial law. Nevertheless, throughout this time countless people struggled bravely for democracy and freedom. Under the presidencies of Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) and Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁), Taiwan’s people at last enjoyed a taste of the rights they craved.

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Taipei Times - archivesA new study published this week by Foreign Policy magazine concludes that Taiwan remains the one place in the world where China and the US “could conceivably come into direct conflict.”

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Taiwan cannot just rely on the US By Paul Lin 林保華 Wednesday, Feb 10, 2010, Page 8 The Sino-US relationship has undergone a change recently. Although US President Barack Obama adopted a low-key approach during his visit to China last November, he was humiliated by Beijing at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December. This has forced Washington to take a tougher stance, and it has used the spat between Google and China as a point of departure. Both President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) transit stopovers in the US on his way to and from Latin America and the US announcement of the arms sales package to Taiwan involve what Beijing calls its core interests, and as a result, tension between China and the US has intensified. It is obvious that the main reason the US gave Ma such a warm reception this time was Washington’s concern that his incompetence and isolation would accelerate his surrendering to China. Washington wanted to show its support for Ma. If China did not protest, the same kind of reception would probably be given to other presidents from Taiwan in the future. If it did protest, then the Taiwanese would understand that China would be unlikely to respect Taiwan regardless of how Ma played up to Beijing. As for the US arms sales package, Washington is simply granting a request submitted by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) during its years in power — a package that the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), as the then-opposition, vetoed. However, the arms deal is a watered down version that the US discussed first with Beijing, a move that diminishes the Taiwan Relations Act. Sadly, Ma appears so pleased with himself that it is no wonder DPP Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is frustrated by his shallowness. Although the US is making concessions to leave some leeway for Sino-US relations, Beijing’s series of reactions and retaliatory measures do not leave much room for maneuver. The sign that there may be some leeway is the fact that the top leadership has maintained its silence. The Chinese retaliation has taken four forms: First, planned visits by military officials between China and the US have been suspended. Second, other Sino-US military exchanges have been postponed. Third, the next round of annual defense consultations at the deputy minister level on strategic security, multilateral arms control and non-proliferation have been postponed. Fourth, US companies participating in the arms sale to Taiwan face sanctions. The first two measures are relatively insignificant. In light of Beijing’s hostility to the US, as well as the US’ military advantage, China would benefit more from such visits and exchanges. The third measure means an end to China’s cooperation with the US on the issue of North Korea’s and Iran’s nuclear weapons development and terrorism. But Beijing is already supporting these two countries, so Washington should not have high expectations. Perhaps it is a good thing that Beijing shows its true colors. As to the fourth point, China purchases certain military products from US companies because it cannot produce them itself. It would be good for both national security and world peace if the US stops selling these items to Beijing. Ideally, other Western nations should not sell such products to China either. Unfortunately, profit concerns make that difficult for US and other Western enterprises. Will China retaliate economically? Chaos would ensue if it lost the US market. For the Sino-US confrontation, whoever backs off first will be considered a “paper tiger.” The US usually does not pursue defeated enemies, but give China an inch, and its rogue nature ensures that it will take a foot. This has been evident in the development of Sino-US relations over half a century. As Washington constantly backs down, Beijing has elevated the Taiwan issue to a core interest in recent years, and this can come to affect other US spheres of influence in the future. Why doesn’t the US claim its founding ideals — freedom, democracy, human rights and rule of law — as its core interests? The US used to offer protection to the KMT dictatorship in decades past, but today, Taiwan has transformed into a democracy. What kind of country would the US be if it sold out Taiwan to China now? Chinese Rear Admiral Yang Yi (楊毅) said in an interview with China News Service on Jan. 6 that it was time for China to lay down the rules for the US. Yang also recently criticized Ma. By allowing a low-level official like Yang to insult Ma, Beijing is behaving like a bully. Does Ma still believe that “blood is thicker than water”? Nevertheless, Taiwan should not pin all its hopes on the US. To build a complete independent state, we have to rely on ourselves. In the face of authoritarian China, we must all be determined to risk our lives. To achieve this, we must consolidate domestic unity, including both the pan-green camp and the mid and lower levels of the pan-blue camp. Otherwise, there will be no hope for Taiwan. Paul Lin is a political commentator. TRANSLATED BY EDDY CHANG This story has been viewed 429 times.

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Taiwan High Court extends detention period for Chen

By Rich Chang
STAFF REPORTER
Tuesday, Feb 09, 2010, Page 3

The Taiwan High Court yesterday extended former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) detention by another two months from Feb. 24.

High Court judges wrote in their ruling that Chen needed to be detained to ensure a smooth litigation process because he stands accused of serious crimes and there are still dozens of witnesses and defendants who have yet to testify in court.

VALID REASONS

The reasons for Chen’s detention, including the risk that he could abscond and fears that he would collude with witnesses, remained valid, the ruling said.

For Chen, the extension of his detention ruling means he will spend the Lunar New Year holiday in detention.

The former president has been held at Taipei Detention Center since Dec. 30, 2008.

Both Chen and his wife, Wu Shu-jen (吳淑珍), were sentenced to life in prison on Sept. 11 last year by the Taipei District Court and fined NT$200 million (US$6.13 million) and NT$300 million respectively on several counts of corruption, including embezzling money from a discretionary state affairs fund and taking bribes from local businessmen.

Chen appealed the ruling to the High Court.

THIRD EXTENSION

This is the third time the High Court has extended Chen’s detention. The first was from Oct. 24. to Dec. 24 last year, and the second was from Dec. 24 to Feb. 24.

The Democratic Progressive Party said in a statement the party regretted the extension of Chen’s detention ruling.

“Since Chen was found guilty in the first ruling, all investigations have finished and Chen should be released so that he can better prepare his defense. The party insists Chen be allowed to exercise his full judicial rights,” the statement said.

Taiwan needs more weapons

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Taiwan needs more weapons: defense chief

STAFF WRITER, WITH AFP
Monday, Feb 08, 2010, Page 3

Minister of National Defense Kao Hua-chu (高華柱) said he would seek more weapons from the US to give Taiwan greater confidence in pushing for rapprochement with China.

The remarks came as Beijing and Washington are locked in an escalating row over a large US arms sale to Taiwan.

China has responded furiously with a raft of reprisals, saying it would suspend military and security contacts with Washington and impose sanctions on US firms involved in the US$6.4 billion arms package.

But Kao defended the arms sale on Saturday, saying the ­package would help stabilize the Taiwan Strait.

“The US has kept providing Taiwan with defensive weapons according to the Taiwan Relations Act, enabling Taiwan to be more confident in pressing for reconciliation with the Chinese mainland,” the Military News Agency quoted him as saying.

Speaking at a security conference in Munich, Germany, on Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi (楊潔箎) said US arms sales to Taiwan violated international relations standards and would provoke a reaction from Beijing.

In response, Premier Wu ­Den-yih (吳敦義) ­said Beijing’s missile buildup had prompted Taiwan to seek more defensive weapons.

“It’s just like two people trying for reconciliation. If one of them sticks a gun in his waist, it would be weird, don’t you think?” Wu said in an interview with Hong Kong-based Phoenix satellite TV on Saturday.


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自由電子報 - 台灣地位問題的政治面

自由電子報 - 台灣地位問題的政治面總之，台灣人的聲音不能像戒嚴時期一樣，只有個別地出現在美國國會的聽證會、街頭抗議或泰源綠島監獄，台灣 政府的聲音必須就是台灣人的聲音！我們需要一個真心認同台灣的總統、指揮認同台灣的軍隊、在國際上維護台灣的主體利益，歷史走到今天，如果不能認清這個目 標，所謂街頭路線、議會路線或體制內、體制外，都會成為戲論。

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自由電子報 - 邪惡魔術師江部長上台後的表現，讓很多學者、昔日同僚看了傻眼，他的學生們更是瞠目結舌！怎麼昔日學術上與課堂上的那 一套全被他拋諸腦後，快速的換了屁股就換了腦袋。包括之前地制法的違憲、蠻幹，日前又提出「不在籍投票」（還賣弄名詞的刻意包裝成「移轉投票」），更猴急 到年底五都選舉就要適用！難怪輿論以「邀請暴動」形容其嚴重性！

Reducing Taiwan to a local ‘area’

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THE LIBERTY TIMES EDITORIAL: Reducing Taiwan to a local ‘area’

Thursday, Feb 04, 2010, Page 8

‘The Ma administration wants to demote Taiwan to an ‘area’ so that it can use the same model to sign an ECFA between the local Taiwanese government and the central Chinese government.’

Last week, Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), in his capacity as the president of the Republic of China (ROC), traveled to Honduras — stopping on the way in the US — to attend the inauguration of President Porfirio Lobo Sosa. At the same time, however, the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) and China’s Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) were holding talks on signing an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) that defines Taiwan merely as an “area.”

This meant that while Ma was traveling abroad as the president of the ROC, he was in fact the head of the “Taiwan area.” The Ma administration only plays up the name “ROC” for the benefit of the domestic audience; when faced with China, it is willing to belittle Taiwan. This two-faced approach may help the Ma administration deceive itself, but it has ceased to deceive the Taiwanese.

Mainland Affairs Council Deputy Minister Liu Te-shun (劉德勳) recently said that when the Act Governing Relations Between Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) was promulgated in 1992, the two areas were defined as the “Taiwan area” and the “mainland area” — meaning this is a legally regulated definition and not just something concocted by the Ma administration.

Liu added that this act is what that makes an ECFA with China possible. Liu thus proved that he has a good understanding of what his superiors are thinking.

The Ma administration’s definition of Taiwan as the “Taiwan area” pleased Beijing greatly, and the news received widespread praise in official Chinese media.

The Ma government may think it is being clever for finding a legal basis to support Taiwan’s demotion into a region, but all it has done is to let the public see the deception the administration is employing to “regionalize” Taiwan.

Let’s take a look back at 1992. The conservative forces in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) were in power, the presidency had yet to be directly elected by the people and Taiwanese did not run their own country.

This is the backdrop to the promulgation of the Act Governing Relations Between the Peoples of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area, so it is both ridiculous and an act of desperation on the part of the Ma administration to use this Act to legitimize what it sees as the basis for turning Taiwan into an “area.”

Taiwan has held direct presidential elections since 1996 and abolished the concept of a “Taiwan Province.” These democratic reforms have all but dispelled the empty illusions about the Constitution and undermined the Act.

Since the promulgation of the Act, Taiwan has evolved into a nation, with sovereignty resting in its 23 million people. In 1999, then-president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) declared that “special state-to-state relations” exist between Taiwan and China. In 2000, then-president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) took things a step further by declaring that Taiwan and China were “one country on each side [of the Taiwan Strait].” Taiwan’s national status is clear, politically legitimate and desired by most Taiwanese.

Unfortunately, since his election as president in 2008, Ma has sought to eradicate Taiwan’s democratic reforms and steps to become a normal country, while ignoring mainstream public opinion and dashing toward eventual unification. Driven by his “greater China” ideology, Ma has reduced Taiwan to an “area,” while fantasizing about China as the “mainland area.”

China appreciates Ma’s efforts to relegate Taiwan’s status to that of an area because that automatically negates Taiwan’s sovereignty as a nation. However, the Chinese Communist Party politely rejected Ma’s definition of China as the “mainland area,” insisting that it is the only legitimate government of China.

In other words, while Ma is happy to demote himself to the position of regional head of Taiwan, Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) is not willing to follow suit.

The government’s fawning over China and belittlement of Taiwan facilitate ECFA talks. The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) between Hong Kong and the Chinese government is an agreement between a regional government and the central government under the “one country, two systems” model.

The Ma administration wants to demote Taiwan to an “area” so that it can use the same model to sign an ECFA between the local Taiwanese government and the central Chinese government.

Ma’s comment that the ECFA does not involve sovereignty is a load of nonsense. Faced with public doubts about signing an ECFA, the Ma government could only quote the Act to deceive the public. The government clearly thinks the public is a bunch of idiots.

The two China parties, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party, are trying to use economic agreements to pull the wool over the public’s eyes and stealthily turn Taiwan into a part of China.

The public cannot afford to wait helplessly for the worst and must not place any hope in the “peace dividends” that are supposed to result from cross-strait detente. They can no longer trust Ma’s promise that Taiwan’s future will be decided by its 23 million citizens — free of Chinese interference.

Since assuming office, Ma has joined hands with Beijing to demote Taiwan to a Chinese region. An ECFA will further tie up Taiwan’s economy with the Chinese common market and allow Taiwanese sovereignty to disappear into his vision of “one China.”

Taiwan, a democracy, cannot stand by and watch Ma do as he pleases. We, the masters of the nation, demand that the ECFA, which places Taiwan’s sovereignty at risk, be decided in a referendum. The voice of the people is what should count.

TRANSLATED BY DREW CAMERON
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China intensified clampdown on the media, report says

AFP, HONG KONG
Tuesday, Feb 02, 2010, Page 1

China intensified its clampdown on local and foreign media last year, with reporters facing violence, censorship and arbitrary detention, a report by an international press watchdog said.

Beijing also closed down social networking sites and moved to restrict online news under numerous regulations introduced last year by local censors to control what the media says, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said.

“Banned topics range from events associated with social unrest and public protests against authorities to reports of photos of an actress topless on a Caribbean beach,” the Brussels-based group said.

Signs that China was loosening controls on the media in the run-up to the 2008 Olympics had faded by early last year, according to the report titled China Clings to Control: Press Freedom in 2009 released in Hong Kong on Sunday.

“Authorities sought to re-exert control on the media and information, focusing in particular on the rising power of the Internet as a means for social expression and organizing,” the IFJ said.

The report was issued against the backdrop of a row over US Internet giant Google, which has said it would no longer bow to Chinese censorship and threatened to halt its operations in China in protest over cyber attacks.

“We ... call on the international community to take a principled stand to oppose all forms of restrictions on the rights of journalists to do their work in China,” IFJ general secretary Aiden White said.

These include a “steady stream of official bans, as well as new rules in 2009 which make it virtually impossible for local journalists who work in traditional or online media to receive the accreditation they need in order to conduct their profession,” he said.

The report highlighted a catalogue of restrictions that impeded the work of the media in the world’s most populous nation. They included banning journalists from going to Sichuan Province to report on the massive 2008 earthquake and telling the media to only use Xinhua news agency reports on the tainted milk scandal and US President Barack Obama’s first official visit to China in November.

China also banned reporting on photos of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon actress Zhang Ziyi (章子怡) topless on a Caribbean beach and prohibited entertainment programs from covering celebrity love affairs or scandals, it said.

In the lead-up to National Day on Oct. 1, more than 10 orders were issued to prohibit the media from reporting at Tiananmen Square and other public venues, the report said.

Incidents of violence against foreign media declined last year, which the IFJ attributed to their reduced presence in China after the Olympics.

“Even so, foreign journalists still encountered many obstacles and difficulties through 2009, including acts of violence, destruction of work materials and equipment, prevention of access to public spaces,surveillance and reprimands,” the report said.

Authorities targeted journalists’ sources, assistants and drivers “to obstruct foreign media reporting on events in China.”

Local journalists were forced into self-censorship over concerns they might lose their accreditation, the report said, adding that the “biggest taboo” for Chinese media was the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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新疆騷亂鎮壓真相曝光，1500人被當場屠殺

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新疆騷亂鎮壓真相曝光，1500人被當場屠殺
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新疆烏魯木齊騷亂事件鎮壓過程和真實死亡人數

去年七月五日新疆發生騷亂，中國官方媒體最終宣佈的最高死亡人數是194人，1080受傷。 (博訊 boxun.com)
事件發生後，一方面，官方迅速組織記者赴新疆採訪，給世界製造了一個表現新聞高度的開放的假像。
但同時卻實行斷網，斷電話通信。
其中，至今都沒有開放互聯網，這中間究竟有什麼秘密？今天記者得到震驚的消息。
據該相關部門的消息來源，透露了7.5騷亂期間武裝員警部隊鎮壓新疆維族民眾的總人數和屠殺過程和方式。
該消息來源表示，武警部隊在騷亂前三天就得到將有抗議騷亂的情報，並在原計劃進行抗議的街道進行了鎮壓部署。
然而，抗議騷亂開始的7.5日，估計是該鎮壓部署洩密，抗議騷亂在原定部署街道之外的街道地區中發生。
按照該消息來源的說法，騷亂發生後武警部隊第一時間就接到發生騷亂的消息報告。但由於騷亂發生地點變動，上級命令指令遲遲未下達，
武警部隊無法前去制止救援，聽任騷亂維族對漢人進行暴力攻擊與殺戮，直到在暴力騷亂發生2個多小時後，武警部隊才接到清場命令。
早已全副武裝待命的武警部隊立即封鎖了發生騷亂地區的全部街道，建築物，將街道上以及街道邊各個建築物內現場的全部維族民眾作為騷亂暴徒當場掃射消滅。
數千武警在短時間內殺光現場的維族騷亂民眾後，當局立即出動卡車將現場屍體運走，並清洗了現場。
該消息來源說，根據當晚清點屍體，被槍殺的維族男女民眾超過1500人，這些屍體全部被運往一個秘密地點集中焚燒後掩埋。
而官方消息中報導的漢人死亡人數基本準確。

記者評語
（編者按：博訊所有稿件中評語部分只代表記者、作者立場）
幾十年來，共產黨獨裁分子出動軍警暴力鎮壓大規模抗議和暴亂民眾已成慣例。
1975年8月的雲南沙甸回民暴動，當局共出動軍隊6個團用大炮轟擊回民佔領的地區和縣城，經過8天戰鬥，官方目前解密的死亡人數達1600多人。
89天安門大屠殺，更是調動了幾乎全部的人民解放軍野戰軍到北京鎮壓，出動坦克裝甲車，機槍掃射手無寸鐵的和平抗議民眾，至今也沒有準確的死亡人數統計。
2008年西藏大屠殺，死亡人數依然是國家機密。
對於這一次次的血腥屠殺，75年的沙甸事件被推到林彪四人幫身上。事後對被屠殺的回族民眾家屬予以物質和金錢補償封口。
六四屠殺，其中的一個藉口是沒有部隊沒有經驗，政府沒有防暴裝備和相應鎮暴部隊。至今隱瞞事件真相，顛倒黑白。
今天，在六四大屠殺二十年後的這次新疆烏魯木齊對維族的大屠殺再一次表明，我們這個漢民族的獨裁統治的殘暴和野蠻。
2009年，防暴裝備已經夠得上是世界一流的武警部隊，卻仍然採取血腥手段，直接槍殺所有在發生騷亂地區的維族人，
這種獨裁專制分子的反人類，反文明的野蠻罪行必須被清算。
從目前透露出來的消息，我們可以判斷，在騷亂開始發生的2個小時，遲遲不出動武警平定騷亂，在騷亂完全失控後才出動武警血腥鎮壓，是那些嗜血成性的獨裁屠夫精心設計的屠殺陰謀。
這些獨裁屠夫的邪惡心理，就是要通過大規模的流血屠殺，來製造民族仇恨，用恐怖屠殺來恐嚇國人，維持其獨裁法西斯統治。
暴力與謊言，是一切獨裁者邪惡政權的不變統治手法。
新疆大屠殺表明，今天的中國獨裁政權，已經是一個高效和高科技裝備起來的世界有史以來最邪惡野蠻的政權。
中華民族到了最危險的時候，現代化的物質享受已經將這個漢民族的民眾完全愚昧化，邪惡已經將全體中國人，中國軍人的良知完全沫滅。
不自由，無寧死。
一切反獨裁，嚮往自由的人們，讓我們行動起來，以各種手段，找出那些策劃，組織和參與這場屠殺的罪犯，找出那些組織和參與了從這個獨裁政權成立以來策劃和進行過各種形式屠殺的罪犯，顛覆中國這個現代獨裁專制邪惡政權。
今天那些個正在統治和奴役全體中國人的他們，既不是共產黨，也不是政府，而是一個個見不得人邪惡的卑鄙的鼠類屠夫。

我們才是人民。 _(博訊記者：陸士紳) [博訊首發,轉載請注明出處]- 支援此文作者/記者(博訊 boxun.com)

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China warns US over arms sales to Taiwan

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China warns US over arms sales to Taiwan

AP AND THE GUARDIAN, BEIJING AND WASHINGTON
Thursday, Jan 28, 2010, Page 1

Armed motorcycle troops take part in an annual drill in the Hukou army base in Hsinchu yesterday. PHOTO: SAM YEH, AFP

Contacts with China’s military would likely be the first to suffer if Beijing moves to retaliate over upcoming US arms sales to Taiwan — the latest in a flurry of disputes elevating tensions between Washington and Beijing.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu (馬朝旭) warned that the Obama administration risked damaging ties with China if it proceeds with an arms package deal, which is likely to include Black Hawk helicopters and Patriot missiles.

“Once again, we urge the US side to recognize the sensitivity of weapon sales to Taiwan and its gravity,” Ma told reporters at a regularly scheduled news conference on Tuesday.

He said failure to halt the sales would “impair the larger interests of China-US cooperation.”

Ma’s comments were echoed yesterday by the China’s Taiwan Affairs Office.

“Our stance of opposing arms sales to Taiwan by any country is consistent and clear,” office spokesman Yang Yi (楊毅) said. “We feel that advancing the peaceful development of cross-strait relations is the only real way to benefit Taiwan’s peace and stability.”

Weapons sales to Taiwan is one of a string of sensitive issues roiling ties between China and the US that have prompted pointed responses from Beijing.

In 2008, China suspended most military dialogue with Washington after the Bush administration approved a US$6.5 billion arms package to Taiwan that included guided missiles and attack helicopters.

China’s Defense Ministry warned in a statement earlier this month that arms sales “seriously damaged mutual trust between the militaries of China and the US and create a major obstacle to improving and developing US-China military relations.

The ministry said it “reserved the right to take further action,” but gave no specifics.

Among upcoming exchanges that could suffer: General Chen Bingde (陳炳德), chief of the general staff, is scheduled to visit the US, while US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, are planning to visit China.

Washington has sought to raise the profile and frequency of such visits, using them as the basis for expanded cooperation in practical areas such as joint rescue drills. The Pentagon also hopes to build trust with Beijing to convince the Communist government to reveal more about the aims of its massive military buildup.

Also potentially at risk are a planned exchange of visits this year by the heads of NASA and China’s national space program and a hoped-for revival of a bilateral dialogue on human rights.

RIGHTS TALKS

Meanwhile, China and the US’ on-off dialogue on human rights faces postponement again amid discord between the two powers over Internet censorship.

Talks were meant to take place last year, but a date was never set.

The two countries agreed in November, during US President Barack Obama’s visit to China, that they would resume discussions by the end of next month at the latest. This now looks unlikely and it is thought the US is suggesting dates in late March.

“We are still continuing to work with the Chinese to schedule,” a US State Department official said. “Human rights dialogue is a priority for the US.”

Although critics complain the dialogue has achieved little, advocates say it is an opportunity to raise important issues and individual cases of concern directly.

Some observers believe US officials could be tarrying, fearing that if they do not get a substantive agenda for the talks China could say it is engaging on human rights — but the US could get little in return.

Human rights groups are concerned about last year’s crackdown on lawyers in China, Internet censorship (which was recently highlighted by the Google case) and the long sentence given to the dissident Liu Xiaobo (劉曉波).

The last human rights meeting, in May 2008, followed a four-year hiatus. Beijing announced it was suspending participation in 2004 after the US sponsored a resolution at the UN human rights commission condemning China’s record.
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