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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【影片】晴耕雨讀－楊醫師聖山論政(5)
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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。


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希望（含影片）
看見228的陽光

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【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)
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traitor as this man

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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.

228massacre inside

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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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.