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Showing posts with label China's Taiwan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China's Taiwan. Show all posts
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07 November 2015
Historic, Long-Overdue, and Long Hand Shake
Mr. Xi Jinping of China and Mr. Ma Ying-jeou of Chinese Taipei
04 November 2015
Big China Meets Little China in Micro-China
Chinese Zhuxi Xi Jinping will meet with Taiwanese Zongtong Ma Yingjiu this coming Saturday in Singapore (thus, Micro-China). The paramount leaders of the two sides of the Taiwan Strait have never convened talks since the establishment of Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo in 1949.
The last time the paramount leaders of the Kuomintang and Gongchandang held a meeting was at the end of WW II when Mao Zedong met with Chiang Kai-shek in a futile attempt to end the Chinese civil war.
What an interesting development for Sino-Sino relations!
The last time the paramount leaders of the Kuomintang and Gongchandang held a meeting was at the end of WW II when Mao Zedong met with Chiang Kai-shek in a futile attempt to end the Chinese civil war.
What an interesting development for Sino-Sino relations!
10 October 2015
06 September 2015
Chinese President Xi Jinping Awarded Medal of Valor to Anna Chennault (Chen Xiangmei) and Other WW2 Heroes!
Anna Chennault (nee Chen Xiangmei) is the 90-year-old widow of the late General Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers. In the video above, she's the woman in the blue blazer.
The award ceremony is part of China's commemoration/celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory over Japan in 1945.
04 September 2015
21 August 2015
Lee Teng Hui's Name is Tanaka Masao; That Makes Him a Jap -- or Wannabe Jap
The former president of China's Taiwan has always wanted to be Japanese. He took a Jap name -- Tanaka Masao. He dresses in Jap clothing and claims to speak better Japanese than Mandarin Chinese. He proclaims Japan to be his fatherland. He praises the Shinzo Abe regime relentlessly. The only problem for Tanaka Masao is that the Japs sneer at him and call him a chink.
What a self-loathing piece of excrement.
JAPS' MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
HOW WAS CHIANG CHING KUO SO BLIND AS TO MAKE LEE TENG HUI HIS VICE-PRESIDENT?
Source: The South China Morning Post
Source: The South China Morning Post
Ex-Taiwan president Lee Teng-hui under fire for calling Japan the ‘motherland’
Former leader, 92, dismisses the administration’s efforts to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war as an attempt to curry favour with mainland China
PUBLISHED : Friday, 21 August, 2015, 6:25pm
UPDATED : Saturday, 22 August, 2015, 10:05am
Under fire: Former President of Taiwan Lee Teng-hui. Photo: EPA
Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui is under fire for referring to Japan as the motherland and dismissing the administration’s efforts to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war as an attempt to curry favour with mainland China.
“Seventy years ago, Taiwan [then a Japanese colony] and Japan were of one country,” he said in a Japanese magazine. “Taiwanese people at the time were no doubt Japanese subjects and they did what they could to fight for their motherland.”
The 92-year-old Lee, who joined the Japanese military before the war along with his brother who later died on the battlefield, said it was not true that Taiwan participated in mainland China’s eight-year war of resistance against the Japanese.
Lee criticised the series of events organised by the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the war’s end, saying they were meant to “harass Japan and curry favour [with mainland] China.”
Lee, whose remarks were published in the latest issue of Japanese monthlyVoice, has since received sharp criticism, including from Ma.
Expressing regret and shock, Ma demanded that Lee retract his remarks and apologise to the Taiwanese public.
“How can a person who was president of this country for 12 years and still enjoys presidential treatment as a retired president say something that sells out Taiwan, humiliates its people and embarrasses himself?” he said.
Hung Hsiu-chu, deputy legislative speaker and presidential candidate of the ruling Nationalist Party (KMT), urged the Taiwanese public to “condemn Lee both in speech and in writing”.
“It proves I was right when I asked the party to expel him many years ago,” she said.
Lee headed the KMT from 1988 to 2000 and was expelled from the party after he left office for supporting a pro-independence alliance.
Another presidential hopeful, People First Party Chairman James Soong Chu-yu, urged Lee to exercise prudence because he had served as president of the country.
Apart from describing Japan as the motherland, Lee dismissed the existence of the so-called “1992 consensus”, a purported agreement between the KMT and the Communist Party of China that there is only one China with each retaining its own interpretation of what “one China” means.
Presidential Office Spokesman Charles Chen urged Lee to avoid denying his own words and deeds as the consensus was reached when Lee was president.
Simply put, the reference was approved by Lee and not fabricated by then Mainland Affairs Council Minister Su Chi as Lee had asserted, Chen said.
Likening the reference to a computer password, MAC Minister Andrew Hsia said, “As long as the next government continues to use the password, it does not need to search for a new one.”
Neither the independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party nor its presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen recognise the so-called “1992 consensus,” which Ma and his party consider to form the basis of cross-strait negotiations and agreements.
Despite Tsai’s promise “to maintain the status quo” across the Taiwan Strait, the KMT and Beijing have asked Tsai to clarify the proposal and specify how she plans to achieve the goal.
22 December 2014
Mrs Jay Chou
The king of Mandopop, Jay Chou, will wed supermodel Hannah Quinlivan in Taipei, China's Taiwan, in January 2015. The future Mrs. Chou is a mix of white Australian, Korean, and Chinese...Epic!
08 November 2014
Featuring Vietnam's First Lady of the Screen: Helen Thanh Dao
This cutie pie (the taller one) has a large following in Vietnam thanks to her beauty and charm. But because Vietnam's film/TV industry is still in its infancy, Helen Thanh Dao has wisely made the decision to launch her career in Taiwan. She speaks near-perfect Mandarin Chinese and has a growing fan base in China's Taiwan.
Not sure if she's Sino-Vietnamese or Vietnamese-Vietnamese. Doesn't really matter. Compare her charm and elegance to the Viet girls of Little Saigon, and we see why this Fairbank Report has gone ga-ga over Helen.
30 January 2014
24 October 2013
Forget the Language Lessons; The Teacher is Effing HAWT!!!
TEACHER, I'VE BEEN A BAD BOY AND NEED TO BE PUNISHED!
09 October 2012
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