New York Times at
11-4-2017, the
Pentagon report, May 2017: China’s military modernization has “eroded or
negated many of Taiwan’s historical advantages (geography
and the US support) ” in deterring a potential attack.
Washington Post at 10-18-2017: "Mr. Xi’s biggest applause line was a vow to
'never allow anyone. . . at any time or in any form, to separate any part of
Chinese territory from China.' That would include...Taiwan." (in
19th CPC Speech).
Spiegel
Germany, 1-9-2017, Global
Times of China:
"There is no room for negotiations" ("Es
gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen"). The
US subcommittee hearing (4-17-2018) Rep. Ted Soho,
Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Asia and the Pacific:
Seems likely Xi will force the issue (unification) in his life time.
Bloomberg news 3-14-2018: Trump's "Taiwan card"
(to annoy
China when needed)
is China's real worry.
Deutsche Welle 3-17-2018: China has reacted
angrily to the bill (Trump signed <Taiwan Travel Act> which paves way for
official exchanges with Taiwan, and identifies
indirectly
(?)
Taiwan as a country
― "visits to a country by United States cabinet members
...".)
Bloomberg news 3-14-2018: Taiwan will suffer even more,
as it
gets caught in the middle between a stronger China and a
inward-looking US...
○
The
People's Republic of China (PRC)
has identified
that
Taiwan (the Republic of China )
as part of its territory
and its
most important core interest, since the Kuomintang (Nationalists)
government retreated to the island in 1949 following defeat in the Chinese
civil war. China
has vowed to
reunite this "breakaway province" by force if necessary,
and
has steadily increased pressure on Taiwan.
Under China's political development and strengthening its trade ties to our
allies,
Taiwan is diplomatically isolated, has only 20 formal relation allies till
2017,
most of them are little, unknown countries, more may be in trouble any time. On the other hand,
China
took the strategy
" Allowance
of economic benefits to Taiwan"("讓利",
such as encouraging tourists to Taiwan) so that Taiwanese people may have higher
tendency toward unification with China, in recent years, China became
Taiwan's leading trading partner, Taiwan earned surplus nearly USD120
billion from China in 2017. Taiwanese understood this
interdependence is unavoidable, but over-dependence is risky. Le
Monde diplomatic of France, Mai '16,
reported the
economies of both sides were complementary, now compete each other. (Mais les économies des deux rives, qui étaient complémentaires,
entrent désormais en concurrence.
Les entreprises taïwanaises
sont progressivement exclues de la mise en place d’une chaîne de production
et d’approvisionnement chinoise ... )
○
Taiwan's
the 7th largest economy in Asia. Latest Global Wealth Report
(Credit
Suisse,
Nov.,
2017) shows Taiwan's mean wealth per adult, at USD
188,081, is
close
to
that
of
W.
Euro., (UK
USD
278,038, France USD
263,399).
Taiwan was one of the world's top producers of computer technology,
relying upon importation of key components and
advanced technology from the US and Japan,
Taiwan's high-tech sector is falling behind
for lacking of key tech. and its low pay to attract university-educated talent.
(Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a large bus
/ CTN , 3-29-2017) Taiwan's
GDP per capita retreated successively in recent years. In
contrast,
China's GDP in 2016 is about 23 times the number of Taiwan's.
Taiwan's economic experts warned that Taiwan
will fall into
“middle-income” limbo (15-30 countries will catch up with it)
in the next 10 years if it fails to deal with “three evil hands”, the law,
environmental assessments, and Taiwan-China relations.
The United Daily, 11-12-2017, questioned
the routine pattern "USA and China jointly control Taiwan"('美中共管')
may be changed ?
○
The
United States, Taiwan's most important protector, takes the policy
"strategic
ambiguity"
――
“acknowledges” there is one China and Taiwan is part of China,
but has never officially “recognized” Taiwan as part of China. The US
Congress passed a law
("Taiwan Relations Act") tocommit
the US to defend Taiwan's sovereignty, and provide necessary 'defensive'
services. Many countries
seem welcome this ambiguity. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, Opinion,
6-22-2017 stated the US is the key to keep the peace and stability across
the Taiwan Strait ("米国は台湾の防衛力強化を担っており、台湾海峡の平和と安定のカギを握る"。).
Taiwan's leaders made an assumption that
American will always come to protect
this island, and
a core policy to
resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks.
But, the New York Times at 11-4-2017 pointed out that Taiwan’s
historical advantages (geography and the US support) in deterring a
potential attack” has been “eroded or negated”
in that Chinese military is "more potent".
Washington Post at 1-5-2018 reported many senior officials regarded Taiwan as
a "roadblock to
Washington’s
smooth relations
with
China", "the turd in the
punchbowl".
China's
Global Times at 1-10-2018 stated "many forces" in the US are still supporting
Taiwan as a "leverage against China"
(Bloomberg 3-14-2018: some US
national security hawks). Taiwan
president Tsai said at 12-29-2017 that Chinese leader was not supposed to
attack Taiwan
("應該不是決策思考範圍內"),
she corrected herself at 1-22-2018 in SETN that the possibility of a war
won't be ruled out.
Till Jan. of 2018,
the Chinese military has conducted a series of
provocative,
aggressive
operations, e.g., "patrol circling"
(by fighters, and a submarine -
China denied )
passing through 1st island chain and an aircraft carrier traversed
Taiwanese 'territory' (Taiwan Strait median line), to test the waters, or
prepare for an eventual future attack against Taiwan.
●
Salmon is poking the
bear ? Taiwan suffers in danger !
Bloomberg news 3-14-2018: In the future, Taiwan will suffer even more,
as it
gets caught in the middle between a stronger China and a
inward-looking US...
◆
<Foreign Policy> 12-14-2016 named Taiwan President Tsai as
one of leading thinkers of 2016 for "Poking the bear" .
But, Taiwan is a card, or
most likely, a leverage, a bargaining chip
between the US and China, not a card player in the game
◆
In Mar. 2018, Trump signed <Taiwan Travel
Act>, which paves way for high-level, official exchanges with Taiwan,
and identifies
indirectly
(?) Taiwan as a country
― "visits to a country by United States cabinet members ...".
Deutsche Welle 3-17-2018: China has reacted
angrily to the bill.
Bloomberg news
3-14-2018: Trump's "Taiwan card" (to annoy
China when needed) is China's real worry.
◆
Seattle Times, 12-12-2016: Donald Trump sounds ready to use U.S.
policy toward Taiwan
as a bargaining chip to extract concessions from China, /
WASHINGTON (AP)
◆ The Washington Post , 12-12-2016: White
House: Taiwan is not a 'bargaining chip'
◆
bloomberg, 12-11-2016: China Warns Trump Against Using Taiwan for
Leverage
◆ Taiwan Defense Secretary: can resist Chinese army for about 1+ week
(CTV 12-18-2016);
pic. :
Le Monde
diplomatique
of France, Mai '16, depicted Taiwan-China issue as : Taiwan, a
trembling sweating rat ,
turning its back on an approaching huge cat (China), lifting high the banner "$O$"
. artwork by Selcuk Demirel
https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2016/05/BEAULANDE/55450
The ROC on Taiwan,
has its own constitution, independently
elected president and military forces, However, Taiwan's image
and brand personality were tarnished
or damaged for having benefits by any means, and
having principal human rights problems, including:
○
●
Taiwan is
notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world (CTV
evening news, 12-14-2017, EBC TV, 4-9-2017, UDN opinion,
12-24-2017).
Taiwan largely sees these telecom
frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather
than liability... (quora,
4-16-2016).
It's not easy for Taiwan to clean its bad name of 'fraud-crime empire'
because "Rome is not built in one day". (Asia
Association of Police Studies, secretary general,
China Times, 11-7-2017)
●
Taiwan is far behind and
keeps stalling
legislating a new law against torture and other
cruels,
conclusively advised by
international review
panel( Philip Alston, law
professor at New York University; Eibe Riedel, former member of the United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Jerome Cohen, law professor at New York
University; and Nisuke Ando, professor emeritus at Kyoto University, etc. ) (ref. to Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017)
Taiwan's
opposition party
vice
presidential candidate, NTU professor Lin Ruey-Shiung,
was subject to electromagnetic wave attacks (French AFP
,Dec. 1, 2011 ,
Thailand's Bangkok Post, Dec. 3, 2011, Yahoo UK & Ireland,
etc. ),
Taiwan gov. denied this.
●
Taiwan was already reduced to be a 'kingdom' of producing narcotic drugs.
(United Daily, headline news, 11-2-2017) Philippine
President Duterte
...
blaming Taiwan-based
organised crime behind all this drug traffic... for using his country as a
shipping hub.
(Reuters,
9-27-2017, The Straits Times, 9-29-2017) Duterte: Triad
supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan, not China (inquirer.net, 9-26-2017).
Taiwan is scandalous for
being a major drug
transit center & a major drug exporting country, part of Taiwanese
government including Judicial sys. refused to improve this issue.
(UDN Opinion, 11-6-2017, The China Times,
head-page & focus, 4-4-2017, The Liberty
Times, 5-12-2017)
●
Exploitation
of foreign workers, official corruption, some media
self-censorship with regard to China, vote buying, etc (USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3, 2017).
●
<The
Diplomat> (4-14-2016) :
Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of
control', GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but
does little - EU warned
since 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing, Taiwan has not
improved this good enough, some small countries in Southern Asia did better
than Taiwan.
●
Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is
controlled by the political parties (Foreign
Policy, 2015).
Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's
skin-deep
democracy ...
the people's "livelihood" was
sacrificed for politics ... (United Daily News,
Opinion,
3-7-2017
)
●
The government
has not well taken
its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property
-
why are there so
many tall buildings located on the fault-zone? why are poor
architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ? why are those
shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to
risk millions of old houses and human beings?
(ps: may face death in 6
magnitude quake)
(full text:
https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2974813
聯合報社論／斷層帶上何以建了那麼多高樓？ 2-8-2018, https://udn.com/news/story/7338/2977079
勿讓軟腳樓成坑殺人命陷阱 2-9-2018,
https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20180209/37928659花蓮 都更 爛政客
2-9-2018)
●
Taiwan's prosecutors admit usually
following
order to conclude legal cases. (
The
United Daily, 06-18-2016,
head page news)
Taiwan's justice ministry was
insufficiently independent,
public trust on Taiwan's judiciary system keeps falling down
(USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 2016-2018,
all media of Taiwan, 2015 ~ 2017). Taiwan's public voice
with a heavy heart :
The prosecutors should abide by the law too... don't be a political tool.
(United Daily, opinion column, 12-16-2017)
Taiwan's Minister of Judiciary and secretary of Justice Ministry issued
progress report of judicial reform ―
Public trust in judges is always low, the protection mechanism of lawsuit
right is still not good enough
(UDN 2-13-2018).
●
State violence and
white terror (product of state
violence)
return in Taiwan (United Daily, opinion, 12-21-2017, 12-27-2017). Taiwan's Facebook
"Green terror" suppressed free expression...... (Wikipedia 2017, The China
Times, public opinion, 11-18-2017)
●
Taiwan is dishonest and 'cruel'
―
trying to hide, block, delay public-health news, e.g., poisoned eggs, PCV virus
vaccine, and Bird-flu more than one time (1-2-2018 UDN
udn.com/news/story/7266/2908720, 2012
BBC news :
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese_news/2012/03/120304_taiwan_birdflu_investigate)
, not to
mention big issues.
●
Taiwan failed to solve food-safety issue, professors and MDs advised eating
at home.
(The China Times. 8-6-2016,
<食品不安全的年代如何自保>,
2016, etc.)
●
Taiwan
administration's policy led to air pollution, toxic pollution in the land
and sea
...
(The
China Times,
1-7-2018 台灣海陸空污染毒害，山海變色
http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180107000465-260114。Daily
Mail (UK) 7-14-2017 : Shocking
underwater video from Taiwan
shows ocean floor littered with plastic
(bottles) garbage)
●
Taiwan declared crackdown on prostitution,
only to turn into a country with world No.1 percentage of sex-related business
consumers of all the adults.
(Apple Daily, 12-25-2014 )
●
Harvard professor
Dr. Joseph Nye advised in 2010 that hard and soft power enable Taiwan to
deal with China and
expand its international space. However,
Taiwan's soft power was behind China and Asian's
Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, UAE.
Taiwan's
military power was recently cut down by half
and is in a state of low morale,
Taiwan's administration made a core
defense strategy to
resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks, and
made assumption that
then American sons and daughters will always risk
their lives to protect our home.
○●
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4-13-2018, 3-30-2018, 2-25-2018, 1-28-2018,
2-20-2018
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on Yahoo search at 2-25-2018
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"introduction of Taiwan" in Chinese
on MetaGER of Germany at
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●
Economist (special edition
2017): "Taiwan will turn into a tiger again "
●
Global Wealth Report &
Global Wealth Databook by
credit-suisse Research Institute, Nov. 2016: "Taiwan,
Asia Tiger"
●
NY
Times 5-22-2017: Taiwan leader continued to base defense
planning
on the assumption that the United States would always
come to the rescue...
Taiwan
has reduced its
active force
(by half)
● NY Times
12-13-2016 In Taiwan president Tsai's inaugural speech,
Tsai referred to
the Constitution
of the Republic
of China and the
legislation
governing
cross-strait
relations, both
of which imply
the acceptance
of a “one China”
framework.
pic. left: ROC (Taiwan) national flag
can not be used in most places in the world,
since China's "one China" policy keeps suppressing Taiwan's
international space;
pic. right: Chinese Taipei flag for participating in
int'l events, e.g., Olympics Games.
UDN
7-28-2017, 11-20-2017, Global times, 12-12-2017,
CTV
12-17-2017: China's
military terrorized Taiwan by
aircraft-fighters routinely
flying around ("patrol circling") Taiwan and passing through 1st Island Chain...China fighters only
take 14 minutes to reach Taiwan from mainland
https://udn.com/news/story/10930/2610183
Apple Daily 1-18-2018: China's submarine
"patrol circling"
at 1-11-2018
United
Daily survey at 11-20-2017 found the percentage of
Taiwanese
having good perception on Chinese people and
communist government
increased to 49% and 40%
pic.: Taiwan ( the white
color island on the map)
Population：23.54 million
Area：36,194
square
kilometers
Peoples：Han
Chinese (97%),
Aborigines (2%)
Languages
: mainly
Mandarin,
Taiwanese
●
●
Taiwan
Taiwan travel & tour
●
Safety standards need to be improved !
●
●
Apple
Daily, opinion, 2-12-2018: lacking of
monument elements, mature cultural
creativity, and inexpensive tour-site
hotels ... shallow, careless,
low-end quality led to an extremely low
return visitor rate to Taiwan.
Apple
Daily, Headline news 1-15-2018:
Taiwan tourism collapsed like a
snow-slide,
the number of tourists to Kenting National Park(墾丁貓鼻頭)
dropped 59%, to Taroko National Gorge
(太魯閣) dropped 43%, etc, because of the
number of Chinese tourists declined a
lot and local people don't like those
sites - Apple Daily opinion
1-17-2018: expensive hotels, crowded
traffic, getting ripped-off by greedy
shops' ...
●
●
According to
World Economic Forum (WEF) <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report>(released at 4-6-2017),
Taiwan's
most important indexes for
promoting tourism, like "Attractiveness
of Natural Assets" (parks, beaches,
mountains, wildlife, etc)
ranks
world
No.87, "Natural Resources" ranks
No.55, "Environmental Sustainability" ranks No.75 (No.69
in 2015), "Price Competitiveness"
ranks
No. 46, "Hotel Price Index" ranks No.
89 (82 in 2015), Taiwan got "n/a" on China's strong indexes such as
"World
heritage natural sites" as well as "World heritage cultural sites"
(world top 5).
Taipei mayor Ko just mocked tourism of Hong Kong and Singapore,
however, they are very ahead in "Business Environment"
and "Ground & Port infrastructure"
(world top 2),
"Airport infrastructure" (world No.5 & 6 vs Taiwan no. 42 ), "Safety & security"
( No.5 and No.6 ) 。
Taiwan has excellent scores on "Mobile Network coverage", "ATM",
etc,
but those least likely are main attractiveness
to international sightseers that Taiwan
needs most. According to
government statistics "visitor arrivals
by purpose in 2016", only 7.61%
foreigners came for business,
conference, exhibition, most visitors
are for pleasure, so we should not focus
on WEF's overall score and ranking for
Taiwan.
●
●
BBC UK, The SUN
(2-13-2017):
"Bus Crash Horror !"
-
Taiwan's "safety
standards need to be improved". A
few days later another fatal tour-bus
accident occurred.
Apple Daily, Opinion (2-15-2017): Such a
high casualty rate most likely was
ranked No.1 among all civilized states
in the world.
Taiwan's aviation safety -
MSN, Reuters,
EuroNews, Mirro(UK), NewsWeek, CNN, etc (2-4-2015) :"Taiwan has had a poor
aviation safety record in recent years"
●
●
People's Daily, the
major official newspaper of the ruling
Chinese Communist Party, ( Opinion/editorial 8-4-2016):
<Chinese tourists do not dare to visit Taiwan in the future without safety
assurance> / Taiwan tour disasters are sort of
man-made disasters ,
Taiwan tourism's major problems
include
loopholes in
law and regulation
、careless
mistakes in administration or
not-good-enough system of organization,
other
malpractices are traveling load-bearing
capacity 、road-traffic
safety
、aviation safety 、road
maintenance
、safety standard for tour
bus 、Modified
Automobiles/Fix-up tour bus、Low-end
tour groups
…
tragic accidents happening again and
again open
Pandora's
box, too many tourist victims reveal Taiwan tourism's problems, Taiwan authority
tried to do something (亡羊補牢)
each time a tragic accident occurred, but it seemed late and same kind of
tragedies
never cease. (《人民日報》8-4-2016
社論: 很多意外事故都存在著人禍
的影子，或是法規漏洞、管理疏失、或是體制不足。旅遊承載能力、道路安全、飛行安全、道路養護
、遊覽車安全標準、改裝車、低價團…一起起事故猶如打開了潘朵拉的盒子...
)
●
●
Business Insider (6-2015) introduced
some places for tourists:
◎ Hehuan Mountain and Ali Mountain are two top-rated scenic spots on TripAdvisor.
(阿里山等)
◎ Sun Moon Lake(日月潭)
◎ Kenting National Park(墾丁).
9 nationall. parks, which make up 8.6% of its land. Taroko National Gorge
(太魯閣) alone is worth spending at least two days hiking its
numerous scenic trails.
◎ hot springs Beitou
outside of Taipei, and Jiaoxi in Yilan (北投宜蘭等溫泉)
◎◎
ps: [
Climate ]
tropical and
subtropical
climate zones,
Average
temperature for
northern Taiwan
: 21.7°C;
southern Taiwan:
24.1°C.
Jan. ~ Mar : may
downto 10°C.
June ~ August,
may up to 38°C
●
Food safety is
one of
biggest challenges to Taiwan /
The China Times. 8-6-2016,
an interview to Taiwan president Tsai I. W.
○
●
Chang
Gung Mem. Hospital Toxicology expert & professor Yin M.D. (殷宗海,
Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect
your health ! ref to
book
<食品不安全的年代如何自保>,
2016.
○
●
5 star hotel restaurants scandals one after one -
A
book (by 江守山
M.D.'s
"食在安心" (10-2014))
said many 5 star hotel restaurants don't wash vegetables ... some 5 star
hotels made sashimi raw fish slices by using fresh-water fishes, this may
increase the probability to get cancer (for
details
台灣餐廳
or
台灣美食Taiwan
Night Markets ) ; Epoch Times (大紀元, 3-14-2017):Okura Prestige Tpe
(大倉久和, a 5 star hotel) sold expired frozen shrimps, molded taro (vegetable 芋)
etc;
SETN news ( 三立新聞 5-16-2016): Some 5 star hotels in northern Taiwan sold
black-hearted expired seafoods ; LTN (5-17-2016): 5 star hotels Ambassador
and Howard (國賓、福華)
clarified this news;
Apple Daily (蘋果日報 6-7-2016):
Sheraton
(喜來登) 's
white shrimps contained bleaching agent
(漂白劑)，4
times higher than the legal standard，Ranina
(Spanner crabs
旭蟹)
contained heavy medal Cadmium poisoning (重金屬镉) 14%
higher than the standard...;
Apple Daily (蘋果日報 7-2-'13):
Taiwan's tourist hotels' food ingredients expired 2 years,
only 3 out of 21 hotels passed the security check and sanitary examination etc
conducting by Taiwan Administration, e.g., Shangri-La's (tnn) did not separate
their cutting tools for cooked foods and raw foods;
Chang
Gung Mem. Hospital professor Yin M.D.
(殷宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ):
Minimize the times of dining out to
protect your health ! ( ref. to book
<食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how
to survive in this bad food-security
time",
April 2016))
FTV news, 5-18-2017: 13
ingredients / materials expired in a 5 star hotel in Taiwan; CTI
TV news (5-17-2017, 19:33): What can we eat in Taiwan? people are uneasy for
food here...
○
●
A big
gas-cylinder
LPG-explosion
in Fengjia (逢甲)
night market (known as largest
night-market business district in
Taiwan) proved again
man-made disasters
never cease, the China
Times (7-19-2017) lashed out all this
sort of night-market districts across
Taiwan have similar safety problem,
enforcement officials even don't know which is more important - grass-roots' making money or public
security.
○
●
Taiwan is not included in EIU's Global
Food Security Index of 2017, China ranks No. 45 among 113 nations.
○
●
According
to The World's Best Restaurants (2017)
, Taiwan is not included in the list, Thailand got No.7, Singapore No.14, Japan
18th, HK 24th, Shanghai 41th. In sub-total, 5 Japanese , 4 Chinese, 3
Singapore, 2 Thailand, 1 Korean, 1 India restaurant(s) entered top 100.
○
●
Apple Daily, 11-20-2017 : Almost all
world countries are more and more strict with food safety, only Taiwan is more
and more relaxed in legislating for food safety. In this way, how
can Taiwan have a reputation on "fine food kingdom" ?
(breif)
/
by 邱致穎, chair, and
teacher of food science, TungHai University.
○
●
New York
Times, 2-24-2017:
Taipei
... has a street food scene as vibrant as that of Bangkok; restaurants that
specialize in both Taiwanese and regional cuisines from around China; thousands
of cheap and cheerful joints at which to drink cold beer with small plates and
quick stir-fries; .... ref to
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/travel/taipei-taiwan-restaurants-local.html
●
Washington
Post, 1-5-2018 : China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner and China is
Taiwan’s main destination for outbound investment; 40 percent of Taiwan’s
exports flow to China and a fifth of Taiwan’s gross domestic product derives
from its economic ties to the mainland.
○
●
New York times, 12-13-2016 : Today,
more
than
two-thirds
of
Taiwan’s
outward
foreign
direct
investment
is to
China,
which is
also
Taiwan’s
leading
trading
partner.
Taiwanese
has
emerged
a
consensus
that
some
degree
of
economic
interdependence
with
China is
unavoidable
but that
overdependence
is
risky.
Beijing’s
strategy
of
giving
Taiwanese
economic
benefits
so that
Taiwanese
will
become
more
inclined
toward
unification
has not
been
successful
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/world/asia
○
●
BBC, UK,
6-14-2017:
Taiwan
has
become
one of
Asia's
big
traders.
It is
considered
to have
achieved
an
economic
miracle,
becoming
one of
the
world's
top
producers
of
computer
technology.
/
Taiwan
country
profile
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639
○
● Wikipedia
Economy of Taiwan
Taiwan
is
the
22nd-largest
economy
in
the
world,
and
its
high-tech
industry
plays
a
key
role
in
the
global
economy.
(Taiwan
has
a
developed
capitalist
economy
that
ranks
as
the
22th-largest
in
the
world
by
purchasing
power
parity
(PPP)
)
It
is
ranked
highly
in
terms
of
...
economic
freedom,
and
human
development...These
SMEs
usually
produce
products
on
an
original
equipment
manufacturer
(OEM)
or
original
design
manufacturer
(ODM)
basis,
resulting
in
less
resources
spent
on
research
and
development.
Due
to
the
emphasis
of
the
OEM/ODM
model,
companies
are
usually
unable
to
make
in-depth
assessments
for
investment,
production,
and
marketing
of
new
products,
instead
relying
upon
importation
of
key
components
and
advanced
technology
from
the
United
States
and
Japan.
/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
○
●
Credit
Suisse,
Nov.
15,
2017
:
Global Wealth report 2017, Country summary
Country
Mean wealth per Adult (USD)
Median wealth per Adult (USD)
Taiwan
188,081
87,257
Japan
225,057
123,724
Singapore
268,776
108,850
France
263,399
119,720
UK
278,038
102,641
Compared to the world as a whole, Taiwan has high average
wealth and only moderate wealth inequality.
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=A6E9E182-E39B-0353-6751EB076EF35159
Credit
Suisse,
Dec.
2016
:
Taiwan,
Asia
Tiger
-
Taiwan's
average
level
of
wealth,
at
USD
172,847,
is
well
above
that
of
most
countries
in
the
Asia-Pacific
region,
and
similar
to
that
of
Western Europe.
(
Taiwan's mean wealth per adult, at USD
172,847, is
about
same as
that
of
France USD244,400
or
Germany
USD185,175, Taiwan's median wealth per adult USD 63,134, is about in the same
level with France USD 99,923, Canada 96,664.)
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=AD783798-ED07-E8C2-4405996B5B02A32E
●
United
Daily,
Opinion,
12-5-2017
:
The
average
monthly
salary
of
Taipei
employee
(in
the
amount
of
NT
43500)
is
behind
that
of
Beijing's
(rmb
9900,
equal
NT46000
),
Shanghai
is
at
the
third
(about
NT
43000).
/
智聯招聘survey.
○
●
Academia Sinica of Taiwan,
10-5-2017
: Taiwan
Economic
Competition and
Growth Strategy
Policy Proposal
(中央研究院《臺灣經濟競爭與成長策略政策建議書》)
The country will
fall into
“middle-income”
limbo in the
next decade if
it fails to deal
with “three evil
hands” that are
stalling the
economy ...
the
law,
environmental
assessments, and
Taiwan-China
relations—that
could leave
Taiwan stuck in
the so-called
“middle-income
trap” and see at
least 15 (-30)
countries catch
up with it in
the next 10
years.
Its
economic growth
rate has reduced
rapidly. In the
past ten years,
its average
economic growth
rate has dropped
to 3.82%, which
is lower than
other Asian
countries such
as South Korea
and Singapore.
●
Forbes 4-23-2017, "Taiwan's Once Mighty High-Tech Sector
Is Falling Behind Because Of Low Pay" :
Taiwan used to be an indispensable part of
the world high-tech supply chain. Now the island that derives a fifth of its
economy from the likes of PCs, tablets and smart phones for export is unsure how
long all that can sustain. The most often cited reason: Taiwan isn’t keeping up
in software, which in today’s terms means mobile apps and artificial
intelligence as well as the stuff Microsoft does for PCs....Pay
for university professors is too low to attract world-class people from overseas
to teach... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/04/23/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay/#204190537b43/Asia
/#BigBusiness
○
●
The China Times, opinion, 11-7-2017, The
United Daily, opinion, 11-10-2017: Taiwan's industries are short of 5 core
elements : electricity and water supply, labor, land and talented persons.
○
●
Le Monde of France, Mai '16,
reported the
economies of both sides were complementary, now compete each other.
Taiwanese
are gradually being excluded from the Chinese chain of production and supply. (Mais les économies des deux rives, qui étaient complémentaires,
entrent désormais en concurrence.
Les entreprises taïwanaises
sont progressivement exclues de la mise en place d’une chaîne de production
et d’approvisionnement chinoise ... )
○
●
National Policy Foundation
,
7-16-2009
One problem of Taiwan's high tech
industry is lacking of key technology ... http://www.npf.org.tw/2/6142
○
●
People's Daily of China (international edition), 11-12-2017
:
China's GDP in 2016 is about 23 times the number of Taiwan's, five Chinese
provinces' (GuanDong, JiangSu, ShanDong, ZheJiang, HeNan ) GDPs topped Taiwan's GDP
already, in 3-5 years, 10 provinces might top Taiwan.
(brief , UDN, 11-13-2017) ; (more to see
The China Times, opinion, 12-18-2017 "當我們看不起的大陸超越我們").
●
●●
Taiwan
Taiwan
diplomatic isolation
○
a tiny whale still in
golden-fish glass-ware !?
○
●
<Taiwan Travel Act>
(Trump signed at 3-16-2018):
◆
NHK Japan, 3-17-2018
The
legislation aims to encourage mutual visits between US and Taiwanese officials at all
levels.
(https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180317_08/)
◆
The
Diplomat,
3-3-2018
US Paves Way for
High-Level
Exchanges With Taiwan
(https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/us-paves-way-for-high-level-exchanges-with-taiwan/)
◆ New York Times,
3-17-2018
China’s Foreign Ministry said it had lodged “stern representations” with the
United States, saying the law sent a
“seriously wrong
signal” to the
forces of Taiwan
independence.
(https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/03/17/world/asia/17reuters-usa-taiwan-china.html
;
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-china/china-says-resolutely-opposed-to-new-u-s-law-on-ties-with-taiwan-idUSKCN1GT0I9)
◆ Deutsche Welle, 3-17-2018 :
China has
reacted angrily
...
"severely
violate the
one-China
principle, the
political
foundation of
the China-US
relationship."
Taiwan ... calling it
a "friendly
move"
◆ Global Times of China, 2018: <Taiwan Travel Act> is a bill to
destroy Taiwan. ◆
People's Daily online (China
人民日報 海外版) 3-17-2018: "annoy
China, fool Taiwan !"("戲耍台灣
挑臖大陸")
◆
UDN Taiwan (台灣聯合報) 3-18-2018:
KMT Legislator : The US uses Taiwan as pawn to annoy China ... (
台恐成夾心餅干); Joseph Bosco
(former defense official): China won't win a general confrontation against the
US (translation).
○
●Washington Post,
1-5-2018: For
years, most analysts in the United States generally accepted the idea that
Taiwan’s status as a de facto independent democracy was unsustainable as China’s
economy and military rose to dominate Asia. Statesmen such as the late
Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew and Henry Kissinger both predicted that Taiwan’s
unification with China — under Chinese terms — was inevitable.
●Washington
Post,
11-9-2017:“Many have debated here in Taiwan
whether President Trump will trade Taiwan in exchange for China’s position in
North Korea,” ...... “But ... even if President Trump makes such an offer,
President Xi would say no: ‘Taiwan is not in your hands. It’s in mine.’”
The China Times, opinion,
11-11-2017: President
Xi thinks the advantage of Taiwan issue is in Beijing's side,
it's not necessary to trade anything for Taiwan with Washington.
○
●
Washington Post, 11-9-2017:
Xi
had reiterated the importance of Taiwan to Beijing during his meeting with
Trump. “The Taiwan issue is the most important and sensitive core issue in the
Sino-U. S. relations, and it is also the political foundation for the Sino-U. S.
relations,”... / https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/with-trump-in-china-taiwan-worries-about-becoming-abargaining-chip/2017/11/09/ee3c0126-c4af-11e7-9922-4151f5ca6168_story.html?utm_term=.91426a733612
○
●
Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan, Opinion, 6-22-2017
(読売新聞「社説」)
:
中国が台湾を孤立させる動きを強め、波風を立てている。軍事、経済両面での優位を背景にした圧力は、中台間の緊張を高めるだけだ。...中国の一連の外交攻勢は、台湾を自国の一部とする「一つの中国」原則を、台湾の蔡英文政権に認めさせる狙いだろう。...台湾の住民の間では、中国に政治的、経済的にのみ込まれることへの警戒感が強く、「中国離れ」が加速しているためだ。...米国は台湾の防衛力強化を担っており、台湾海峡の平和と安定のカギを握る。(The
US is the key to keep the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait)
○
●
Le
Monde diplomatique,
France, mai 2016: "politiL’Amérique
centrale lâche Taipei" /
Les deux rivaux du détroit de Formose
ne luttent pas à armes égales et, pour Taipei, l’isolement diplomatique
menace. (The two rivals of the
Taiwan Straits do not
fight on equal terms , the diplomatic isolation threatens Taiwan
)
○
●
Singapore's
The
Straits
Times,
11-9-2017
:
Taiwan
is the
most
important
issue in
Sino-US
ties, Xi
tells
Trump
“The Taiwan issue is the most important, most
sensitive core issue in China-US relations, and concerns the political basis
of the China-US relationship,” ... China “hopes that the US side continues
to scrupulously abide by the ‘one China’ principle, and prevents
disturbances to the broader picture of China-US ties”, Xi added.
Trump told Xi that the United States government upheld and stuck to the “one
China” policy, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported.
●
BBC -
Taiwan country profile 6-14-2017:
China
insists
that
nations
cannot
have
official
relations
with
both
China
and
Taiwan,
with the
result
that
Taiwan
has
formal
diplomatic
ties
with
only a
few
countries.
/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639
●
New York
times,
12-13-2016:
In
Presidential
inaugural
speech,
Tsai
referred
to the
Constitution
of the
Republic
of China
and the
legislation
governing
cross-strait
relations,
both
imply
the
acceptance
of a
“one
China”
framework.
●
Yomiuri
Shimbun,
Japan,
Opinion,
5-22-2016
(読売新聞)
:
「台湾独立」志向の強い民進党の蔡英文主席が総統に就任した。台湾蔡新総統対中「現状維持」の意思示した
http://editorial.x-winz.net/ed-13620
(Tsia I.
W. with
strong
tendency
toward
"Taiwan
Independence"
expressed
"maintain
status
quo" in
her
Presidential
inaugural
speech
)
●
Le Monde
diplomatique,
France,
"Taïwan en quête de souveraineté économique",
mai
2016:
selon laquelle il n’est pas nécessaire
de proclamer l’indépendance car Taïwan est déjà un Etat indépendant et
souverain. C’est certainement le sens qu’elle donne au « statu quo »
(
'it is
not
necessary
to
proclaim
independence
because
Taiwan
is
already
an
independent
and
sovereign
state.
This is
certainly
the
meaning
it gives
to
<status
quo>'
)
○
●
United
daily
News,
opinion
10-11-12017
:
In Fact,
President
Tsai
one-sided
abandoned
in 2016
"The
1992
Consensus"
(「九二共識」),
which
violates
her
promise
to
"maintain
the
cross-strait
status
quo"
https://udn.com/news/story/7338/2749610?from=udn-catelistnews_ch2
UDN
10-11-2017
: China
officially
responded
Tsai's
speech
at
Taiwan's
National
Day that
“Only by
adhering
to the
one-China
principle
and
opposing
Taiwan
independence
can
relations
between
the
sides
develop
with
peace
and
stability”.
UDN
opinion,
10-20-2017:
Chinese
leader
Xi's
"China
dream"
can't
come
true
without
retaking
Taiwan.
○
●
US News, 10-9-2017:
Taiwan's relations
with Beijing have deteriorated sharply since Tsai, ... took office last
year, with China suspecting she wants to push for the island's formal
independence, a red line for Beijing. China
has cut off a regular dialogue mechanism with Taiwan, ramped up military
drills around
the island and stepped up int'l pressure to limit Taiwan's diplomatic
footprint.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-10-09/taiwan-president-tsai-pledges-to-defend-islands-freedoms
○
●
Spiegel
Germany, 1-9-2017,
<Donald
Trump:
Chinesische
Staatszeitung
warnt
USA
wegen
Umgang>
Die
staatliche
chinesische
Zeitung
"Global
Times"
hat den
künftigen
US-Präsidenten
Donald
Trump
gewarnt,
von der
"Ein-China-Politik"
abzurücken.
"Das
chinesische
Volk
würde
die
Regierung
auffordern,
sich zu
rächen",
hieß es
im
Leitartikel
des
Blattes,
das zum
Zentralorgan
der
Kommunistischen
Partei "Renmin
Ribao"
gehört.
"Es gibt
keinen
Raum für
Verhandlungen"
/ if "US
President
Donald
Trump to
abandon
the
one-China
policy."
"The
Chinese
people
would
call on
the
government
to take
revenge,"
"There
is no
room for
negotiations"
...
(Global
Times,
China)
○
●
The
China
Times,
10-15-2017,
Wikipedia,
9-27-2017
:Taiwanese
premier
William
Lai
advocates
"Taiwan
independence
in
realistic
way ("務實台獨")”,
but
"Taiwan
was an
independent
country
called
the
Republic
of
China,
it had
no need
to
declare
independence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
○
●
Mexican
newspaper
El Sol
de Méxicoformer,
2008:
(former)
President
Ma:
the
China-Taiwan
relations
are
neither
between
two
Chinas
nor two
states.
It is a
special
relationship.
the
sovereignty
issues
between
the two
cannot
be
resolved
at
present,
the
"1992
Consensus",
currently
accepted
as a
temporary
measure
until a
solution
becomes
available.
○
●
The
United
Daily,
11-12-2017,
commented
Trump Xi
meeting
―
one of 3
possibilities
is the
US may
break
the
pattern
"USA and
China
jointly
control
Taiwan"(「美中共管」),
China
may play
(or most
of)
the role
to
control
Taiwan.
●
●
Taiwan
Taiwan
military power VS Chn
○
Taiwan
military in name only ... will try to resist PLA for 2+ weeks.
○
●
Washington Post,
1-5-2018,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/01/05/can-china-really-take-over-taiwan/?utm_term=.e66214694331
Can China really
take over
Taiwan?
Xi commanded China’s military to become
“battle ready.”
......
threatening that
relations with
Taiwan will turn
“grave” because
Taiwan’s
government
refuses to
acknowledge that
the island is
part of China. A
leading Chinese
analyst predicts
that China has
accelerated its
timetable to
2020 for taking
over the island
by military
means......Taiwan
needs to increase its defense spending considerably...“the outcome of the game
[between China and Taiwan] is undecided".
○
●
United States think tank the RAND Corporation,
Taiwan
News, 2-2-2018, Apple Daily 2-3-2018,
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3353460
Likelihood of successful
Chinese attack against Taiwan rising: RAND Corp. China's jets
and missiles can damage U.S. and Taiwan air bases
According
to RAND, which specializes in military affairs, the balance in the Taiwan Strait
has been moving in China’s favor as the communist country was continuing to make
progress in its preparations and training ...
○
●
The US subcommittee
hearing (4-17-2018) Rep. Ted Soho, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Asia and the Pacific:
Seems likely Xi will force the issue (unification) in his life time.
( He is the only figure who can
accomplish China's so called reunification. Unify Taiwan peacefully or
otherwise he is the key part of this accomplishment, ......)
★
●
New York times, 11-4-2017: “(Taiwan)
needs to resist a Chinese military attack for two weeks and wait for help from
the United States or the international community,” echoing a strategy that
has been at the core of Taiwan’s defense doctrine for decades......Taiwan’s
armed forces, by contrast (Chn), have fallen way behind, struggling to recruit
enough soldiers and sailors — and to equip those they have. A major
obstacle is that countries that might sell it the most sophisticated weaponry
are increasingly reluctant to do so for fear of provoking China,...The Taiwan
Relations Act of 1979 commits the United States to defend the island’s
sovereignty, providing “such defense articles and defense services in such
quantity as may be necessary” ... US latest arms sales " short of the major
systems that could give Taiwan a real edge." (Singapore's The Straits
Times :
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-once-mighty-military-now-overshadowed-by-chinas
Taiwan's once-mighty military now overshadowed by China's 11-6-2017;
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-tells-trump-that-taiwan-is-the-most-important-issue-in-sino-us-ties
Taiwan is the most important issue in Sino-US ties, Xi tells Trump
11-9-2017 )
○
●
New York times, 5-18-2017:
Beijing’s
belligerence
presents
an
existential
threat
to
Taiwan, Chinese
leaders
have
long
vowed to
take
Taiwan
by force
if they
deem
necessary
... For years, the political establishment in Taipei has delegated
responsibility for responding to Beijing to the United States.
Taiwan's
leaders
have
gutted
the
military
and
continued
to base
defense
planning
on the
assumption
that the
United
States
would
always
come to
the
rescue. Policies
put
forward
by the
Kuomintang
and the
independence-leaning
Democratic
Progressive
Party
have
left the
military
understaffed
and in a
state of
low
morale...
Taiwan's
active
force
down to
under
200,000
(the
exact
number
is
classified).
The
nearly
two
million
reservists
exist in
name
only...
Taiwan’s defense policies are largely a result of deep distrust between the
military and politicians. The military has struggled with wide-range scandals/
●
The Heritage
Foundation, The
Index of U.S.
Military
Strength, 2017
China’s
provocative
behavior has
expanded to
include militarization
of islands that
it has built in
highly disputed
international
waters in the
South China Sea.
China has also
adopted
aggressive naval
tactics to
intimidate such
neighboring
countries as
Japan and the
Philippines... the 2017 Index concludes that the current U.S. military
force ... certainly would
be ill-equipped
to handle two
nearly
simultaneous
major regional
contingencies
... / http://index.heritage.org/military/2017/assessments/
○
●Why China Can't Conquer Taiwan in a War
, 11-17-2017 Zachary Keck
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-china-cant-conquer-taiwan-war-23254
A new study by Michael Beckley (Tufts University),
published in the academic journal International Security argues that China’s neighbors
could thwart Chinese military aggression through anti-access/area denial
strategies with only minimal U.S. assistance. ... if China was far
more successful than the United States had been in those conflicts, Beijing’s
ability to execute an amphibious invasion is still far from certain. For
instance, Beckley notes that only ten percent of Taiwan’s coastlines are
suitable for an amphibious landing, which would allow Taipei to concentrate its
forces on a few key areas. Chinese forces trying to land would likely be
severely outnumbered...
○
●
<The
Chinese
Invasion
Threat>
by Ian Eastonct., Oct. 3, 2017
:
China has finalized a
clandestine plan to invade Taiwan in 2020 by launching missile attacks, blocking
the nation’s air and sea space, and carrying out amphibious landings,
Washington-based think tank Project 2049 Institute research fellow Ian Easton
said. ...China,
would "almost
certainly" fail in its full-scale invasion of Taiwan but its military
appears driven to prepare and carry out such an attack.
○
●
BBC ,
12-3-2016
○http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
The pivotal role of the US was
most clearly shown in 1996, when China conducted provocative missile tests to
try and influence Taiwan's first direct presidential election. In response, US
President Bill Clinton ordered the biggest display of US military power in Asia
since the Vietnam War, sending ships to the Taiwan Strait, and a clear message
to Beijing.
○
●
国家政策研究基金会 NPF
National Policy
Foundation in Taipei,
Taiwan;
10-7-2017 CTN
The peace of Taiwan Strait before 2025 depends US military forces (台海安全 仍繫於美軍是否介入...最大的不確定性仍是「美軍是否介入」，且在2025年之前，美軍相對中共仍有明顯優勢，與其說押注與否，不如說是因「美軍不可測」的因子無法排除。)
/ http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20171007000342-260119
●
●
China has finalized a
clandestine plan to invade Taiwan in 2020 by launching missile attacks, blocking
the nation’s air and sea space, and carrying out amphibious landings,
Washington-based think tank Project 2049 Institute research fellow Ian Easton
said.
●
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lo Chih-cheng (羅致政) raised doubts over
the time frame Easton asserted, saying that he did not think it is very precise.
●China,
according to the book <The Chinese Invasion Threat>, would "almost
certainly" fail in its full-scale invasion of Taiwan but its military
appears driven to prepare and carry out such an attack.
Annual
Report
to US
Congress
(2017):
Military
and
Security
Developments
Involving
the
People’s
Republic
of China
2017
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2017_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF
○
○
○
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2017_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF
2016 Defense Budget Comparison (Adjusted for Inflation),
Billion (USD)
China (Official Budget)
$144.3
Russia (National Defense Budget)
$46.2
Japan
$47.2
India
$37.0
Republic of Korea
$32.8
Taiwan
$10.5
ps: Apple daily, 11-28-2017: Chinese air crafts flying to first island chain
include H-6K
(轟 6K)
bomber from Shaanxi, center of China. Taiwan's
interpreting China's military capacity should no longer be limited to only their
coastal (Taiwan Strait) military air force.
(brief
- author 林穎佑 faculty of int'l affairs graduate school, National ChungCheng
University)
○●
●
Apple Daily,
12-19-2017
head-page, focus
; data from Taiwan's national defense gov.
pic. left: China military capacity VS Taiwan;
pic. right: Chinese air force did lots of "patrol circling" (flying
around Taiwan and passing through 1st island chain ).
Source: Apple Daily News, head-page and focus news,
12-19-2017
○●
●
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS,UK, www.iiss.org),
the military balance 2018 press statement - The annual assessment of global
military capability and defence economics, 2-14-2018
●In 2017
Beijing showcased more advanced military systems ... are challenging the global
predominance of the United States and its allies ...
https://www.iiss.org/en/publications/military-s-balance
China's modernisation of its armed forces is
processing faster than many experts expected ... (ref to Apple
Daily, opinion, 2-21-2018, "共軍非必勝 國軍非必敗")
○●
●
US
Annual Report to Congress
,
2016
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress:
Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China
Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Naval Forces
China
China
Taiwan
Total
East and South Sea Fleets
Total
Aircraft Carriers
1
0
0
Destroyers
23
16
4
Frigates
52
40
22
Corvettes
23
14
1
Tank Landing Ships/ Amphibious Transport Dock
30
28
14
Medium Landing Ships
22
16
0
Diesel Attack Submarines
57
38
4
Nuclear Attack Submarines
5
2
0
Ballistic Missile Submarines
4
4
0
Coastal Patrol (Missile)
86
68
45
★
Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Air Forces
China
China
Taiwan
Total
Within range of Taiwan
Total
Fighters
1,700
130
384
Bombers/Attack
400
200
0
Transport
475
150
19
Special Mission Aircraft
115
75
25
★
Taiwan Strait Military
Balance in 2015, Ground Forces
China
China
Taiwan
Total
Taiwan Strait Area
Total
Personnel
(Active)
1.25
million
400,000
130,000
Group
Armies/Army Corps
18
8
3
Infantry Divisions
12
4
0
Infantry Brigades
23
7
5
Mechanized Infantry Divisions
7
4
0
Amphibious
Mechanized Infantry Divisions
2
2
0
Mechanized Infantry Brigades
25
8
3
Armor Divisions
1
0
0
Armor Brigades
17
7
4
Amphibious Armor Brigades
1
1
0
Army
Aviation Brigades and Regiments
11
6
3
Artillery Brigades
22
9
5
Airborne
Divisions
3
3
0
Marine
Brigades
2
2
2
Tanks
7,000
2,800
1,100
Artillery
Pieces
8,000
3,900
1,600
○
●
New York times, 10-19-2017:
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171019/china-xi-jinping-party-congress/dual/
○
Chinese president Xi
delivered the line that won the loudest
applause of his marathon speech: “We will never allow anyone, any organization,
or any political party, at any time or in any form, to separate any part of
Chinese territory from China.”
Apple Daily, 10-20-2017, "ShaoKang
Zhao Fax" column:
Only 800+ words (out of 32000+ words
in total) in Xi's speech at the 19th Communist party congress mentioned Taiwan,
Taiwan issue seems not so important to Xi JinPing.
China Times Group's CTI TV Sisys world news, 10-21-2017 : expert
analyzed and interpreted Xi's speech and his implies
―
it seems the timetable for unification is
2050.
●
United
States
Department
of State
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights
Practices
for 2016,
released
at
March 3,
2017
(report
of
4-20-2018
is about
same):
Principal
human
rights
problems
reported
during
the year
were
exploitation
of
foreign
workers,
including
foreign
crewmembers
on
long-haul
fishing
vessels
and
household
caregivers;
domestic
violence;
and
official
corruption.
Other
human
rights
concerns
during
the year
included
vote
buying;
violations
of legal
working
hours;
lack of
barrier-free
spaces
and
accessible
transportation
systems
for
persons
with
disabilities,
particularly
outside
Taipei;
gender-biased
sex
selection;
and a
rise in
child
abuse.
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/265586.pdf
●
<Transparency
International>,
Germany, 1-25-2017:
Taiwan retreated in Corruption Perceptions Index,
Taiwan got
score
61, one
point
less
than the
previous
year, on
the
Corruption
Perceptions
Index
for 2016
published
by
Transparency
International.
Singapore got the highest score (84) and highest ranking (No.7) among
Asian countries, Hong Kong at No.15 with 77 points and Japan with 72 points.
Taiwan
got
score 63
in CPI
released
in Feb.
2018.
●
<CTS
HD>,
5-23-2016 1:25pm,
"華視新聞雜誌":
17 million
Taiwanese people ( totally 23 million population in Taiwan) live in "potential
danger"
(潛在危險)
houses,
according to
<遠見>
study,
Taiwanese people gave a "failure" score (53.5) on "living safety".
○
●
United
States
Department
of State
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights
Practices
for 2016,
released at
March 3, 2017
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same)
:
Human
rights
concerns
during
the year
included
some
media
self-censorship
with
regard
to
China.
The main threat
to media freedom comes from China, which has been exerting growing economic and
political pressure on the Taiwanese media. The editorial line of some
privately-owned media has changed radically and it is no longer rare to find
media outlets taking a line similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda.
Journalistic independence has also been threatened by Taiwanese officials who
have interfered directly in the editorial policies of the state-owned media.
○
●
Wikipedia
Wikipedia reference
('參考文獻')
recorded
that
in the summer of 2017, a "Green Terror on Facebook" triggered concerns
and public anger in
Taiwan. All Taiwanese mass media reported that
politicians
and online personalities said they had been denied access to their Facebook accounts after writing criticisms of Pan-Green coalition,
the ruling political party (DPP).
The China Times,
opinion,
at 11-18-2017
criticized
that
Taiwan president Tsai I. W. gave tacit permission to Facebook (Taiwan) to block
content concerning anti Taiwan-independence (brief, http://opinion.chinatimes.com/20171118000516-262114).
Taiwan
administration
has not
responded
or
denied
this
severely
critiques
till
middle
of Dec.
2017.
○
breaking news
At
2-22-2018, the dark power (who is prime suspect ??
Taiwan ?) blocked my uploading a brief (in
Chinese version)
of UK's IISS study ―
China's
advanced military systems
are challenging the global predominance of the United States and its
allies ...
to
http://courageworld.ch/TaiwanROC.htm
and
...
; however, uploading those
info. in English version is fine.
Nov. 18, 2017
The China Times :
Taiwan president gave tacit (secretly) permission to Facebook (Taiwan) to restrict
or block
certain contents ... brief of http://opinion.chinatimes.com/20171118000516-262114;
Taiwan
government did not deny or respond that news.
Similar to the above,
uploading Chinese version failed,
but English version OK.
Dr. Joseph Nye advised that hard & soft power enable Taiwan to
deal with China and expand its international space. (Dec.
8, 2010)
However,
● The China Times,
headline news
at 12-24-2017: The total value of Taiwan's cultural & creative production
was far behind of that of Korea, Korea's value in publication is about 6 times
larger than Taiwan's, Film industry 6 times, TV 3.5 times, Advertising 3
times, Pop-music 6 times bigger than Taiwan's, Taiwan lacks of updated
related laws and policy
― no
focus, no direction, no institute, original creativity is not encouraged, the
industry field is divided, without integrated marketing......
●
The
China
Times,
8-15-2017
: The
output
value of
Taiwan's
cultural
&
creative
production
in '12 -
'13
declined
9.28%,
in
contrast,
Taiwan's
neighbor
countries
increased,
China
14.27%,
Malaysia,
Philippines
8+%,
Korea
0.65%
...
Taiwan's
cultural
&
creative
industry
even
failed
to
create a
"bubble",
the
reason
is
lacking
of
original
creativity.
●
UK based Monocle's Soft Power Survey 2010 ~
2017/2018: Taiwan has not been included in this global ranking list, Taiwan's soft power is behind Asian's
countries Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand,
China, India, UAE, all of them reached "world top 20" at least once.
●
2017's Soft Power 30 Study, compiled by PR company Portland Communication and
University of Southern California: Taiwan also failed
to be in the list. The top
30 nations are 1 France 2 UK 3 USA 4 Germany 5
Canada 6 Japan 7 Swiss 8 Australia 9
Sweden 10 Holland 11 Denmark 12 Norway 13
Italy 14 Austria 15 Spain 16 Belgium
17 Finland 18 NZ 19 Ireland 20 Singapore
21 S. Korea 22 Portugal 23 Greece 24
Poland 25 China 26 Russia 27 Czech 28
Hungary 29 Brazil 30 Turkey.
●
●
Although Telegraph (Jan. 2017) mentioned
Taipei's
"pioneering creative
scene", however, in fact ......
Taiwan's
creativity
is poor
in film,
advertising,
architectures,
graphic
designs
...
e.g.,
Taiwan
usually
lost in
Cannes
Ads
Festivals,
the logo
of
Taiwan's
Economic
government
is quite
similar
to an
old
Canadian
logo ...
The
Liberty
Times at
4-6-2016
pointed
out
Taiwan's
government took the lead to plagiarize, and
ignored copy-rights, Taiwan becomes "an island of Plagiarism"
.
It's
a big shame again that Taiwan government used
the photo of Washington Dulles int'l
airport (old Taiwan airport is a cheap-copy, very similar to Dulles) on
Taiwan's new passport. 12-27-2017 Apple Daily headlines.
● Taiwan government logo
● Western
(Canadian) logo
appeared earlier
●
pic. left: Taiwan
state-owned enterprise logo
● pic. right: Western logo
Conditional independence or Conditional unification ...
○
●
Washington Post,
1-5-2018,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/01/05/can-china-really-take-over-taiwan/?utm_term=.e66214694331
Can China really
take over
Taiwan?
A
poll last year
revealed that
three quarters
of people in
Taiwan think
that the island
and China are
two separate
countries, with
only 14 percent
believing that
they are parts
of one nation.
That’s a
significant
change from two
decades ago when
more than half
of Taiwan’s
population said
they considered
themselves
Chinese.
○
●
New York times,
12-13-2016:
As
Taiwanese
identity
has
consolidated,
with
more
than 90
percent
of
Taiwanese
believing
they are
in some
way
“Taiwanese,”
/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13
○
●
BBC,
12-3-2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
Officially, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
still favours eventual independence for Taiwan, while the KMT favours eventual
re-unification. Opinion polls show only a small minority of Taiwanese support
pursuing one or the other at the moment, with most preferring to stick with the
current middle ground.
○
●
brookings.edu,
9-12-2016
“Taiwan’s
China
Dilemma,”
https://www.brookings.edu/events/taiwans-china-dilemma/
Shirley
Lin’s
new
book,
“Taiwan’s
China
Dilemma,”
explores
a
conundrum:
Despite
a shared
culture,
and even
as
Taiwan’s
economic
interdependence
with
China
deepened
in the
1990s
and
2000s,
the
island’s
people
felt an
increasingly
strong
identity
with
Taiwan
itself.
These
contradictory
trends
only
continued
during
Ma Ying-jeou’s
presidency,
and will
certainly
shape
the
environment
in which
leaders
in both
Beijing
and
Taipei
attempt
to
define
and
manage
the
cross-Strait
relationship
○
●
Apple Daily,
opinion, 10-11-2017: Only 5- % Taiwanese
favour
independence or unification, about 70% in total are for conditional independence
and conditional unification.
○
●
Washington Post,
1-2-2017, The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese :
the Taiwanese
are not willing
to pursue
independence at
all costs. Many
are concerned
with the
economy.
When asked to
choose between
formal
independence or
maintaining
economic ties
with China,
83 percent chose
bread over
romance. /
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/02/yes-taiwan-wants-one-china-but-which-china-does-it-want/?utm_term=.8d999292eabd
●
Some significant polls:
Percentage of Taiwanese residents who consider
themselves ?
Survey
Taiwanese
Chinese
Both Taiwanese and Chinese
NCCU, Jan. 2015
60.6%
3.5%
32.5%
TVBS poll centre, Oct. 2012
75%
15%
not an option here
TVBS poll centre, Oct. 2012
55%
3%
37%
Common Wealth Magazine, Dec. 2009
62%
8%
22%
Executive Yuan, Taiwan Admin., April, 2008
67.1%
13.6%
15.2%
source : Wikipedia
(59%: TWese, 34%: both)
Washington Post, 1-2-2017, The
Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese
https://sites.duke.edu/austinwang/2015/11/06/monkey-cage-article-how-taiwanese-view-the-future-of-the-cross-strait/
Austin Horng-En Wang, Monkey Cage article: How Taiwanese view the
future of the Cross-strait, PhD Candidate, Department of Political
Science, Duke University
https://sites.duke.edu/austinwang/2015/11/06/monkey-cage-article-how-taiwanese-view-the-future-of-the-cross-strait/
Austin Horng-En Wang, Monkey Cage article: How Taiwanese view the
future of the Cross-strait, PhD Candidate, Department of Political
Science, Duke University
●
pic. left: Washington Post, 1-2-2017,
The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese
pic. right: United Daily News
survey/poll at 11-20-2017 found "the table has turned" - The percentage
of Taiwanese making good impression on Chinese people increased to 49%,
on communist Chinese gov. increased to 40%. UDN
opinion 11-20-2017: The % of Taiwanese are willing to work in
China increased to 40%.
ps: at the same time, China terrorized Taiwan with military force
(aircrafts etc) routinely flying around Taiwan in entire year of 2017 (UDN,
11-20-2017)
PS: Apple Daily News, opinion, 3-22-2018: according to latest survey by
<台灣民意基金會>, 38.3% Taiwanese people are for Taiwan independence, 20.1% for
unification with mainland China, 24.1% for current status, 75% regard
themselves as Taiwanese, 9.7% Chinese, 10.4% both. As for China's
latest policy - 31 items to benefit Taiwanese ("惠(對)台31項措施"),
41.9% think it as a trick for unification, 30.1% China's nice move.
◆
pic. left: Apple Daily, 4-20-2018,
headline news : a Survey poll by 台灣民主基金會
☉ Taiwanese youth fight for independence - 55%
yes, 35.9 % no, 9.1% others
☉
Taiwanese youth fight against Chinese military force for unification -
67.7% yes, 24.9 % no, 7.4 % others
◆
pic. right: China Times,
4-21-2018, Opinion: Taiwan National Security Survey conducted by Duke
University and NCCU of Taiwan
at about the same time found that once China-Taiwan war happens ...
☉ more than 60% Taiwanese yield or give up & run away (逆來順受或投降逃跑)
☉ The highest percentage of giving up & escaping goes to youth group
(age < 39), about 30+ %, aged 40+ is about 10%.
☉ 80% Taiwanese assumed the US army will come to rescue, otherwise the
percentage of fighting people will drop, however, according to a seminar
in Washington DC in 2017,
only 18% American people support US military force getting involved in
the war.
◆
Apple Daily, 4-24-2018:
survey shows 65% Taiwanese are not confident at Taiwan's military force
●
●
Taiwan
Taiwanese women
○
Should be much worse than reports.
○
●The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
, released at 3-3-2017
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same): Rape and Domestic Violence
(
spousal rape, and domestic violence). Many victims did not report the crime for
fear of social stigmatization, and various nongovernmental organization (NGO)
and academic studies estimated that the total number of sexual assaults was
seven to 10 times the number reported to police.
Women were promoted less frequently, occupied fewer management positions, and
worked for lower pay than men, earning on average 83 percent of their male
counterparts’ income...
○
● Amnesty
International (The London-based
organization), 2.25.2015: The organization
concerns Taiwan's gender discrimination. Taiwan’s passage of the
Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the
enactment of laws to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by 2017 were important
starts, but still have to be fully implemented.
→women
in Taiwan
●
●
Taiwan
Taiwan universities
○
Too many fake papers !
○
Wikipedia :
It
(Taiwan) is ranked highly in terms of ... public education, economic freedom,
and human development. The country benefits from a highly skilled
workforce and is among the most highly educated countries in the world with one
of the highest percentages of its citizens holding a tertiary education degree.
/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
However, Taiwan's education system has serious
problems as below:
●
Taiwan government damages university
autonomy - rejecting the president selected by NTU committee.
Taipei mayor Ko : a dummy made this policy to seriously
harm university autonomy, former president Ma: ridiculous ! is Taiwan a
civilized and legal society ? president Tsai : respect the educational gov.
decision. Hong Kong City University president: The gov. damaged university
autonomy, is lower than the warlord 100 yrs ago, and is not qualified to have
international recognition. Taiwan University : express regrets and
strong objections. / Apple Daily 4-29-2018 head page, UDN 4-29-2018.
●
For recent years, Taiwan failed to solve its
educational problems which are numerous and disorderly,
even chaos (紛亂如麻), such as
Taiwan University's world ranks were
falling down, the brain drain ( the outflow of
talent ), jobless college students, students graduated from technical and
vocational education systems can not meet society demands, politics impeding
lectures, learning activities, and textbook contents. /
UDN opinion, 12-9-2017.
●
Too many fake scholar papers produced.
Lousy conducts and bad ethics in Taiwan's academic circle
happened again and again, but never be handled
seriously,
some careless-done fake scholarly papers are either ignorant or extremely
audacious, some are even fraud-crimes. Only legal punishments can stop
all these, Taiwan government should take
hard line now.
○
●
The China Times 2-8-2018: UK's
Times Higher Education showed
Taiwan's National Taiwan University fell back 2 positions (24th in 2017,
26th now) in Asia's ranking list.
Singapore's
national univ.
and China's Tsing Hua
U., Beijing Univ are top 3.
●
The United Daily 10-17-2017 : Taiwan
University's world ranks were falling down year by year
.
National Taiwan University's world ranks in
recent yrs.
ranking sys
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
National Chiao Tung University (交通大學) in Shanghai China
173
163
154
141
125
121
QS
76
68
70
76
82
80
TIMES Higher Education
198
195
167
155
142
134
○
●
Apple Daily
10-17-2017: Taiwan University retreated 50 positions and lost a not-best-known
university 蘭州大學 (LanZhou
Univ.) of China in <Nature Index 2017 Tables>. The annual budges
of NTU and LU (蘭大) are about the same.
Nature Index 2017
Tables
ranks
country
university
1
USA
Harvard
2
USA
Stanford
3(+1)
USA
MIT
9(+2)
CHN
Beijing University
86(+20)
CHN
LanZhou
Univ. (蘭州大學)
148(-50)
Taiwan
National Taiwan University
199(-35)
Taiwan
National Tsing Hua University Taiwan
280(+37)
Taiwan
National Chiao Tung University
431(+24)
Taiwan
National Cheng Kung University
438(n/a)
Taiwan
National Central University
448(+35)
Taiwan
National
Taiwan Normal University, Taipei
○
○
Academic circle lacks ethics / UDN 1-11-2017
http://udn.com/news/story/7338/2222591
Accomplice structure to fake scholarly papers
/ China Times 11-19-2016 http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20161119000399-260109
NTU should not be too snobby / The Liberty Times
11-25-2016 http://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1055359
Scholar : Only heavy punishment stops fake papers / UDN
11-19-2016 https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115844
Strange phenomenon
in academic circle /11-19-2016 UDN https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115842
Faking papers is a long-time
malpractice / UDN 11-21-2016
https://udn.com/news/story/6885/2118616
○
●
The China Times, 7-20-2017: Lousy students with totally 38
score in entrance examination are good enough to be freshmen of Taiwan's
university, it's an international joke !
●
Forbes 4-23-2017, "Taiwan's Once Mighty High-Tech Sector
Is Falling Behind Because Of Low Pay" : Pay for university professors is
too low to attract world-class people from overseas to teach. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/04/23/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay/#204190537b43/Asia
/#BigBusiness
○
National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)
5
501–600
China Medical University, Taiwan
○
○
● http://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/TAIWAN
July 2017 Edition: 2017.2.1
Taiwan rank
world rank
Taiwan's
university
impact rank
openness
excellence rank
1
86
National Taiwan University
113
175
118
2
253
National Chiao Tung University
184
359
383
3
264
National Cheng Kung University
262
534
319
4
294
National Tsing Hua University Taiwan
264
532
359
5
432
National Central University
575
340
508
○
○ ● Taiwan's universities
were not included in the following ranking lists, those universities in
China, Japan, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore were included.
World University Rankings 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings
QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of
university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
QS University Rankings: Asia — Top 10
2009-2016
1
SingaporeNational University of Singapore
2
Hong KongThe University of Hong Kong
3
SingaporeNanyang Technological University
4
Hong KongThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
5
ChinaTsinghua University
6
South Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
7
Hong KongThe City University of Hong Kong
8
Hong KongThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
9
ChinaPeking University
10
South KoreaSeoul National University
QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018 — Top 10
2016-2018
United States
Stanford University
United States
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
Harvard University
Australia
The University of Sydney
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
Australia
University of Melbourne
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
United States
University of California, Berkeley
China
Tsinghua University
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●
Taiwan
Taiwan's medical services
○
The 45th !
○
●
Taiwan only ranks world 45th position in Lancet's Healthcare Access and Quality
Index released in 2017
(based on mortality from causes amenable to personal
health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015:
a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study
2015),
some
chronic disease
items got very low or failure scores,
e.g., Leukemia score 49, Kidney
disease 50, Gallbladder & biliary 57,
Hypertensive Heart Disease 60,
diabetes mellitus
58, etc.
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30818-8.pdf
○
●
Apple Daily, 12-30-2017: Amending
Taiwan's medical service law is criticized as "Decriminalization",
patients in Taiwan will be difficult to put to the proof in their legal
cases.
●
<Transparency
International>
(
July 9,
2013) study :
"Have you or anyone in your
household paid a bribe to one of these 8 services in the last 12 months?"
Taiwanese
people think the institution needed to be paid bribery most is judiciary
system, second is Taiwan's
medical and health services,
the number of Taiwanese paying a bribe is higher than global average. (
Apple Daily 7-10-2013,http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20130710/35139300/
)
○
●
The United
Daily News (聯合新聞)
1-3-2017 <Where's Taiwan's medical
ethics ?
Leaking patients' medical records is a
normal social protocol in Taiwan> :
In Taiwan, journalists are not used to
respect patients' privacy... our
hospitals' members do not know very
clearly the principle of protecting
patients' privacy...(黃達夫)
○
●
Taipei City mayor Ko : Taiwan has not
established a culture of honesty
,
each time being in National Taiwan University Hospital's meeting, the 1st thing
cross mind always is "who performed the operation (surgery) ?", M.D.s always
take it personally ... (
'無法真正做到對事不對人')
/
buzzorange.com/2015/05/29 " The phony culture in Taipei City Hall -
整個社會都在說謊？！柯文哲揭露市府假面文化" http://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20170611002397-260407
○
●Taiwan's medical & health performance is so successful (e.g. life expectancy, infant mortality and maternal mortality, are
better than U.S., although we spent only one-quarter of USD (PPP) in health expenditure.)
that former leader of health government,
Dr. Ye Ching-chuan, was invited to testify
at an US senate committee hearing on this issue
→Taiwan's
medical service
●
●
Taiwan
Taiwanese personality
○
Obedient !
choose
bread over romance ...
○
●The Liberty Times,
1-4-2016/
Taipei City mayor Dr. Ko: Taiwanese have been patient sufferance of so many politically bullies
and toying (and killings),
hence lost
confidence and passion, Taiwan only has
obedient,
docile citizens who surrendered to their "lord", those some of Taiwanese
revolted, resisted or rebelled were all killed by their rulers, the rest
of Taiwanese are docile citizens, their children or
descendants are even more docile.
○
●
The China Times, 3-24-2018, public
opinion: Li Ao (李敖) in 1999 wrote that Taiwan already became a shadow, very
realistic
( profit oriented, snobbish ),
short-sight society (淺碟, 現實, 短視).
○
●
Forbes (3-5-2017) : Taiwanese "People
are ominously courteous".
○
●
UDN
4-7-2018 opinion : Taiwan delivered huge amount of drugs to Philippines,
and taught terrorists how to fight the gov. by using drugs ...
Taiwan was already reduced to be a 'kingdom' of producing narcotic drugs. (United Daily, headline news, 11-2-2017)
●
The
United Daily, 06-18-2016 head page:
Taiwan's
prosecutors admitted they usually follow their commanding officer's order to access legal cases
... " He is bigger than I am, what can I say??"
(
檢察，，「」)
★
●
National Chung Cheng university's survey
(head-page of the Liberty Times, 2-23-2016) found:
more than 84% Taiwanese people don't
believe judges, nearly 80% Taiwanese
don't believe
the impartiality of
Taiwan's prosecutors, and
public trust on Taiwan
judiciary system keeps falling down in
the past 8 years.
○
●
USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3,
2017
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same) :
the justice ministry was
insufficiently independent and conducted politically motivated
investigations of politicians.
○
● Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen
declared that no such injustice (The rich get off
scot-free, the poor get the death
sentence )
should be repeated, and
blasted (5-20-2016) Taiwan justice
earning no Taiwanese people trust.
○
●
China Post, Dec. 5, 2016;
Apple Daily, The Liberty Times, Nov. 30,
2016:
The
Judges Association of Republic of China
expressed
Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen
pronounced a death penalty on Taiwan's
justice system, in that
Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen
declared at a preparatory meeting for
her National Affairs Conference on
Judicial Reform that no such injustice (One
popular satiric quip about dispensing
justice in Taiwan: The rich get off
scot-free, the poor get the death
sentence (有錢判生,無錢判死).
It's a succinct way to say that the rich
defendant in court is always acquitted,
while the poor man or woman who is
indicted is sentenced to death.
)
should be repeated, and
blasted (5-20-2016) Taiwan justice
earning no Taiwanese people trust.
○
●
The
United Daily,3-6-2017 :
Taiwan's judiciary
still
work as hatchet man for KMT.
(陳師孟)
○
●
The China Times (中國時報), 10-15-2017, "Judiciary
yielding to the power leads to collapse (司法屈從是崩壞之始)": Judicial reform
meeting began lively but ended silently and 'head and face filthy with grime',
made no progress at all /
中國文化大學法研所教授李復甸
The Taipei Times,
12-1-2017: Taiwan government (Judiciary Yuan) announced the
bill for "citizen judges" system which is closer to the Japanese system of lay
judges than the common law system of “trial by jury” in the UK or the US...
trying to save Taiwan's judicial systems.
The China Times (中國時報)at 12-1-2017
commented this system as "impromptu"
(hurriedly written "急就章"),
"collage"(剪貼), "has many loopholes".
→Taiwan
judiciary
●
●
Taiwan
political persecution in Taiwan
○
Back to the future !
○
●
Taiwan is far behind to against torture and other
cruel.
Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017:
◆
At end of 2017, a review found all conclusive advises by
international review
panel
to against Taiwan's torture
have not put into
practice at all. (ps: if Taiwan government plans to cover those
criminals will or might be an accomplice !)
◆
In 2013, an
international review panel ( human rights experts and scholars)
visited Taiwan and concluded :
(1) "The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" should be added to Taiwan Criminal
Law, and should be put into force AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
(2) The best method
to root out torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment in Taiwan is that any person or officials who commits torture, those
sort of crimes, should NOT have free liability of what they did.
ps:
In 1984, The United Nations adopted the text of the
convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment. Most major countries including USA and China are
signatories
and ratifications.
In 2009, Taiwan adopted ICCPR and ICESCR as an alternative
criminal law, in name " law of application" ('施行法'), to against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
PS2:The members of the review panel
visiting Taiwan in 2013 include Philip Alston, law professor at New York University; Eibe Riedel, former member of the United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Jerome Cohen, law professor at New York
University; and Nisuke Ando, professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
ps3:
United Nations
Treaty
Collection:
https://treaties.un.org/pages/ViewDetails.aspx?src=IND&mtdsg_no=IV-9&chapter=4&lang=en
. ps4: https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20171209/37869068
○
●
wikipedia:
The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) led by Mao Zedong defeating the Nationalists and declaring the
People's Republic of China in 1949. Chiang's government and army retreated
to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics in a
period known as the "White Terror".
○
●
Taiwanese government still
involving political persecutions had been questioned.
French AFP
(Dec. 1, 2011) ,
Thailand's Bangkok Post
(Dec. 3, 2011), Yahoo UK & Ireland,
and all local media reported ( Dec. 2011) Taiwan's
opposition party
vice
presidential candidate and
NTU professor Lin Ruey-Shiung
(PhD., Johns Hopkins
University, USA, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Germany.)
was subject to electromagnetic wave attacks.
Dr Lin thinks it's launched by a Taiwanese
intelligence government, but that unit denied, some media reported these weapons
most likely were imported from USA.
Many similar reports and sayings concerning this sort of political persecutions
can be found on the net.
○
●
FTV: 9-25-2013 20:01pm To much
monitoring in Taiwan, every body is
risky (監聽氾濫人人自危). The Liberty Times, 9.25.2013, Apple Daily, 2006:
Human rights in Taiwan is not good or lousy! 1/4 Taiwanese were being
listened by the government per year.
Stop HumanCruelty in
Taiwan too !!! make a law now !!
click links to
view :
☉see
animal cruelty,
report it :
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/406098091375381067/?lp=true
below are visual parody, cartoons on .The dark side of Tw based on
the news, the truth
◆
Taiwan, a soft chicken
●
New York Times at
11-4-2017, the
Pentagon report, May 2017: China’s military modernization has “eroded or
negated many of Taiwan’s historical advantages (geography and the US
support) ” in deterring a potential attack.
● New York times, 5-18-2017: Taiwan's
leaders have gutted the military and continued to base defense planning
on the assumption that the United States would always come to the
rescue. Policies ... have left the military understaffed and in a
state of low morale...
● Le
Monde diplomatic of France, Mai 2016, depicted Taiwan as a
trembling sweating rat ,
turning its back on an approaching huge cat (China), lifting high the banner "$O$"
.
●
FreeBeacon at 10-19-2017 : "China’s
Xi Jinping Slams the Door on Taiwanese Appeals for Independence.".
Washington Post at 10-18-2017: "Mr. Xi’s biggest applause line was a vow to
'never allow anyone. . . to separate any part of
Chinese territory from China.' That would include...Taiwan."(19th
CPC national Congress).
Spiegel
Germany, 1-9-2017, Global
Times of China:
"There is no room for negotiations"
("Es
gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen").
● Taiwan president beset by low approval
rate because of weakness against foreign countries, even including
Philippines, a backward country dared to hurt Taiwan, not to mention
military strong ones, China, Japan, etc
ref. to Forbes, 5-21-2013
ps:
The Philippines is little & weak, but not soft / Independent UK, etc,
10-11-2016,
Philippines refused to be "a dog with leash" / CNBC 10-25-2016
◆
◆
Taiwan ! Save the ocean !
● Daily Mail (newspaper UK), 7-14-2017 comments
it as "selfish"
human beings ,
"Taiwan
was once called 'Garbage island'
and more conversation is needed" ......
●
Taiwan
ignores environmental protection (ocean garbage clean-up)
of 90%
Taiwan's coast
with large garbage-distributions...
/ UDN,
5-30-2017
pic above: Daily Mail (UK) :
Shocking
underwater video from Taiwan
shows ocean floor littered with plastic
(bottles) garbage
●
BBC 4-22-2016:
Taiwanese massive international telecoms
frauds lead to diplomatic row between Taiwan and China, and cost Chinese
victims billions of Yuan and to have driven some to suicidehttp://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36108762
● CTV evening news,
12-14-2017
19:19pm:
Taiwanese fraud
crimes are really all over the world.
●UDN
opinion 12-24-2017: Taiwan became
international nuisances & social harms
●
EBC TV
news 4-9-2017
6:54am:
Taiwan is notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world, damaging the image of Taiwan
●
Taiwan largely sees these telecom
frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather
than liability... / quora
●
Taiwan's legal system is extremely tolerant of the
scammers. Not matter how much money was involved in a scamming case
/
https://www.quora.com/Does-Taiwan-rely-on-the-fraud-industry-heavily,
/4-16-2016
●Taiwan's
legislators and judicial system don't have a sense of shame on int'l
telecomm scammers
issue
/
ref to United Daily News (聯合報), Opinion,
8-2016
●
Crime
liability in China, or Japan, Germany is much more serious than that in
Taiwan, China may give it life imprisonment , Taiwan treats it
minor offense, converting Imprisonment into Fine.
Taiwan
is a "low risk, high profit" country for fraud crimes
...
/ EBC TV
news 4-9-2017
6:54am ps14
†
international nuisances & social
harms
★
★★
Taiwan - an 'empire' of
illegal drugs
◆
◆
●Taiwan's
image ―
notorious for being a major drug transit center & a major drug exporting
country ("drug"
- amphetamine,
etc, ps13 )
●
Police of Japan and
Australia
already labelled Taiwan as "High Risk" illegal drug-exporting country
●
Based on Japan's statistics, Taiwan is its No.3 drug resource country ...... ref
to The China Times, headline news, 4-4-2017
●
Taiwan was already reduced to be a kingdom of producing narcotic drugs.
(United Daily, headline news, 11-2-2017)
Taiwan's anti-drug is a phony show / CTN, 7-2017
●
Drug-abuse in Taiwan is too
serious to stop / Apple Daily, Opinion, 5-15-2017;
●Philippines President Duterte
(9-26-2017) : Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan,
not China / inquirer.net , UDN, opinion,
10-20-2017
●
Taiwan
got bad records in
The
Asia/Pacific Group
on Money Laundering (APG)
for the law and law-enforcement problems / UDN
4-11-2017
†
international nuisances & social harms
ps: Taiwan government sponsored an int'l cartoon
contest under the theme of "anti-drugs", now we have reason to doubt
whether or not this probable propaganda event using world artists
to fool the world.
★
◆
Taiwan, a pirate boat !?
●
<The
Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of
control', GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but
does little - EU warned
in 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing.
(wait
& see how TW nw law works)
● Washington Post 2-22-2018:
Taiwan is No.2
fishing nation as measured by
Global fishing Watch's Automatic Identification Sys., 2016.
● ●
Taiwan's principal
human rights problems reported :
exploitation of foreign workers,
including foreign crewmembers
on long-haul fishing vessels
/
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
3-3-2017
●
More
than 100 foreign laborers were raped
each year / BBC 1-24-2017
● Taiwanese
endured foreign household caregivers who prefer an easy job
and are picky about patients and severe
disabilities...,
Economic Daily News ( 經濟日報,
2015-11-28)
ps: Many laborers are 'good' at committing crimes (running away,
malicious destroy/damage,
guilty of burglary, etc
), something wrong with TW system.
●●
<Reporters
Sans Frontieres> (RSF, Reporters without Borders),
France, 4-27-2017 :
Local government officials are also directly interfering in the editorial
policies of state-owned media;
Taiwan's press freedom is at 45th
place.
●●
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 3-3-2017 :
some media self-censorship with regard to China......
●●
RSF: “the main threat to media freedom comes
from China, which has been exerting growing economic and political pressure on
the Taiwanese media.”
●●
Those faceless coward-hackers tried to
damage speech-freedom and stop my modifying
this and some other web-pages. 6-10-2017
★
★★
★
Does
Taiwan
Have democracy?
†
●
BBC UK, The SUN
(2-13-2017): "BUS CRASH HORROR !"
Taiwan's "safety
standards need to be improved".
●
China - People's Daily's Global Times (7-19-2016)
Opinion-editorial: Tourists're
gambling their lives in Taiwan ...
click
Taiwan travel
for details
●
Taiwan has had a poor
aviation safety record/
CNN, Newsweek, 2-4-2015
●
People's Daily (8-4-2016)
Opinion-editorial:
Chinese not dare to visit Taiwan without safety assurance,
there's loopholes in
law and regulation, careless
mistakes in
administration,
not-good-enough system,
etc
★
●All night-market
districts across Taiwan have safety problem similar to the
big gas-cylinder
LPG-explosion in
Fengjia (逢甲) night market (known as largest night-market business district in
Taiwan) / The China Times, 7-19-2017
● Taiwan politics belongs to
corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties
<Foerign Policy> 2015.
●
●
Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's skin-deep democracy ...
the people's "livelihood" was
sacrificed for politics ...The
United Daily - Opinion, 3-7-2017
●
Taiwan's financial system is rotten ... / FTV news, 5-29-2017
●Food safety is
one of
biggest challenges to Taiwan /
The China Times. 8-6-2016,
an interview to Taiwan president Tsai
●
Government's food-safety
budget is too little, only USD0.03 for each Taiwanese,
according to 前瞻plan / China Times, 7-9-2017
●
Professor Yin M.D. (殷宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London
): Minimize the times of dining out to
protect your health !
●
The
limit-amount
(ppm,
part per
million)
of
pesticide
residue are restricted to
in Taiwan is 1000 times that in Europe / The China Times, Opinion
<短評 "Taiwan is more toxic than before>, 4-21-2017
Beaviss : dummy !
the re's no poison, addictives, MSG, lard oil, gutter oil,
added in these Chinese heritage arts - pork stone and cabbage jade
Butter-Head: so, we can eat these healthy foods now?!
ps4
a visual parody by Zola Zu
●
●
★ps:
The incidence rate of Taiwanese
people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1,
many black-heart tainted
foods containing
Carcinogen
(cancer producer)...../ 8-28-2015 apple daily.
★
★★◆
Taiwan politicians
buried people alive
in quakes of magnitude 6.0
Taiwan government
(including local gov.)
has not well taken
its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property
-
●
why are there so
many tall buildings located on the fault-zone?
●
why are poor
architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ?
●
why are those
shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to
risk millions of old houses and human beings ??
●
Taiwan's environmental quality (serious air pollution, bad water) was ranked almost the last
in all OECD
countries /
9-21-2015 China Times
● Taiwan
built an
environment to kill legally , for its PM2.5 air-pollution-control standard
15 years behind /
dean, College of Public health, National Taiwan
University,
UDN headpage, 10-16-2017; Liberty Times 1-4-2016
(http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/paper/945998).
●
Taiwan, in the lower ranks, placing
54th out of 57 nations in the CCPI with regards to cutting down carbon
emissions
and other greenhouse gases. / Taipei Times, 11-23-2017
★taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/11/23/2003682785 ●
United Daily, Opinion,
12-2-2017: 2/3 of Taiwan's air pollutions came from local, the "culprit"
is too many
coal-fired power generation - Taiwan government's policy.
★★
★★
Justice's raped !
Taiwan
Justice sys. is ruler's tool, judiciary is controlled by politics - Liberty
Times, 6-19-2016
Nearly 80% Taiwanese don't believe judges and prosecutors
Nearly 80% Taiwanese are not satisfied with gov.
measures against corruption - Liberty Times 2-23-2016
†
★
One of Taiwan's Principal
human rights problems :
rotten (corruption)
ref. to US Country Report on Human
Rights, 2015-2017, and PERC 2009, etc.
have been patient sufferance of so many politically bullies
and toying (and killings),
hence turned into obedient, docile people
†
★
Washington
Post, 1-2-2017 : 83 percent chose "bread" over "romance"...
★
Hawks at home,
chicken abroad,
sharp spikes pointing
to its own hoi polloi
◆
in
Presidential inaugural speech, Tsai referred to the Constitution of the
Republic of China and the legislation governing cross-strait relations,
both imply the acceptance of a “one China” framework.
◆
★
★★
★◆
●
●
Economist (special edition
2017): Taiwan will turn into a tiger again
●Taiwan declared no other air
forces are allowed to show their muscle in Taiwan air space/ Apple Daily
5-30-2016,...
VS
●
Bloomberg
3-14-2018,
CTV evening news11-27-2016, United Daily News 11-30-2016: China's
launched regular "encirclement patrols" with military jets (much stronger than TW
air force) around Taiwan's airspace and passed through 1st Island Chain, Taiwan
air force did not intercept to drive them out.
●Taiwan has been
watched by the super power for years......
●
†
Taiwan's sky, our air-space ?
★
★
★★
◆
†
Taiwan
―
a piss boy
polluting the
environment
● Asian's
biggest sewage treatment plant in Taiwan's New Taipei, skipped the
process of
removing contaminants from wastewater and
disposed dirty and disgusting water into the sea for probably 4-5 years,
witnesses confirmed. / Next,
front-page, 4-6-2017
● Taiwan
administration's Dioxin ("poison of the century") control system crashed
completely / FTV news, 4-22-2017
●
NO justice !
The courthouse judged enterprise's
disposing
5000 ton cancer-producer strong acid and waste water into the river-creek
(color
changed to dark yellow ) and endangering the natural environment
is no guilty ! / headline news of Apply Daily, 9-30-2015
http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20150930/36807420/
● Taiwan
ignores environmental protection (ocean garbage clean-up) of 90%
coast-line of Taiwan island for large garbage-distributions... / UDN,
5-30-2017
● "Wanna
murder people?" Official certification for food (CAS) includes not Dioxin. Pollution
for12 yrs never end, Dioxin inside many people already over the
limit probably, TW government has never done source-control, never stop
contaminants (pollutant, e.g., plastic, inks from industry, fly-ash from
incinerator, etc) going to our environment / Apple Daily, head-page,
4-22-2017
★
★
★★
Taiwan, a soft chicken
◆
NY Times, 5-18-2017:
Taiwan
has left the military
understaffed and in a state of low morale...
◆
Taiwan president beset by low approval
rate because of
weakness against foreign countries, even including
Philippines, a backward country dared to hurt Taiwan,
not to mention
military strong ones, China, Japan, etc
ref. to Forbes, 5-21-2013
ps:
The Philippines is little & weak, but not soft / Independent UK, etc,
10-11-2016,
Philippines refused to be "a dog with leash" / CNBC 10-25-2016
Major crimes fled easily,
The little or innocent took the rap
◆
Little
ones take the rap in major cases (Apple Daily
head-page 8-30-2016, 7-11-2016,
headline 12-19-2014, CTS
12-19-2014; Liberty Times, 12-24-2015, etc).
◆Taiwan's legislators and judicial system don't have a sense of
shame on releasing many int'l telecomm scammers and fraud groups
(United Daily, 8-24-2016 editorial
).
In the past 8 years,
◆about 100 major crimes escaped overseas
easily and happily (Next
magazine, Liberty Times, 12-31-2015),
including Legislators leader Liu 劉松藩
(apple daily 12-8-2016) ps3
pic.
:
Looking for the guilty?
need only look into a mirror
on WANTED poster/
Taiwan's
political culture & ecology can't cultivate citizens knowing and obeying
the law ...
/ <United Daily> 8-24-2016 editorial
TW
Taiwan lacks
creativity, not cold calculations
The logo
(pic. above) of Taiwan gov.
/ Ministry of Economic Affairs
(pic. above) is similar to Canadian logos (pic.below)
appeared earlier
click for Taiwanese creativity
★ ps:
The China Times, 3-29-2017:
Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a
coach (L bus).
★★
★
◆
Hypocritical government / Taiwan declared crackdown on prostitution,
only to turn into a country with world No.1 percentage of
sex-related business
consumers of all the adults.
(Apple Daily 12-25-2014 ) ◆Taiwan is hard to stop sex
transactions, a 9 yrs old girl as prostitute
(Next Magazine, no. 1887) ◆
Prostitution is violence against women
/ ref to <Prostitution : violence with no name>, "Prostitution et
Societe", 2010, "Int'l Day for the Elimination of Violence against
women", 11-25-2016 France.
◆Taiwan government is the main criminal to harm women's rights in
large scale. †
★
'comfort women' style kowtow diplomacy,
Taiwan served 2 powers, USA and/or China
◆
Taiwan's economy is
highly reliant on China,
Taiwan needs the US for national defense
ps: "serving dicks" ("捧L.P.") is a
widely-known political slang in Taiwan
★
★
white
terror
Taiwanese privacy /
Leaking patients' medical
records is a normal social protocol in Taiwan
UDN
1-3-2017
In Taiwan, journalists are not used to
respect patients' privacy... our
hospital members do not get (cognosis) very
clearly on the principle of protecting
patients' privacy...
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by
president
of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
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Potential 'suicide bomber' !?
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It
triggered public anger that Taiwan gov. never
and refuse to go public
residential-area locations
with potential
explosion risks,
even huge fiery underground
explosion disasters happened
recently,
and only lower officials
were charged by courthouse
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Hidden underground
pipelines with dangerous Ethylene,
Propylene, liquefied petroleum gas,
etc may pass
through your home / apple daily,
8-2-2014
(ps15)
ps: the little whale is Taiwan-island
shape.
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Taiwan has never
gone public via media
those area with landslide disaster risks,
lots of houses with
potential fatal dangers in Taiwan.
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<CTS HD>, 5-23-2016 :
<遠見>study found
Taiwanese people
gave a "failure" score (53.5)
on "living safety".
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USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
3-3-2017 &
2016, 2015 /
One of Taiwan's principal
human rights
problems -domestic violence, Taiwanese
Women suffered being raped
(spousal rape).
Many victims did not report the crime for
fear of social stigmatization. Various nongovernmental
organization (NGO)
and academic studies
estimated that the total number of sexual assaults
was
seven to 10 times the number
reported to police.
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where's Birds Flu ...?
Taiwan (TW) is dishonest and 'cruel'
―
trying to hide, block, delay public-health news,
e.g., poisoned eggs, PCV virus
vaccine,
and Bird-flu more than one time
(1-2-2018
UDN
udn.com/news/story/7266/2908720, 2012
BBC
news :
www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese_news
/2012/03/120304_taiwan_birdflu_investigate)
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Free speech in Taiwan
Nov. 18, 2017
The China Times :
Taiwan president gave tacit (secretly) permission to Facebook (Taiwan) to restrict
or block
certain contents ... brief http://opinion.chinatimes.com/20171118000516-262114;
Taiwan
government did not deny or respond this.
Taiwan's image worsens
for top scholar Chen (陳慶士) 's eight papers were found fake in the US.
/ UDN 4-1-2018
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Lousy conducts and bad ethics in Taiwan's academic circle
happened again and again, but never be handled
seriously,
some careless-done fake papers are either ignorant or extremely
audacious, some are even fraud-crimes,
only legal punishments can stop these, Taiwan government should take
hard line now, even resulting in "corpses lie all over the country "
/ UDN 1-11-2017 ps11
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Lousy students with totally 38
score in entrance examination are good enough to be freshmen of Taiwan's
university,
it's an international joke ! / The China Times, 7-20-2017
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Taiwan's
society,
laughs the poor instead of the prostitute
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Organs harvest 2.0
/ unbloody version
Some
people'scompliance with the powerful(ps: In the past, government
encouraged its people to struggle and sell out each other for
self-preservation or benefits which may degenerate humanity and
make a decadent society.
)this cartoon was prt.
in The China Times.
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Lack
of judicial
independence
United
Daily 6-18-2016 head page:
Taiwan
prosecutors usually take compliant & subordinate manner to follow their commanding officer's order to access
legal cases
Prosecutors in Taiwan
Also
ref to
"USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices",
the US State Department, 3-3-2017.
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Taiwan's justice dodged the celebrity ps: The official hat has 2
flies-swappers - implying they only deal with
tiny little ones instead of
major crimes Justice in Taiwan
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Taiwan Police fired strong water
cannon
against unarmed students and compatriots
courtesy news photos by Apple Daily and
Liberty Times
†Japan fired strong water cannon
toward Taiwan's official ship and fishing boat,
Taiwan's very weak water cannon was
mocked by Japanese media (ps5)
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Taiwan has
enough laws, but lax management (administration)
hurt too many people,
e.g., traffic accidents killed too
many
people - local and international tourists.
/ ref. to The Sun, BBC,
People's Daily, Washington Post,
CNN, etc 2015 ~ 2017.
The SUN 2-13-2017: : BUS CRASH
HORROR !
it has come under fire in
recent months over safety standards.
BBC
2-13-2017
:
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Cart before the horse
Be blind
to
fundamental issues -
democracy,
human rights,
food safety, judiciary,
etc,
But put
efforts on political
propaganda 'show'!?
ps: this cartoon was exhibited in Bulgaria,
Cyprus, etc
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Big
muzzle on law enforcement officers
money-talks working
fine in Judicial system
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a deep-rooted perspective in Taiwanese mind
.
†Lady
Justice turns into Venus
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2. suspect within
reason
Has Taiwan been doing something
so base
to its own national(s)
―
treat 'em like enemies or traitors ??
(state-violence
drama - flunkies and opportunists humiliating or persecuting the innocent targets)
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sort of
"dancing-monkey-parade",
dusty old political theatrics
like
what happened in world war II, Chinese cultural revolution, and Chinese
civil war
(ROC fooled int'l reporters by a fake show of big military victory in
Yan 'an starring by fake prisoners of war )
return
in new forms
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★ Public shaming showbiz returns ?
ps10 like
those kinds happened in world war II and cultural revolution in chn.
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left: CIA waterboarding
right: The "suspect" poisons the little by painting
a picture of "state enemy"
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Electrocution
method 2.0
freedom of
expression is re-defined
"pls. feel free to express(scream)
when I 'rape' u !"
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ps: UDN 12-20-2016 chief editorial <Be careful the "state violence"
ghost camouflaged
themselves in new forms >:
New-form state violence never end (brief; full text
http://udn.com/news/story/7338/2179800)
ps 2:
We should not let "public trial" by media (being misled by fake news
offered by TW prosecutors & police) happen again / Apple Daily, Opinion,
4-22-2017
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★ps: Should any of
cartoons above is opaque to you, pls. read remarks
(whole story) below each cartoon for the whole story,
or click
http://intlHumanRights.com/TaiwanTruly.htm for further ref.
ps:
contrast the commercial version of 'introduction to Taiwan': click
https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=introduction+to+Taiwan#id=1&vid=cab8af2a8df06974ac43b90171811944&action=click
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PS
1● FTV: 9-25-2013 20:01pm To much
monitoring in Taiwan, every body is
risky (監聽氾濫人人自危) The Liberty Times, 9.25.2013, Apple Daily, 2006
Human rights in Taiwan is not good or lousy! 1/4 Taiwanese were being
listened by the government per year
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About 2/3 (74.03%)
proportion of Taiwanese are aged 15 ~ 64, according to Statista.com of 2014.
Working age 16-64 for men, 16-59 for women, according to nomisweb.co.uk.
PS
2
★World media like French AFP (Dec. 1,
2011), Thailand's Bangkok Post (Dec. 3, 2011), and Yahoo UK & Ireland etc reported
Taiwan's opposition party vice presidential candidate,
professor Lin R.S., was subjected to "electromagnetic wave" attacks, Dr Lin
thinks it's launched by a Taiwanese intelligence unit, but that unit denied, some
media reported these weapons were researched & developed and
imported from USA. ★The
China Times (Dec. 11, 2011) reported that
professor Lin R.S. thought those high tech. 'weapons' most likely were
imported from USA.
★ Lin Ruey-Shiung, professor, PhD., Johns Hopkins
University, USA, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Germany.
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PS
3Next Magazine, The Liberty Times, 12-31-2015 <Lots
of major crimes escaped overseas easily>
... most of them
are big financial crimes ...
PS 4
Too
many problems Taiwan 're facing
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About
80% Taiwanese don't believe judiciary
/ The Liberty Times,
2-23-2016
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Taiwan air pollution - environmental quality was ranked
nearly the last in OECD countries.
/ The China Times, 9-21-2015
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Taiwan president Tsai :
Food safety is one of
biggest challenges to Taiwan /
The China Times,
8-6-2016
●The New York Times and The Economist
(11.29.2014)
comment a series of food safety scandals is one of few main factors causing the
KMT, Taiwan's ruling party, has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats
since Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese
civil war in 1949.
●The New York Times (9.8.2014):
the new scandal (Taiwan food-safety scare) shows that there is
still not enough being done to eliminate lawbreaking production
lines.
●Apple Daily News
(蘋果日報)
8-28-2015, A2 Prime News Edition:
The incidence rate of Taiwanese
people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1 ,
Taipei Medical University Hospital's director of surgeons expressed Taiwan's
food scandals constantly happened in recent years, many black-heart tainted
foods containing
Carcinogen
(cancer producer)
is a factor causing high incidence rate.
●TIME ( 9.8.2014): Gutter Oil' Scandal Raises
Food-Safety Fears Once Again in Greater China.
●BloombergBusinessWeek (9.8.2014):
Tainted Lard: China's Latest Food-Safety Scare Comes From Taiwan.
●BBC
news (Nov. 19, 2013): A series of food
safety scandals
in Taiwan has hurt consumer confidence, and now there are worries
they could dent the island's economic growth and damage tourism.
●The Economist
(UK)
commented : Taiwan's former reputation as
a reliable and safe food manufacturing country has been
damaged...
●The
China Times(Taiwan,
Nov. 30, 2013) stated black-heart food, risks and traps are
everywhere, and comments Taiwan government is short of will-power, ability, and
resolution to combat illegal targets ...
●The China Times
6.23.2013
Taiwan imports pigs' food for human kinds in Taiwan
●WikiLeaks 2010 : Taiwanese people are friendly for Bio.
tech. and are intend to buy GM label food, so the "Embassy" of a strong nation
is planning to build a Genetic Modification (GM) zone in Taiwan.
In fact, it's a so called "national scandal" (the China
Times, Mar. 29, 2013) that Taiwanese consumers generally do not fully know or
don't care the controversy of health
risks caused by GM food. Taiwanese government should urge everyone
refusing to buy GM food.
About 99.5% of soy food products in Taiwan are imported,
90% of them are GM soy beans.
★ PS5 Japan's major TV media NHK mocks that the WEAK water cannon in Taiwan's patrol
boats defending Taiwanese fishing boats in Diaoyu Islands, and fighting back
Japan's STRONG (heavy) water artillery in Japanese coast patrol ships.
ps: Japan, Taiwan, and China all insist Diaoyu Islands are belong to them.
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PS6
According to Hong Kong's MinPao (明報)
and Singapore's ZaoBao (聯合早報 9-16-2014),
"You're being monitored, if residing in New Zealand", based on Western
media (11-20-2013), US-UK deal allows USA surveillance of UK citizens
not suspected of any wrongdoings.
Without oversights, the possibility that some
suspected force did something much worse than UK, NZ did can not be excluded.
It did
happened in some universities, e.g., National Taiwan Ocean University (ref to
MirrowMedia.mg,10-19-2016), Fu-Jen Catholic University, how about the
government? any new forms?
PS 11
Academic circle lacks ethics / UDN 1-11-2017
http://udn.com/news/story/7338/2222591
Accomplice structure to fake scholarly papers
/ China Times 11-19-2016 http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20161119000399-260109
NTU should not be too snobby / The Liberty Times
11-25-2016 http://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1055359
Scholar : Only heavy punishment stops fake papers / UDN
11-19-2016 https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115844
Strange phenomenon
in academic circle /11-19-2016 UDN https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115842
Faking papers is a long-time
malpractice / UDN 11-21-2016
https://udn.com/news/story/6885/2118616
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PS 12
Nuremberg Code :
a set of research ethics principles for human
experimentation set as a result of the subsequent Nuremberg trials at the end of
the Second World War
Required is the voluntary,
well-informed, understanding consent of the human subject in a full legal
capacity.
The experiment should aim
at positive results for society that cannot be procured in some other way.
It should be based
on previous knowledge (like, an expectation derived from animal experiments)
that justifies the experiment.
The experiment
should be set up in a way that avoids unnecessary physical and mental
suffering and injuries.
It should not be
conducted when there is any reason to believe that it implies a risk of
death or disabling injury.
The risks of the
experiment should be in proportion to (that is, not exceed) the expected
humanitarian benefits.
Preparations and
facilities must be provided that adequately protect the subjects against the
experiment’s risks.
The staff who
conduct or take part in the experiment must be fully trained and
scientifically qualified.
The human subjects
must be free to immediately quit the experiment at any point when they feel
physically or mentally unable to go on.
Likewise, the
medical staff must stop the experiment at any point when they observe that
continuation would be dangerous.
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PS 13
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definition of
"drugs" - amphetamine,
Cocaine,
cannabis，marijuana,
Morphine,
Ketamine,
heroin, diacetylmorphine,
opium, etc.
The ROC on Taiwan,
has its own constitution, independently
elected president and military forces, However, Taiwan's image
and brand personality were tarnished
or damaged for having benefits by any means, and
having principal human rights problems, including: 
a survey to find political
persecutions in Taiwan
At
2-22-2018, the dark power (who is prime suspect ??
Taiwan ?) blocked my uploading a brief (
PS: Apple Daily News, opinion, 3-22-2018: according to latest survey by
<台灣民意基金會>, 38.3% Taiwanese people are for Taiwan independence, 20.1% for
unification with mainland China, 24.1% for current status, 75% regard
themselves as Taiwanese, 9.7% Chinese, 10.4% both. As for China's
latest policy - 31 items to benefit Taiwanese ("惠(對)台31項措施"),
41.9% think it as a trick for unification, 30.1% China's nice move.
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