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News brief:
L.A.
Times 5-20-2020:
the ruling Democratic
Progressive Party advocates Taiwan’s formal independence, something
Beijing says it will use force to prevent.
Foreign Policy 5-20-2020:
Taiwan
would reject being ruled by China in the same way Hong Kong is now.
The Guardian, 5-20-2020: Beijing also responded swiftly to Tsai’s speech and
said China would never leave any room for “Taiwan independence separatist
activities”. Washington Post, 5-21-20: As U.S.-China
rhetoric grows harsher, new risks emerge with Taiwan drawn into the mix.
Financial Times 5-19-2020 : Taiwan fears uptick in military threat from
China in wake of coronavirus epidemic. New York Times,
5-12-2020, Pew Research Center:
(Taiwanese) 52%
support closer economic ties with China, only 36% favor closer political
ties.
Foreign Policy 5-15-2020: Beijing
were to interpret ...... coronavirus as a uniquely advantageous moment, a
Chinese military strike on Taiwan at this moment is unlikely... ...
but a low level of
risk is not the same as zero risk.
New York
Times 5-19-2020: US is Using Taiwan as a Pressure Point (TSMC in Arizona ...)
in Tech Fight With China. Nikkei news Japan ( Nihon
keizai shinbun, 日本経済新聞 ) , 5-20-2020: TSMC to Arizona may
weaken Taiwan's
security.
DailyMail
UK, France 24 ,
4-20-2020: CoronaVirus: WHO chief hits back (by "Taiwan didn't report
any human-to-human transmission," , "Taiwan's email was only seeking further
information.") at
Trump's claims
(White
House 4-15-2020: WHO kept Taiwan's lead from the public).
FOXnews 4-9-2020, CNBC 4-8-20:
WHO chief addresses death threats, racist insults
from Taiwan.
The China Times,
4-10-2020
editorial :
Taiwanese Cyber bullying notorious worldwide.
Guardian UK, 3-28-2020: U.S.
increases support for Taiwan internationally by a new law Taipei Act, China
threatens to strike back. Reuters
2-26-2020:
Taiwan should continue to
show goodwill to China during coronavirus outbreak and not give Beijing an
excuse to attack the island as a way of relieving “internal pressure”
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Chinese public opinion believes people in
Taiwan lack sympathy about China’s virus outbreak...L.A. Times 1-10-2020 ~ 1-11-2020:
Taiwan's president
sweeps to reelection, setting the stage for chilly
relations with China .
Bloomberg 1-9-2020:
Slow income growth and aging society post challenge ahead, Taiwanese
income-per-person, income per capita, lowest of Four Tigers.
Washington Post, 9-25-2019:
China’s growing dominance in the South Pacific is a
defeat for an America in retreat.
WSJ (Wall Street Journal)
9-20-2019: It’s clearly a big win for China having the two largest allies of
Taiwan in the Pacific drop so quickly...
New York Times
9-20-2019:
As Taiwan Loses
Influence, China Gains Ground in Race With U.S. ;
WEF <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report> of 2019 shows
Taiwan had the sub-region's largest
decline in competitiveness,
Taiwan
ranks 10th in Asia. L. A. Times, 8-1-2019:
The indefinite suspension
(Chinese individual tourists to TW)
is likely to
prove a major economic hit to Taiwan, as
well as a blow to cultural interplay.
Daily Mail (UK)
4-1-2019: Taiwan
blasts China for "reckless and provocative" incursion by 2 fighter jets
across a largely respected line dividing the 2 sides in the Taiwan Straits.
Japan Times, 4-1-2019:
China's move also comes less than a week after the U.S. sent ships through the
strait ( mission was unusual) — the third
time in as many months...those sailings have likely been interpreted by China as
implicit support for self-ruled Taiwan.
Reuters 2-25-2019: US Navy ships
... riling China.
ABC.net Australia: Chinese fighter jets cross Taiwan Strait after
Tsai urges Pacific pushback against Beijing.
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Brief -
political status among Taiwan, China, USA
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● CNN 6-17-2019: mass protests (in Hong Kong) emboldened anti-China elements in Taiwan.
● New York Times 4-1-2019: Taiwan protests China jets crossing center of Taiwan Strait, a provocation that seeks to alter the status quo ... an intentional act. Japan Times, 4-1-2019: China's move also comes less than a week after the U.S. sent ships through the strait ( mission was unusual) — the third time in as many months...those sailings have likely been interpreted by China as implicit support for self-ruled Taiwan. Reuters 2-25-2019: US Navy ships ... riling China.
● Annual Report to US Congress ( Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC ), 8-17-2018: Much of Beijing’s defense budget is focused on developing the capability to unify Taiwan by force...
● USA Today 5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its historical properties by 2049. Freebeacon 5-17-2018 : 2020—the deadline that [Chinese supreme leader] Xi Jinping has given the [People's Liberation Army] to be ready to invade Taiwan.
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● The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence “Open Hearing on China’s Worldwide Military Expansion.”, 5-17-2018 : deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Asia, showing strong support for Taiwan, and exposing human rights abuses in China as immediate steps that could curb Beijing...
● Washington Post, 1-5-2018 : Xi commanded China’s military to become “battle ready.” ...... Taiwan will turn “grave” because Taiwan’s government refuses to acknowledge that the island is part of China. .Taiwan needs to increase its defense spending considerably...“the outcome of the game [between China and Taiwan] is undecided".
● 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.
● Le Monde diplomatic of France, Mai 2016, depicted Taiwan as a trembling sweating rat (click for details), 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" .
● 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...
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Taiwan's travel & tourism - 10th in Asia
WEF <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> of 2019 shows Taiwan had the sub-region's largest decline in competitiveness, Taiwan ranks 10th in Asia (In the overall ranking list, Asian country Japan got No.4, China No.13, Hong Kong No.14, Korea No.16, Singapore No.17, Malaysia No.29, Thailand No.31, UAE No.33, India No. 34,...), Taiwan's prioritization of travel & tourism ranks world No.75
children & women trafficking in Taiwan
Traffickers
lure women from China and Southeast Asian
countries to Taiwan through fraudulent marriages
and deceptive employment
Traffickers reportedly take advantage of
Taiwan’s “New Southbound Policy”
visa-simplification program to lure Southeast
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Taiwan, A pirate boat ?
● US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019
Although Taiwan met the minimum standards, separation of purview between the
Ministry of Labor (MOL) and the Fisheries Agency (FA), coupled with
exclusive info.
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Green Peace,
5-2-2019: It remains our view that Taiwanese fisheries still have
many serious problems,
● <The Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of control' - EU warned in 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing till 6 '19. GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but does little.
● Washington Post 2-22-2018: Taiwan is No.2 fishing nation as measured by Global fishing Watch's Automatic Identification Sys., 2016. (wait & see how TW nw law works)
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Lowy
Institute & <the
interpreter>, 5-2-2019:
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Taiwan
has so far refused to adopt the Work in Fishing Convention;
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US
State Department’s Country Report on Human Rights Practices
(2018): Taiwan flagged the practices of
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◆ <Reporters Sans Frontieres> (RSF, France) , 4-18-2019: Taiwan’s journalists are suffering from a very polarized media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit. Although President Tsai Ing-wen has said she wants to continue developing press freedom in Taiwan, few concrete measures have been taken to improve journalists’ editorial independence and encourage media to raise the quality of the public debate. Beijing is exploiting this weakness by putting pressure on Taiwanese media owners, who often have business interests on the mainland.
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pic. right: The China Times 3-29-2019 headline news: Defend 100%
freedom of speech, democracy on the surface, anti-democracy to the
bone is not allowed.
The media have freedom to choose sides, but no any side should limit the
freedom, Taiwan government should not choose Orwellian administration. ◆ pic. left: Apple Daily 3-29-2019 editorial opinion: Freedom of speech is the bottom line which should never be lost, the government should not create chilling effect by fishing in trouble water. (https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20190329/38294369/)
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According to UK based Monocle's Soft Power Survey 2010 ~
2019, 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.
● Taiwan also failed to be listed in 2018's Soft Power 30 Study by USC Center on Public Diplomacy in July 2018 and 2017's Soft Power 30 Study, compiled by PR company Portand Communication and University of Southern California. Asian countries, Japan(No.5), S. Korea(20), Singapore(21), China(27) are top 30. |
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privacy
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The Liberty Times, head-page, The China Times, head-page, 12-8-2018:
Taiwan P.M.
(賴清德):
"Secret
Police event"
(「東廠事件」)
has seriously damaged
public trust on the government.
● EU General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR was given to effect at 5-25-2018, Taiwan is far behind, even is going in an opposite way / Apple Daily 蘋果日報, 5-28-2018, National Taiwan University Law School professor 林鈺雄 ● The United Daily News (聯合報) editorial opinion (9-19-2018) : "secret police"(「東廠們」) have been active around us ...
● Apple Daily, 11-25-2018, KMT's "Secret Police" sayings seriously damaged the image of ruling party (New York Times, 11-23-2018: Taiwan's ruling party was handed a major defeat in local elections).
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<United Daily
(聯合報)>
11-2-2018, headline news : Taiwan's National Security Bureau confirmed their
investigations of Facebook communities and others on the net, for monitoring,
controlling and collecting "controversial information" including
those "influence
national security", "slander
president", "disrupt social stability",
"distort policy" and
"disturb national
mechanism", "fight governmental prestige", "influence public mind and morale";
UDN critiques pointed out it's a political propaganda to block red China's influences, but
"Big Brother is watching you" almost for sure lead to "Chilling Effect". Taiwan's Intel. sys. suspectedly tried to affect free expression of some important websites not related to communist China. ● <United Daily (聯合報)> 11-3-2018, KMT legislator : all internet platform service providers in Taiwan were requested to hand in all users' personal information/data (intel denied). Taiwan's intelligence "National Security Bureau" has been doing overall monitors on all Taiwanese. |
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| travel & tourism |
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WEF <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report> of 2019 shows
Taiwan had the sub-region's largest
decline in competitiveness,
Taiwan
ranks 10th in Asia.
● why 5/6 bridges badly in need of repair have not been done ? government even has never made public the info. and where those bridges are. (ref. to United Daily, 10-9-2019, headline news)
● 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' ... ● 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... ) ● Taiwan got low score and is ranking world No.87 in the index of "Attractiveness of Natural Assets" (parks, beaches, mountains, wildlife, etc) , based on <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> 2017. |
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aesthetic country
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Forbes (3-5-2017) "3 Things
Chinese Tourists Are Surprised To Find
When They Travel Abroad To Taiwan"
: "It’s not very modern !", " the wealth wasn’t
invested in architecture. So the cities
are full of decayed apartment blocks....
the housing isn’t as good.”.
●The Liberty Times and the China Times (3-10-2017) / local scholars : without overall urban renewal planning, Taiwan will never get rid of the bad name "ugly cities". ●Taipei City mayor Dr. Ko pointed out during a trip to Japan that Taipei is short of aesthetic elements or sense of beauty (欠缺城市美學/美感). / The China Times 1-26-2016. |
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human rights
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USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
3-3-2017:
Principal human rights problems are official corruption, exploitation of
foreign workers, domestic violence; Other concerns are some media
self-censorship with regard to China, vote buying; violations of legal
working hours, lacking of barrier-free spaces and accessible
transportation systems for persons with disabilities, particularly
outside Taipei; a rise in child abuse and gender-biased sex
selection.
(report
in 4-20-2018 is about the same)
● Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017: ◆ 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.
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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)
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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)
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● The China Times, 10-20-2018 opinion (editorial) https://opinion.chinatimes.com/20181019003889-262101 : Taiwan's food safety failed again and again, Dioxin, Fipronil poison-eggs in last year, Nicarbazin illegal drug residue event in this year. Europe was very cautious about Fipronil event, in contrast, Taiwan did nothing about it. Even worse, Taiwan officials hide Nicarbazin issue from Taiwanese people to baby related business ― indulge business to retrieve problematic eggs and then resell them as promotion goods.. Why do high-ranking officials always fudge Taiwanese people's only, and humblest request ？? (brief) ● The China Times (中國時報), 2-28-2019, opinion (editorial) questions Taiwan officials are trying very hard to hide the epidemic state of Marek's virus in chicken eggs ... ● UDN, 2-17-2019: Gov. did not declared poison eggs until almost sold out...
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Food safety is
one of
biggest challenges to Taiwan /
The China Times. 8-6-2016,
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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>,
2016.
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MicroPlastics were found in 44% tap
water samples, medical circle believes it's a very serious environmental
pollution, since something bad, e.g., Dioxin, Bisphenol A (BPA), PAHs, heavy
metal elements, may be brought into food chain, and then are/were accumulated in
human body...... we better use purified water by RO machine for safety.
Furthermore, mussels, oysters, clams
(扇貝與蛤)
were also found some microplastics...... brief - headlines of Apple
Daily, United Daily, 9-26-2018.
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The
China Times,
5-21-2018 :
Taiwan food safety became nothing but a slogan for the government's
relaxation of pesticide residue standards in these 2 years.
TVBS,
9-12-2017 : Scholar (中興univ. professor 曾德賜) expressed the amount ( per hectare )
of application of pesticide in Taiwan was ranked world No.1, according to
India's study.
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Taiwan is not included in EIU's Global
Food Security Index of 2017, China ranks No. 45 among 113 nations.
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5 star hotel scandals
- A
book (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;
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...
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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.
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| democracy |
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<UDN>
editorial,12-6-2018:
Taiwan's
democracy
exists
in name
only ...
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Taiwan government damages university
autonomy - rejecting the president selected by NTU committee. ● There's neither democracy on campus (colleges) nor university autonomy, / Apple Daily, opinion, 5-1-2018 ● <Foreign Policy> 2015: Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties. ● The United Daily - Opinion, 3-7-2017 : Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's democracy just skin-deep... the people's "livelihood" was sacrificed for politics ... |
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● More than 10 Korean media, e.g., Yonhap News Agency (韓聯社), Donga Ilbo (東亞日報), and largest web portal Naver, reported in Jan. 16, 2017 in large scale or great length to lash out Taiwan's bad social security. ●《 BBC》UK, 3-29-2016 "The whole society's safety net has loopholes " . ●《 The China Times》(6-9-2016 Opinion-editorial) : Taiwanese police do duty without dignity/honor. |
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| judiciary |
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The Liberty Times, head-page, The China Times, head-page, 12-8-2018:
Taiwan
P.M. (賴清德):
Taiwan has
not made significant progress on judicial reform, which is roiling with
public discontent ● Apple Daily (12-7-2018) editorial : Taiwan's corruption is off the charts by collusions between government officials and business owners, furthermore, Taiwan's underworld going wild to assist government officials, business and some elected representatives (e.g., legislators) in corruption has been ahead of most corrupt countries, e.g., China, Indonesia, Brazil, Philippines, Vietnam, the stinky rotten food-chain crossing pan-Blue (Nationalist, KMT) and pan-Green (DPP) resurges after Taiwan's elections... ●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). ● United Daily 2-27-2018: Taipei mayor Ko said that Taiwan's jail and prison are good only for those have no connections at all. ("監獄是關沒有辦法的人") ● Apple Daily, opinion, 3-14-2018 : Survey <2017台灣社會信任調查> shows that Taiwan judicial official's / law enforcement officer's public trust is the second last. ● 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, 4-20-2018: 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. ● The United Daily, 3-6-2017 : Taiwan's judiciary still work as hatchet man for KMT. (陳師孟) |
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BBC UK, The SUN
(2-13-2017):
"Bus Crash Horror !"
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Taiwan's "safety standards need to be
improved". A few days later another fatal bus accident occurred.
● Apple Daily,
Opinion-Editorial (2-15-2017): Such
a high casualty rate (bus crash) most likely ranks No.1 among all civilized states in the
world, public opinions and official blames are useless at all, because they saw
right through the government, called government's bluff ...
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The United Daily (2-15-2017,
front-page): So many self-criticisms in the past never stop next
disaster !
● Fatal
train
accidents
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2018 :
Taiwan Train Accident in biggest curve in
Taiwan Kills at Least 18 and Injures about 187 Others
( ps: CTV (中視新聞)
19:45pm, 10-22-2018, Prosecutor: over-speed might be the cause
of accident, other suspicious points under investigation
include "Automatic Train Protection (ATP)" being turned off,
abnormal track, etc; ps2: CTV 20:30pm, 10-22-2018 : speed
140km, should be 80km or 65 km)
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1981:
a collision in Miaoli County, in the island’s
northwest, killed 31 people
● 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" . |
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<CTS
HD>,
5-23-2016 1:25pm,
"華視新聞雜誌":
17 million
Taiwanese people ( totally 23 million population) 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". ●《The Liberty Times》Taiwan, 2-24-2017 : Keep eating nothing and drinking nothing for 33+ years to buy a new house in Taipei ! Taipei's Ratio of House Price to Income is 33.3 times, New Taipei city is 20.25. ● Lloyd's City Risk Index 2015-2025 analyses the potential impact on the economic output (GDP risk) of world's major cities, Taipei was ranked world No.1 - within the next 10 years, ● Amnesty International (The London-based organization), 2-25-2015: The organization concerns Taiwan’s inhabitation (housing and land) rights issues. |
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poor and weak - even some government's
logos are similar to western's, Taiwan very seldom won award in Cannes
Ad. festival France. ●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 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. / The China Times, 8-15-2017 ● 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. |
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●
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". |
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● <United Daily news 聯合報>, head page, 12-10-2016: The word of 2016 selected is "苦" ("hardship", "pain"). |
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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 ● 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. ● 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/
)
●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 |
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shopping/commodity-price |
●
In Swiss UBS's
"most expensive cities" report, Taipei's
commodity price
was ranked No. 26, worse than the rank
(No.42) in last
time.
(9-18-2015) ● UK's Economist Intelligence Unit - Liveability Country Level Index (2015), evaluates "Cost of Living" of Taipei as "72" (scores 1~131, "1" means the cheapest, e.g., Mexico City is "73"). ● According to 2015 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report, Taiwan's "hotel price index" ranks world No. 82, "Purchasing power parity" ranks world No. 64, "price competitiveness" ranks No. 38. ● Forbes (3-5-2017): Things are cheap ! Taiwan’s a good bargain, explaining the glut of self-guided tourists from China who voluntarily go shopping in Taipei. Some tourists also wonder if the prices reflect weakness in Taiwan’s overall economy. ● The China Times, 9-14-2015, shows the average price of 5 star hotels for Taiwanese tourists is NT dollars10494, price of 4 star hotels is NT5591 |
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● <The United Daily 聯合報>, 3-16-2018 (prime news edition)
Taiwan president Tsai I. W. : Taiwan still have a not short way to reach gender
equality (台灣離性別平等 還有一段路要走) ● 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.
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athletics |
● In 2016 Rio Olympics medal tally statistics, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) got 1 gold, 2 bronze, ranks world No. 50, | |
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int'l fraud |
●
Taiwan is notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world,
damaging the image of Taiwan
/
EBC TV
4-9-2017
6:54am ● Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather than liability... / quora ● Taiwan's legislators and judicial system don't have a sense of shame on releasing so many int'l telecomm scammers and fraud groups committing the crime across the world (United Daily, 8-24-2016 opinion-editorial ). |
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entertainment/circus |
● Taiwan police
declared crack down prostitution business, however,
those Taiwanese male aged
above 20
(2.33 million men per yr.
,ps1)
Prostitution business in Taiwan are, firstly, Thai
massage parlors (「掛羊頭賣狗肉」的按摩店(或養生館)), second, call-girls
controlled by agents, thirdly, individual working studio
or so-called one-woman
brothel
(「一樓一鳳」).
●The United Daily (8-19-2015): The area with highest density of night clubs ("酒店") / specialized profession ("特種行業",a beautified term of sex related business including massage parlors ) in Taipei city locates LinSen N. Rd. stretching from JinZhou street to ChangChun Rd. |
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Liveability |
● According to Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)'s Global Liveability Report of 2017, Taipei ranks No. 60 among 140 cities, based on 30 factors related to education resource, safety, health care, infrastructure, environment, etc. Asia's Tokyo No. 13, Singapore 35, HK 45. | |
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Political status |
● ● New York Times, 11-23-2018: Economic growth, employment and pension reforms were among key issues in the elections...China said the results (Taiwan elections) reflected a desire of Taiwanese for better relations with the mainland...
●
Quartz , 11-25-2018 :
● Le Monde (France), 11-24-2018 : A Taïwan, des élections sous influence chinoise ● Wall Street Journal , 11 25 2018:
A great virtue of Taiwan’s voters is that
they’re pragmatic, a useful trait for an island
under threat of a Chinese invasion. That pragmatism
was on display in local elections Saturday that
rebuked President Tsai Ing-wen while refusing to ban
nuclear power.
●
Reuters UK
, 11-26-2018:
Beijing told Reuters simply: “They’re really happy.” ●The People's Republic of China (PRC) claims that the Republic of China (Taiwan) government is illegitimate, referring to it as the "Taiwan Authority". The ROC, however, with its own constitution, independently elected president and armed forces... since Chiang Kai-shek (leader of the KMT, Taiwan's ruling party most of time) and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese civil war in 1949. ● 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. ● Washington Post, 1-2-2017: The United States “acknowledges” that there is one China and that Taiwan is part of China. But the United States has never officially “recognized” Taiwan as part of China. ● The condition of Beijing's envoy (senior official) visiting Taiwan since the 1949 communist revolution is seeing no ROC national flag. Taiwanese government agreed and confiscated some flags in a rally... / LTN 11-06-2015 ● <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 ◆ 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.
◆ 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) ◆ The bill identifies (indirectly) Taiwan as a country - "visits to a country by United states cabinet members ...".
pic. left: ROC (Taiwan) national flag;
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● pic1: Ocean pollution in Taiwan coast
Daily Mail (UK)
7-14-2017
: ● ●
● Taiwan ignores environmental protection (ocean garbage clean-up) of 90% coast-line of Taiwan island for large garbage-distributions... / United Daily, 5-30-2017 ● ●
●
Daily Mail (newspaper
UK), 7-14-2017
● ●
● pic 4: Next Magazine (Apple Daily), front-page, 4-6-2017 - ocean and river pollution by Taiwanese
●
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
● 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/
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● pic. 2: "Taiwan is scandalous for drug exporting !!" / The China Times, headline news, 4-4-2017; pic. 3: Taiwan was already reduced to be a kingdom of producing narcotic drugs, United Daily, 11-2-2017, headline news. ● ●
● Taiwan administration's anti-drug is a phony show / The China Times, 7-26-2017 ● ● ● Taiwan's image ― notorious for being a major drug transit center & a major drug exporting country UDN 4-7-2018 opinion : Taiwan delivered huge amount of drugs to Philippines, and taught terrorists how to fight the gov. by using drugs ...
● Police of Japan and Australia already labeled Taiwan as "High Risk" illegal drug-exporting country ● ● ● Taiwan got bad records in The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) for the law and law-enforcement problems / United Daily, 4-11-2017
● Drug-abuse in Taiwan is too serious to stop / Apple Daily, Opinion, 5-15-2017 ● ● ● Based on Japan's statistics, Taiwan is its No.3 drug resource country ...... ● ● ● Philippines President Duterte (9-26-2017) : Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan, not China / inquirer.net Philippines President: All illegal drugs came from Taiwan / UDN, opinion, 10-20-2017
● 50 packs (bags) of drugs were found in Taiwan's air force major base / United Daily News 4-7-2017
ps: Dioxin & Fipronil in Taiwan
● ● ● "Wanna murder people?" Official certification CAS for food includes not , but Dioxin was already inside many people's body, probably was over the limit , 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. Pollution has exited 12 yrs, and never end / Apple Daily, head-page, 4-22-2017 ● ● ● United Daily, opinion, 8-26-2017 : Taiwanese are mad at the administration was so careless that too many loopholes for business to illegally use chemical... TW gov. randomly inspected some farms and found Fipronil in sample chicken-eggs exceeding 30 times Euro. standard ● CT 8-23-2017 : Taiwan's pesticide control on foods only half-done. ● ●
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PS :
(1) Monocle's soft power survey:
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2018/2019 Monocle's Soft Power survey |
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| 1 | France | 16 | Nederland |
| 2 | Germany | 17 | Finland |
| 3 | Japan | 18 | Norway |
| 4 | Canada | 19 | China |
| 5 | Swiss | 20 | Belgium |
| 6 | UK | 21 | Singapore |
| 7 | Sweden | 22 | Ireland |
| 8 | Australia | 23 | Austria |
| 9 | USA | 24 | India |
| 10 | Portugal | 25 | Brasil |
| 11 | New Zealand | ps: Asia & Pacific countries marked | |
| 12 | Italia | ||
| 13 | Spain | ||
| 14 | Denmark | ||
| 15 | Korea | ||
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2017/2018 Monocle's Soft Power survey |
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| 1 | Canada | 16 | Nederland |
| 2 | Germany | 17 | Korea |
| 3 | France | 18 | Finland |
| 4 | Japan | 19 | China |
| 5 | UK | 20 | Belgium |
| 6 | Swiss | 21 | Austria |
| 7 | USA | 22 | Singapore |
| 8 | Sweden | 23 | Ireland |
| 9 | Australia | 24 | India |
| 10 | Italia | 25 | Brasil |
| 11 | Denmark | ps: Asia & Pacific countries marked | |
| 12 | Portugal | ||
| 13 | New Zealand | ||
| 14 | Spain | ||
| 15 | Norway | ||
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2016/2017 Monocle's Soft Power survey |
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| 1 | USA | 16 | Norway |
| 2 | Germany | 17 | Korea |
| 3 | Japan | 18 | Finland |
| 4 | UK | 19 | Brasil |
| 5 | France | 20 | China |
| 6 | Australia | 21 | Austria |
| 7 | Canada | 22 | Belgium |
| 8 | Sweden | 23 | Singapore |
| 9 | Swiss | 24 | India |
| 10 | Danmark | 25 | Poland |
| 11 | Italy | ps: Asia & Pacific countries marked | |
| 12 | Spain | ||
| 13 | New Zealand | ||
| 14 | Holland | ||
| 15 | Portugal | ||
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2015/2016 Monocle's Soft Power survey |
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| 1 | Germany | 16 | Norway |
| 2 | USA | 17 | Austria |
| 3 | UK | 18 | Finland |
| 4 | Japan | 19 | Portugal |
| 5 | France | 20 | Belgium |
| 6 | Australia | 21 | China |
| 7 | Sweden | 22 | Brazil |
| 8 | Swiss | 23 | Singapore |
| 9 | Danish | 24 | Poland |
| 10 | Canada | 25 | Turkey |
| 11 | Spain | ||
(2) Taiwan failed to be listed in 2017's Soft Power 30 Study, compiled by PR company Portland Communication and University of Southern California. 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.
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★
★
★
2.
reviews on Taiwan's military power
full text :
Taiwan
military
★
● Financial Times 5-19-2020 : Taiwan fears uptick in military threat from China in wake of coronavirus epidemic, with increasingly frequent incursions into airspace traditionally respected as a safety buffer zone. Taipei was at additional risk from the escalating dispute between the US and China.
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Taiwan military vs. China military |
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Taiwan military |
opinions |
|
personnel ( soldiers, officials ) |
◆
Taiwan’s Military Is a Hollow Shell.
US Defense Department officials have privately expressed dismal
assessments regarding Taiwan's current force level and reserve system. ◆ armor, mechanized infantry, and artillery units are always in desperate shortage of enlisted soldiers ◆ few front-line units have more than 80 percent of their positions filled / Foreign Policy, 2-15-2020 ◆ Taiwan's active force down to under 200,000 (the exact number is classified). The nearly two million reservists exist in name only... / New York times, 5-18-2017 ◆ The ROC (Taiwan) Armed Forces number approximately 300,000, and reserves reportedly total 3,870,000. / Wikipedia, May 2020 |
| strategy | ◆ To against the threats of cyber warfare, cognitive warfare, and ‘unrestricted’ warfare from China , we ( Taiwan ) work to bolster our defense capabilities, future combat capacity development will also emphasize mobility, countermeasures, and non-traditional, asymmetrical capabilities (unconventional arms)” / Taiwan president inauguration speech, Voice of American, 5-20-2020 |
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firepower |
◆
China
has
ｎｕｃｌｅａｒ ｂｏｍｂ ，Neutron
bomb，
hydrogen bomb, Taiwan has none of those. /
Next
TV news, 5-8-2020 ◆ Taiwan military strength is ranked No. 26 , China PLA No. 3 / Global FirePower, 2020 ◆ 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, ... / New York times, 11-4-2017 |
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military logistics system |
◆ Taiwan lacks enough supplement of all items of military equipments / United Daily (聯合報 社評), opinion, 5- 7- 2020 |
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morale |
◆
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... /
New York times, 5-18-2017 ◆ Taiwan fears uptick in military threat from China in wake of coronavirus epidemic ... / Financial Times 5-19-2020 |
● CNN 2-19-2020 exclusive interview with Taiwanese president Tsai I. W. , CTN 5-2-2020: Tsai: "What we are expecting is, after withstanding the first wave of Chinese attacks ourselves, the rest of the world would stand up to exert strong pressure on China" .... "Taiwan as an underdog facing down the growing might of Beijing" ... But chinausfocus.com at May 04 , 2018 reported Missouri State University professor D. Hickey's comment : the U.S. does not have an “iron-clad” commitment to defend Taiwan. Reuters 2-26-2020: Taiwan should continue to show goodwill to China during coronavirus outbreak and not give Beijing an excuse to attack the island as a way of relieving “internal pressure” ... Chinese public opinion believes people in Taiwan lack sympathy about China’s virus outbreak... Reuters 5-22-2020: In the annual meeting of China’s parliament, there was no mention of the word “peaceful” in front of “reunification”, departing from the standard expression Chinese leaders have used for at least four decades, an apparent policy shift that comes as ties with Taipei continue on a downward spiral. Foreign Policy 5-15-2020: Beijing were to interpret ... coronavirus as a uniquely advantageous moment, a Chinese military strike on Taiwan at this moment is unlikely ... but a low level of risk is not the same as zero risk. National Post (Canada), 5-15-2020: China and the U.S. ramp up military activity near Taiwan... ◦
◆ The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence “Open Hearing on China’s Worldwide Military Expansion.”, 5-17-2018
(1) China's “infatuation with Taiwan” ?
a visceral nationalistic design ...“if Taiwan survives as a democracy [it] undermines the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party”
(2) USA curb China ?
the US could soon be completely driven out of the Asia-Pacific region if Beijing is allowed to continue on its current course unopposed.
(3) Congressional hearing recommended
deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Asia, showing strong support for Taiwan, and exposing human rights abuses in China as immediate steps that could curb Beijing
○
◆ China's Military Power Report / annual Report to US Congress (2019), 5-2-2019
Military and Security Developments involving P.R.C. 2019
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"China could use missile attacks and precision air raids against air defence systems, including air bases, radar sites, missiles, space assets, and communications facilities to degrade Taiwan's defences, neutralise Taiwan's leadership, or break the Taiwan people's resolve," ... aljazeera news said at May 3, 2019 that much of China's military doctrine is focused on self-ruled Taiwan, China might take if Beijing decides to use military force on Taiwan, including a comprehensive campaign "designed to force Taiwan to capitulate to unification, or unification dialogue.
The Liberty Times suggests Taiwan taking "asymmetric warfare". Apple Daily (headline news) 5-4-2019 said that the possibility of the blockade or a limited war by PLA is smaller than that of air raid, rockets, or amphibious landing. (see pic. right)
usni.org said at 2019/05/03 that Taiwan is the primary focus of amphibious assault and sea-based missile launch capability improvements made in 2018 by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the PLA Navy and PLA Marine Corps.
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CBS news 11-14-2018:
U.S. military might "struggle to win, or perhaps lose" war with
China or Russia
the
National Defense Strategy Commission: "It might struggle to win, or
perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia." ...
"If the United States had to fight Russia in a Baltic contingency or China in a war over Taiwan," the report warned. "Americans could face a decisive military defeat." ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-military-might-struggle-to-win-or-perhaps-lose-war-with-china-or-russia-report-says/)
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◆
Annual Report to US Congress (8-17-2018):
Military and Security Developments Involving
the People’s Republic of China 2018
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF
A new method was applied to make these tables below:
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◆ USA Today 5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its historical properties by 2049. Freebeacon 5-17-2018 : 2020—the deadline that [Chinese supreme leader] Xi Jinping has given the [People's Liberation Army] to be ready to invade Taiwan.
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A ◆ The New York times, 11-4-2017: 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."
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◆ 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.
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◆ Eastern Taiwan's anti-aircraft military force needs to be improved soon, but in recent years, Taiwan has been limited to international reality and financial difficulties, therefore focused on main forces' (F16, IDF/F-CK-1, etc) functional improvement, instead of developing or purchasing new-generation jet fighters, Taiwan looks forward to having F35B, but it may take more than 10 years in the queue. / brief - The Liberty Times, 2-5-2017.
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◆
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/
/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion (ps: China's Baidu, 10-15-2017: Taiwanese reservists 3 million in total )
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◆ The US Defense Gov. Report of 2017
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◆ 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 ).
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Source: Apple Daily News, head-page and focus news, 12-19-2017
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LTN
3-5-2017 / military power of China VS Taiwan
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China |
Taiwan |
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army ground forces |
ground troops (地面部隊) |
400000 | 130000 |
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Field Army (集團軍) |
8 | 3 | |
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war chariot, tank (戰車) |
2800 | 1100 | |
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artillery; cannon (火砲) |
3900 | 1600 | |
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Navy |
destroyer warship (驅逐艦) |
16 | 4 |
| guided missile frigate(飛彈巡防艦) | 40 | 22 | |
| Amphibious landing/assault ship(兩棲登陸艦) | 28 | 14 | |
| submarine (傳統動力潛艦) |
38 | 4 | |
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Air Force |
fighter (aircraft) (戰鬥機) |
130 | 384 |
|
bomber (轟炸機) |
200 | 0 | |
| military transport aircraft (運輸機) | 150 | 19 | |
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special mission aircraft (特輸任務機) |
75 | 25 | |
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喵◆ 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
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2016%20China%20Military%20Power%20Report.pdf
| 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 |
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| Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Air Forces | |||
| China | China | Taiwan | |
| Total | Within range of Taiwan |
Total
|
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| Fighters | 1,700 | 130 | 384 |
| Bombers/Attack | 400 | 200 | 0 |
| Transport | 475 | 150 | 19 |
| Special Mission Aircraft | 115 | 75 | 25 |
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| 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 |
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○◆ 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")
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◆ New York Times, 5-18-2017 https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion
● Taiwan's military is understaffed and in a state of low morale.
●
Taiwan's active force was cut down to under
200,000 (the exact number is classified). The nearly two million reservists
exist in name only.
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Taiwan’s defense policies are largely a result of
deep distrust between the military and politicians.
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◆ <The Chinese Invasion Threat> by Ian Eastonct., Oct. 3, 2017
Secret Military Plan: Invade Taiwan by 2020
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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.
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http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2017/10/05/2003679744; http://freebeacon.com/natiChina’s |
◆ Apple Daily, 4-20-2018, headline news : a survey poll by 台灣民主基金會
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pic. left: Apple Daily, 4-20-2018,
headline news : a Survey poll by 台灣民主基金會 ☉ Taiwanese youth fight against Chinese military force for unification - 67.7% yes, 24.9 % no, 7.4 % others
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pic. right: China Times,
4-21-2018, Opinion: Taiwan National Security Survey conducted by Duke
University and NCCU of Taiwan
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◆ Taiwan's muscle show
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news brief
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Apple Daily, 5-30-2016:
Taiwan declared no other air forces are allowed to show
their muscle in Taiwan air space ...
But,
CTV evening news(11-27-2016), United Daily News (11-30-2016): China's
military aircraft-fighters
(much stronger than TW
air force) flied past around Taiwan and passed through 1st Island Chain, Taiwan
air force did not intercept, stop them. ps: Chinese troops repeated doing this again and again in 2016 ~ 2017. ◆ ● Forbes, 5-21-2013: Taiwan president beset by low approval rate because of weakness against foreign countries, even including Philippines, a backward country dared to hurt Taiwan, ... ◆ ● The China Times, 3-29-2017: Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a coach (large bus). |
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● 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,...
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● Taiwan has been watched by the super power for years......
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◆◆ In Global Wealth Report of 2019 by Credit Suisse, Taiwan is alongside with Italia, Germany in terms of wealth per adult.
◆ Credit Suisse, Oct. 18, 2018 :
| country | Wealth per adult(USD) | GDP per adult | Total wealth (bn) | Share of world wealth | quality |
| United States | 403,974 | 81,425 | 98,154 | 31.0% | Good |
| Singapore | 283,118 | 75,242 | 1,289 | 0.4 % | Satisfactory |
| France | 280,580 | 55,668 | 13,883 | 4.4% | Good |
| United Kingdom | 279,048 | 54,621 | 14,209 | 4.5% | Good |
| Japan | 227,235 | 47,980 | 23,884 | 7.5% | Good |
| Germany | 214,893 | 57,955 | 14,499 | 4.6% | Good |
| Taiwan | 212,375 | 31,146 | 4,065 | 1.3 % | Satisfactory |
| China | 47,810 | 12,147 | 51,874 | 16.4% | Good |
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◆ 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.
https://financialtribune.com/articles/world-economy/73782/rigid-systems-holding-back-taiwan-development
https://www.sinica.edu.tw/ch/news/4880
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◆ 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.
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◆ Credit Suisse, Nov. 15, 2017 :
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Global Wealth report 2017, Country summary |
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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 |
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Compared to the world as
a whole, Taiwan has high average
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Global Wealth Report 2016 by credit-suisse Research Institute, Nov. 2016
Taiwan's average level of wealth, at USD
172,800, is similar to that of W. Europe. Over the entire 2000 –
2016 period, wealth per adult grew by 59% in USD terms.
Taiwan has a high saving rate and well-developed financial institutions, so
it is not surprising that the composition of household wealth is skewed
towards financial assets. The latter now make up 64% of total assets.
Debt is relatively modest, equaling 13% of gross assets.
Taiwan has
comparatively high average wealth and only moderate wealth inequality.
20% of the adult population have wealth below USD 10,000, that is not high
compared to 73% worldwide. 38% percent of adults in Taiwan
have wealth over USD 100,000 which is almost five times greater than the
worldwide average of 8%.
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Taiwan |
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| Population | 23 million | |
| Adult population | 19 million | |
| GDP | 32,647 USD per adult | |
| Mean wealth | 172,847 USD per adult | |
| Median wealth | 63,134 USD per adult | |
| Total wealth | 3.0 trillion USD | |
| US dollar millionaires | 356 thousand | |
| Top 10% of global wealth holders | 8,727 thousand | |
| Top 1% of global wealth holders | 528 thousand | |
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Pic.: Taiwan's
wealth distribution relative to world in %
Median wealth per adult by country : ● Taiwan USD 63134,
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Singapore USD 101386,
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Pic.: wealth per adult / Suisse Global Wealth Databook 2016 :
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◆ 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.
◆ Taiwan's economy and China
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)
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Economy |
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Taiwan's economy is highly reliant on China,
Forbes. 2015/11/26 <Top 10 China Dependent Countries>: Taiwan ranks world No. 2 ― Taiwan(EWT -9.56%), has held up fairly well despite the fact that 26% of its exports are China bound. A whopping 16% of its economic output is dependent on China. ● Taiwan's Economic growth rate(yoy) (%) is estimated (2017) as 1.92. Economic growth rate (yoy) (%) is 2.88 (2016 4th QTR initial statistics by the government). ● For details pls. see section 3. below. |
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Economic freedom |
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Heritage.Org 's Economic freedom index 2017 gave Taiwan overall score 76.5, Singapore and Hong Kong rank
top 2. ● <United Daily news >,《The Liberty Times》Taiwan, 2-25-2017: Taiwanese employee's real wages (average monthly) of last year is lower than that of 16 years ago. The average amount of the real ,monthly wages of about 70% employee is less than NT40000(USD1300), 36.72% is less than NT30000. The youth's low salary is a serious problem, jobless rate is still high.
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◆ https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/gdp
| Taiwan GDP | Last | Previous | Highest | Lowest | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GDP Growth Rate | 0.15 | 0.94 | 5.64 | -5.07 | percent |
| GDP Annual Growth Rate | 2.10 | 2.60 | 17.06 | -8.12 | percent |
| GDP | 523.01 | 530.04 | 530.04 | 42.30 | USD Billion |
| GDP Constant Prices | 4034977.00 | 3997376.00 | 4034977.00 | 604229.00 | TWD Million |
| Gross National Product | 4310588.00 | 4594814.00 | 4594814.00 | 99800.00 | TWD Million |
| Gross Fixed Capital Formation | 870419.00 | 963504.00 | 964529.00 | 8907.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Agriculture | 46828.00 | 60392.00 | 72053.00 | 39800.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Construction | 94847.00 | 96112.00 | 121071.00 | 41088.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Manufacturing | 1206114.00 | 1138212.00 | 1275942.00 | 130647.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Mining | 3156.00 | 3744.00 | 15925.00 | 2701.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Public Administration | 271017.00 | 267595.00 | 280931.00 | 85791.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Services | 2559778.00 | 2686530.00 | 2686530.00 | 317742.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Transport | 116527.00 | 117446.00 | 119140.00 | 20691.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Utilities | 28535.00 | 29459.00 | 61237.00 | 5349.00 | TWD Million |
The gross domestic product (GDP) measures of national income and output for a given country's economy. The gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to the total expenditures for all final goods and services produced within the country in a stipulated period of time. This page provides - Taiwan GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Taiwan GDP - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2017.
Compare GDP by country :
| Last | |||
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| 18569.10 | Dec/16 | USD Billion | |
| 11885.66 | USD Billion | ||
| 11199.15 | USD Billion | ||
| 4939.38 | USD Billion | ||
| 3466.76 | USD Billion | ||
| 2618.89 | USD Billion | ||
| 2465.45 | USD Billion | ||
| 2263.52 | USD Billion | ||
| 1849.97 | USD Billion | ||
| 1796.19 | USD Billion | ||
| 1529.76 | USD Billion | ||
| 1411.25 | USD Billion | ||
| 1283.20 | USD Billion | ||
| 1232.09 | USD Billion | ||
| 1204.62 | USD Billion | ||
| 1046.00 | USD Billion | ||
| 932.26 | USD Billion | ||
| 857.75 | USD Billion | ||
| 770.85 | USD Billion | ||
| 659.83 | USD Billion | ||
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◆ The China Times system (June 2017), WHO: Taiwan ranks world No. 3 in the case-number of being under anti-dumping investigation.
◆ http://www.focus-economics.com/countries/taiwan
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Taiwan Economy Data |
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| 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | |
| Population (million) | 23.2 | 23.3 | 23.4 | 23.4 | 23.5 |
| GDP per capita (USD) | 21,044 | 21,344 | 21,894 | 22,696 | 22,469 |
| GDP (USD bn) | 489 | 498 | 512 | 532 | 528 |
| Economic Growth (GDP, annual variation in %) | 3.8 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.9 | 0.8 |
| Consumption (annual variation in %) | 3.1 | 1.8 | 2.3 | 3.3 | 1.5 |
https://www.dgbas.gov.tw/point.asp?index=1
resource from Executive Yuan ROC Taiwan at 3-13-2017
| 經濟成長率Economic growth rate(yoy) (%) | 2.88 | [ 2016 4th QTR initial statistics ] |
|---|---|---|
| 經濟成長率Economic growth rate(yoy) (%) | 1.92 | [ 2017 prediction/forecast ] |
| 名目GDP (百萬元) | 17,461,748 | [2017 prediction/forecast ] |
| 平均每人GDP pc (USD) | 23,827 | [2017 prediction/forecast ] |
| 平均每人GNI pc (USD) | 24,607 | [ 2017 prediction/forecast ] |
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"We call ourselves
the Republic of China, Taiwan", president Tsai has told BBC UK at Jan. 15,
2020, but later BBC changed it to "the Republic of China (Taiwan)".
Tsai in her inauguration speech at 5-20-2020
reiterated that Taiwan calls for stability in China relations but would
reject being ruled by China in the same way Hong Kong is now (semiautonomy).
Tsai represents the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, which advocates
Taiwan’s formal independence.
Beijing responded swiftly to
Tsai’s speech and said China would never leave any room for “Taiwan
independence separatist activities”.
While analysts believe an invasion is unlikely, Chinese state media point out China’s military might
has been able to effectively overwhelm the Taiwan military and deter the US.
Washington Post, 5-21-20: As U.S.-China rhetoric grows harsher, new
risks emerge with Taiwan drawn into the mix.
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The
People's Republic of China (PRC)
has identified
that
Taiwan
as part of its territory
and its
most important core interest, since the Kuomintang (Nationalists
or KMT)
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 been ramping up military, diplomatic and economic pressure on Taiwan
since new president Tsai I.W.
(2016 ~)
and her DPP party refuses to recognise the "1992 consensus" a
'pseudo'-agreement
made by Taiwan's KMT party and the Chinese Communist Party, that proclaimed
"the existence of only one China ”, but “ with different interpretations ” (being
free to decide which side was legitimate.). Under China's political development and strengthening its trade ties to our
allies,
Taiwan is diplomatically isolated, has only 15 formal relation allies till
May 2020
(Taiwan lost Salvador etc 3 allies
within half yr. China rankled TW president's visit to NASA - LA Times
8-20-2018),
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
charming Taiwan by offering preferential treatment in a soft
power bid / le monde
diplmatique may
2019 ,
encouraging tourists to Taiwan. /
WEF <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report> of 2019 shows
Taiwan had the sub-region's largest
decline in competitiveness,
Taiwan's
overall score ranks 10th in Asia.
L.A. Times, 8-1-2019:
The indefinite suspension
of individual travel visa is likely to
prove a major economic hit to Taiwan, as
well as a blow to cultural interplay. ) so that Taiwanese people may have higher
tendency toward unification with China, Taiwanese understood this
interdependence is unavoidable, but over-dependence is risky.
To achieve its
goal of reducing dependence on China by increasing commerce with other Asian
countries, Taiwan needs to make more reforms to increase competition and
openness (heritage.org).
In recent years, China became Taiwan's leading trading partner, N.Y. Times
12-3-2019: Trade between China and Taiwan exceeded $181 billion in 2017,
up from about $35.5 billion in 1999.
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Taiwan is the 7th largest economy in Asia. Global Wealth Report (Credit Suisse, Oct., 2018) shows Taiwanese wealth per adult, at USD 212,375, is close to that of W. Euro., (UK USD 279,048, France USD 280,580) and Singapore (USD 283,118 ), Hong Kong (244,672), but nation's share world wealth (1.3%) is less than USA(31%), Japan(7.5%), China(16.4%) and Korea(2.2%). Singapore's GDP per adult is more than 2 times Taiwan's. In Global Wealth Report of 2019, in terms of Wealth per Adult, Taiwan is behind other Asian countries like Hong Kong (world No.2), Australia (4th), NZ (5th), Singapore (6th), Japan. United Daily, editorial, 12-3-2019: The amount of average regular monthly earnings of nationals of last year is NTD38,000 (USD1200) which is NT100+ less than that of 2001.
Taiwan was one of the world's top producers of computer technology, relying upon importation of key components and advanced technology from the US ( e.g., semiconductor ) 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, UDN (1-28-2019) reported GDP per capita of Shanghai, Beijing, GuangZhou and SenZhen all are closed to that of Taiwan. China's GDP from 2016 till 2018 each is about 23 times the number of Taiwan's, one province (GD's GDP) alone is 2+ times Taiwan's (ref. to CTN, 3-14-2019). Taiwan's economic experts (中研院 '17) 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.
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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") to commit the US to defend Taiwan's sovereignty, and provide necessary 'defensive' services. Many countries seem welcome this ambiguity. But the U.S. does not have an “iron-clad” commitment to defend Taiwan (www.chinausfocus.com, May 04 , 2018). Japan's 読売新聞 (Yomiuri Shimbun) and Singapore's Straits Times (4-24-2018) comment that China must not intimidate Taiwan, while the China-Taiwan military balance has tilted in favor of the Chinese side, a situation must not occur in which the U. S. and China deepen their antagonism over Taiwan. 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 made a core policy to resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks only. 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". Foreign Policy (2-15-2020) describes Taiwan’s military is a 'Hollow Shell'. US Defense Department officials have privately expressed dismal assessments regarding Taiwan's current force level and reserve system. 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".
However, 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, VOAnews, 3-23-2018 : John Bolton (Trump's new National Security Adviser) has long argued that Washington can play a "Taiwan card" to compel Beijing's attention for its potentially destabilizing actions in East Asia and the South China Sea. ). The U.S. and Taiwan are seen as heading in a direction that is getting perilously close to Chinese red lines...... 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... New York Times at 4-18-2018: Mr. Trump questioned why the US should be bound by the One China policy if Beijing will not budge on trade ... New York Times 9-5-2019: it would also be a catastrophe if Taiwan were blockaded or squashed into submission, because Taiwan is the source of 90+ % of the most advanced computer chips, and stands in the way of any Chinese projection into the Pacific. In May 2020, the US asked TSMC in Taiwan to build a factory in Arizona as a "Pressure Point" (N.Y. Times, 5-19-2020) in tech. fight With China, which Japan's日本経済新聞 ( Nikkei news, Nihon keizai shinbun ) points out may weaken Taiwan's security. United Daily's editorial (1-4-2020, 5-22-2020) worried Taiwan functioning as a chess piece in front-line to block China in American's containment chessboard may become a sacrifice-piece or cannon fodder.
Till May 2020, the Chinese military has conducted a series of provocative, aggressive operations, such as Foreign Policy 5-15-2020 reported dozens of PLAAF aircraft crossed the centerline twice. New York Post, 4-15-2020: the 12th time in the past three weeks that American military planes had been detected near the area (Taiwan’s airspace). This likely was interpreted by China as implicit support for a self-ruled Taiwan, riling China. Financial Times, 5-19-2020 : Taiwan fears uptick in military threat from China in wake of coronavirus epidemic.
The ROC on Taiwan,
has
most of the
characteristics of an independent state,
however, Taiwan's image and brand personality suffered
for getting benefits by any means ( as Confucius
analects : "窮斯濫"
) and
having some principal human rights problems
as below:
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● freedom of speech : USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 3-11-2020: Journalists said they faced pressure from management to submit news stories to complement or support the content of paid advertisements. < Reporters Sans Frontieres> (RSF, France) , 4-18-2019: Taiwan’s journalists are suffering from a very polarized media environment dominated by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit. Although President Tsai Ing-wen has said she wants to continue developing press freedom in Taiwan, few concrete measures have been taken to improve journalists’ editorial independence and encourage media to raise the quality of the public debate. Beijing is exploiting this weakness by putting pressure on Taiwanese media owners, who often have business interests on the mainland. ●
● justice : USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 3-11-2020: Some political commentators and academics, publicly questioned the impartiality of judges and prosecutors involved in high profile, politically sensitive cases. US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 3-13-2019 pointed out that justice ministry was insufficiently independent and conducted politically motivated investigations of politicians (in <Corruption and Lack of Transparency in Government> section), ... ● The United Daily, 1-6-2020, editorial: Taiwanese don't trust law-enforcement because of government abusing power and playing with the law. : ● The United Daily, Focus, 11-30-2019: The prosecutors and Taiwan's 'FBI' were questioned a lot for years for their political investigations and conducts ...in recent years, the judiciary giving services to DPP almost became a routine...:● UDN 10-20-2019: politics overrode justice ● The Liberty Times, head-line news, 3-16-2019: Taiwan PM is not satisfied with Judicial reform ● The Liberty Times, head-page, The China Times, head-page, 12-8-2018: Taiwan P.M. (賴清德): Taiwan has not made significant progress on judicial reform, which is roiling with public discontent; ● <The United Daily>, 06-18-2016, head page news: Taiwan's prosecutors admit usually following order to conclude legal cases. ● <USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices>, 2016-2018, public trust on Taiwan's judiciary system keeps falling down. ● <United Daily>, opinion column, 12-16-2017: Taiwan's public voice with a heavy heart : The prosecutors should abide by the law too... don't be a political tool.
● children & women trafficking : US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019: in the last five years, human traffickers subject foreign men and women to forced labor and sex trafficking in Taiwan, and traffickers subject local men and women to forced labor and local women and children to sex trafficking. ... take advantage of Taiwan and foreign women’s and children’s drug addictions to subject them to sex trafficking. Taiwan traffickers increasingly use the internet, smartphone apps, livestreaming, and other such online technologies to conduct recruitment activities, often targeting child victims, and to mask their identities from law enforcement.
● pirate : Green Peace, 5-2-2019: It remains our view that Taiwanese fisheries still have many serious problems, both environmental and social, and that the need for reform is clear and urgent. Lowy Institute & <the interpreter>, 5-2-2019: Taiwan ...illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing... Taiwan has so far refused to adopt the Work in Fishing Convention. EU warned in 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing till 6 '19. US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019: fishermen working on Taiwan-flagged and -owned fishing vessels experience non- or under-payment of wages, long working hours, physical abuse, lack of food or medical care, denial of sleep, and poor living conditions while indebted to complex, multinational brokerage networks. Migrant fishermen have reported senior crewmembers employ such coercive tactics as threats of physical violence, beatings, withholding of food and water, and pay deductions to retain their labor. Freedom House, June 2019: labor advocates report poor implementation, citing ongoing mistreatment and abuse of foreign fishermen on Taiwanese vessels.
● privacy : The United Daily News (聯合報) , editorial, 3-31-2019 : Taiwan is a backward country on personal-data protection. Taiwan plans to sell general public's personal data and digital human rights (e.g., people's medical health data without giving any notice ), peep at whatever on the net , and even monitor all the citizens, nothing people would normally notice ... (brief https://udn.com/news/story/7338/3728815) ; ● EU General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR was given to effect at 5-25-2018, Taiwan is far behind, even is going in an opposite way / Apple Daily 蘋果日報, 5-28-2018, National Taiwan University Law School professor 林鈺雄
● democracy :New York Times, 1-11-2020: Taiwan’s young and vibrant, if messy at times, democratic society. Economist EIU Democracy Index 2019 shows Taiwan is "Flawed democracy", 2019's overall score is lower than 2015's and 2016's, the scores of "political culture", "political participation" are low (5.63, 6.11). N.Y. Times 12-3-2019: soft underbelly of Taiwanese politics: patronage networks. they continue to allow community leaders, farmers’ associations and even organized-crime figures to buy votes. <China Times> 2-26-2020, editorial: more and more uncontrolled admin. power and withered legislative power, freedom of speech was suppressed by admin. and judicial power at all levels, ...as for political culture, partisan, stand and ideology matter. <Foreign Policy>, 2015: Taiwan politics belongs to mega-corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties. Apple Daily, editorial, 12-14-2019: Taiwan gov. shows authoritarianism political culture, ignoring and being hostile to those critics. Apple Daily, editorial, 12-7-2019: in this bad election morality age, Taiwan president becomes a low threshold, min. qualification criteria position, and a laughingstock. <United Daily> editorial 1-8-2020, <UDN> editorial (聯合報社論) 11-14-2019／Taiwan's democracy turns into grave 。 (民主設計的良意，如今變成私欲墳場 https://udn.com/news/story/11321/4163629) <UDN> editorial,12-6-2018: Taiwan's democracy exists in name only ...; <United Daily News>, editorial opinion, 6-23-2019: The operation of democracy usually strays off most public-opinions, ... fail to solve the adverse situation of reversing democracy; <United Daily News>, Opinion, 3-7-2017: Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's skin-deep democracy ... the people's "livelihood" was sacrificed for politics ...
● corruption : Transparency International 1-29-2019: Taiwan has stagnated in the Corruption Perspective Index rankings since 2011 with its score 61~63 (dropped 2 spots this year), in contrast, South Korea improved by 3 points in 2017. In platform presentation at 12-25-2019, Nationalist Party Presidential candidate Han criticized President Tsai has allowed top officials around grow very corrupt, Tsai refuted KMT was more serious, People First Party candidate Song said that speaking of corruption and unfair judiciary, KMT and DPP are about the same. Apple Daily (12-7-2018) editorial : Taiwan's corruption is off the charts by collusions between government officials and business owners, furthermore, Taiwan's underworld going wild to assist government officials, business and some elected representatives (e.g., legislators) in corruption has been ahead of most corrupt countries, e.g., China, Indonesia, Brazil, Philippines, Vietnam, the stinky rotten food-chain crossing pan-Blue (Nationalist, KMT) and pan-Green (DPP) resurges after Taiwan's elections... Liberty Times, 1-12-2020, editorial: The administration's rottenness (腐壞氣息) smells already.
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police :
The
United
Daily
News,
editorial opinion
(9-19-2018) :
"secret police"
(「東廠們」)
have been active around us
... The Liberty Times, head-page, The China Times, head-page, 12-8-2018:
Taiwan P.M.
(賴清德):
"Secret
Police event"
(「東廠事件」)
has seriously damaged
public trust on the government...;
UDN 11-3-2018, Intel. sys. (NSB) confirmed their
investigations of Facebook
and other's communities on the net.
All internet platform service providers in Taiwan were requested to hand in all users' personal information/data
(intel denied).
● fraud : United Daily, 10-23-2019, editorial: Taiwanese telecom frauds run wild the entire world to damage Taiwan's image. CTV evening news, 12-14-2017, EBC TV, 4-9-2017, UDN opinion, 12-24-2017: Taiwan is notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world. quora, 4-16-2016: Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather than liability... China Times, 11-7-2017: 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)
● torture & cruelty : Taiwan is far behind and keeps stalling legislating a new law against torture and other cruelty, 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. ● Liberty Times 6-7-2019 : Control Yuan's new mission - against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment / Pavel Doubek ● United Daily, editorial, 5-6-2019: Control Yuan should work for underprivileged people, not only cover their own politicians. ● 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). The key-point is state violence (Apple Daily, opinion, 8-16-2013).
● food safety : The China Times, 10-20-2018 opinion (editorial) https://opinion.chinatimes.com/20181019003889-262101 :
Taiwan's food safety failed again and again, Dioxin, Fipronil poison-eggs in last year, Nicarbazin illegal drug residue event in this year. Europe was very cautious about Fipronil event, in contrast, Taiwan did nothing about it. Even worse, Taiwan officials hide Nicarbazin issue from Taiwanese people to baby related business ― indulge business to retrieve problematic eggs and then resell them as promotion goods. Why do high-ranking officials always fudge Taiwanese people's only, and humblest request ？? (brief) UDN, 2-17-2019: Gov. did not declared poison eggs until almost sold out... ● The China Times (中國時報), 2-28-2019, opinion (editorial) questions Taiwan officials are trying very hard to hide the epidemic state of Marek's virus in chicken eggs ...
● drug base : Taiwan is narcotic drugs producing & selling center of Asia (The China Times <Want Weekly>, 9-18-2019). 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 : Freedom House, June 2019: labor advocates report poor implementation, citing ongoing mistreatment and abuse of foreign fishermen on Taiwanese vessels. USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3, 2017, 4-20-2018: Exploitation of foreign workers, official corruption, some media self-censorship with regard to China, vote buying, etc . US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices released at 3-13-2019: Foreign workers were most susceptible to forced labor, especially when serving as crew members on Taiwan-flagged fishing vessels. Mistreatment and poor working conditions for foreign fishermen remained common.
● life protection : 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)
● life protection (2) :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, 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.), 2012 BBC news : www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese_news/2012/03/120304_taiwan_birdflu_investigate) , not to mention big issues. ● The China Times 5-9-2018 column : This is an EVIL state apparatus ... The China Times 5-26-2018 column : The government likes to conceal bad news, put paper over the cracks, e.g., air pollution, rupture of diplomatic relationships, ...http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180509000843-260109● 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)
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● transportation safety United Daily News 1-20-2020: The death rate caused by traffic accidents in Taiwan is 5 times that in Japan. The SUN, BBC (UK) 2-13-2017: "BUS CRASH HORROR!" , Taiwan's tour bus "has come under fire in recent months over safety standards"... MSN, Reuters, EuroNews, Mirro(UK), NewsWeek, CNN, etc (2-4-2015) :"Taiwan has had a poor aviation safety record in recent years" , full text Taiwan's aviation safety
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Labor rights
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights
practices, 3-11-2020:
The right to strike remained
highly regulated. Teachers, civil servants, and defense industry employees
do not have the right to strike. Workers in industries such as utilities,
hospital services, and telecommunication service providers are allowed to
strike only if they maintain basic services during the strike. Authorities
may prohibit, limit, or break up a strike during a disaster. For all
workers, the law divides labor disputes into “rights disputes” and
“adjustment disputes.” Workers are allowed to strike only in adjustment
disputes, which include issues such as compensation and working schedules.
The law forbids strikes in rights disputes related to violations of
collective agreements and employment contracts.
● children & women trafficking : US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019: in the last five years, human traffickers subject foreign men and women to forced labor and sex trafficking in Taiwan, and traffickers subject local men and women to forced labor and local women and children to sex trafficking. ... take advantage of Taiwan and foreign women’s and children’s drug addictions to subject them to sex trafficking. Taiwan traffickers increasingly use the internet, smartphone apps, livestreaming, and other such online technologies to conduct recruitment activities, often targeting child victims, and to mask their identities from law enforcement. illegal migrants !
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Taiwan tried to follow US academic Joseph Nye's notion of applying power by persuasion and attraction rather than coercion or force to deal with China and expand its international space. Brookings at 1-22-2018 commented that Increasing “soft power” is a low-cost, high-return strategy for Taiwan. However, Taiwan's soft power performed worse than that of China and Asian's Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, UAE. Taiwan failed to be included in UK based Monocle's Soft Power list 2010 ~ 2019 and Soft Power 30 by USC Center on Public Diplomacy, 2017 ~ 2018. Taiwan's military hard power was reduced by half (the number of active forces) and is in a state of low morale, Taiwan's leader made a 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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◆ 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 ??
(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) |
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Taiwan, a rat or a soft chicken ! ?
● USA Today 5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its historical properties by 2049. Freebeacon 5-17-2018 : 2020—the deadline that [Chinese supreme leader] Xi Jinping has given the [People's Liberation Army] to be ready to invade Taiwan.
● 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.
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trembling sweating rat
(or mouse),
turning its back on an approaching huge cat (China), lifting high the banner "$O$"
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● 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...
● 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).
● 德國 Spiegel, 1-9-2017, Global Times of China: "There is no room for negotiations" . ("一中原則 ... 沒有討價還價的餘地, "Es gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen".)。
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Taiwan state apparatus fully support freedom of expression & democracy ! You can scream as loud as you want The louder you scream, the more I enjoy ...
more readings: ◆ State violence and white terror (product of state violence) return in Taiwan (United Daily, opinion, 12-21-2017, 12-27-2017). ◆ This is an EVIL state apparatus (column, CTN, 5-9-2018): Taiwan has shown a general tendency toward pandering state apparatus, surrendering in mind control ... http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180509000843-260109 ◆ Abusing power to invade citizen's rights, going old route of anti-democracy are their nature (United Daily, opinion, 12-20-2017). https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2886710 ref to https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2897025。http://udn.com/news/story/7338/2179800。 ◆ 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
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● 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
● Philippines President Duterte (9-26-2017) : Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan, not China / inquirer.net Philippines President: All illegal drugs came from Taiwan / 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
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● Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather than liability... / quora.com
● 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
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● <The Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of control' - EU warned in 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing. GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but does little. (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.
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