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发帖数: 6973 | 1 That is the title of a report today in Financial Times, by reporter Kathrin
Hille in Taipei.
A quote: "'He [Ma] is far too soft for our liking, and many of us had to
swallow their hate before we voted for him,' says Chang Ling-chen, a
professor of political science at National Taiwan University and a KMT
conservative.
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发帖数: 6973 | 2 Jason Dean, Reader Survey: From Small Base in Taiwan, Handful of Tech Titans
Rule. Wall Street Journal, Mar. 28, 2008. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 3 Christopher Rhoads, Freedom's Ring: Kosovo Covets A Dialing Code; Use of
Serbian Exchange Is a Continuing Irritant; End Run by Palestinians. Wall
Street Journal, Mar. 27, 2008, at A1.
The report said (1) that Palestine followed Taiwan's mode (see quote below),
and (2) that Kosovo currently has three dialing codes: that of Serbia,
Monaco and Slovenia.
A quote:
"Kosovo has a problem, because it isn't a member of the U.N., and only
countries that are can get their own dialing codes.
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发帖数: 6973 | 4 This is the title of a report yesterday in BBC ENGLISH edition.
A quote: "Nick Haslam finds a few surprises in store as he travels to a
remote village in southern Taiwan hoping for a rare glimpse of a traditional
marriage ceremony held by the Rukai tribe.
Rukai Tribe = 魯凱族
Wutai = 屏東縣霧台鄉
明台高中 Min Tai High School http://www.mtvs.tcc.edu.tw, in Taichung County, has kept a web page (orifianlly from the government) for the tribe. One way to retrieve it (the page) is enter a sentence like "認識魯凱族 很 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 5 Ian Johnson, In Taiwan, the Politics of Art; Museum's Stress On Non-Chinese
Objects Fuels Cultural Dispute. Wall Street Journal, May 17, 2008
Unusually, the report is available free online, which can be found throuogh
news.google.com, for example.
My comment: I did not expect that the museum move would be considered
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发帖数: 6973 | 6 Francesca Serge, Matchmaking, the Ultimate Government Service. New York
Times *www.nytimes.com), May 25, 2008
("a monthlong cultural tour of Taiwan sponsored and partly subsidized by the
Taiwanese government * * * is designed to expose young people with
Taiwanese roots * * * to the motherland through courses in Mandarin,
sightseeing and traditional arts.") |
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发帖数: 1262 | 7 中國大陸遵守的是美國主導的貿易規則，
臺資對大陸的投資當然是‘雙贏’策略，但這不等于說大陸可以面對700億美元的逆差
而無動于衷，看看韓國，日本，同樣對大陸有投資，規模技術哪點輸給臺灣，可出現
巨大貿易逆差的時候就可以采取措施，讓對方平衡逆差。
（平衡貿易逆差的方法很簡單，解禁臺灣對大陸的限售商品，但是臺灣現在的政治氣候，
哪個政客有這個膽量？）你告訴我是什么原因，大陸可以容忍怎么大的貿易逆差？
至于GDP, 大陸采取的算法和美國的不同（我不知道臺灣是如何算的），但也需要時間
來算的
不是國家統計局局長拍下腦袋就出來的。（你可以去找網上有一篇對比中美GDP算法不
同的文章，大致是講，中國是生產法，美國是消費法）。
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发帖数: 6973 | 8 KMT may not be burning in hell yet. But Taiwan is.
台行政院长因物价处理向民众致歉. BBC Chinese edition. May 30, 2008
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发帖数: 6973 | 9 That is the title of a report today by Associated Press. Taiwan's CPC Corp.,
a state-owned enterprise (SOE), expects to lose $2.7 billion this year,
compared with more than $300 million profit last year, due to government
control of proces for gasoline and natural gas--first by the Chen
administration and, even before Ma Ying-jeou's victory in presidential race
(one of whose campaign pledges was to freeze those prices), by Ma himself. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 10 Mr. Ma Ying-jeou in his presidential campaign played loose and fast. His
pledges showed he was ignorant, incompetent or downright lying. A few
questioned feasibility. Taiwanese bought them anyway. Now people--from
Taiwanese to Chinese to Americans--find out he is not a magician after all.
Everywhere the Ma administration and China turn, they encounter the
difficulty of Taiwan sovereignty, or lack of it. The issue is unavoidable.
(1) During campaign, Mr. Ma dismissed aviation between as "neither |
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发帖数: 6973 | 11 (1) Apparently I misinterpreted the report "Back to strait-talking" whose
second paragraph stated,
"With agreements on direct weekend charter flights and opening Taiwan to
Chinese tourists already reached through backdoor channels, the ARATS-SEF
talks will be the first-ever between the two sides where deals had been
struck beforehand."
(2) Upon reading it, my thought was,
"The agreement was reached between CCP Head (and China's president) Hu
Jintao and KMT head Wu Po-hsiung in the end of May. So |
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发帖数: 6973 | 13 In constrast to Bloomberg, Liberty Times of Taiwan, which is leaning toward
DPP, has the headline 六月核心物价指数 12年来新高.
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发帖数: 6973 | 14 There appeared a report just now:
林楠森, 台湾将停止中国游客中转赴台. BBC Chinese edition, Jul. 11, 2008.
A quote:
"台湾政府此前将到访的中国游客分为三类，第一类是直接从中国大陆赴台游客，第二
类是中转第三地赴台，第三类则是在海外定居或留学的中国公民。
"[Taiwan] 观光局官员对本台说，在第二类中国游客停止办理实施后，第三类中国游客
将继续接受办理。第二类中国游客多数是经由东南亚国家中转到台
"台湾观光局表示，未来直接从中国大陆赴台的游客必须通过中国公安部门的严格审查
，不符合高门坎者不可能拿到入台证，而且若发生脱逃事件，组团的大陆旅行社资格可
能被取消，可有效降低脱逃问题。
"在程序上这些拿到入台证的中国游客，其入台前还得通过台湾移民署的审核。
"在两岸开放直接赴台旅游前，台湾先行开放的第二类与第三类游客每日人数上限一千
人，以去年而言实际到台的第二类中国游客为78,805人，第三类则有3,029人。
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发帖数: 6973 | 15 But you are too old--you admitted that you are old. We only want young
people. We don't want retirees, who will need nursing homes and hospital
care. Just kidding.
Remember, Dr. Morris Chang, who invented the industry of foundry and at
present chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. (TSMC) was an
American all right. But he was oiginally from Mainland China, then under
Republic of China though.
Chinese have 1.4 billion now? |
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发帖数: 6973 | 16 Thanks in part to two typhoons (which damaged crops), Consumer Price Index (
CPI) was 5.92% from a year earlier. The June figure was 4.97%, a 12-year
high.
The news was leaked and reported in a wire report yesterday; a Taiwanese
agency officially annunced the July figure today.
Among major trading partners of Taiwan, the June CPI figure for China, Japan
and US are 7.1%, 1.9% (released on Jul. 24); and 5% (released on JUl. 16).
My comment: Goldman-Sach estimation for China's July CPI, to be offi |
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发帖数: 6973 | 17 The "s" in the end of the proper name "Don Quixote" means plural form.
Mark O'Neill, Taiwan's New Communist Party; An Anti Communist Bastion Allows
Reds to Regroup. Asia Sentinel, Aug. 6, 2008.
http://asiasentinel.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1371&Itemid=31
A quote:
"Its members will march in Taipei on October 10 to protest worsening
economic conditions.
"'Our main activities will be to stir the mass of people to utilize the
welfare they are entitled to and to help the weak,' Wa |
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发帖数: 6973 | 18 Kathrin Hille, Weak demand slows Taiwan’s growth. Financial Times, Aug. 22,
2008.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e3eef3e8-705b-11dd-b514-0000779fd18c.html
The report said the obvious. Pres. Ma campaigned on a promise to ahieve 6%
GDO, every year for four years. A month after inauguratio, the Ma
administration revised the figure to 5%, which is now unattainable.
My comment: Pres. Chen stepped down on May 20, 2008. He was responsible for
1/2. Pres. Ma naturally claims credit for Q1, 2008. So his 6%, or |
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发帖数: 6973 | 19 Yesterday (aug. 22, 2008) Taiwan released statistics.
www.dgbas.gov.tw
The first press release was titled "國民所得統計及國內經濟情勢展望: 預測97年
經濟成長4.30％，每人GNP 1萬8,883美元，CPI上升3.74％；96年每戶家庭可支配所得
92.4萬元，5等分位所得差距5.98倍。" In page 1, it said that the actual GDP
growth rate for the first quarter, 2008 (when Chen Shui-bian was president)
had been revised upward to 6.25% (from rough estimate 6.06% reported three
months ago)
("97年第1季依據最新指標修正經濟成長率為6.25％，較初估數6.06％上修0.19個百分
點")
Here is a summary of the data.
經濟成長率差一截 失業率 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 20 Kim Tong-Hyung, Samsung, LG Outsell Taiwanese LCD Rivals. Korea Times, Aug.
31, 2008.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2008/08/123_30271.html
Summary: In one month (July, 2008)--the latest for which data is available,
LCD manufacturers in South Korea attained 43.6% worldwide market share--in
units, not in revenue--of large-sized LCD (whose definition is "diagonal
dimensions of 10-inches or larger"). The figure for Taiwan as a whole is 43.
3%.
My comment:
(1) With "its inception on Novemb |
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发帖数: 6973 | 21 I knew it is complicated for outsiders. For example, when Pres. Hu Jintao of
China--People's Republic of China-- visited White House, the national
anthem that was played by American was that of Taiwan--Republic of China.
And the band was supposed to be professional!
This morning, around 9:15 am Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) I read this news
from a campus newspaper, Cornell University. I did not have problem with KMT
and CCP, but I could not figure out what "Republic of China" refers to.
Does the w |
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发帖数: 1262 | 22 没人理，难过吧？
我来总结，阿便是悲情演员，小马是戏剧演员，
台湾被玩得团团转，你是不是想表达这意思啊？哈哈哈阿
will
hours
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发帖数: 6973 | 26 That is the title of a report tomorrow (Oct. 19, available now) in Taipei
Times.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2008/10/19/2003426321
My comment: Last years, Congress submitted a list of nations for the Bush
administration to pick from. It was clear then Taiwan would not be chosen
this time--in the "immediate" category. There is always tomorrow. Besides,
who knows what the next administration will do?
Allison Schaefers, Isle officials pleased with plans to ease travel rules, A
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发帖数: 6973 | 27 Recently there are two court rulings on the fundamental question if Taiwan
is a nation.
Both lawsuits started before Ma Ying-jeou was elected.
The rulings are both preliminary, resolving the most basic in any lawsuit:
whether the plaintiff has capacity to sue. Only after a plaintiff passes
this and a similar test will a court decide the substance of the case.
In US, only a victim can sue in a civil case (and only state or federal
government can initiate a criminal proceeding); this is called "ca |
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发帖数: 6973 | 28 In a report today (Oct. 22, 2008) titled Taiwan Jobless Rate Rises More Than
Expected In September, global financila newswire RTT News states, "
Economists had expected the jobless rate to come in at 3.95% in September."
http://www.rttnews.com/Content/AllEconomicNews.aspx?Node=B2&Id=749452
(Please recall days ago, Pres. Ma Ying-jeou still cited 3.80% as
unemployment rate despite the fact that the August rate was 4.14%.
My comment:
(1) Taiwanese are angry. Chinese don't get it. KMT does not get i |
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发帖数: 6973 | 29 (1) 台绿营10月25日将举办大游行. VOA Chinese, Oct. 22, 2008
("前总统府资政辜宽敏 [under Chen Shui-bian] 还说，马英九的民意调查支持度只剩
下了一成九")
(2) My comment: The Ma administration acknowledges anger of Taiwan people,
but points the finger to China.
刘兆玄表示将确保陈云林访台安全. VOA Chinee, Oct. 22, 2008
("刘兆玄表示，台湾社会从中国毒奶粉事件开始累积的愤怒，政府都理解也察觉到了，
希望中国当局能就毒奶粉事件向台湾致歉。") |
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发帖数: 6973 | 30 , China boasted in Jabuary, 2008. What was not said was renminbi appreciated
against dollaes for more than 20% for the past two years. I shrugged at the
news.
A pro-KMT media outlet a few days ago lamented that Chinese seaports left
Kaohsiung, the largest seaport in Taiwan, in hte dust. I could not care less.
Now comes the truth.
广东省感受全球金融危机切肤之痛. VOA Chinese, Oct. 22, 2008
http://voanews.com/chinese/w2008-10-22-voa50.cfm
("深圳的盐田国际集装箱码头 * * * 有关接待人员对最新数字讳莫如深")
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发帖数: 6973 | 31 What I said just now is hi-tech exports of China are made in foreign owned
companies. The "foreign" can be many; Taiwan is just one of them.
But don't blame me for using "foreign" because China uses that term, for
statistical, tax (and so on) purposes.
If you ask about the (69%) figure, it is everywhere. A recent (less than for
days ago) posting of mine, deals with that (under the title of Finanial
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发帖数: 6973 | 34 Demetri Sevastopulo, Iraq exit most pressing military test [for Obama].
Financial Times, Nov. 5, 2008
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e4c2e3fc-ab60-11dd-b9e1-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
("[R]etired Admiral Dennis Blair, the former head of Pacific Command * * *
added that the Obama administration 'will almost certainly have to sell F-
16s to Taiwan. China knows that the US is not going to let the Taiwanese air
force rust away'") |
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发帖数: 6973 | 36 Kitty Go, Coral: For people ‘turned off by abundance.’Financial Times, Nov
. 8 (the web edition is dated Nov. 7), 2008.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bffade12-ab92-11dd-b9e1-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1
(a) In the print edition, there is a window with the following summary:
"Environmental and social factors have conspired to make coral the treasure
of the 21st century."
(b) Quote:
"most coral for jewellery comes from Asia and the Mediterranean, with Japan and Taiwan accounting for the majority o |
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发帖数: 6973 | 37 Well, Taiwanese may say Candidate Ma Ying-jeou promised a great future and
look what we got from Pres. Pres. Ma STILL says China is Taiwan's lifeline,
despite Taiwanese disillusion about tourists from China. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 39 Yesterday I learned that this news attached below is another example of the
Ma administratin dreaming once again. The news reports did not state clearly
that the attached was merely a PROPOSAL, which was not approved of but
NEEDS to be, by theLegislature, which may change part or the whole of the
proposal if it (Legislature) is in favor of the proposal at all (which I
doubt, for KMT has had absolute control of Taiwan Legislature since 1945--if
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发帖数: 5970 | 40 你是不是又跟人家说originally from taiwan, i have lived in us for 200 years.
i am too americanized to talk to you in taiwanese language @#@#$#@$@%#^&$%%$$
要是我也把你当个宝来招待啊
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发帖数: 6973 | 44 (A)
(1) Bruce Eihorn, Chipmakers on the Edge; Awash in inventory, global
companies are in deep trouble—and some are seeking bailouts. BusinessWeek,
Dec. 29 (cover date), 2008
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_52/b4114028404850.htm
("Taiwan may have the most at stake")
Note: While we are still with the magazine, I may as well mention the
commentary at page 8 of the same issue. Titled "Two Chinas Get Closer," it
mentioned the direct routes of planes, container ships and mail as of De |
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发帖数: 6973 | 45 for both men and women, at least by one research.
Roger Waite, Britain on top in casual sex league; A new study has found the
British are the most promiscuous western nation. Times of London, Nov. 30,
2008.
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/relationships/article5257166.ece
("The country with the highest rating was Finland, with an average of 51.
Taiwan came lowest, with 19.")
Note: The author, Dr. David Schmitt, is the chariperson of Gradley
University. nHis previous paper |
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发帖数: 6973 | 46 For years, I read news that companies or individuals bought or leased land
in another nation to grow crops.
Early last year, I proposed China buys out Taiwan, after a referendum among
Taiwanese whether to take up the offer. Out of thin air, I suggested a price
tag, $2 billion, about the foreign exchange reserve at the time (since then
, China's reserved has dropped a little).
Two days ago (Saturday) there was an interesting discussion about the cost
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发帖数: 6973 | 47 发信人: CIC (China Investment Corporate Ltd. ), 信区: Salon
标 题: Re: Taiwan's Worth if China Pays Cash (转载)
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Jan 13 15:26:31 2009)
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发帖数: 1578 | 48 pay to whom? taiwan is part of china |
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发帖数: 6973 | 49 Well, take employee buyout as an example. A company still HAS TO pay in that
situation.
Of course China's plan is if Pres. Ma Yong-jeou is president long enough,
Taiwan will fall into China the way a ripe apple falls to the ground. This
way, China won't pay a cent. The problem is a cheapskae gets nothing. |
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发帖数: 6973 | 50 Mark Magnier, Taiwan's 'betel nut beauties' drum up business, and debate.
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 22, 2009.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-betel-beauty22-2009jan22,3,2780234.story
My comment:
(a) Just watch the five photographs. No need to read.
(b) I am for the beauties. Down with feminists and Taiwanese governments. It
is none of their business. They are not prostitutes. Who cares what they
wear. It is not as if they are naked--even if they are, it is nothing to be
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