The Infallibility of Tsai Ing-wen

“Dr. Tsai” (as she is called by her foreign disciples), totally missed the topics that are important and most Taiwan people feel strongly about. Instead she chose  “social justice” (which essentially is the kind of Euro-socialism that drove Greece, Portugal and France into debt) and a “Taiwan consensus”  as the main topics of her campaign. The latter “Taiwan consensus” was especially detrimental to her election outcome. Not in the way, that most Taiwan people do not want a consensus in the ROC’s dealings with Mainland China, but given the DPP’s record in terrible Taiwan-Mainland relations, Tsai’s so called consensus did not seem like an actual consensus, but an excuse to halt and reverse all the progress that has been made in the previous four years of Ma Ying-jeou. And the voters in Taiwan know very well that their economic prosperity depends on the relations with Beijing, regardless of the legal status of Taiwan or even Taiwan independence.

Tsai Ing-wen’s “consensus” was regarded as too soft by staunch secessionists, the traditional DPP voters and as too ambiguous and potentially dangerous by unaffiliated voters who wished to see a reasonable, rather technocratic President. “Dr. Tsai” was however never regarded as a technocrat despite the pro-green media constantly referring to her as “Doctor” in contrast to the uneducated “Mr. Ma”. Which is all in all quite funny, as President Ma Ying-jeou is a Doctor of law.

In her election review Tsai Ing-wen once more exhibited her subtle arrogance and infallibility: she did not come up with any criticism for her campaign and blamed it all on Beijing and the Kuomintang.

Former Mainland Affairs Council vice chairman You Ying-lung (游盈隆) said the report lacked introspection, in particular about Tsai herself and her campaign team, and had totally “missed the point.”

Supporters of the Taiwan’s democracy should be happy about this, as exactly that behavior is the reason the DPP will continue loosing elections.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/02/17/2003525692

 

Taipei Times: Serious Identity Confusion

Have a look at the screenshot below from today’s online edition of the Taipei Times. Interestingly, while that English language propaganda rag published by the Liberty Times group is always very careful to not only constantly make a distinction between Taiwan and China* (as if these were different countries – ridiculous!), but also spread the typical nativist DPP-chauvinism, the folks at the Taipei Times have no issues whatsoever with making money off Mainland mail-order brides. Yes seriously, Chinese mail-order brides. The Taipei Times entered a whole new level of green journalism and is on its way of becoming another Taiwan News.

* Although usually the so called journalists at the Taipei Times do a terrible job at doing so: anybody involved in the martial law era government and public administration automatically becomes Chinese (read: bad!), anybody who contributed to Taiwan’s society becomes Taiwanese (read: holy!), regardless of his heritage. At times that general confusion can be really funny when Taiwan-born KMT politicians become Chinese Nationalists and China-born veterans involved in philanthropy become Taiwanese heroes. On a side note, it is worthy mentioning that the Taipei Times only accepts job applications of R.O.C. citizens – yet at the same time decries any kind of perceived discrimination of  Taiwanese abroad - such as being called Chinese. Now that surely is some tough discrimination…Please keep in mind that R.O.C. (Taiwan) passports list “Republic of China” as the nationality of the holder.

Political Dictionary

“DPP – Democratic Progressive Party” [民主進步黨; Mínzhǔ Jìnbù Dǎng] – association of nativist extremists pushing for a “republic of taiwan” and Hoklo nationalism.

The DPP is essentially a group of Mainland Chinese immigrants that came 5 minutes ago claiming to be the “true Taiwanese” and the only group to “truly love Taiwan” while considering those Mainland Chinese immigrants who came 2 minutes ago to be evil foreigners who are not  Taiwanese and unable to truly love Taiwan. Ironically these “true Taiwanese”  only became the “true Taiwanese” after they had stolen the island from aboriginal tribes.

These glorious days of Japanese Occupation…

Strangely enough many green leaning people on Taiwan transform their hatred for the Kuomintang into unconditional love for the Japanese occupation era. Sure – the Japanese constructed aqueducts, railroads (although that started under Qing Dynasty Chinese rule) and the iconic Presidential Office in Taipei.

By no means however did they offer democracy, civil rights, universal suffrage or equal rights to the people of Taiwan. Traitors like former R.O.C. President Lee Teng-hui at times proudly called themselves “Japanese”, fighting against their compatriots on the Chinese mainland. Taiwanese women had an often different approach of serving the Japanese: they (were forced to) spread their legs.

The Japanese are notorious for their lack of remorse over their war crimes during World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War – thus unsurprisingly Taiwan’s comfort women will probably not receive any sort of apology from the Tokyo government. The story of these Chinese women who were made to believe they are Japanese, only to be exploited by the “Asian Master Race” is now the topic of a documentary film. Surprisingly the Taipei Times has some coverage on this…

The plight of the Taiwanese comfort women serves as a prime example of how the Taiwan people were NOT considered equal by the Japanese, how they were essentially regarded nothing more than the hundreds of thousands enslaved Korean, mainland Chinese and Filipino women who suffered the same ordeals of rape, abuse and torture for the enjoyment of the Japanese soldiers.

Taiwan was the first victim of Japanese racism and expansionism in Asia and not more than a cheap source of sugar cane, young men for war and young women for amusement – Taiwan under Japanese rule was not the civilized, peaceful heaven senile old men like Lee Teng-hui or the minions of a Japanese-influenced “republic of taiwan” try to make the public believe it was.

Whoever claims that from 1895-1945 Taiwan was just like any other Japanese island and Taiwanese were basically Japanese who gladly served the emperor is an uneducated, ignorant fool and not better than those who defend Vichy France or the General Government of Poland.

The Tsai-Scare is Over !

Incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou won the Republic of China presidential elections at 51.6% of the total votes. Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the separatist and sinophobic “democratic progressive party (dpp)”  lost and just a few minutes ago resigned from her political offices. Finally, that Tsai-scare is over and the Republic of China is at peace again.