Saturday, November 08, 2008

Taiwan: the Chen Yunlin Visit

Read Michael Turton (plus links to many other analyses) and Brian Dunn on the new economic pact between China and Taiwan, along with its troubling corollaries both political and military.

Things are not good at all. AT ALL. Many of the Taiwanese know this and are deeply worried. Look at all the protests and demonstrations. But the Slick Smiling Sinophiliac Ma is rushing ahead anyway. The man is a disaster.

Good grief, I cannot believe all this is happening!

UPDATE 1: Ma is so much of a spineless jellyfish that he can't even defend his own official title and position. He called Chen by Chen's title. Chen called Ma "you." No title, no honorific, nothing. It's insulting.

UPDATE 2: the Chen Yunlin visit has deepened an already large rift between "the two Taiwans."

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