tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post2770473035152365734..comments2023-10-06T18:55:46.317+08:00Comments on That's Impossible! Politics from Taiwan: Ma's baby steps阿牛http://www.blogger.com/profile/08403972286057197709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-84510793891924357462008-05-22T03:53:00.000+08:002008-05-22T03:53:00.000+08:00Ironic Raj, are you just pretending not to remembe...<I>Ironic Raj, are you just pretending not to remember all the times that the Chinese Nationalist Party and Ma Ying-jeou himself said that it was "childish" and "meaningless" when the DPP rectified names?</I><BR/><BR/>No, because I never said the KMT or Ma were mature. They doubtless have a you-started-it mentality that "justifies" them undoing such changes.Rajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10034317459759343093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-62915166430580233822008-05-22T03:40:00.000+08:002008-05-22T03:40:00.000+08:00A-gu, a clip from SET News shown on Talking Show W...A-gu, a clip from <I>SET News</I> shown on <I>Talking Show</I> Wednesday night mentioned that "Taiwan" was added to the centerpiece of the <I>Youth Daily</I> in August, 2007.<BR/><BR/>Excuse the typo in my earlier comment -- "saying telling" should read "telling" only.<BR/><BR/>Ironic Raj, are you just <I>pretending</I> not to remember all the times that the Chinese Nationalist Party and Ma Ying-jeou himself said that it was "<A HREF="http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/2007/02/11/102275/Ma-says.htm" REL="nofollow" TITLE="China Post-'Ma says name rectification 'childish''">childish</A>" and "meaningless" when the DPP rectified names? <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://indiac.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!">Tim Maddog</A>Tim Maddoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16943522529132663780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-50714766398210375432008-05-22T02:53:00.000+08:002008-05-22T02:53:00.000+08:00Why do they hate Taiwan?They don't "hate" Taiwan -...<I>Why do they hate Taiwan?</I><BR/><BR/>They don't "hate" Taiwan - that's the core of the Republic of China after all!<BR/><BR/>But I think they prefer the ROC's title as it is and are happy to change things the DPP did because to them the DPP years were "bad". So theyre turning everything back to the "good old days" of the KMT ruling.Rajhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10034317459759343093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-21958907614030031302008-05-21T21:18:00.000+08:002008-05-21T21:18:00.000+08:00I watched the video. The best part is DPP legislat...I watched the video. The best part is DPP legislator Tsai Huang-liang (蔡煌瑯) saying telling the new Minister of National Defense, Chen Chao-ming (陳肇敏) that he doesn't want to "play word games."<BR/><BR/>In similar news via <A HREF="http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2008/new/may/21/today-o1.htm" REL="nofollow" TITLE="''馬上,拿掉台灣''">today's <I>Liberty Times</I></A> (自由時報), <A HREF="http://www.president.gov.tw/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="Office of the President, 馬上給中國了 . .">the Presidential Office web site</A> has removed "台灣" ("Taiwan," for those who can't see or read it) from the Chinese part of the header banner, though it's still there in parentheses at the end of the English part.<BR/><BR/>I uploaded a <A HREF="http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/9206/detaiwanificationoftaiwju1.jpg" REL="nofollow" TITLE="The De-Taiwanification of Taiwan">before and after image</A> of the changes since it wasn't online (sorry for the blur), and here's <A HREF="http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2008/new/may/21/today-o10.htm" REL="nofollow" TITLE="Sending Taiwan to the recycler">today's <I>Liberty Times</I> editorial cartoon</A> about the topic (from their site).<BR/><BR/>The word "Taiwan" was added to the Presidential Office web site <A HREF="http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2005/07/31/2003265774" REL="nofollow" TITLE="''so that visitors won't confuse the country with the People's Republic of China''">in July, 2005</A>, a year into Chen Shui-bian's second term [bold emphasis mine]:<BR/>- - -<BR/><I>Sunday, Jul 31, 2005, Page 3<BR/><BR/>In a bid <B>to avoid the confusion between "Republic of China" and "People's Republic of China,"</B> the Presidential Office decided to add the word "Taiwan" next to "Republic of China" on its Web site yesterday.<BR/><BR/>With that word, the country's formal title now reads as the "Republic of China (Taiwan)" rather than "Republic of China" in the English vision. <B>Traditional and simplified Chinese characters are also included on the Web site also have the word "Taiwan."</B></I><BR/>- - -<BR/><BR/>Why remove the Chinese but not the English? Is it to fool those who wouldn't be looking at the Chinese, to fool those who wouldn't be looking at the English, or to fool both of those groups?<BR/><BR/>Yes, this is just the very beginning of the things that we all knew would happen.<BR/><BR/>Why do they hate Taiwan?<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://indiac.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow" TITLE="It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!">Tim Maddog</A>Tim Maddoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16943522529132663780noreply@blogger.com