tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post2848649054328730872..comments2023-10-06T18:55:46.317+08:00Comments on That's Impossible! Politics from Taiwan: Taiwan Disaster阿牛http://www.blogger.com/profile/08403972286057197709noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-87877385527800456622011-10-11T05:20:51.070+08:002011-10-11T05:20:51.070+08:00I have a great deal of distaste for FLG, though tr...I have a great deal of distaste for FLG, though tremendous sympathy for their oppression.阿牛https://www.blogger.com/profile/08403972286057197709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-8943069161928866982011-10-10T01:36:41.983+08:002011-10-10T01:36:41.983+08:00This appears to be from the same school of politic...This appears to be from the same school of political journalism as the book “The Taiwan Crisis: China’s Plan to Annex Taiwan Without a Battle by 2012,”. This book formed the basis of a rather awful editorial in the TT a while back "quoting" Deng Xiao Ping talking about things which happened after he died, and had Hu Jin Tao basically slaying a whole load of sacred cows in a "secret" account of the 2008 speech seemingly known only to the author.<br /><br />Let me put it simply: you must treat FLG sources, and much of the bizarre, paranoid stuff which comes out of people associated with them, with about the same level of seriousness as stuff coming from The People's Daily. No serious Chinese affairs scholar believes the accounts given of the 2008 meeting, not least because the quotes don't even sound like the people quoted.<br /><br />FLG and the media they run (Epoch Daily, New Tang Dynasty TV) are, of course, still maintaining the fantasy that people are quitting the CCP en masse, when of course, no such thing has taken place. They also regularly carry stories about how people within China are more and more being won over by Li Hongzhi's "nine criticisms", when no-one there has ever heard of them. As such, they're already in the lying business, however much I might sympathise with people suffering oppression just because of their religious beliefs, I don't think we should blind ourselves to the way in which they've gone about fabricating stories. <br /><br />And the CCP trying to launch a political party in TW? Pull the other one, it has bells on.Gilman Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06607416440240634159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-60008010750636231842010-02-01T07:04:55.656+08:002010-02-01T07:04:55.656+08:00This sounds interesting and would love to read it....This sounds interesting and would love to read it. However, I'm in the UK and can't seem to find anywhere selling it. Would anyone like to post it on ebay?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3444895069543408811.post-80678380418878117982010-02-01T06:06:05.381+08:002010-02-01T06:06:05.381+08:00I've read it. The most striking value of this ...I've read it. The most striking value of this book, I think, is for the general public to understand that China is systematically planning to undermine Taiwan. For well-informed people who have costantly paid attention to cross-Strait affairs...yeah, it did not present too many SECRETS that you didn't know.<br /><br />I've also read some comments about the book and they all questioned the authencity of Yuan's source.<br /><br />One thing I know is that if Yuan's theory is all true, this theory is working pretty well and sticking to the CCP's plan. In other words, his theory makes sense.<br /><br />And we'll have to wait and see whether the KMT, Taiwanese and especially Taiwanese businessmen make this theory come true eventually.Chris Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08741744278825416944noreply@blogger.com