美國紐約時報
(New
York Times), 1-11-2020 指出:台灣的民主社會活躍, 但年輕不成熟、時而
亂糟糟、甚至亂七八糟 (Taiwan’s
young and vibrant, if messy at times, democratic society. )。New
York Times
12-3-2019 也報導台灣仍然允許社區、農會、甚至幫會在選舉
時買票作弊
(
soft underbelly of
Taiwanese politics: patronage networks.
they continue to
allow
community leaders, farmers’ associations and even
organized-crime figures to buy votes)。
Reuters、
紐約時報 6-28-2020:
台灣的民主肆無忌憚, 在國會打群架抗爭屢見不鮮
( Taiwan is a rambunctious democracy and fights and protests inside the
parliament building are not uncommon). 英國
Express (UK) 6-29-2020:
台灣的民主充斥肢體暴力、抗議、真是激烈熱鬧 (Taiwan’s democracy
is boisterous with fights and protests a common occurrence inside the parliament
building)。6月底國民黨佔領了台灣立法院,
以抗議政府的“暴政” ― 過半席次的民進黨立委強行通過法案以及總統提名親信陳菊擔任監察院長(英國Express)、因陳菊在高雄市長任內的團隊，遭到監察院調查糾正
彈劾共
九十餘案
(英國BBC, 6-29-2020)，入主監院後是否對自己團隊開鍘令國民黨存疑; 民進黨隨後人多勢強突破僵局。
總部紐約的美加媒體VICE(6-30-2020)認為: 這種衝突西方人覺得極端，但在台灣議會的發生卻有一定的規律性，大混戰的目的是作秀。選民與支持者顯然吃這套才會一再上演。
台灣政客的立院『暴力』、街頭『抗爭』迄今已30、
40多年 (ref. 中時社論7-4-2020,
民視7-2-2020)。 New
York Times
(https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/28/world/asia/28reuters-taiwan-politics.html)
與US News & World Report (6-28-2020) 評論:
國民黨正在進行政策改革，以爭取民眾支持，但面臨艱鉅的鬥爭。
台灣的民主
欠缺制衡,
除了執政vs.在野
如此, 政治vs.媒體、行政vs.立法
也都類似;
《日本経済新聞》(
Nihon Keizai Shimbun, editorial,
5-21-2020) 與
台灣蘋果日報 ( 社論, 6-10-2020 )
指出目前沒有一個健全、相當民意支持的反對黨，台灣民主和發展將有重大危機,
國民黨應努力重振。
甚至親綠的自由時報1-12-2020
社論 也批評: 完全執政的腐壞氣息已現。自由時報
7-6-2020 社論再評: 缺乏強力監督制衡，是民主政治的最大風險；這在所有民主國家皆然。
此外，法國RSF,
<Reporters
Sans Frontieres> (5-16-2020)
批評台灣的政治阻擾新聞的制衡角色
。蘋果日報 ( 社論, 6-16-2020 )
抨擊
台灣政治依舊干預媒體、政媒不分。英國牛津大學Digital News Report (2020) by Oxford
university (UK) Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism:
台灣人信賴新聞媒體的比例僅24％
，是全球最低國家之一 。
★e
★ 英國
Express (UK) , scmp, 6-29-2020: 國民黨立委佔據立法院...台灣的民主熱鬧非凡，打架、抗議 是國會常見的現象。
(Taiwan’s democracy is boisterous with fights and
protests a common occurrence inside the parliament
building. )
EIU: at a minimum, the
fundamental features of a democracy include government based on
majority rule and the consent of the governed; the existence of free
and fair elections; the protection of minority rights; and respect
for basic human rights.
★
★
Overall Score
近年總分比較
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
Korea 南韓
8
8
8
7.92
7.97
Taiwan 台灣
7.73
7.73
7.73
7.79
7.83
★
依據歐洲丹麥的 Denmark's
Democracy Perception Index 2020 ( 民主認知指數 DPI ) , the largest annual study on
democracy, conducted & released by Dalia at 6-15-2020:
★
Democracy Perception Index,
released in 6-15-2020
Taiwan
台灣
China
大陸
Korea
韓國
Hong Kong
香港
Japan
日本
Singapore
新加坡
USA
美國
My country is democratic
你的國家是一個民主國家？
78%
73
75
37
46
65
49
Democracy is important
民主重要"
85%
84
85
64
60
80
73
% believe there is not enough democracy in
their country 民主不足?
9%
10
7
45
23
21
36
interference from a foreign power will
likely influence the results of their country 's next election 外力影響選舉?
2020 World Press Freedom
Index, RSF (Reporters without Borders)
新聞言論自由指標
Country / Ranks in
recent yrs.
2020
2019
2018
Norway
No. 1
omitted
omitted
Korea
No. 42
No. 41
No. 43
Taiwan
No. 43
No. 42
No. 42
★e
近年來台灣人民的自由受到愈多的限制與干擾，因此台灣的『民主』，恐非
西方為了對比中共所評價或讚揚(如'世界典範'、
'民主
自由燈塔')那麼的好。e.g., <中國時報>
2-26-2020:
「民主成就」的背後，卻是愈來愈不受節制的行政權與萎縮的立法權，言論自由受到行政、司法權層層威脅...政治文化只問黨派立場與意識形態
。蘋果日報
12-14-2019
社論:
自2016年民進黨執政起，逐漸出現這種威權式政治文化
。中時11-29-2019
社論:
台灣政府背離民主常軌。 蘋果日報
3-29-2019
社論:
民主自由是不可失守的底線, 執政者尤其不該渾水摸魚, 製造寒蟬效應
(https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20190329/38294369/)
。<聯合報>
社論,
6-23-2019:
大數據成為政客操縱民意的利器，民主運作往往偏離多數民意，無法解決民主倒退的困境...
(brief)
中國時報
3-29-2019 頭條新聞:
不容打著民主招牌反民主,
走向歐威爾式(Orwellian) 獨裁。美國CNBC 7-3-2020: "Taiwan slams Hong Kong national security law!" ("台灣抨擊香港國安法"
(BBC, 6-30-2020:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-52765838)) ;
只是, 台灣實務上很可能比起香港新版國安法 "People
suspected
of
breaking
the
law
can
be wire-tapped
and
put
under
surveillance"
(嫌疑犯法者可被竊聽監視) 等更黯黑, 台灣Yahoo News等媒體
(https://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1384937;
tw.news.yahoo.com/港台-樣-國民黨-蔡英文國安五法-易陷人於罪-111255474.html;
www.dw.com/zh/台湾国安五法修畢下一步防范外国代理人/a-49549462
) 報導國民黨與馬英九等指出台灣的國安法也不遑多讓 ，
還有「反滲透法」，都「定義不清」，易陷人於罪。此外 , 聯合報
(9-19-2018):
"「東廠們」已經活躍在我們四周....;
蘋果日報 (5-28-2018) ,
台大教授林鈺雄:
歐洲個資法(EU
General
Data
Protection
Regulation
- GDPR)正式上路,
台灣卻甚至反其道而行;聯合報
社論,
(3-31-2019)
:跟蹤騷擾防制法二讀遭撤...;聯合報
(11-2-2018) 頭版頭條
「 老大哥正看著你」幾乎確定引起「寒蟬效應」。ps:
台灣隱私
、
政治迫害
、言論自由
( TOP on the net ! )
★e
美國 Brooking.edu (brookings.edu/research/taiwans-democracy-and-the-china-challenge/)評論:台灣的民主制度仍將受到挑战，台灣成熟的經濟成長减缓，社會和經濟的不平等加
劇，民間社會的積極性反映出，在某些方面，人們越
來越對民代的表现感到失望。台灣政治制度的表现也並不出色，仍然
處於相當僵局的狀態，
而且在國内問题上存在長期分歧，例如如何保持經濟競争力和確保公平，是否结束對核電的依赖等等，這很大程度上使它陷入困境。现任民進
黨政府面臨中国大陸多管齊下的壓力，政治層峰一直無法（或不願）就中共挑戰提出艱難的選擇，更不用說做出選擇，或明白清楚的告知民眾。
( Taiwan faces a special and perhaps unique challenge in balancing
democracy and security ( threats from PRC ). Civil society activism
reflects a growing disenchantment in some quarters with the performance of
representative institutions. Taiwan's political system remains
fairly gridlocked and largely consumed by long-standing differences over
domestic issues, such as how to maintain economic competitiveness and ensure
equity, whether to end reliance on nuclear power, and so on. political
leaders have been unable (or unwilling) to formulate the tough choices
surrounding Taiwan’s China challenge, much less to make those choices or
articulate them to the public.)
★e
另一個例子是日本時報
(Japan Times, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2020/03/02/commentary/world-commentary/democratic-taiwan-outperformed-authoritarian-china/#.Xtw1MFUzaUk)
在 3-2-2020 評論: 民主台灣表現勝過專制中国 ( democratic Taiwan outperformed
authoritarian China )
，因為民主政府必须承擔與民眾溝通且負责的重任，只有確保民主社會訊息的自由流通，才能建設健康的社会; 台灣證明了民主在遏制COVID-19的
傳染方面取得了成功，超過專制中国的表現。
( because only when we ensure the free flow of information in a democracy
can we construct a healthy society, Taiwan proves that the democratic strategy
is successful in curbing the spread of COVID-19.)
然而, 美國 New York Post,
4-25-2020 卻報導 : 台灣處理疫情是採用專制(非民主)的手法,
幾乎每個國民都被監視
( "a
lot more authoritarian.", "almost everyone is tracked." ) ;
台灣政府立即反駁
― 專制是人民願意配合。
但是事情真相是, 台灣以防疫為名，「老大哥」早已侵入千家萬戶，而且
是偷偷摸摸侵入，直到開始「大外宣」，政府才自曝
已經對人民電子監控;
台灣的抗疫成績，也來自凌駕憲法的侵權禁令，以及無法源下資通科技監控的資訊。(
ref. to
聯合社論 United Daily, editorial, 5-7-2020).
更諷刺的是, 日本根本不太信任台灣,
解封後觀光旅遊不歡迎『民主』台灣,
最近很多國家開放觀光，但不把我們列入開放名單;
歐盟的安全名單包括『專制』中国，
但不歡迎『民主』台灣,據分析是因為台灣一直不肯普篩、甚至小規模篩檢也不肯,
篩檢方式不按國際規則，不被國際承認，篩檢比例是全球第138,
和非洲國家相近，盧安達(Luanda)還比台灣多兩倍，遮遮掩掩,訊息不自由透明 (
ref. to 中時社論 China Times, editorial , 6-6-2020,
6-25-2020 ),
危及他國健康。專家呼籲擴大篩檢，卻遭到網軍攻擊。
但仍有中研院研究員何美鄉(7-8-2020, apple daily)警告台灣無症狀者多。台灣只顧宣傳『零確診』所為何由??New
York Times(紐約時報), 4-21-2020: A widely cited paper estimated that 44 percent of
new infections were a result of transmission from people who were not yet
showing symptoms.(估計有44％的新感染者是尚未出現症狀者傳播給他們的)
美國
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, USA
專家Anthony Fauci
(4-15-2020) 認為25%~ 50%的感染者無症狀或不發病、但仍會傳播病毒。Bill
Gates在
權威的<新英格蘭>期刊指出無症狀者傳播病毒
難防、將使得全球努力遏制的疫情不容樂觀。國際主要的調查(CNBC
5-7-2020,
Singapore's Blackbox Research and Toluna, Forbes 6-5-2020, 4-16-2020: The Deep Knowledge Group)
都將中國的防疫排名在台灣之前 。
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(台灣民主)on US Bing,
7-7-2020, 6-28-2020, 6-22-2020
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7-6-2020
pic.: No.1 "Taiwan democracy" (台灣民主)
on Dogpile, 7-7-2020, 6-25-2020, 6-21-2020
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on Lycos,
6-25-2020,
6-21-2020
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on Excite,
6-25-2020,
6-21-2020 ( items above are ads )
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6-25-2020,
6-21-2020
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Germany,
6-25-2020,
6-21-2020
pic.: No.1 "Taiwan democracy" on Webcrawler,
6-25-2020,
6-21-2020
香港新版國安法 "People
suspected
of
breaking
the
law
can
be wire-tapped
and
put
under
surveillance"
(嫌疑犯法者可被監視) ;
台灣大概早已執行如此黯黑專制 ! 下圖為約60年前美國FBI跟蹤到餐廳監視黑幫, 結果輸了官司還上大報頭條
(courtesy US TV)
★
Taiwan Yahoo News, Liberty Times, 7-8-2020: 國民黨與馬英九等指出台灣的國安法也不遑多讓
，
還有「反滲透法」，都「定義不清」，易陷人於罪。
聯合報
(11-2-2018) 頭版頭條
「 老大哥正看著你」幾乎確定引起「寒蟬效應」;
United Daily
(9-19-2018):「東廠們」已經活躍在我們四周..
蘋果日報,
5-28-2018:
歐洲個資法(EU
General
Data
Protection
Regulation
- GDPR)正式上路,
台灣甚至反其道而行
/NTU
professor
林鈺雄
SET(三立電視), 9-24-2013 "Secret
agents govern the nation (特務治國)" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdZCdYrwF4;
Era TV, 年代電視,
9-22-2013;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1b4R2m6K3g;
"Secret
agent
systems
resurgence
to
control
the
nation
(特務復辟治國)";
★e
此外，台灣人民
一再被批評『理盲』欠缺理性(
<蘋果日報>, 10-22-2019, <聯合報>,
頭版頭條, 9-3-2009)，民主的選擇是否精確
或反覆? 比方，紐約時報
6-6-2020 指出台灣罷韓透露
民眾對中国的堅決態度
( a hardening of Taiwan’s
attitude toward
China
)；但＜台灣民意基金會
＞2018年中旬的民調發現，較多
的台灣民眾對中共的好感度超過惡感
；美國華盛頓郵報（Washington
Post）評論:
台灣人民 83%
選擇麵包(大陸經濟)而非愛情(台獨)。澳洲 ABC Radio National,
2-27-2020
與德國 German Institute for Intl and
Security Affairs 2-7-2020
報導，台灣人民對於中共
的「鐵腕」打壓香港示威感到
恐懼不安，
是蔡英文大勝連任的原因之一，但
之前台灣人民不是早知道中共
的「鐵腕」血腥鎮壓天安門?
或不大知道，
美國也有「鐵腕」對著 Kent
State University (肯特州立大學)抗議
的美國大學生槍擊，結果
造成13名年輕人死傷 (又稱
"May 4 massacre", "五四大屠殺")、George
Floyd抗議也已引起近20人喪生......。
Taiwanese voices & choices
紐約時報 New York Times, 5-12-2020,
Pew Research Center
52% support closer economic ties
with China, only 36% favor closer political ties.
五成多人民希望維持與大陸良好的經濟關係，三成多希望較緊密的政治關係
(
中時社論 6-13-2020: 對大陸出口比重達41.5%，是近10年來最高點，出口美國增為14.5%，是近14年新高，成為第二大出口國。)
紐約時報 New
York Times,
1-19-2019
Most of Taiwan's 23 million
people are in favor of maintaining the island's de facto independence
without taking any formal moves that might bring a military response
from China
台灣大多數人民想維持實質自治，但也不想招惹共軍犯台
洛杉磯時報L.A. Times,
8-1-2019
opinion surveys conducted by the
Taiwanese government that show more than 80% of islanders prefer
autonomy.
台灣人民希望自治
華盛頓郵報Washington Post,
1-2-2017
Taiwanese are not willing to
pursue independence at all costs. Many are concerned with the economy.
When asked to choose between formal independence or maintaining economic
ties with China, 83 percent chose bread over romance.台灣人民不會不計代價追求獨立,
83% 選擇麵包(大陸經濟)而非愛情(台獨)
台自由時報
蘋果日報 中國時報
Liberty
Times,
Apple
Daily,
China
Times,
6-18-2018,
FocusTaiwan
6-17-2018
China
has
higher
favorable
than
unfavorable
rating
in
Taiwan:
poll
/
A survey
conducted
by the
Taiwanese
Public
Opinion
Foundation
(台灣民意基金會)
found
China
with a
48.8
percent favorability
rating
among
respondents
and a
43.9
percent
unfavorability
rating,
the
first
time a
majority
of
respondents
in the
annual
poll saw
China
favorably.
台灣較多民眾對中共的好感度超過惡感
蘋果日報 Apple Daily (Taiwan),
opinion, 10-11-2017
Only 5- % Taiwanese
favour
independence or unification, about 70% in total are for conditional independence
and conditional unification. 七成台灣人偏向有條件統一或有條件獨立
紐約時報 New York Times, 6-6-2020
Voters in Taiwan Oust a
Pro-China Mayor ... reflects a stunning reversal and a hardening of Taiwan’s
attitude toward
China
National Interest, 6-16-2020
even when support for the independence
movement is highest in history now, “maintaining the status quo forever” and
“decide later” still has over 50 percent of the support among the public.
50+%支持維持現狀等 Another survey results also showed that the public understands that the
status quo is a choice of convenience, in which more than 60.3 percent of
the respondents opposed Taiwan's independence if it is followed by China’s
military invasion... 60.3%台灣人民反台獨
，如果台獨導致戰爭 https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-taiwan-continues-fear-chinese-invasion-162879
Ref.:
★ 澳洲 The
LOWY Institute ,
The Interpreter
,
6-16-2020
: 美國政策推動台獨(US
intends to promote Taiwan independence)...
將台灣當作挫败北京的工具，會危害台灣的安全。
（treating
Taiwan as a conduit to frustrate Beijing imperils Taiwan’s security）。https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/taiwan-s-wildcard
★
美國
紐約時報 New York Times, 1-10-2020:
Scholars say that Taiwan has
been the target of a Russian-style social media disinformation
campaign by China, designed to exploit social divisions and
undermine democracy. A study by the V-Dem Institute at the
University of Gothenburg in Sweden found that Taiwan was the
territory most exposed to foreign disinformation, based on weighted
ratings by experts.
中共
之俄羅斯式的社交媒體假訊息破壞台灣民主
★
★ 英國Express (UK), SCMP,
6-29-2020 (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3090980/fighting-erupts-taiwans-parliament-after-opposition-kmt
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1302350/taiwan-news-protest-kuomintang-democratic-progressive-party-latest) : 民進黨在議會中佔多數席次、迫使法案通過、
蔡並提名了她的高級助手陳菊來領導監察院。使國民黨別無選擇，只能佔領立法院進行議會抵制。”台灣的民主熱鬧非凡，國會大廈內的打鬥與抗議成了普遍現象"(
Taiwan’s democracy is boisterous with fights and protests a common occurrence
inside the parliament building.)。BBC, 台灣聯合報, 中國時報 6-29-2020 報導(https://www.chinatimes.com/realtimenews/20200629000901-260407?chdtv;https://udn.com/news/story/121440/4665776) : 國民黨表示，陳菊任高雄市長期間，市府團隊遭到監察院調查58案，糾正案30案、彈劾案3案，她進到監察院是要辦案還是要吃案? 此外，
陳菊前年市長任期沒做好做滿，就落跑去，留下3000億負債、5000天坑◦
★
★
華爾街日報 Wall Street Journal, Jan
24, 2020 www.wsj.com/articles/taiwans-democracy-is-thriving-and-needs-support-11579902281
台灣選民出聲了 他們不能放棄自由民主 因此國際的支持非常重要 (Taiwan’s voters have spoken. They
cannot give up on their freedom and democracy, and the international community’s
support is all the more important
...)
★★
★
美國 Washington
Monthly, 3-11-2020,
"The Anomaly of Taiwanese Democracy"
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/03/11/the-anomaly-of-taiwanese-democracy/
台灣民主政治成功地舉行了迄今最重要的選舉，蔡英文連任，中共恐嚇策略似乎因輿論對北京的批評
、中共鎮壓香港示威而適得其反，另一個關鍵因素是美國，
它提供台灣防衛武器，幾十年來阻止中國對台侵略，為台北帶來了一定程度的保證。
但美國民眾是否準備好捲入台海戰爭?
尚無定論。
(China's) intimidation tactics appear to have backfired by souring public
opinion towards Beijing. China also did itself no favors with its response to
protests in Hong Kong, which Tsai and her DPP colleagues used as a powerful
cautionary tale. Tsai won the largest victory of any presidential candidate in
the history of the island. But another crucial factor in Taiwan’s
defiance was the United States, which has provided Taiwan’s government with arms
and for decades sought to deter Chinese aggression against the island. This has
created a degree of reassurance for Taipei in the face of China’s overwhelming
military dominance. (ps: After nearly twenty years of exhausting and
pointless war in the Middle East and Afghanistan, it’s not wrong to ask whether
the American public is ready to involve itself in yet another overseas conflict
predicated on strategic reasoning that is largely irrelevant to the major
challenges facing the United States today.)
★
★《日本經濟新聞》,5-21-2020,
社論: 外界應再度注視台灣民主政治的價值。( ref. to 蘋果日報, 5-22-2020 )
★
美國白宮White House
10-24-2019: we've
stood by Taiwan in defense of her hard-won freedoms...
recognized Taiwan’s place as one of the world’s great trading economies and
beacons of Chinese culture and democracy...
我们站在台湾身邊捍衛它得來不易的自由。台湾是中国文化和民主的灯塔。while our
administration will continue to respect the One China Policy — as reflected in
the three joint communiqués and the Taiwan Relations Act — through checkbook
diplomacy, over the past year China has induced two more nations to switch
diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing, increasing pressure on the
democracy in Taiwan...
America will always believe that Taiwan’s embrace of democracy shows a better
path for all the Chinese people.
美国永遠相信台湾擁抱民主 对所有中国人民来说都是一条更好的道路。” ( https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-frederic-v-malek-memorial-lecture/)
★
Washington Examiner 10-4-2018:
Pence: China should follow Taiwan’s lead to democracy
中国應效法跟台湾的民主
/ [China’s] Communist Party insists that Confucian cultures, with their
high regard for social hierarchy and top-down authority, are inherently unsuited
to liberal democracy,” the Hudson Institute’s John Lee wrote in 2015. “While
this so-called renegade province makes up only 1.5 percent of the population of
greater China, it is the most successful and vibrant Chinese model on offer.”
共产党坚持，儒家文化高度重视社会等级制度和自上而下的權威，因此不適合採行自由民主制度。但僅占大中華地區人口的1.5％的地方台灣，卻提供最成功，最具活力的中国模式。”
( https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/pence-china-should-follow-taiwans-lead-to-democracy)
★
★
Sunflower movement marked a major
milestone on Taiwan’s road to civil disobedience
◆ The
Diplomat, 8-16-2019: The cross-fertilization of social movements has
played a crucial role among activists from Hong Kong and Taiwan, especially
among an entire generation influenced by the twin movements of 2014 — Taiwan’s
Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong’s Umbrella Revolution. (
https://thediplomat.com/2019/08/taiwans-silk-road-of-democracy/
)
◆
New York Times, 10-15-2019: On March 18,
2014, hundreds of young activists, most of them college students, occupied
Taiwan’s legislature to express their profound opposition to a new trade pact
with Beijing then under consideration, as well as the secretive manner in which
it was being pushed through Parliament by the Kuomintang, the ruling party.
the Sunflower Movement protesters demanded that the pact be scrapped and that
the government institute a more transparent ratification process. (
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/15/opinion/taiwan-digital-democracy.html
By Audrey Tang) 數百名年輕的活動人士 —— 其中大多數是大學生
——
透過佔領台灣立法院來反對當時正在考慮中的台北北京的新貿易協定，以及執政黨國民黨推動的祕密方式...抗議者要求廢除該協定，並要求政府建立一個更透明的批准程序，由此產生的就是後來說的「太陽花運動」。在政府承諾加強對該貿易協定的立法監督後，這場得到廣泛公眾支持的佔領在三週多後結束。（直到今天，該協議仍未得到台灣立法機構的批准。）
◆
The Diplomat, April 2020 : 太陽花學運抗議者 高院改判有罪 ！
Taiwan High Court Overturns Acquittals, Finds Sunflower Movement Protesters
Guilty / The High Court’s decision to overturn not guilty verdicts for
seven protesters who stormed the Executive Yuan led to outrage from civil
society figures. ( thediplomat.com/2020/04/taiwan-high-court-overturns-acquittals-finds-sunflower-movement-protesters-guilty/
)
◆
Taipei Times, 5-27-2020:
「太陽花學運」是台灣公民不服從之路的里程碑The Sunflower movement marked a major milestone on
Taiwan’s road to civil disobedience; it is the duty of conscientious
citizens to protest unjust government actions by openly breaking the law
to achieve a higher moral aim, while at the same time being willing to
face the consequences.
In a constitutional
democracy, citizens are endowed with the inherent right of civil
resistance, because the state is given sovereign power by the people
based on the principle of popular sovereignty. Citizens are entitled to
engage in civil disobedience if a democratic government chooses not
to play by the constitutional rules. In 2014, then-president
Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration, without complying with
democratic rules, intended to arbitrarily finish the legislative
process of the Cross-Strait Service and Trade Agreement (CSSTA).
Yet on April 28, the High
Court, overturning a lower court’s not-guilty verdict, denied that
civil disobedience was applicable and found seven Sunflower movement
figures guilty of inciting people to storm the Executive Yuan on
March 23, 2014. ( https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2020/05/27/2003737099
5-27-2020; https://hongkongfp.com/2018/03/13/taiwan-high-court-upholds-acquittal-sunflower-activists/
)
il s’agit pour la démocratie taïwanaise de creuser
l’écart, d’un point de vue moral, avec une Chine continentale engluée dans
l’autoritarisme...
(KMT), l’ex-parti unique, qui se posait en défenseur de la démocratie mais se
préoccupait avant tout de veiller au grain. ( brief
蔡英文推動轉型正義
)
PS: 但更應處理今日之政治迫害
★
★
Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/10/05/taiwan/
Taiwan is revolutionizing democracy 10-5-2018
TAIPEI — Compared
to the established democracies of the West, Taiwan's is still in
its infancy ... 台北—與西方成熟的民主國家相比，台灣仍處於起步階段。
★中
★
澳大利亞
ABC Radio National, Australia,
27 February 2020
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-02-27/taiwan-independent-nation-democracy-in-shadow-of-china/11981540
It's a
vibrant democracy... a record
57 per cent of the electorate voting overwhelmingly for Tsai Ing-wen's
...
Why? 蔡英文大勝:
(1) Beijing has long talked about forcing Taiwan to become part of
China under a Hong Kong-style "one country, two systems" arrangement, but the
heavy-handed way in which protesters were dealt with in Hong Kong made Taiwanese
voters uneasy
中共在香港與示威者打交道的嚴厲做法使台灣選民感到不安
(2) "The KMT (
widely seen by analysts as being far more
pro-Beijing ) must convince the
general public that it only engages the mainland for the purposes of creating
peace, and that it would never sell out Taiwan"
國民黨必須說服人民，它只是為了和平與大陸接觸，絕不會出賣台灣。
★
★
德國 German Institute for Intl and
security affairs, 2 -7-2020 www.swp-berlin.org/10.18449/2020C07/
Taiwan’s Threatened Democracy Stays on Course / Fear of China’s
Dictatorship Pushes Taiwan’s President to a Landslide Victory
選民恐懼中共高壓管理 使蔡英文壓倒式大勝
the
People’s Republic will continue to try to infiltrate Taiwan’s democracy ...
Taiwan’s democracy is probably the world’s biggest victim of the “sharp
power” of the People’s Republic...
★
★
丹麥 Copenhagen Democracy Summit /
Taiwan President Tsai via video
Democracy is in our DNA. It is what makes us Taiwanese. To forfeit our freedom
would be to forfeit the foundation of our nation ... democratic Taiwan—with its
respect for the rule of law, human rights, and intellectual property, its
talented workforce, and its strong and trustworthy track record in high-tech
industries—welcomes your investment.
(ps:
台灣危機
ps2: 台灣司法
ps3:台灣人權
)
★
中国
CGTN 6-22-2020: China's
the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council
commented on Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen's recent video speech at
the "2020 Copenhagen Democracy Summit," calling it another "political
manipulation" under the banner of "democracy." 台灣 打著民主旗幟反民主
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2020-06-22/Mainland-calls-for-cross-Strait-unity-against-Taiwan-independence--RxbHik9L5m/index.html
★
South China Morning Post, may '08:
李登輝於 1996年勝選成為首任民主總統,
但由於腐敗指控而使李登輝的“民主先生”形象受損，民進黨在2000年大選中結束了國民黨統治的五十年。這是台灣民主化的轉折點。“台灣第一次權力轉移，是以和平方式進行的”。但是民進黨的統治只持續了八年，總統陳水扁涉嫌一系列腐敗醜聞，使他入獄。(Lee's 'Mr
Democracy' image tainted by allegations of corruption, the DPP ended five
decades of KMT rule in the election of 2000. This was a turning point for
Taiwan's democratisation.'It was the
first transition of power in Taiwan, and notably conducted in a peaceful way...But the
DPP's rule lasted for only eight years, with president Chen Shui-bian bowing out
at the end of his second term after he was implicated in a series of corruption
scandals which subsequently landed him in prison.)
台灣民主歷史:https://www.scmp.com/article/981433/why-taiwan-ended-one-party-rule-and-embraced-democracy
★
泰國
Bangkok Post
12-20-2019:
詢問任何台灣人 誰擁有台灣的，答案總是“台灣人民”，有時甚至是“人民”。可能是中國的民主方式和專才制存在於共產黨內部，而台灣卻有強大的多黨民主制度，圍繞現任的民進黨和對立的國民黨。(It may be
that China's democratic way and meritocracy exists within its Communist Party,
whereas Taiwan has a strong multiparty democratic system revolving around the
incumbent Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and the opposing Kuomintang Party)
★
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights
practices(美國人權報告), 3-11-2020:
法官與檢察官的公正遭到學者與政治評論的公開質疑 ;
2019年3月13日的美國人權報告(USA Country
Reports on Human Rights practices)
在貪污與政府透明度方面指出，司法不獨立且執行政治目的調查工作("
justice ministry was insufficiently independent and conducted politically
motivated investigations of politicians.
")。<聯合報>
人民不信任執法因為政府濫權玩法。
★
Transparency org.
"Have you paid a bribe in '13 ?"
貪污指標
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Corruption_Barometer
★
<Transparency
International>, 1-29-2019:
台灣貪腐不像南韓有所改善進展
(Taiwan
has stagnated in the Corruption Perspective Index rankings since 2011 with its
score 61~63 (dropped 2 spots this year), in contrast, South Korea improved by 3
points in 2017.)
自由時報 社論 1-12-2020: 完全執政的腐壞氣息已現。 2019年12月25日――
總統大選政見發表會登場，國民黨韓國瑜批民進黨領導下，貪官污吏可以"大貪特貪"，
蔡回辯講貪污應更記得國民黨，親民黨宋楚瑜認為國民黨與民進黨是貪腐與司法不公的難兄難弟。蘋果日報
12-7-2018 社論 :
台灣除了官商勾結，貪腐破表外，領先中國、印尼、巴西、菲律賓、越南等貪污大國之處，在於還有黑道橫行。黑道輔佐官商民代發財，其臭無比的食物鏈 超越藍綠...(
https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20181207/38199252/) ;
★
★<Foerign Policy> 2015: 台灣政治屬於財團(非人民),且為政客控制。
★
★
韓國
Korea Times, Jan. 2020, "Taiwan's
democracy"
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/opinion/2020/01/162_282021.html
The
foundation of cooperation has been built steadily if slowly over time.
Pragmatism characterizes Taiwan's approach to mainland China
... since 1978, Taipei immediately launched a
comprehensive essentially non-confrontational strategic response... Taiwan
without doubt has now effectively embraced representative democracy.
在2016年，台灣的芝加哥台北經濟文化辦公室（TECO）主辦了一次研討會，蔡總統普遍同意有效地支持北京和台北於1992年發起的合作框架，但並未實際表明對“一個國家，兩個體系”的承諾。
★
印度 Deccan
Chronicle, 6-10-2020, by Skand Tayal, writer, India's anbassafor to S Korea BJP
MPs Meenakshi Lekhi and Rahul Kaswan emphasised Taiwan’s democratic credentials
and noted that “both India and Taiwan are democratic countries, bonded by shared
values of freedom, democracy and respect for human rights”.强调台湾的民主品質，并指出“印度和台湾都是民主国家，受到自由，民主和尊重人权共同价值观的束缚”。
★
New York
Times, 10-15-2019: Today, Taiwan is crowdsourcing
democracy to create a more responsive government.
Fittingly, this movement, which today aims to increase
government transparency, was born in a moment of
national outrage over a lack of openness and
accountability in politics. In Taiwan,
digital technology is boosting civic dialogue and
infusing government with the spirit of social
innovation. By giving everyone a voice, Taiwan is
strengthening its democracy for the future.
By Audrey Tang
台灣正通過「 crowdsourcing」民主來創建一個反應更靈敏的政府。旨在提高政府透明度的運動，恰好誕生於這樣一個時刻：公眾對政治缺乏開放度和問責感到憤怒。數位技術正在推動公民對話，為政府注入社會創新精神。讓每個人都有發言權
...
★
美國
New York Times,
12-3-2019:
Social media platforms are another key battleground
(Chn-TW): Nearly 90
percent of Taiwan’s population is
active
on them, and traditional news outlets have been
known to
republish fake posts without fact-checking.
According to Reuters, Chinese government
agencies have paid Taiwanese news outlets to publish
pro-Beijing content.
社群媒體平台是
兩岸另一關鍵戰場：台灣近90%的人口活躍在社群媒體平台上，傳統新聞媒體曾在沒有核實的情況下轉發過假訊息(帖子)。據路透社報導，中國政府已向台灣新聞機構付費，讓它們發布親北京的內容
★
美國
Washington Post
華盛頓郵報, 社論 opinions, 3-28-2019
"The United States must help
Taiwan resist Chinese dominance"
親北京的利益已經收購了大部分台灣媒體，並與北京協調傳播宣傳和假新聞以及操縱社交媒體。 中國軍隊入侵不再是台灣人最害怕的情景。
中國接管台灣的戰略現在集中在混合戰爭戰術上，專制政權越來越多地部署在自由社會中。
...在台灣，中國在每次討論中都占主導地位...而美國在很大程度上缺席。 華盛頓必須意識到中國大規模滲透，破壞並最終廢除台灣民主的危險。
... here in Taiwan, it’s China that dominates every discussion.
Beijing’s malign influence is apparent everywhere, while the United
States is seen as largely absent. Washington must wake up to the
danger of China’s massive effort to infiltrate, undermine and
eventually abolish Taiwan’s democracy ... a Chinese military
invasion is no longer the scenario Taiwanese fear most. China’s
strategy to take over Taiwan is focused now on the hybrid warfare
tactics authoritarian regimes increasingly deploy in free societies.
Pro-Beijing interests have bought up a huge portion of Taiwanese
media and coordinate with Beijing to spread propaganda and fake news
and manipulate social media.
The Chinese government uses economic coercion to both recruit and
punish Taiwanese leaders. Meanwhile, China is working overtime to
strip Taiwan of its diplomatic allies and keep it out of
multilateral institutions. Beijing is literally trying to erase the
country from the map.
pic. left: China Times 3-29-2019 headline news: Defend
100% freedom of speech! Democracy on the surface, anti-democracy
to the bone is not allowed.
pic. right: Apple
Daily 3-29-2019 editorial opinion:
Democracy &
Freedom of speech is the bottom line
which should never be lost, the government should not create chilling
effect by fishing in trouble water.
★
★
無國界記者組織
(法國
RSF, <Reporters
Sans Frontieres> ) ,
4-18-2019:
台灣的
World Press Freedom Index排名第42，
雖然宣稱要持續推動言論自由，但很少採用具體實質完整的
措施與方法來改善記者的編輯獨立性並鼓勵媒體提昇公共議題的品質，另一方面，北京正利用台灣媒體老闆在中國有商業立利益這個弱點施壓台灣媒體，
也涉嫌策劃網路假訊息計畫，
這個威脅得導致台灣可能採取報復手段...... (Taiwan’s
journalists are suffering from a very polarized media environment dominated
by sensationalism and the pursuit of profit. Although President Tsai Ing-wen
has said she wants to continue developing press freedom in Taiwan, few
concrete measures have been taken to improve journalists’ editorial
independence and encourage media to raise the quality of the public debate.
Beijing is exploiting this weakness by putting pressure on Taiwanese media
owners, who often have business interests on the mainland. Beijing is also
suspected of orchestrating online disinformation campaigns – a threat that
could lead to questionable retaliatory measures by Taiwan such as refusing
visas to Chinese journalists regarded as hostile.)
pic.:
No.2 "Taiwan democracy"(台灣民主) on Ｗｅｂｃｒａｗｌｅｒ, 6-1６-2020
你有言論自由
、
我有國家暴力自由 /
政治干預媒體、政媒不分
Taiwan
state apparatus
fully
support freedom of expression & democracy ...
(English)
