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● ● Taiwanese government's strategy : Taipei must increase its "soft power" if it is to stand on the international stage. (BBC, Oct. 2010) |
New ! world no.1 rankings |
| ● Dr. Joseph Nye said hard & soft power enables Taiwan to deal with China and expand its international space. (Dec. 8, 2010) | |
| However, How is Taiwan's "Soft Power" and "hard power" in today ?? | |
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Taiwan failed to enter UK based Monocle's Soft Power Survey ranking lists
of 2010 till 2017/2018,
Taiwan's soft power is behind Asian's "world top 20" nations , including Japan,
South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, China, India, UAE, all of them
entered top 20 list at least once.
The Monocle's Soft Power Survey ranks nations according to their culture,
politics, business, diplomacy and education rather than their financial or
military power.
Taiwan also failed to be listed in 2017's Soft Power 30 Study, compiled by PR
company Portland Communication and University of Southern California.
The top 30 nations are 1 France 2 UK 3
USA 4 Germany 5 Canada 6 Japan 7 Swiss
8 Australia 9 Sweden 10 Holland 11 Denmark
12 Norway 13 Italy 14 Austria 15 Spain
16 Belgium 17 Finland 18 NZ 19 Ireland 20
Singapore 21 S. Korea 22 Portugal 23
Greece 24 Poland 25 China 26
Russia 27 Czech 28 Hungary 29 Brazil
30 Turkey.
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★ 2. Taiwan's cultural creativity : ● artists ― shortage of creativity & vivid imagination ! ● government ― lacking of forward thinking ...
☉ The China Times,
headline news
at 12-24-2017: The total value of Taiwan's cultural & creative production
was far behind of that of Korea, Korea's value in publication is about 6 times
larger than Taiwan's, Film industry 6 times, TV 3.5 times, Advertising 3
times, Pop-music 6 times bigger than Taiwan's, Taiwan lacks of updated
related laws and policy
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focus, no direction, no institute, original creativity is not encouraged, the
industry field is divided, without integrated marketing......
☉ The
China
Times 8-15-2017:
The output value of Taiwan's cultural & creative production in '12 - '13
declined 9.28%, in contrast, Taiwan's neighbor countries increased, China
14.27%, Malaysia, Philippines 8+%, Korea 0.65% ... Taiwan's cultural & creative
industry even failed to create a "bubble", the reason is lacking of original
creativity. / The China Times, 8-15-2017
☉ The United Daily (1-10-2016): 3 major political parties' presidential candidates all
ignore cultural policy & direction in their election debates.
☉ The Liberty
Times of Taiwan, 4-6-2016: The
government
took the lead to ignore copy-rights, Taiwan became "an
island of Plagiarism".
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Tourism For full analysis, pls. click Taiwan Tour & Travel
"Formosa" means "a beautiful island", however, some media of both Taiwan and China (新週刊New Weekly) commented that top point of interest in Taiwan is Taiwanese people itself. ( an ambassador from S. America said so too )
◎ The Washington Post at 1-5-2018: (The Chinese government...) "encouraging Chinese tourism to this island" (ps: during KMT in power ~ 2016 ). New York Times at 2-22-2018: "The Chinese government has discouraged tourism to Taiwan...". CTV news 3-9-2018 : beautiful island turns into killing island (traffic accidents), Taiwan's tourism might be a long dark night. Apple Daily, opinion, 2-12-2018: lacking of monument elements, mature cultural creativity, and inexpensive tour-site hotels ... shallow, careless, low-end quality led to an extremely low return visitor rate to Taiwan. Apple Daily, Headline news 1-15-2018: Taiwan tourism collapsed like a snow-slide, the number of tourists to Kenting National Park(墾丁貓鼻頭) dropped 59%, to Taroko National Gorge (太魯閣) dropped 43%, etc, because of the number of Chinese tourists declined a lot and local people don't like those sites - Apple Daily opinion 1-17-2018: expensive hotels, crowded traffic, getting ripped-off by greedy shops' ... UDN opinion 4-11-2018: tourism-related business everywhere are complaining of great hardship (齊喊苦).
◎ World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017 <Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 4-6-2017), Taiwan's most important indexes for promoting tourism, like "Attractiveness of Natural Assets" (parks, beaches, mountains, wildlife, etc) ranks world No.87, "Natural Resources" ranks No.55, "Environmental Sustainability" ranks No.75 (No.69 in 2015), "Price Competitiveness" ranks No. 46, "Hotel Price Index" ranks No. 89 (82 in 2015), Taiwan got "n/a" on China's strong indexes such as "World heritage natural sites" as well as "World heritage cultural sites" (world top 5). Taiwan has excellent scores on "Mobile Network coverage", "ATM", etc, but those least likely are main attractiveness to international sightseers that Taiwan needs most.
◎ United Daily, opinion, 12-30-2017 : Taiwan's foreign exchange earnings from tourism decreased 300 billion dollars (ps: NT 267 billions / The China Times, 10-4-2017). To promote tourism in number of tourists, Taiwan's new mission “New Southbound Policy” gave up the national principle of mutual benefit and equity, led to illegal drug trafficking and neighbor countries' anger, and illegal collectivized-workings by foreign "visitors". Taiwan's advertisements only focus on "cheat eats" by using some widely-known stars. All these remind us a Chinese tourists slang "you will regret for your entire life if coming to Taiwan".
◎ <the China Times> 5-26-2015: "We should pay attention to a poll on the net in Hong Kong, it says Taiwan is the most disappointed place for the tour, Taiwan's night market is the only place being worthy of visiting." (<media commentary> scholar's view "掉漆的文創")
◎ UK's Economist Intelligence Unit ― ● "Liveability Cities" report (Aug. 2015) ranks Taipei world No.60 ● Mercer's "Quality of Living" ranks Taipei world No. 83, and gives another city Tai-Chung world No.99, ● Monocle's "Quality of Life" top list includes no Taipei. ● According to 2009 ECA int'l "the Best Place to Reside"，Taipei ranks No.57, Asia top 3 are Singapore 、HK、Tokyo( both world No.15)。● 2010 rank : Taipei No.55、 Singapore is still global No. 1.
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◆ Taiwan tourism got trouble since 2014~2015 till present, what's gov. solutions to save it ?
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● Taiwan government's 2 solutions to save tourism (1) "in depth" tour - just a slogan, equals to give up the "patient" / UDN, opinion, 10-3-2017 (2) “New Southbound Policy” - equals no borders, cheap prostitutes and frauds from South-Eastern Asia countries invaded and occupied sex market. / CTN, headline, 10-17-2017.
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The number of tourists to
Taipei attractions dropped sharply |
◆ 2015 Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report
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| Index | Taiwan's world rankings |
| Country Brand Strategy | No.125 |
| Prioritization of Travel & Tourism | No.82 |
| Hotel price index | No.82 |
| Tourist service infrastructure | No.77 |
| Environmental Sustainability | No.69 |
| Natural Resource | No.62 |
| Purchasing power parity | No.64 |
| World heritage cultural sites | the last position, n/a (China No.5) |
| World heritage natural sites | the last position, n/a (China No.3) |
| major car rental companies | No.120 |
| Travel and tourism industry development | No.53 |
http://reports.weforum.org/travel-and-tourism-competitiveness-report-2015
◆ Country Brands Index 2014/2015
| Taiwan's score : | Taiwan's score location - "Countries" (left lower place) |
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Taiwan locates in
"Countries"
category, a lowest
area
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having
below average
perceptions in both the
Status and Experience
dimensions.
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 ◎“Country brands” – Countries that have above average perceptions across both the Status and Experience dimensions and have measurable competitive advantages over their peers as a result. ◎ “Experience countries” – Countries whose perception strength is biased towards dimensions relating to Heritage & Culture, Tourism and Made In. ◎ “Status countries” – Countries whose perception strength is biased towards attributes relating to Value System, Quality Of Life and Business Potential. http://www.futurebrand.com/news/futurebrand-launches-the-country-brand-index-2014-15 |
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top 20 countries:
Japan, Switzerland,
Germany, Sweden, Canada,
Norway, United States,
Australia, Denmark,
Austria, New Zealand,
United Kingdom,
Finland,Singapore,
Iceland, Netherlands,
France, Italy, United
Arab Emirates, South
Korea. ◎ top 20 most influential cities: NY, London, Beijing, Washington, Moscow, Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, Shanghai, Dubai, HK, Singapore, New Delhi, SaoPaulo, Rio De Janeiro, LA, Rome, Toronto, Seoul, Mumbai
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Taiwan government logo, UN for Taiwan logo, state-run enterprises logo, Taiwan's universities annual event logo ...... etc, suspiciously are cheap-copy works. Similar visual designs're everywhere in Taiwan.
Some examples are listed as below:
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left : Silk Cut ad. in UK, appeared earlier right: poster for Taiwan's cultural government and Eslite Bookstore (ps) |
ps: Both use same ideas
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"sharp knife tree, dangerous gear-wheel lawn"
Pic. at right side is an ad. for <Creative Ideas Exhibition of Taiwan Cultural Industry,
Taiwan>, Eslite bookstore ( Taiwan's pride, a cultural landmark of Taiwan)
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weird Taiwanese tourism advertisement :
"Dining X Taipei"
according
to
Cambridge
dictionary, (2) mistake / the answer is not correct (3) delete / to remove something (4) kisses |
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pic.: Travel advertisement in Taipei Taiwan, summer 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwyuCsmMqTM |
ps: Taiwan suffered food safety problem for years : ref to The China Times, 5-21-2018, TVBS 9-12-2017, details |
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pic.:
TVBS (Taiwan) 2-10-2018: experts
expressed their concern or scares of eating Basa
fish imported from Vietnam.
Some international experts like
Vancouver Aquarium's Ocean Wise doesn't
recommend consumers buy Basa,
some states of the US even
banned Basa, for using illegal
antibiotics, questioning polluted Mekong
river and the practices used to
farm Basa, those factors.
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pic.:
Formosa TV , 2-19-2018: Many
hotel buffets had bad records of
using
bad
food materials or ingredients before,
even
now, some kind of official
certified marks may not be a
food-safety assurance in the
near future.
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World famous
5 star hotel hides fish
name
on the sign-plate, we can't even
know those are sea fish or
fresh-water fish
quora (2015) had some discussions about "why don't westerners eat river fish?". Independent UK 1-11-2015: Chemicals in fresh water fish put health at risk - according to a new report, they may be putting their health at risk... Singapore's foodie TV program < Cook Eat China > likes to ask chef the fish name before they try. Medical book <you can conquer cancer> (target readers include patients and healthy people)advised to know what-about before eating fish or seafood ......◆ pic. left: World famous hotel Shangri La's in Taipei at 5-18-2018: upon my question, the kitchen man answered it's Dory fish ("多利魚")，but had no idea about sea fish or fresh water fish (rivers, lakes, etc). Taiwan's CTS TV news (華視新聞) at 4-27-2017 reported (news.cts.com.tw/cts/life/201704/201704271863633.html#.Wv6-Rjoh2Uk): all Dory fishes in Taiwan were fake, foodie gourmets have been fooling for a long times ! Dory then were renamed as Basa ― a fresh-water fish farmed in Vietnam, S.E. Asia 。Real John Dory is also named as Cat Fish, the author had many in Florida's buffet restaurant (even "none star" restaurant marked fish name ), however, in Taiwan's "5 star" hotel can only eat fake Dory ??? ◆ pic. right: Another world famous 5 star hotel (headqtr in USA) in Taiwan also hide the fish name (5-17-2018)。Westerners tourists may like to know they're eating sea fish or fresh-water fish ?
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pic. left:
Weird !! the deep fried fish in
world well-known Grand Hotel Taipei buffet restaurant has no any signs
(July 2018)，upon
my question,
the
kitchen said it's snapper (鯛魚),
then John Dory, eventually said Taiwan is very "good" at this, so he does
not know what it exactly is. ◆ pic. right: CTS (華視新聞) 4-27-2017(news.cts.com.tw/cts/life/201704/201704271863633.html#.Wv6-Rjoh2Uk) reported Dory in Taiwan are fake! For details pls ref to the CTS website as above. |
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◆ pic: Grand Hotel Taipei has the most number of famous and important customers among all Taiwan's hotels for so many years. However, according to the photo 6-8-2018, they used genetically modified soybean (基因改造黃豆) to cook dishes. |
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American
Sherwood Hotel in Taipei, photo
5-28-2018
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◆ best restaurants ―
1. Luc Besson's movie "Lucy" shooting in Taiwan particularly includes Din Tai Fung ― which is not only the most famous Taiwanese restaurant but also even a landmark of Taiwan, however,
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Din Tai Fung admitted at 5-9-2012 having
used Monosodium Glutamate
/ sodium glutamate (M.S.G.)as
addictive in some foods there -
and they won't change this policy so as
to keep major cuisine (e.g., steamed
bun/bao (小籠包), chicken soup) delicious (according
to United Daily News 5.9.2013).
According to
National
Health Research Institutes
and United Daily News
(8-15-2015) "Horrible foods for
dining out": Taiwan's food (in
restaurants, cafeteria, etc)
problems include using MSG. Taiwan's
5 star restaurants like Sherwood
Hotel announced any chefs using
MSG will be fired.
According to int'l medical
studies, using Monosodium
Glutamate (MSG) is
controversial. (ref to "The
Dangers of MSG"
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http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/food-nutrition/facts/the-dangers-of-monosodium-glutamate.htm)
Some claimed it
may causes asthma, headache, even brain
damage. )
● (3) Din Tai Fung admitted having used G.M.(genetic modified) soy material(豆類) for a long time (until July 2015). The China Times, (3.29.2013) reported professor Kuo H. J. (National Taiwan University, Department of Agronomy) comments - Taiwan using G.M.(genetic modified) is "national scandal" (「國家級醜聞」), French scholar Seralini found G.M. foods may cause cancer with higher probability, BBC (6.6.2013)<Taiwan diet danger everywhere>: Taiwan is the only country eating cured products made by animal-feed, G.M.(genetic modified) soya beans. (主妇联盟说台湾是世界上唯一直接食用饲料级基改黄豆加工 的豆制品国家。) But Din Tai Fung still used the "scandalous" G.M. stuff for 2+ years after the news being spread island-wide. Recently, CNN (7-24-2015) dropped Din Tai Fung down to No.20 position in Taiwanese foods list. |
Din Tai Fung USA website
(http://DinTaiFungusa.com)
has also been advertising a similar one in its front-page.
(tests till present at
9-17-2015)
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Michelin Guide
Taipei was released at
3-14-2018,
Taiwanese cuisine was not valued high, The number of stars Taiwan obtained is
much less than those of Shanghai, HK, Macao, and Singapore.
Furthermore, unlike those in Singapore, Hong Kong, Bangkok,
Taiwan's night-market,
street food failed to won any Michelin star.
3. According to "Asia's 50 Best Restaurants" (2018) , Thailand Bangkok's Gaggan consecutively got in the first place, the number of Japanese restaurants selected is 11, Hong Kong & Macao 10, Thailand 9、Singapore 7, Korea and Taiwan both are 3, but Korea won the 11th grade, the best ever position that Taiwan got in this year is the 15th (RAW, 18th MUME, 47th Shoun Ryugin), China got the 8th position. https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/asia-50-best-restaurants-2018/index.html
4. According to The World's Best Restaurants (2017) , Taiwan is not included in the list, Thailand got No.7, Singapore No.14, Japan 18th, HK 24th, Shanghai 41th. In total, 5 Japanese , 4 Chinese, 3 Singapore, 2 Thailand, 1 Korean, 1 India restaurant(s) entered top 100. http://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50-winners#t51-100.
5. Miele Guide (2012) : No any Taiwanese restaurant is included in top 20 Asian restaurants list.
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Food -
night markets
Best night-market-food in Taiwan : oyster omelet
(introduced by Discovery channel of USA) ― it is most typical Taiwanese
food ( street snack ), but not exquisite & elaborated food.
◆ Food - scandals
● 5 star hotel restaurants scandals - A book (Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Taiwan Veterans General Hospital's physician Jiang So-San M.D. 江守山 "食在安心" (10-2014)) said many 5 star hotel restaurants don't wash vegetables ... some 5 star hotels made sashimi raw fish slices by using fresh-water fishes, this may increase the probability to get cancer (for details 台灣餐廳 or 台灣美食Taiwan Night Markets ) ; Epoch Times (大紀元, 3-14-2017):Okura Prestige Tpe (大倉久和, a 5 star hotel) sold expired frozen shrimps, molded taro (vegetable 芋) etc; SETN news ( 三立新聞 5-16-2016): Some 5 star hotels in northern Taiwan sold black-hearted expired seafoods ; LTN (5-17-2016): 5 star hotels Ambassador and Howard (國賓、福華) clarified this news; Apple Daily (蘋果日報 6-7-2016): Sheraton (喜來登) 's white shrimps contained bleaching agent (漂白劑)，4 times higher than the legal standard，Ranina (Spanner crabs 旭蟹) contained heavy medal Cadmium poisoning (重金屬镉) 14% higher than the standard...; Apple Daily (蘋果日報 7-2-'13): Taiwan's tourist hotels' food ingredients expired 2 years, only 3 out of 21 hotels passed the security check and sanitary examination etc conducting by Taiwan Administration, e.g., Shangri-La's (tnn) did not separate their cutting tools for cooked foods and raw foods; FTV news, 5-18-2017: 13 ingredients / materials expired in a 5 star hotel in Taiwan; CTI TV news (5-17-2017, 19:33): What can we eat in Taiwan? people are uneasy for food here... ○
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Taiwan
administration's Dioxin ("poison of the century") control system crashed
completely / FTV news, 4-22-2017.
Major world media like
The Economist
(11.29.2014)
comment a series of food safety scandals is one of few main factors causing the
KMT, Taiwan's ruling party, has suffered one of its worst electoral defeats
since Chiang Kai-shek and his forces fled to the island at the end of Chinese
civil war in 1949.
● Chang Gung Mem. Hospital professor Yin M.D. (殷宗海, Doctor, Univ. of London ): Minimize the times of dining out to protect your health ! ( ref. to book <食品不安全的年代如何自保>("how to survive in this bad food-security time", April 2016))
● Dean of National Taiwan Normal University - graduate school of Chemistry, Dr. Gaston J. C. Wu (化學所長吳家誠教授)'s book <Those black-heart products toxin-experts never buy ("毒物專家絕不買的黑心商品")> (Nov. 2013): Most of the time I eat at home, and has never dined out in street-side shops / small-eat markets (路邊攤), because those small-eat shops usually/always do not meet the minimum standards of cleanliness.
● Taiwan's food safety scandals : black hearted food in Taiwan
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◎ 2015 : Since its worst ever electoral defeats, Taiwanese government never does some soul searching and corrects the wrong, "It's weirdo !!, Taiwanese government only focuses on 3 dried products - dried daylily, dried radish, and preserved fruits (snacks)", NTU professor Wu K.Y. stated "Completely evading the crucial point", "those 3 items are very low risky products". ● Apple Daily 8-28-2015: The incidence rate of Taiwanese people suffering colon/rectal cancer was ranked world No.1 (2nd is Korea, 3rd Slovakia) , Taipei Medical University Hospital's director of surgeons expressed Taiwan's food scandals constantly happened in recent years, many black-heart tainted foods containing Carcinogen (cancer producer) is a factor causing high incidence rate.
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Advertisement a long time loser
My article in <the United Daily News> (Oct. 2007) comments Taiwan's ad. creativity has been low for a long time, In the past 10 years, Taiwan is about in the last place in Cannes Ad. festival, world best ad. contest (Even Vietnam, Philippines, red China are even bit better than Taiwan). Till early of 2017, Taiwan still only has small number of winnings in int'l ads creativity contests.
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Taiwan's most important ad. |
Take Taiwan's national ads : "UN for Taiwan" (Taiwan to join the UN ) , as an example :
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UN for Taiwan ad. is "un-limited creativity" |
(1) Those are quite old ideas. |
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National ChenChi University, ads. professor book |
using puns in UN series is " very creative and witty idea" |
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As for Taiwan's business ads. or TV commercials obtaining winning records in int'l ad. festivals, are not so original,..... or/and not very sharp-witty, e.g., making love with an insect symbolizes insecure sex, or stick out (very out) the tongue to make a funny face, ...... are student-level ideas.
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Animation (comment Taiwan's best awards in world's best contests)
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Taiwan's Top Institution(ps) |
animation |
World's top contest, prize & honors, and university's opinions |
This site's comments |
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Cubic Tragedy |
ACM SIGGRAPH
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Experts won't feel the idea, girl face-lifting resulting in Picasso's cubism a <weeping woman>, unexpected. details
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Cubic Tragedy |
NYLU's graduate school paper concluded this animation as "Picasso-inspired idea ..... contrary to our expectation". |
experts
suppose won't feel this idea "un-expected" ( details & pic. below) |
| National Taiwan Univ. of arts | A fish with a smile |
Berlin international Film Festival, children's section, Special Prize of jury committee |
(1) it's just a story for children. (2) elegant drawing style, but those pictures don't look like any city in Taiwan. |
| National Tainan Univ. of arts | After the rainy day |
winning in UK |
Just like most Taiwan's films, boring
obscure-meaning codes, hence most people
are hard to understand or may make over-interpretation.
details |
| National Palace Museum | Adventures of NPM | (1) grand prize, 2008 Tokyo International Anim. Fair. (2) anim. goal : " bridging the gap between ancient artworks and modern audiences. |
(1) it's a story for children, not for modern adults. (2) the film is showing in children's center of National Palace Museum, Taipei Taiwan. click to see details |
Tamkang Univ.'s paper concludes Taiwan animation's 1st problem is "short of creativity". Very few Taiwan's researches 're working on this subject - Creativity. (Taiwan animation currently is only expertise at drawing tech.)
◎ comment Taiwan's international winning animation films in 2011.
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An essay <China Tames Rebellious Side of Rock "n" Roll> in <New York Times>, likened today's Red Chinese pop music culture to the politically enforced conformity of the Cultural Revolution, the core of songs is "have fun", culture has become an empty vessel, there are few hints of angst, alienation , or any but the mildest expression of teenage rebellion.
Taiwan's pop music was tamed by political pressure in the past, the "opposition culture" in Taiwan's music field was almost eliminated.
Today's music is in a money-oriented environment.
Very few people notes an usual case : two most popular singers, Wu-bai and S.H.E. (hottest in China too) sing 2 same-name songs, namely all the same as Chinese translation of "Brave New World" - a classic literature regarding man-handled white-terror tyranny. S.H.E. seems so happy and exciting while singing this song.
In contrast, Apple Computer's famous commercial <1984> comes from another white-terror literature "1984" written by Orwellian. Ad. research papers mention one reason it succeeds ( the most remarkable US ad campaign, although aired only once ) is that people are curious about the mystery/puzzle - a tyranny in a free country.
Certainly, the <1984> despises human-controlled tyranny.
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<Brave New World> Chinese translation book |
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Apple Daily, opinion, 7-20-2018 : Taiwan ( Taiwanese everywhere) lacks of aesthetics accomplishments, particularly those in power can allocate resources have "really turn me off" taste (倒盡胃口), Taiwan's public art works are too vulgar to be endured (俗不可耐), and some are sort of cheap-copy works (仿冒竊).
Dec. 8, 2012 : To everyone's surprise, 2 out of 3 artists in Taiwan government's selection for participating Italia Venice Biennale are foreigners ! This means Taiwan does not have talented artists??
Many Asian countries have great ambition to do city-marketing by arts expo., there're 8 arts biennales will be taken place in Sept. 2008.
Taiwan is one of them - <Asia Arts Biennale > was held till Feb. 2008.
Taiwan's largest news introduced (with a large-sized picture) an expo. artwork - world brand's logos are spread on human bodies, this work seems to symbolize "Globalizing" phenomenon.
However, the idea "logo body" already appeared a number of times in, i.e., <Your Logo Here, photos from S. Cal. 2004-2006>, and some logo tattoo works .......
More sharp-witty and more difficult ideas appeared in cartooning field at least 13 years ago, i.e., Japanese Yomiuri international cartoon contest (see pic. below).
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Architecture no aesthetical & creative astonishment
◆ Taiwanese architects were forced to be "construction supervisors" instead of "designers" by the government's policy, this finally rouse architects' angers after enduring 10 + years, most major public architecture projects went to international architects for "unjust treaties" made by the administration. / head-line news of The United Daily, 7-17-2017
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◆ Below are Taiwan's "shop-front" or "Face-valued" buildings :
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Taipei 101 building |
Ugliest skyscraper in the world :
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Tao-yuan international airport |
1st Hall : copied U.S. airport. 2nd Hall : shortage of spirit breadth and arts atmosphere. |
An article by VIP professor in Taiwan major newspaper (2002) asserted : " Copy is humanism spirits" 、 " How can we enjoy & bear those original designed architecture by Taiwanese !? "
ps1: Taiwan's Pavilion at Shanghai's World Expo. 2010 (China) ― an ordinary architecture, far worse than UK's Pavilion (based upon the same construction cost and land-space).
ps2: another contrast
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ps3: It's a big joke and shame again that Taiwan government used the photo of Washington Dulles int'l airport (old Taiwan airport is a cheap-copy, very similar to Dulles) on Taiwan's new passport, and refused to admit mistake until night time. ◎Apple daily, Head-line news, "Lose nation's face !! Taiwan government tried to get rid of its responsibility", 12-27-2017.
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Film/movie
● Taiwan film industry lacks good scripts and talented directors (till present 2017) ― in details, 3 major troubles :
(1) Taiwan likes to 'create' some abstract/obscure symbols attracting very very few people. Using Eastern exotic flavor was another very useful strategy for attending world film contest. Shortage of witty & creative idea led to Taiwan film industry's death.
☉
Taiwan's movies fail to create better humour like "Lost in Beijing"
( red Chinese film banned by CHN gov.) .
☉ Taiwan's all-time
grossing film, <Cape No.7>, is not a stylish witty comedy (some
world best media positioned this film as comedy), but attracts lots of Taiwanese
(particularly southern Taiwanese) by
some simple ideas( i.e., sort of slapstick) and Taiwanese grass-roots culture elements.
☉ Taiwan's <You are the
Apple of My Eye> of 2011 is very popular in TW, HK and Chn, but most of it's
boyish humors are not witty & stylish, this film attracts audiences by stoking collective memory of their youngsters age.
PS: In 2012, Taiwan's films only won 2 awards in Taiwan's Golden Horse film festival
(China and HK won most awards), which is the worst in latest 20 years.
In 2014, Taiwan was bit better, won 3 out of 23 awards in total.
(2) Taiwan government used to do political propaganda/comm. by using movies, till now days Taiwan's government still thinks highly of things helpful to win political elections, besides, Taiwan government's movie policy already gave up to WTO, U.S., Hollywood.
(3) Taiwanese spent little on arts, and taste not too good - many people prefer real things, like money.
| per person per year (200X) | |
| movie | NT470 (about US 15) |
| drama | NT91 (US 3) |
| dancing show | NT65 (US 2) |
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TV soap opera series : Taiwan's TV opera series focus on "charming
leading-actors/actress" (not giving importance to the content) to attract audiences, so Korean, Japanese,
red Chinese TV series
are better & more popular. United Daily
(12-28-2014): Taiwan's TV opera are not original.
UDN (critique C2, 6-21-2015):
Taiwan's drama crisis/ lacking of budge, passion, actor/actress.
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Variety show/program of assorted
entertainment:
UDN 7-22-2018: Among all creative & cultural industries, Taiwan's audio
& visual industry has closest relationship with China's, but
Taiwan's entertainment shows are too 'slapstick" for
Chinese people. This sort of shows were very
popular and was
the reason or excuse that Taiwanese people don't like going to theater watching
movies, but till 2013, those stuffs were not fresh enough
and already
behind China's, some paper even questioned Taiwan's variety show/program of
assorted entertainment : "Are they incurable?" (4/7/'13 UND).
United Daily (12-26-2014): Taiwan needs creativity. Apple
Daily (8-31-2015) : Taiwan's entertainment show from bad to worse, the
gap between Taiwan and China becomes bigger, Taiwan's TV field in risk !
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Recently Taiwanese cartoon artists have shown little talents on Taiwan International Cartoon Contest sponsored by Taiwanese government,
Almost all juries withdrawn from <Courage World Cartoon Contest> (ranking world No. 1 for some years) , due to "seems political" reasons .
Both animation and cartooning need creativity, but at present Taiwan doesn't have that environment.
Taiwan youngsters like "Kuso" stuffs, however, formula/routine mind is not good enough for cartoon creativity.
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pic. left: Knokke Heist winner's artwork, appeared earlier
(by Japanese artist).
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ps: Taiwan has (only a few) world class cartoonists.
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(1 ) Taiwan's best-selling cultural creativity :
Recently, Taiwan's best-selling & widely
known product , "Chinese Fortune(or Rich) God figure toy", is based on Taiwanese superstition
(Apple Daily: 88%of college students believe ghost - ps2 ), and eagerness for
money,
Taiwan's figure-toy design just simplified Chinese Gods' complicated appearance to
little cute mascot, in contrast, int'l designs for gods are more witty,
i.e.,
| ☉ Europe, Belgium rug Co. | installed a special compass in each product, its needle points to Islam's holy land instead of pointing South/North － this created a lot of business. |
| ☉ Japan | made a watch converting 114 world major cities' time to Islam holy land's time, with time-alarm function for Muslims' prayer. |
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( 2 ) best-selling cultural products for int'l tourists
A major design periodical comments: <National Palace Museum>'s rich treasures is the key to success of Taiwan's Cultural & Creative Industry.
However, <NPM> seems to look down upon the talent of Taiwanese designers.
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<NPM> product |
short comments |
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Alessi "the Chin Family" |
(1) <NPM>
cooperates with Japan, Italy, hence, NPM's products are not purely
Taiwanese or Chinese flavor. (2) Mr. Chin got slant eye (or "raising eyebrows"), it's western view-point, the Oriental usually don't draw that way. |
How about "Chinese Creativity" in today's Taiwan ?? |
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"Jadeite
Cabbage" tray-pillow for |
(1) most
products directly use antique-art shape. (2) At least 20 years ago, various assorted dedicated vegetables and fruits glass chopsticks tray-pillow already were made-in-Japan (best-sellers too) . |
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Don Dynasty ladies picture slippers |
just directly applied antique pictures on products. |
<NPM> should designs Chinese treasures, and makes witty, humorous artworks to represent Taiwan's modern arts. Western tourists suppose like to buy souvenir with Chinese culture & flavor created by ourselves. "Mercenaries" cannot represent Taiwan to Olympics.
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<NPM>merchandises： |
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directly use antique pictures（or simplify a little bit） |
I choose the theme : When the East encounters the West, Fine arts meets Cartooning, to integrate 2 major cultures. |
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ps: "tech. oriented" product design like <idea> contest, <if> contest is not discussed in here
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● Apple Daily 6-30-2018 pointed out Taiwan's medical service has no good preventive health care and health promotion, and will worsen within next 10 years for political factors.
●
Taiwan only ranks world 45th position in Lancet's Healthcare Access and Quality
Index released in 2017
(based on mortality from causes amenable to personal
health care in 195 countries and territories, 1990–2015:
a novel analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study
2015),
some
chronic disease
items got very low or failure scores,
e.g., Leukemia score 49, Kidney
disease 50, Gallbladder & biliary 57,
Hypertensive Heart Disease 60,
diabetes mellitus
58, etc.
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(17)30818-8.pdf
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● according to WEF<Travel and tourism competitiveness report> (released at 4-6-2017), Taiwan's "Physician density" ranks world No. 65 (No. 57 in 2015's report).
● Apple Daily 6-30-2018 pointed out Taiwan's only pride left, health insurance, includes no preventive health care and health promotion, and will worsen within next 10 years for political factors.
● United Daily News (5-30-2017):
The biggest problem of Taiwan's medical care is too short diagnostic time,
without a completed examination in most cases, usually, patients are already in
serious condition when symptom became clear. /
Dr. Huang D.F., president of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center
● Apple Daily, 12-30-2017:
Amending Taiwan's medical service law is criticized as "Decriminalization",
patients in Taiwan will be difficult to put to the proof in their legal cases.
Apple Daily, Focus comment 焦點評論, 12-29-2017: Hospitals get rid of its
responsibility (免責)? Taiwan's medical service environment worsened (for
amending medical service law).
● FTV (4-16-2017,
民視) comments medical
Doctors' social status is lower than before.
Taiwan's current social value system is rapidly
changing the culture in medical circle. Dean of NTU medical school (張上淳) advised that
physicians
always keep in mind a love-based,
"patient-centered", and humanistic-care thinking.
●
The book
"Exposing the truth of modern medical circle
in Taiwan"
("誤診誤醫", published by the China Times, 2012;
by Xu Da-Fu
) criticizes :
Taiwan's hospitals focus
on profit/benefit and ignore patients' rights ,
The whole medical circle already went the wrong
route...
◎ Surgery
/ Taiwan's excellent
surgeons perform many operations
simultaneously - happened quite
often in Taiwan...
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Medicines
/
the
quality of
prescription
medicines in Taiwan is from bad to worse...
◎ Bribery /
the institution needed to be paid bribery most is
judiciary system, second is Taiwan's
medical and health services
...
◎ for full text pls. ref. to
Taiwan medical service
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Women's rights
Taiwan president Tsai I. W. : Taiwan still have a not short way to reach gender
equality (台灣離性別平等 還有一段路要走)
<The United Daily 聯合報>, 3-16-2018
(林志潔, professor and member of
national judicial reform committee)
The judge made mistakes
again and again, Taiwan's gender equality
- A long long way to go !
●
The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
, released at 3-3-2017
(new
report of 4-20-2018 is about same)
● The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
, released at 3-3-2017
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Sports/Athletics
● In 2016 Rio Olympics medal tally statistics, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) only got 1 gold, 2 bronze, ranks world No. 50, compare to previous years, 5 medals in 2000, 2004, 4 medals in 2008, 2 medals in 2012；Other Asian nations - China ranks No.3, Japan No.6, Korea No. 8, Australia No 10, N.Z. No.19, Iran 25, North Korea No. 34, Thailand No. 35, Indonesia No. 46, Vietnam No.48, Taiwan No. 50.
● Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) failed to enter World Cup basketball (lost Philippines, and Japan, Australia in Asian group then was eliminated), and football, some major sports-games in 2018.
● Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) got no any medal in Korea winter Olympics of 2018.
● Taiwanese baseball team lost all games in 1st round and was eliminated in World Baseball Classic 2017, the leader of Athletics government stepped down. Expert comments the system weakness is obvious but we just can't improve it, patriotism is no longer working on this issue ...
● Taiwan just held 2 world scaled athletic events that have ever seen in Taiwan's history :
World Games Kaohsiung Taiwan & Deaflympics Taipei : comments/critics click to see how they showed Taiwan's culture and creativity.
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Summary
(1) Not easy to upgrade "Made in Taiwan" to "Create in Taiwan", since Taiwan has very few experts in creativity. (government does not think highly of them)
(2) Most Taiwanese professors (PhD) do theoretical studies, don't have talent (some even are not interested ) on witty creativity/design.
(3) Ph.D usually is required for college teacher position, it's one criterion for Taiwan government to evaluate all schools. Un-talented teachers can't train students to be talented.
(4) Taiwan's society and people don't think important of arts, culture, creativity, etc.
(5) Taiwan government
official in univ. paper said Taiwan doesn't have that kind of environment for
creativity.
Creativity needs freedom, democracy, and people's
independent personality, government officers don't like creativity, which
means extra risk.
(6) Taiwan should fight "diamond cut diamond" with western nations in major fields , instead of going backdoor (or side-door) by exotic local culture, Eastern mysterious flavor, obscure codes, etc.
(7) Taiwan government used to give less budget to cultural field, and use e.g., movie as propaganda/comm. tool. Taiwan needs int'l friends, but uncreative films won't attract enough audiences.
(8) Taiwanese government kicks cultural creativity to the corner in most time, in that creativity seems no use for political election, but requires extra efforts on social controls/adm.
(9) Taiwan's government prefers to use his own men.
(10) Taiwanese
youngsters love heavy slapstick 、silly
"Kuso" stuffs
("young-designers" policy is wrong).
Taiwanese adults' imaginative power is bounded,
thinking in a roundabout/evasive way, their tastes are lousy ....... pls. see 2 examples as below
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artworks introduced by Taiwan's largest news: |
western artwork earlier |
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Morphing Mao |
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is Biro Mihaly: A haboru borzalmai ellen, Plakat Budapest, Europe, at 1912. http://www.hnm.hu/utils/Gallery.php?ItemID=213&PicNum=9 |
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fighter planes pass
ps: this painting price 10 times from 2005 to 2008 |
(appeared earlier) |
understand
Taiwan in 1 minute !!
TAIWAN in all
aspects
review
Taiwan
top
rankings on internet !
●
a survey to find political crimes
in Taiwan
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pic
left:
This websites-group was
ranked No.1 by keyword "review Taiwan"
on US Google,
5-5-2018, 1-11-2018, 9-2-2017
● Facebook free expression , No.1 ranks on Bing, etc, 2017 - Feb. 28, 2018
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comment Taiwan / Taiwan needs medicine, not cosmetic |
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ps2: Other researches : finger-pointing moon results in that ear will be cut (28.3%) , chopstick knock bowl results in being a beggar (22.3%), swimming in July (Lunar) results in un-luck (64.7%), whistling after sunset will encounter ghost (37%), pregnant woman using scissors will give birth to an abnormal baby(32%) - reported by <Apple Daily>5.29.2005 (largest and best news evaluated by university)
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2.
Taiwan's
hard
power
● The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence “Open Hearing on China’s Worldwide Military Expansion.”, 5-17-2018
(1) China's “infatuation with Taiwan” ?
a visceral nationalistic design ...“if Taiwan survives as a democracy [it] undermines the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party”
(2) USA curb China ?
the US could soon be completely driven out of the Asia-Pacific region if Beijing is allowed to continue on its current course unopposed.
(3) Congressional hearing recommended
deploying tactical nuclear weapons to Asia, showing strong support for Taiwan, and exposing human rights abuses in China as immediate steps that could curb Beijing
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Annual Report to US Congress (8-17-2018)
Military and Security Developments Involving
the People’s Republic of China 2018
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2018_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF
Much of Beijing’s defense budget is focused on developing the capability to unify Taiwan by force
◆ Apple Daily 8-18-2018, headlines - China signals its readiness for unification by military force ― anytime.
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USA Today
5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its
historical properties by 2049.
Freebeacon 5-17-2018 : 2020—the
deadline that [Chinese supreme leader] Xi Jinping has given the [People's
Liberation Army] to be ready to invade Taiwan
●
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS,UK, www.iiss.org), the
military balance 2018 press statement - The annual assessment of global military
capability and defence economics, 2-14-2018.
In 2017 Beijing showcased more advanced military systems
... are challenging the global predominance of the United States and its allies
... https://www.iiss.org/en/publications/military-s-balance China's modernisation of its armed forces is
processing faster than many experts expected ...
● The US subcommittee hearing (4-17-2018) Rep. Ted Soho, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Seems likely Xi will force the issue (unification) in his life time.
● Eastern Taiwan's anti-aircraft military force needs to be improved soon, but in recent years, Taiwan has been limited to international reality and financial difficulties, therefore focused on main forces' (F16, IDF/F-CK-1, etc) functional improvement, instead of developing or purchasing new-generation jet fighters, Taiwan looks forward to having F35B, but it may take more than 10 years in the queue. / brief - The Liberty Times, 2-5-2017.
● New York times, 11-4-2017: “(Taiwan) needs to resist a Chinese military attack for two weeks and wait for help from the United States or the international community,” echoing a strategy that has been at the core of Taiwan’s defense doctrine for decades......Taiwan’s armed forces, by contrast (Chn), have fallen way behind, struggling to recruit enough soldiers and sailors — and to equip those they have. A major obstacle is that countries that might sell it the most sophisticated weaponry are increasingly reluctant to do so for fear of provoking China,...The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 commits the United States to defend the island’s sovereignty, providing “such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary” ... US latest arms sales " short of the major systems that could give Taiwan a real edge."
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New York times, 5-18-2017:
Beijing’s
belligerence
presents
an
existential
threat
to
Taiwan, Chinese
leaders
have
long
vowed to
take
Taiwan
by force
if they
deem
necessary
... For years, the political establishment in Taipei has delegated
responsibility for responding to Beijing to the United States.
Taiwan's
leaders
have
gutted
the
military
and
continued
to base
defense
planning
on the
assumption
that the
United
States
would
always
come to
the
rescue. Policies
put
forward
by the
Kuomintang
and the
independence-leaning
Democratic
Progressive
Party
have
left the
military
understaffed
and in a
state of
low
morale...
Taiwan's
active
force
down to
under
200,000
(the
exact
number
is
classified).
The
nearly
two
million
reservists
exist in
name
only...
Taiwan’s defense policies are largely a result of deep distrust between the
military and politicians. The military has struggled with wide-range scandals/
/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/18/opinion
(ps:
China's
Baidu, 10-15-2017:
Taiwanese
reservists 3 million in total
)
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● The US Defense Gov. Report of 2017
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People𠏋 Republic of China
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2016%20China%20Military%20Power%20Report.pdf
| Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Naval Forces | |||
| China | China | Taiwan | |
| Total | East and South Sea Fleets | Total | |
| Aircraft Carriers | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Destroyers | 23 | 16 | 4 |
| Frigates | 52 | 40 | 22 |
| Corvettes | 23 | 14 | 1 |
| Tank Landing Ships/ Amphibious Transport Dock | 30 | 28 | 14 |
| Medium Landing Ships | 22 | 16 | 0 |
| Diesel Attack Submarines | 57 | 38 | 4 |
| Nuclear Attack Submarines | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Ballistic Missile Submarines | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Coastal Patrol (Missile) | 86 | 68 | 45 |
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| Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Air Forces | |||
| China | China | Taiwan | |
| Total | Within range of Taiwan |
Total
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| Fighters | 1,700 | 130 | 384 |
| Bombers/Attack | 400 | 200 | 0 |
| Transport | 475 | 150 | 19 |
| Special Mission Aircraft | 115 | 75 | 25 |
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| Taiwan Strait Military Balance in 2015, Ground Forces |
| China | China | Taiwan | |
| Total | Taiwan Strait Area | Total | |
| Personnel (Active) | 1.25 million | 400,000 | 130,000 |
| Group Armies/Army Corps | 18 | 8 | 3 |
| Infantry Divisions | 12 | 4 | 0 |
| Infantry Brigades | 23 | 7 | 5 |
| Mechanized Infantry Divisions | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Divisions | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Mechanized Infantry Brigades | 25 | 8 | 3 |
| Armor Divisions | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Armor Brigades | 17 | 7 | 4 |
| Amphibious Armor Brigades | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Army Aviation Brigades and Regiments | 11 | 6 | 3 |
| Artillery Brigades | 22 | 9 | 5 |
| Airborne Divisions | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Marine Brigades | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Tanks | 7,000 | 2,800 | 1,100 |
| Artillery Pieces | 8,000 | 3,900 | 1,600 |
●
Economist (special edition
2017): Taiwan will turn into a tiger again. ●Taiwan declared no other air
forces are allowed to show their muscle in Taiwan air space/ Apple Daily,
5-30-2016,...
CTV evening news11-27-2016, United Daily News 11-30-2016: China's
military aircraft-fighters
(much stronger than TW
air force) flied past around Taiwan and passed through 1st Island Chain, Taiwan
air force did not intercept them.
● Taiwan lacks key-tech to make a coach (bus) / the China Times, 3-29-2017
● Taiwan president beset by low approval rate because of weakness against foreign countries, even including Philippines, a backward country dared to hurt Taiwan, not to mention military strong ones, China, Japan, etc. ref. to Forbes, 5-21-2013.
● Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties. <Foerign Policy> 2015.
understand
Taiwan in 1 minute !!
TAIWAN in all
aspects
review
Taiwan
top
rankings on internet !
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★
3. comment Taiwan in all aspects
| Brief of Taiwan |
Annual Report to US Congress ( Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC ), 8-17-2018: Much of Beijing’s defense budget is focused on developing the capability to unify Taiwan by force; New York Times at 6-12-2018: US unveils an office (AIT) in Taiwan, but sends no top officials ... to avoid bigger clash with China; USA Today 5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its historical properties by 2049. Freebeacon 5-17-2018 : 2020 — the deadline that [Chinese supreme leader] Xi Jinping has given the [People's Liberation Army] to be ready to invade Taiwan. The US subcommittee hearing (4-17-2018) Rep. Ted Soho, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific: Seems likely Xi will force the issue (unification) in his life time. Bloomberg news 3-14-2018: Trump's "Taiwan card" (to annoy China when needed) is China's real worry. Deutsche Welle 3-17-2018: China has reacted angrily to the bill (Trump signed <Taiwan Travel Act> which paves way for official exchanges with Taiwan, and identifies indirectly (?) Taiwan as a country ― "visits to a country by United States cabinet members ...".) Bloomberg news 3-14-2018: Taiwan will suffer even more, as it gets caught in the middle between a stronger China and a inward-looking US... New York Times at 11-4-2017, the Pentagon report, May 2017: China’s military modernization has “eroded or negated many of Taiwan’s historical advantages (geography and the US support) ” in deterring a potential attack. Washington Post at 10-18-2017: "Mr. Xi’s biggest applause line was a vow to 'never allow anyone. . . at any time or in any form, to separate any part of Chinese territory from China.' That would include...Taiwan." (in 19th CPC Speech). Spiegel Germany, 1-9-2017, Global Times of China: "There is no room for negotiations" ("Es gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen").
The People's Republic of China (PRC) has identified that Taiwan (the Republic of China ) as part of its territory and its most important core interest, since the Kuomintang (Nationalists) government retreated to the island in 1949 following defeat in the Chinese civil war. China has vowed to reunite this "breakaway province" by force if necessary, and has steadily increased pressure on Taiwan. Under China's political development and strengthening its trade ties to our allies, Taiwan is diplomatically isolated, has only 18 formal relation allies till May 2018, most of them are little, unknown countries, more may be in trouble any time. On the other hand, China took the strategy " Allowance of economic benefits to Taiwan"("讓利", such as encouraging tourists to Taiwan) so that Taiwanese people may have higher tendency toward unification with China, in recent years, China became Taiwan's leading trading partner, Taiwan earned surplus nearly USD120 billion from China in 2017. Taiwanese understood this interdependence is unavoidable, but over-dependence is risky. Le Monde diplomatic of France, Mai '16, reported the economies of both sides were complementary, now compete each other. (Mais les économies des deux rives, qui étaient complémentaires, entrent désormais en concurrence. Les entreprises taïwanaises sont progressivement exclues de la mise en place d’une chaîne de production et d’approvisionnement chinoise ... )
Taiwan's the 7th largest economy in Asia. Latest Global Wealth Report (Credit Suisse, Nov., 2017) shows Taiwan's mean wealth per adult, at USD 188,081, is close to that of W. Euro., (UK USD 278,038, France USD 263,399). Taiwan was one of the world's top producers of computer technology, relying upon importation of key components and advanced technology from the US and Japan, Taiwan's high-tech sector is falling behind for lacking of key tech. and its low pay to attract university-educated talent. (Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a large bus / CTN , 3-29-2017) Taiwan's GDP per capita retreated successively in recent years. In contrast, China's GDP in 2016 is about 23 times the number of Taiwan's. Taiwan's economic experts warned that Taiwan will fall into “middle-income” limbo (15-30 countries will catch up with it) in the next 10 years if it fails to deal with “three evil hands”, the law, environmental assessments, and Taiwan-China relations. The United Daily, 11-12-2017, questioned the routine pattern "USA and China jointly control Taiwan"('美中共管') may be changed ?
The United States, Taiwan's most important protector, takes the policy "strategic ambiguity" ―― “acknowledges” there is one China and Taiwan is part of China, but has never officially “recognized” Taiwan as part of China. The US Congress passed a law ("Taiwan Relations Act") to commit the US to defend Taiwan's sovereignty, and provide necessary 'defensive' services. Many countries seem welcome this ambiguity. Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun, Opinion, 6-22-2017 stated the US is the key to keep the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait ("米国は台湾の防衛力強化を担っており、台湾海峡の平和と安定のカギを握る"。). Taiwan's leaders made an assumption that American will always come to protect this island, and a core policy to resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks. But, the New York Times at 11-4-2017 pointed out that Taiwan’s historical advantages (geography and the US support) in deterring a potential attack” has been “eroded or negated” in that Chinese military is "more potent". Washington Post at 1-5-2018 reported many senior officials regarded Taiwan as a "roadblock to Washington’s smooth relations with China", "the turd in the punchbowl". China's Global Times at 1-10-2018 stated "many forces" in the US are still supporting Taiwan as a "leverage against China". Taiwan Travel Act ( Trump signed the bill in Mar. 2018 for official exchanges ) annoys China ― "visits to a country by United states cabinet members ...". Taiwan president Tsai said at 12-29-2017 that Chinese leader was not supposed to attack Taiwan ("應該不是決策思考範圍內"), she corrected herself at 1-22-2018 in SETN that the possibility of a war won't be ruled out. Tsai declined to endorse the so-called "1992 Consensus" that both side are part of “one China,” allowing each side its own interpretation of what that means. Till May 2018, the Chinese military has conducted a series of provocative, aggressive operations, e.g., "patrol circling" passing through 1st island chain and an aircraft carrier traversed Taiwanese 'territory' (Taiwan Strait median line), to test the waters, or prepare for an eventual future attack against Taiwan. Taiwan National Security Survey conducted by Duke University and NCCU of Taiwan found that once China-Taiwan war happens, more than 60% Taiwanese yield or give up & run away (The China Times, 4-21-2018, Opinion).
The ROC on Taiwan, has its own constitution, independently elected president and military forces, However, Taiwan's image was tarnished or damaged for having benefits by any means, and having principal human rights problems, including:
● Exploitation of foreign workers, official corruption, some media self-censorship with regard to China, vote buying, etc (USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3, 2017).
● Taiwan's Intelligence and secret-agent systems keep on governing the country ... they're true Prime Minister (行政院長), ...So many suspected political murder cases remain unsolved (ref to 2018.7.26【政經看民視】 FTV, "政經看民視", 7-26-2018; 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)" repression !
● Taiwan was already reduced to be a 'kingdom' of producing narcotic drugs. (United Daily, headline news, 11-2-2017) Philippine President Duterte ... blaming Taiwan-based organised crime behind all this drug traffic... for using his country as a shipping hub. (Reuters, 9-27-2017, The Straits Times, 9-29-2017) Duterte: Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan, not China (inquirer.net, 9-26-2017). Taiwan is scandalous for being a major drug transit center & a major drug exporting country, part of Taiwanese government including Judicial sys. refused to improve this issue. (UDN Opinion, 11-6-2017, The China Times, head-page & focus, 4-4-2017, The Liberty Times, 5-12-2017)
● Taiwan politics belongs to corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties (Foreign Policy, 2015). Now it seems hard to keep Taiwan's skin-deep democracy ... the people's "livelihood" was sacrificed for politics ... (United Daily News, Opinion, 3-7-2017 )
● Taiwan is notorious for its fraud crimes all over the world (CTV evening news, 12-14-2017, EBC TV, 4-9-2017, UDN opinion, 12-24-2017). Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset rather than liability... (quora, 4-16-2016). It's not easy for Taiwan to clean its bad name of 'fraud-crime empire' because "Rome is not built in one day". (Asia Association of Police Studies, secretary general, China Times, 11-7-2017)
● <The Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of control', GreenPeace criticized Taiwan gov. for knowing this issue but does little - EU warned since 2015 Taiwan with a yellow card for illegal fishing, Taiwan has not improved this good enough, some small countries in Southern Asia did better than Taiwan.
● Taiwan's prosecutors admit usually following order to conclude legal cases. ( The United Daily, 06-18-2016, head page news) Taiwan's justice ministry was insufficiently independent, public trust on Taiwan's judiciary system keeps falling down (USA Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 2016-2018, all media of Taiwan, 2015 ~ 2017). Taiwan's public voice with a heavy heart : The prosecutors should abide by the law too... don't be a political tool. (United Daily, opinion column, 12-16-2017) Taiwan's Minister of Judiciary and secretary of Justice Ministry issued progress report of judicial reform ― Public trust in judges is always low, the protection mechanism of lawsuit right is still not good enough (UDN 2-13-2018).
● Taiwan is far behind to legislate against torture and other cruel. (ref. to Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017) Taiwan's opposition party vice presidential candidate, NTU professor Lin Ruey-Shiung, was subject to electromagnetic wave attacks (French AFP ,Dec. 1, 2011 , Thailand's Bangkok Post, Dec. 3, 2011, Yahoo UK & Ireland, etc. ), Taiwan gov. denied this.
● State violence and white terror (product of state violence) return in Taiwan (United Daily, opinion, 12-21-2017, 12-27-2017). Taiwan's Facebook "Green terror" suppressed free expression...... (Wikipedia 2017, The China Times, public opinion, 11-18-2017)
● Taiwan is dishonest and 'cruel' ― trying to hide, block, delay public-health news, e.g., poisoned eggs, PCV virus vaccine, and Bird-flu more than one time (1-2-2018 UDN udn.com/news/story/7266/2908720, 2012 BBC news : www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese_news/2012/03/120304_taiwan_birdflu_investigate) , not to mention big issues. The China Times 5-26-2018 column : The government likes to conceal bad news, put paper over the cracks, e.g., air pollution, rupture of diplomatic relationships, ...
● EU General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR was given to effect at 5-25-2018, Taiwan is far behind, even is going in an opposite way / Apple Daily 蘋果日報, 5-28-2018, National Taiwan University Law School professor 林鈺雄
● Taiwan failed to solve food-safety issue, professors and MDs advised eating at home. (The China Times. 8-6-2016, <食品不安全的年代如何自保>, 2016, etc.)
● The government has not well taken its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property - why are there so many tall buildings located on the fault-zone? why are poor architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ? why are those shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to risk millions of old houses and human beings? (ps: may face death in 6 magnitude quake) (full text: https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2974813 聯合報社論／斷層帶上何以建了那麼多高樓？ 2-8-2018, https://udn.com/news/story/7338/2977079 勿讓軟腳樓成坑殺人命陷阱 2-9-2018, https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20180209/37928659花蓮 都更 爛政客 2-9-2018) <CTS HD>, 5-23-2016 1:25pm, "華視新聞雜誌": 17 million Taiwanese people ( totally 23 million population in Taiwan) live in "potential danger" (潛在危險) houses, according to <遠見> study, Taiwanese people gave a "failure" score (53.5) on "living safety".
● Taiwan administration's policy led to air pollution, toxic pollution in the land and sea ... (The China Times, 1-7-2018 台灣海陸空污染毒害，山海變色 http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20180107000465-260114。Daily Mail (UK) 7-14-2017 : Shocking underwater video from Taiwan shows ocean floor littered with plastic (bottles) garbage)
● The government has not well taken its fundamental responsibility of protecting the safety of people's life and property - why are there so many tall buildings located on the fault-zone? why are poor architectures everywhere on bad geologic grounds ? why are those shit-hole politicians doing nothing and ignoring urban renewal so as to risk millions of old houses and human beings? (ps: may face death in 6 magnitude quake) (full text: https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2974813 聯合報社論／斷層帶上何以建了那麼多高樓？ 2-8-2018, https://udn.com/news/story/7338/2977079 勿讓軟腳樓成坑殺人命陷阱 2-9-2018, https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20180209/37928659花蓮 都更 爛政客 2-9-2018)
● Taiwan declared crackdown on prostitution, only to turn into a country with world No.1 percentage of sex-related business consumers of all the adults. (Apple Daily, 12-25-2014 )
●Harvard professor Dr. Joseph Nye advised in 2010 that hard and soft power enable Taiwan to deal with China and expand its international space. However, Taiwan's soft power was behind China and Asian's Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, UAE. Taiwan's military power was recently cut down by half and is in a state of low morale, Taiwan's administration made a core defense strategy to resist Chinese PLA for 2 weeks, and made assumption that then American sons and daughters will always risk their lives to protect our home. full text : Taiwan
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◆ Washington Post, 1-5-2018 : China is Taiwan’s largest trading partner and China is Taiwan’s main destination for outbound investment; 40 percent of Taiwan’s exports flow to China and a fifth of Taiwan’s gross domestic product derives from its economic ties to the mainland.
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◆ Wikipedia Economy of Taiwan
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| Taiwan | 188,081 | 87,257 |
| Japan | 225,057 | 123,724 |
| Singapore | 268,776 | 108,850 |
| France | 263,399 | 119,720 |
| UK | 278,038 | 102,641 |
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◆ Global Wealth Report 2016 by credit-suisse Research Institute, Nov. 2016
Taiwan, Asia Tiger - Taiwan's average level of wealth, at USD 172,847, is well above that of most countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and similar to that of Western Europe. ( Taiwan's mean wealth per adult, at USD 172,847, is about same as that of France USD244,400 or Germany USD185,175, Taiwan's median wealth per adult USD 63,134, is about in the same level with France USD 99,923, Canada 96,664.) http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=AD783798-ED07-E8C2-4405996B5B02A32E
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| Population | 23 million | |
| Adult population | 19 million | |
| GDP | 32,647 USD per adult | |
| Mean wealth | 172,847 USD per adult | |
| Median wealth | 63,134 USD per adult | |
| Total wealth | 3.0 trillion USD | |
| US dollar millionaires | 356 thousand | |
| Top 10% of global wealth holders | 8,727 thousand | |
| Top 1% of global wealth holders | 528 thousand | |
◆ https://tradingeconomics.com/taiwan/gdp
| Taiwan GDP | Last | Previous | Highest | Lowest | Unit |
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| GDP Growth Rate | 0.15 | 0.94 | 5.64 | -5.07 | percent |
| GDP Annual Growth Rate | 2.10 | 2.60 | 17.06 | -8.12 | percent |
| GDP | 523.01 | 530.04 | 530.04 | 42.30 | USD Billion |
| GDP Constant Prices | 4034977.00 | 3997376.00 | 4034977.00 | 604229.00 | TWD Million |
| Gross National Product | 4310588.00 | 4594814.00 | 4594814.00 | 99800.00 | TWD Million |
| Gross Fixed Capital Formation | 870419.00 | 963504.00 | 964529.00 | 8907.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Agriculture | 46828.00 | 60392.00 | 72053.00 | 39800.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Construction | 94847.00 | 96112.00 | 121071.00 | 41088.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Manufacturing | 1206114.00 | 1138212.00 | 1275942.00 | 130647.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Mining | 3156.00 | 3744.00 | 15925.00 | 2701.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Public Administration | 271017.00 | 267595.00 | 280931.00 | 85791.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Services | 2559778.00 | 2686530.00 | 2686530.00 | 317742.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Transport | 116527.00 | 117446.00 | 119140.00 | 20691.00 | TWD Million |
| GDP From Utilities | 28535.00 | 29459.00 | 61237.00 | 5349.00 | TWD Million |
The gross domestic product (GDP) measures of national income and output for a given country's economy. The gross domestic product (GDP) is equal to the total expenditures for all final goods and services produced within the country in a stipulated period of time. This page provides - Taiwan GDP - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Taiwan GDP - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on August of 2017.
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● Taiwan got bad records in The Asia/Pacific Group on Money Laundering (APG) for the law and law-enforcement problems / UDN 4-11-2017 ● Drug-abuse in Taiwan is too serious to stop / Apple Daily, Opinion, 5-15-2017; 50 packs (bags) of drugs were found in Taiwan's major air-force base / United Daily News 4-7-2017
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★ comment <Cubic Tragedy>: ACM SIGGRAPH Peoples' choice no.1 (1) About 10 years ago <TIME>'s article stated Japanese comic strips show a sense of inferiority about their Eastern face ( many Japanese hero-characters look like western person's feature & body structure ), Cubic Tragedy's Oriental face-lifting story may interests Western audiences. (2) Attendees might feel "proud" when recognizing (or figure out) it's a Picasso's painting, so as to vote this film as People's Choice award winner. (3) The author's strategy is smart, however, the Picasso-inspired idea won't surprise creativity experts, because lots of fine-arts inspired and Picasso inspired ideas have already been developed long long time ago, in both West and Asia. ( see pic. below) (4) The author tried to "design" the girl's face (to avoid "yellow skin") and the Asian eyes (described in the book "Survival of the Prettiest" , or any look like soap "Ugly Betty" ), <Cubic Tragedy> gives the girl a polygonian (square,cubic), pink face just same as certain background. (5) Americans invest more money in their looks (beauty) than in education, around 1/2 the number of global M.D.s in plastic surgery are living in USA, the surgery may be treated as just a make-up or hair-coloring in the near future. Hence, the pink color may be sarcastic on that girl and many females, however, changing background-color may broaden the theme. (6) In 1990, there's a widely-known concept arts : a French artist did a plastic surgery on face, and live show to world arts museums, people can buy this DVD or some skins cut ...... is it an art, a stunt, or a tragedy with various hidden meaning ? Lots of fine-arts and Picasso inspired ideas're already published long time ago
★ comment <After the rainy days> a winning art in UK (1) A western saying : "Chinese are inscrutable", and many western juries, audiences favor stereotyped image of Eastern world - so, many Taiwan's films are on purpose full of exotic flavor, mysterious atmosphere, etc, or go even further : obscure/abstract codes, philosophical arts, poetry like a dream ......... (2) The "arts" are usually decoded to various meanings, depending upon audiences' knowledge and life experience ....... Picasso and a kid both can create same "art-work" i.e., displaying a M. Duchamp toilet, but the kid doesn't mean too much. An empty museum is a concept art, randomly shooting in the street is a Surrealism art. (quoted by John Carey, Oxford U. professor, to comment arts) (3) Famous Ad book <Visual Persuasion> (U. Penn. USA) mentions Surrealism is sometimes thought of as a representation of dream (lack of logic) imagery and a source of various hidden meanings. However, attempt to read these hidden meaning may run into a problem of over-interpretation. It's mainly an art of eye-grabbing visual paradoxes. (4) Most audiences only want entertainment,
instead of spending efforts in taking a boring philosophy class, or in escaping from a maze.
(6) Some symbolic tokens seem not so fresh, i.e., a flying graffiti, or fish soaring to the sky. Many times it seems to be easy : for instance, "graffiti" symbolizes rebellion, "flying" symbolizes set to free (or release from tyranny), so, combine both to get a flying graffiti. (7) Sometimes lyric stuffs may needs obscure (but not too obscure) codes, but, why does mocking-politics kind of film need camouflage? (8) <After the rainy day> is sort of "arts" animation. (9) For so many years, Taiwan government loves to do some political propaganda/comm. by attending int'l film festivals with this kind of obscure-meaning films, so that Taiwan fails to communicate with million times of world audiences, this style of movie already led to Taiwan film industry's death.
★ <A Fish with a Smile> (10 min. short film) Jury Committee Special prize, Children's Jury Short Film, Berlinale int'l film Festival 2005 (1) director : C Jay Shih, Alan Tuan, Poliang Lin (2) brief - "I once had a fish that was as loyal as a dog, as amicable as a cat, as attentive as a lover". This animation is kind of surrealism languages - deconstructed, inconsistent, hallucinatory, etc. (3) If you like this anim., also try "EEL", a Japanese made Cannes award winner. (4) The drawing style is elegant, however, this city looks like Euro's more than Taiwan's. (5) The nature of animation is closely related to poetry, poetry is related to thinking in nature. I feel university should produce great themed art-works. (6) I guess "fish is crying" is a more witty phrase than "fish is smiling". (because fish is in water) ps: a few other winning anim. can't be found in Youtube, or their school sites
Summary: Taiwan is struggling from OEM to OBM (for Pixar 3D films and China's cheap labor), Taiwan's animation is skilled in drawing tech., but is short of creativity. 1. Taiwan's society
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