WSJ (Wall Street Journal)
9-20-2019:
中國外交明顯大勝台灣 It’s clearly a big
win for China having the two largest allies of Taiwan in the Pacific drop so
quickly... New York Times
9-20-2019: As Taiwan Loses Influence, China Gains
Ground in Race With U.S.
外交洗牌的直接输家是台湾政府;Washington Post 9-25-2019: China’s growing
dominance in the South Pacific is a defeat for an America in retreat.
中國於南太平洋擊敗美國 。
World Economic Forum (WEF) <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report>, 9-4-2019:
台灣的觀光旅遊競爭力區域跌幅最大(詳下頁)
,
排名亞洲第10
,
prioritization (旅遊優先序)排全球75。紐約時報
(New
York Times), 7-31-2019, CNN 8-1-2019: 中國著眼於選舉 停止自由行來台旅遊。
Independent UK 8-1-2019: It is a blow for Taiwan’s tourism industry.
美國洛杉磯時報, 8-1-2019:
無限期停簽可能會對台灣經濟，文化交流造成造成重大衝擊
(The indefinite suspension is likely to
prove a major economic hit to Taiwan, as well as a blow to cultural interplay)。
紐約時報
(New
York Times)
4-10-2019:
The US considers Taiwan's political
status to be undetermined ... Taiwan Relations Act. calls for Taiwan's
status to be determined by peaceful means.台灣地位未定
須和平決定; Washington
Post, 3-28-2019: 美國不如中國對台灣的影響力普遍 in Taiwan, it’s China that dominates
every discussion ..., while the United States is seen as largely absent.
Bloomberg 7-15-2019:
台灣位居美國西太平洋國安鏈樞紐之一;
紐約時報
(New
York Times) 4-1-2019:
台灣抗議共機穿越海峽中線。
聯合報 4-1-2019: 共機越中線 抗議美艦3度穿海峽。 Japan
Times, 4-1-2019:
中國解讀美艦穿越為支持台灣自治(
those sailings have likely been interpreted by China as implicit support for
self-ruled Taiwan)。
Reuters 2-25-2019:
美艦激怒中国(US Navy ships pass through strategic Taiwan Strait,
riling China.) 。CNN 6-17-2019: 香港示威幫台灣反中壯膽 (emboldened
anti-China elements).
紐約時報
(New
York Times) 1-19-2019: 台灣大多數人民想維持實質獨立，但也不想招惹共軍犯台。
法國
Le Monde France 1-2-2019:
中國不能排除武統
( « n’exclut pas » la force pour récupérer Taïwan)。 英國BBC
1-2-2019:
美國是台灣唯一盟友 ... 大多其他國家樂見目前台灣地位之模糊狀態...。紐約時報
(New
York Times),
11-28-2018: 台灣是倒向中國的第一張骨牌嗎? (Will Taiwan be the first Domino to fall to
China ?);
New York Times, 11-23-2018: 經濟、就業與年金改革導致民進黨選舉大敗,
中國指出選舉結果反映人民想改善兩岸關係之欲望; Le
Monde (法國), 11-24-2018: A Taïwan, des élections sous influence chinoise
.
Washington Post,
8-20-2018: 美國政策無法預料 台灣處境危險且不穩Taiwan's precarious role in the
China-US spat (Trump adm.'s Taiwan policy is unpredictable);
CBS News 11-14-2018:
美國若為台灣與解放軍作戰、很可能陷入苦戰
險勝或遭擊敗 ( decisive military
defeat.)
/
National Defense Strategy
Commission
;
Annual Report to US Congress (
Military and Security Developments Involving the PRC ),
8-17-2018 美國防報告 : Much of
Beijing’s defense budget is focused on developing the capability to unify
Taiwan by force (北京將大量國防預算
集中於發展武統台灣的軍事力量);
紐約時報 (NY Times), 6-12-2018: AIT新館落成 , 美國不派高官來台(no top officials) 以免增加美中衝突;
USA Today
5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its
historical properties by 2049.(習近平已發出信號將尋求2040年收回台灣); 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
(2020年
- 習近平給人民解放軍準備入侵台灣的最後期限); 美國聽證會(4-17-2018)Rep. Ted Soho: Seems likely Xi will force the issue in his life
time (看來習任內將強制完成統一
Subcommittee Hearing: Reinforcing the
U.S.-Taiwan Relationship (EventID=108170)
) ; 紐約時報 (NY Times), 10-19-2017:
習近平呼籲台灣回歸祖國，
如同港澳般實行愛國者為主體的自治 ，...
"绝不允许任何人、任何组织、任何政党、在任何时候、以任何形式、把任何一块中国领土从中国分裂出去！”
這段誓辭贏得全場最熱烈的掌聲(in
19th CP Congress Speech )
； 華盛頓郵報 (Washington Post) , 10-18-2017:
習近平所謂"任何一块中国领土"，包括了台灣。
德國 Spiegel, 1-9-2017, Global Times of China:一中原則
... 沒有討價還價的餘地("Es
gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen".)。 五角大廈於May
2017警告:台灣過去可以遏制中國襲擊的「許多優勢」(包括美國協防)，已經被中國的軍事現代化「削弱或消除了」。美國 FreeBeacon , 10-19-2017 : "中國習近平對台獨的籲請，
猛力關上大門 (Slams the Door on Taiwanese Appeals for Independence)"。法國 Le Monde
diplomatique
(mai '16) 兩岸鬥爭
台海情勢 政治漫畫(click
for details !)將台灣喻為
背對大貓(中國)
威懾、直冒汗發抖求救("$O$" )的
耗子。
Bloomberg
3-14-2018: 中國真正的憂慮不是貿易戰、而是美國打'台灣牌'
Trump's "Taiwan card"
(to annoy China when
needed) is
China's real worry.
Deutsche Welle 3-17-2018:
中國對川普簽署之台灣旅行法反應憤怒 (<台旅法>間接承認台灣為國家!?
― "visits to a country by United
States cabinet members
...".).
Bloomberg 3-14-2018:
台灣成為
兩強夾心餅乾,
處境更為煎熬 Taiwan will suffer even more,
as it
gets caught in the middle between a stronger China and a
inward-looking US...
★
中国(The
People's Republic of China)長久以來認定台灣 (Taiwan the Republic of China )屬於中國不可分割的一部分，而且為其核心利益，必要時將以武力解決台灣問題 ，美國洛杉磯時報
(8-1-2019) :台灣政府民調顯示，80％以上的人民喜歡"autonomy"(維持現狀)，
紐約時報
(New
York Times) 1-19-2019:
台灣大多數人民想維持實質獨立，但也不想招惹共軍犯台。
截至2019年夏，在中国施壓與外交影響下 ， 台灣邦交國只剩15(
Taiwan loses Salvador. China
rankled TW president's visit to NASA - LA Times 8-20-2018, 半年失去3邦交國)，且多為蕞爾小邦，
北京隨時可進一步挫敗台外交，另手的軟策略則是對台「讓利」(比方鼓勵赴台旅遊)，希望更多台灣人傾向統一。(
紐約時報
(New York Times), 7-31-2019, CNN 8-1-2019: 中國著眼於選舉 暫停自由行來台旅遊。 L.A.
Times,
8-1-2019: 無限期停簽
自由行可能對台灣經濟，文化交流造成造成重大衝擊。)
近年來，台灣超過三分之二的海外直接投资於對岸，大陸已成為台灣最大的贸易伙伴 ， 2017年台灣從大陸賺得近1200億美元順差。 實際的台灣人一致認為:
與大陸的經濟依存無法避免，但過度仰赖則存在風险;
英國BBC(2019) 報導 部分台灣人認為龐大的投資中國使共軍犯台機率減低。
法國
Le
Monde diplomatic
(2016)指出
: 互補的兩岸經濟正在競爭
(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 ... )。
台灣目前試圖增強與其他亞洲國家的貿易以減少對大陸的依賴，就得作更加開放與競爭力的改革 (heritage.org)。
★
台灣創造了經濟奇蹟
，成為世界重要電子產品生產廠與亞洲主要貿易國家 、世界第22大經濟體
， 據Global Wealth Report (Credit
Suisse,
Oct.,
2018)統計台灣成人的平均財富USD
212,375,
接近西歐水平 ( UK USD
279,048, France USD
280,580)
與新加坡USD 283,118、Hong
Kong
244,672;
但國家總財富或佔全球比率僅1.3%，低於中國的16.4%、美國31%、日本7.5%、韓國2.2%，
而新加坡的國民所得GDP per
adult 是台灣的二倍多。
日本読売新聞「社説」6-22-2017評論:
美國負責加強台灣的防務，是維護台海和平與穩定的關鍵。
(
"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。")
台灣的"守護神"美國，對於兩岸問題採取戰略模糊("strategic
ambiguity")政策，
"認知"(“acknowledge”)台灣屬於中國 , 但不"承認"(“recognize”)台灣屬於中国， 並根據
美國法律販售防衛武器給台灣，但
近年缺乏給台灣真正優勢的重要系統
。長年以來，台灣政府
也未正
視中国不斷增強的威脅，且假設美國一定會出兵解救台湾，國、民二黨的國防政策與规劃 ―
現役正規軍砍半成二十萬人、 二百萬後備軍人形同虚設，導致了
軍力不足且士氣低落。 Washington Post 1-5-2018 報導許多美國高官視台灣為美中障礙， 甚至是壞一碗粥的老鼠屎(“the turd in the
punchbowl”)。
然而，
中共軍方媒體認為美國仍有許多勢力(many forces)支持台灣 (PS: Bloomberg 3-14-2018: some US
national security hawks,
New York Times at
4-18-2018: Mr. Trump questioned why the US should be bound by
the One China policy if Beijing will not budge on trade ... The
U.S. and Taiwan are seen
as heading in a direction that is getting perilously close to Chinese
red lines......,
VOAnews, 3-23-2018 :
John Bolton (Trump's new National Security
Adviser) has long argued that Washington can play a "Taiwan
card" to compel
Beijing's
attention for
its potentially
destabilizing
actions in East
Asia and the
South China Sea. )，作為對抗中国的籌碼。
Bloomberg 3-14-2018:
台灣夾在兩強中, 未來將更煎熬;
Washington Post,
8-20-2018:
美國政策無法預料, 台灣處境危險且不穩 。
台應思考台灣牌是否可能失去利用價值?
蘋果日報2017,
Jan. 2018社論提醒，不要完全依賴美軍援台的假設。 倾向獨立的台灣總統 蔡英文在2016年的就職演講裡，提到了《中華民國憲法》和两岸條例法规，二者均暗示(imply)
她已接受了“一個中國”的框架，但
蔡又拒絕endorse九二共識，引起中方敵意上升， 認為她已踩到
且欲跨越「紅線」，解放軍
受命進入備戰狀態，不斷在台灣疆域附近甚至穿越海峽中線test
the waters。 Duke univ 與政大的調查發現，一旦兩岸戰爭，6成以上國民選擇逆來順受或投降逃跑,
華府一研討會('17)引用的民調顯示僅18%美國人民支持美軍助台 (CTN opinion, 4-21-2018)。
雖然截至2019年夏美艦多次穿越二岸間的台灣海峽，Independent
UK, 7-23-2019:中國發布白皮書
―
China "ready to go to war" if Taiwan tries to gain independence。
●
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.
"),
言論及新聞自由方面，媒體所有權集中對新聞自由
產生影響；新聞置入性行銷情況嚴重，罷工權嚴格受限。台灣工會密度遠低於經濟合作暨發展組織（OECD）的17%平均值，78.2%中小企業員工無法成立工會，大型企業則透過調動或將工會成員列入晉升黑名單。婦女懷孕是台灣常見的勞動歧視現象，性騷擾與不公平待遇等案件也時有所聞，社會文化因素(社會壓力使家族蒙羞)使許多婦女隱忍不報，性侵數字應7~10倍於通報數
；性侵也見於殘障人士、性剝削見於兒童，外籍家庭主婦與陸配、 LGBTI 、HIV/AIDS
仍舊遭到歧視；外勞是最容易遭受強迫勞動的族群，漁業(『普遍盛行』的狀況:
沒有工資或低工資，高工時，身體虐待，缺乏食物或醫療，剝奪睡眠，不人道的生活條件惡劣。)、農業、製造業與建築業都是常見強制勞動的行業。
●
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/) ; 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.)
●
台灣竟成亞洲製毒販毒中心
/ <中國時報
周刊王> (The China Times,
Want Weekly) , 9-18-2019。「台灣
已淪製毒王國」/ <聯合報>
(United Daily) 頭版頭條,
11-2-2017 。台灣成為惡名昭彰的「毒品轉運中心」，
「輸出大國」的污名
坐實，
日本與澳洲警方已將台灣列為毒品輸出"高風險國家"，但台灣卻反對改變
/ <中國時報>(The China Times) 頭版頭條, 4-4-2017, <聯合報>社論,
11-6-2017, <自由時報>(The Liberty
Times), 5-12-2017。
●
美國人口走私報告
US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019:
過去五年來，人口販運集團走私外國男女到台灣被迫從事勞動和性交易，當地男女 也遭受強迫性的勞動，台灣當地婦女和兒童則被迫遭受性交易販賣。
人口販運集團以毒癮引誘國內外國女性和兒童從事非法性交易販運。
販運者通過欺詐性婚姻和欺騙性就業機會，將來自中國和東南亞國家的婦女引誘到台灣。...
●
台灣變成國際詐騙輸出國,已成國際公害
/ <聯合報> 社論,
12-24-2017。
台灣人詐騙全球、
惡名昭彰、
重創台灣形象
/ < EBC TV>, 4-9-2017
。台灣把詐騙犯當成資產
"Taiwan largely sees these telecom
frauds(phone scammers) as an asset rather
than liability..." / <quora>,
4-16-2016。 冰凍三尺非一日寒，台灣要洗刷詐騙王國的汙名，
並不簡單
/
<中國時報>,
11-7-2017 (亞洲警察學會秘書長)。
●
台灣一再拖延修正刑法反酷刑(torture
and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment
), 無視國際人權專家會審調查之結論意見,
ref .<蘋果日報>,
opinion - 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. ●
Liberty
Times
6-7-2019
: Control
Yuan's new mission -
against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
/ Pavel Doubek
●
聯合報,
editorial, 5-6-2019: 監察院(之彈劾...)著眼於自己人, 未幫助弱勢 (brief).
●
一群情治系統
的幫派繼續運作、繼續
治國...
他們是真正的行政院長,
...情治單位疑涉入劉邦友、彭
婉如等懸
案
(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)"
●
中國時報
The China Times, 10-20-2018 社論 (主筆室) https://opinion.chinatimes.com/20181019003889-262101
●
人民隱私:
歐洲個資法(EU
General
Data
Protection
Regulation
- GDPR)正式上路,
台灣甚至反其道而行
/
蘋果日報, 5-28-2018,
NTU
professor
林鈺雄
●
「白色恐怖 漆成綠色 我們依然認得」/
<聯合報>社論,
12-21-2017。台灣許多作為
屬「國家暴力」(「白色恐怖」為其產品 )重現；「若不叫做'國家暴力',
甚麼才是國家暴力?」.../
ref to
<聯合報>社論,
12-27-2017,
詳
https://udn.com/news/story/11321/2897025。
●
剝削 外籍漁工與家事勞工、官員貪污、家庭暴力、部分媒體在報導關於中國新聞時有「自我審查」狀況、買票、企業違反工時規定、性別歧視及兒虐案件增加...
/ 美國國務院
人權報告
United
States
Department
of State
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights
Practices
(3-3-2017,
4-20-2018)
。
●
哈佛大學教授
Dr. Joseph Nye 曾建議台灣發展軟實力，
以開拓國際空間，應對中國，Brookings
(1-22-2018) 也主張軟實力對台灣 是個低成本、
高回報的好政策。
然而根據《MONOCLE》2010
~ 2019 抑或
2017's & 2018's 《Soft Power 30 Study》
compiled by PR company Portand Communication and University of Southern
California，近年來台灣軟實力表現卻不及鄰國如
Japan (No.3 in 2019), South Korea (No.15 in 2019), Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, UAE
，甚至不如中國(No.19 in 2019)。
Salmon is poking the
bear ? Taiwan suffers in danger !
Independent UK, 7-23-2019: China "ready to go to
war" if Taiwan tries to gain independence ( white paper
released by the Chinese gov.).
CNN 6-17-2019: mass protests
(in Hong Kong) emboldened anti-China elements in Taiwan.
Daily Mail (UK) 4-1-2019: Taiwan
blasts China for "reckless and provocative" incursion by 2 fighter jets
across a largely respected line dividing the 2 sides in the Taiwan Straits.
Japan Times, 4-1-2019:
China's move also comes less than a week after the U.S. sent ships through
the strait — the third time in as many months. Reuters 2-25-2019: US Navy ships
... riling China.
In the future, Taiwan will suffer even more,
as it
gets caught in the middle between a stronger China and a
inward-looking US...
Washington Post,
8-20-2018:
●
美國政策無法預料 台灣處境危險且不穩 Taiwan's
precarious role in the China-US spat !
(Trump adm.'s Taiwan
policy is unpredictable);
Bloomberg news 10-19-2018: Taipei mayor says
Taiwan is "just a product on a shelf" for Trump
●
台灣只是美國的"架上貨品"
◆
New York Times at
4-18-2018: Mr. Trump questioned why the US should be bound by the One
China policy if Beijing
will not budge on trade ... The U.S. and Taiwan are seen as heading in a
direction that is getting perilously close to
Chinese
red lines...... (Taiwan president Tsai stated) " Many people
say we are pawns of other people ......"
◆
VOAnews, 3-23-2018 :
John Bolton (Trump's new National Security
Adviser) has long argued that Washington
can play a "Taiwan
card" to compel
Beijing's
attention for
its potentially
destabilizing
actions in East
Asia and the
South China Sea.
◆
<Foreign Policy> 12-14-2016 named Taiwan President Tsai as
one of leading thinkers of 2016 for "Poking the bear" .
But,
蔡英文因為"敢戳大熊"被FP選為"智者", 事實上, 台灣只是張被玩的牌, 不算card player
◆
In Mar. 2018, Trump signed <Taiwan Travel
Act>, which paves way for high-level, official exchanges with Taiwan.
The bill identifies
indirectly
(?) Taiwan as a country
― "visits to a country by United States cabinet members ...".
Deutsche Welle 3-17-2018: China has reacted
angrily to the bill.
Bloomberg news
3-14-2018: Trump's "Taiwan card" (to annoy
China when needed) is China's real worry.
◆ Taiwan Defense Secretary: can resist Chinese army for about 1+ week
(CTV 12-18-2016);
pic.:
本網站群 "台灣簡介"
(or"台灣介紹" ) 英文版排名 No.2 on Yahoo,
3-8-2019
pic.:
本網站群 "台灣簡介"
(or"台灣介紹" ) 英文版排名 No1 on search.Yahoo.com
at 9-17-2018, 6-30-2018, 5-24-2018, 4-13-2018,
3-30-2018, 2-25-2018, 2-2-2018, 1-28-2018;
among top ranks at 3-8-2019
○
pic. right : 本網站"介紹台灣"
(英文版)
排名US WebCrawler 第1 at 2-25-2018, 12-25-2017; No.2 at 3-8-2019, 6-18-2018 (the upper 3 are ads.);
●
●
●
○●
"
●
Economist (special edition
2017): "台灣將成猛虎"(Taiwan will turn into a tiger again)
●
Global Wealth Report &
Global Wealth Databook by
Credit-suisse Research Institute, Nov. 2016: "台灣
亞洲之虎(Taiwan,
Asia Tiger)"
●
紐約時報NY
Times 5-22-2017:
"台灣總統一直假設美國一定
會出兵解救台湾,
並掏空軍隊, 軍方士氣低落且陷入醜聞中
(Taiwan leader continued to base defense
planning
on the assumption that the United States would always
come to the rescue...
Taiwan
has reduced its
active force
(by half))"
● NY Times
12-13-2016:
"台灣總統 蔡英文在就職演講裡，提到了《中華民國憲法》
和两岸條例法规，二者均暗示(imply)
她已接受了“一個中國”的框架。
In Taiwan president Tsai's inaugural speech,
Tsai referred to
the Constitution
of the Republic
of China and the
legislation
governing
cross-strait
relations, both
of which imply
the acceptance
of a “one China”
framework.
"
New York
Times
4-1-2019: Taiwan
protests China jets crossing center of Taiwan Strait, a
provocation that seeks to alter the status quo ... an intentional act.
Taiwan News, 6-28-2019:
U.S. Senate passes pro-Taiwan defense bill calling for more patrols in
Taiwan Strait. Reuters 6-27-2019:
Canadian
navy
ships
sailed
through
Taian
strait
amid
tension
with
China
(Such
passages
upset
China
...
In
April,
Beijing
condemned
a French
decision
to send
a
frigate
through
the
Strait
as
illegal)
Japan Times, 4-1-2019: the U.S. sent ships through the
strait ( mission was unusual) ..
<聯合報> UDN
7-28-2017, 11-20-2017,
Global times, 12-12-2017,
CTV 12-17-2017:
中共解放軍機不斷"常態威懾"繞台飛行
("patrol circling")
並突破第一島鏈(1st Island Chain)..
.中共戰機只需
14 分鐘便可由大陸飛到台灣
https://udn.com/news/story/10930/2610183
Apple Daily 1-18-2018: China's submarine
"patrol circling"
at 1-11-2018
UDN
11-20-2017: 民調首度逆轉 -
49%台灣民眾對大陸民眾印象好。
40%對大陸政府印象好。
●
●
Taiwan
台灣觀光Taiwan travel & tour
●
根據
World Economic Forum (WEF)
<國際觀光旅遊競爭力
報告>
(<Travel
and tourism competitiveness report>, released at 9-4-2019)，
台灣的觀光旅遊競爭力是該區中跌幅最大的，
總排名從2017年的30，
狂跌到第 37名. 其他亞洲國家的名次為
Japan got No.4, China
No.13, Hong Kong No.14, Korea No.16,
Singapore No.17, Malaysia No.29,
Thailand No.31, UAE No.33,
India No. 34,... 至於主要的評鑑項目與分數如下表:
WEF <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report>, 9-4-2019
category
台灣的名次與分數
comparison
prioritization of travel and tourism
No75
Singapore No.6 , Hong Kong No. 11
Natural & cultural resources
No.58 score 2.6
China No.1, score 6.0 , France No.2, 5.0, Spain
No.3, 5.7, Japan No.7, 5.3, Indonesia No.18, Thailand No.21, Korea
No.24, Vietnam No.26, Malaysia No.31, HK No.40, Philippines No.46,
Sri Lanka No.52, Nepal No.56
Natural resources
No. 87
Hong Kong No. 42, Singapore No.120
cultural resources & business travel
No. 36 score 2.6
China No1, score 7.0
price competitiveness
No. 78
China 5.7
Health & Hygiene
No.43, score 6
score worse than Korea, Japan, Mongolia
international openness
No. 60
only better than China, Mongolia
Safety & security
No. 26
human resource & labor market: Taiwan No.18
ps: Compared to the report of 2017, Taiwan significantly tightened
visa requirements (37th down to 119th), waning cultural resources
and business travel (26th to 36th) and recalibrated figures showing
a drastic reduction in protected areas (20th to 118th).
外國觀光旅客來台日均消費 source
from TW gov., Apple Daily, Aug., 2019
★
BBC, UK, 7-31-2019: the number of Chinese tourists (in time) in
2015 is about 4.18 million, dropped to 2.7 million on 2018
(https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/trad/chinese-news-49178224
7-31-2019)
★
Telegraph, UK, 7-31-2019: China remains
the top source of tourists, with close to 2.5 million visiting last year
中國觀光旅客來台人數統計(百萬單位) , 2008年起兩岸直航 2016年起民進黨執政(綠色)
source: Asia Nikkei 4-30-2019, 台灣政府資料
data 2018/2019
area
population人口
number of tourists
(person in time)
旅遊人次
times倍數
Hong Kong
7.3 million
65.1 million
1:9
Macau
0.65 million
35.9 million
1
: 55
Singapore
5.6 million
18.5 million
1
: 2.3
Taiwan
23
million
11.25 million
1
: 0.5
●
紐約時報
(New
York Times), 7-31-2019, CNN 8-1-2019: 中國著眼於選舉 製造二岸緊張情勢 暫停自由行來台旅遊。
Independent UK 8-1-2019: It is a blow for Taiwan’s tourism industry.
美國洛杉磯時報, 8-1-2019:
無限期停簽可能會對台灣經濟，文化交流造成造成重大衝擊
(The indefinite suspension is likely to
prove a major economic hit to Taiwan, as well as a blow to cultural interplay)。自由時報 8-28-2019: 台灣下半年觀光產值恐損失354億。
聯合報 8-28-2019, 焦點:
撒錢、免簽能救觀光?
拼命補助國旅結果是國人出國人數一再創新高。
聯合報 8-17-2019 社論:
台灣目前的觀光(旅遊)困境，很大部分是兩
岸政策失當所造成。
聯合報 8-22-2019 社論:旅遊衰退的另一大線索是年金改革太劇烈，
使國內旅遊支柱軍公教消費轉趨保守。
聯合報 7-15-2019 社論:
美國經濟學家Tyler Cowen驚訝, 台北是亞洲城市中這30年變化最小的, 85%沒變, 還是小巷、建築、滿街摩托車,
而廣州有90%的不同,香港、首爾、新加坡
10年的變化就很大。 聯合報
8-23-2019: 蔡英文表示台灣觀光政策是
―
均衡客源、擴大內需、提高消費、用美食與珍珠奶茶拼觀光...
; New
York Times, 7-31-2019, CNN
8-1-2019: China, an Eye on Elections,
rising cross-strait tensions, bans
solo tourists from heading to Taiwan. L.A. Times, 8-1-2019:
The indefinite suspension is likely to
prove a major economic hit to Taiwan, as
well as a blow to cultural interplay.
Independent UK 8-1-2019: It is a
blow for Taiwan’s tourism industry.
Liberty Times 8-1-2019: Taiwan may loss
20,000 million dollars from the gross
annual value of tourism in the second
half of 2019. Asia Nikkei
4-30-2019:
Since 2016, China has attempted to
punish Tsai (DPP) by reducing tour
groups to Taiwan, but inbound tourists
have steadily set records surpassing 11
millions for the first time last year...
China remaining the top source of
tourists to Taiwan is because,
LA Times
at 8-1-2019 said that (1)
satisfying a curiosity, an important
channel for knowing Taiwan (2) flights
of no more than 2~3 hours (3) strong
cultural and deep historic connection
(4) religious, architectural and
cultural similarities, the result of
migration from China to Taiwan that
began hundreds of years ago (5) take
home new information from Taiwan’s
newspapers, news websites and television
channels, all free of censorship unlike
on the mainland (6)
stoking business.
●
英國媒體
BBC, The SUN (2-13-2017):
"Bus Crash Horror !"
- 批評台灣旅遊交通安全有待改善
"safety standards need to be improved"聯合報頭版 2-15-2017: "每次都檢討 每次都重演"。
國際媒體也批評台灣飛安紀錄不佳
(
Taiwan's aviation safety -
MSN, Reuters,
EuroNews, Mirro(UK), NewsWeek, CNN, etc (2-4-2015) :"Taiwan has had a poor
aviation safety record in recent years"
) 。
Apple Daily, Opinion (2-15-2017):
如此高傷亡率在文明國家中可能居冠 (brief)。
●
台灣火車 死亡事件
ref. to
<紐約時報>報導
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/world/asia/taiwan-train-crash.html
2018 : 普悠瑪於台灣最彎軌道出事
Taiwan Train Accident Kills at Least 18 and
Injures about 187 Others( ps: 中視新聞 19:45pm,
10-22-2018, 檢察官:可能是超速肇事; 其他疑點包括Automatic Train Protection被關閉,
軌道異常, etc. ps2: CTV 20:30pm, 10-22-2018 : 速度140 km, 應該
80km or 65km)
2011: at least six people were killed and more
than 50 others injured after a tree collapsed into the path of a
tourist train also serving Ali Mountain.(阿里山車禍6死50傷)
2003: last crash of a similar scale taking place
in 2003, when a train serving the mountain tourist destination
of Ali Mountain derailed, killing 17 people and injuring 156
others.(阿里山車禍17死156傷)
1981:
a collision in Miaoli County, in the island’s
northwest, killed 31 people
(苗栗車禍31死)
●
Business Insider (6-2015) 介紹台灣景點:
◎ Hehuan Mountain and Ali Mountain are two top-rated scenic spots on TripAdvisor.
(阿里山等)
◎ Sun Moon Lake(日月潭)
◎ Kenting National Park(墾丁).
9 nationall. parks, which make up 8.6% of its land. Taroko National Gorge
(太魯閣) alone is worth spending at least two days hiking its
numerous scenic trails.
◎ hot springs Beitou
outside of Taipei, and Jiaoxi in Yilan (北投宜蘭等溫泉)
◎◎
ps: [
Climate ]
tropical and
subtropical
climate zones,
Average
temperature for
northern Taiwan
: 21.7°C;
southern Taiwan:
24.1°C.
Jan. ~ Mar : may
downto 10°C.
June ~ August,
may up to 38°C
●
蘋果日報 11-20-2017 :世界各國的食安法規，都是愈訂愈嚴格，唯獨台灣打算使用愈訂愈鬆的法律，這樣台灣美食王國的美譽如何重現?
(brief)
/
by
邱致穎, 東海大學食品科學系教師 農推中心主任 ( TungHai University ).
○
●
Taiwan is not included in EIU's Global
Food Security Index of 2017, China ranks No. 45 among 113 nations.
○
●
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 sub-total, 5 Japanese , 4 Chinese, 3
Singapore, 2 Thailand, 1 Korean, 1 India restaurant(s) entered top 100.
○
●
CNN 2016年"亞洲最佳餐廳"評鑑，前50名餐廳中，台灣僅二間餐廳入選(台中市的leMout(No.30)與台北Raw(No.46))，排亞洲第9，次於新加坡(10間入選)、香港(9)、日本(8)、泰國(4,
但Gaggan獲最佳餐廳)、中國大陸(3)、韓國、印度、斯里蘭卡
The World's Best Restaurants (2016) ,
台灣無餐廳入選。
●
紐約時報
New York
Times, 2-24-2017:
台北街頭小吃能量旺便宜的大排檔與快炒店數以千計 Taipei
... has a street food scene as vibrant as that of Bangkok; restaurants that
specialize in both Taiwanese and regional cuisines from around China; thousands
of cheap and cheerful joints at which to drink cold beer with small plates and
quick stir-fries; .... ref to
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/travel/taipei-taiwan-restaurants-local.html
●
BBC UK 1-2-2019 What's behind the
China-Taiwan divide? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
美國是台灣唯一盟友 大多他國樂見目前之模糊狀態 The US is by far Taiwan's most important
friend, and its only ally.
Given the huge divide between these two positions, most other countries seem
happy to accept the current ambiguity, whereby Taiwan has most of the
characteristics of an independent state, even if its legal status remains
unclear.
部分台灣人擔憂經濟依賴中國 其他人認為投資中國使共軍犯台機率減低
... links between the two peoples (ps: Chinese, Taiwanese) and economies
have grown sharply. Taiwanese companies have invested about $60bn (£40bn) in
China, and up to one million Taiwanese now live there, many running
Taiwanese factories.
Some Taiwanese worry their economy is now dependent on China. Others point
out that closer business ties makes Chinese military action less likely,
because of the cost to China's own economy...
●
台灣選舉 民進黨大敗
Taiwan votes in elections, Nov. 2018
●
New York Times, 11-23-2018:
Economic growth, employment and pension
reforms were among key issues in the elections...China said the results
(Taiwan elections) reflected a desire of Taiwanese for better
relations with the mainland...
經濟就業是這次選舉的關鍵因素...中國表示選舉結果反映人民想改善兩岸關係之欲望.
●
Quartz , 11-25-2018 :
Taiwan’s elections have given Beijing much to
celebrate (https://qz.com/1473960/taiwans-elections-have-given-beijing-much-to-celebrate/)
●
Le Monde (France), 11-24-2018 : A Taïwan, des
élections sous influence chinoise
●
Wall Street Journal
,
11 25 2018:
台灣人民在中國威嚇下表現出務實之選舉結果 A great virtue of
Taiwan’s voters is that they’re pragmatic, a useful trait for an island
under threat of a Chinese invasion. That pragmatism was on display in local
elections Saturday that rebuked President Tsai Ing-wen while refusing to ban
nuclear power.
●
Reuters UK
, 11-26-2018:
Beijing told Reuters simply: “They’re really happy.” 中國對台灣選舉結果真是高興
●
SET news, Taiwan, 11-26-2018:
英國路透社一針見血，認為中國是這次選舉的最大贏家，而華盛頓郵報和法國世界報也都認為，中國是左右這次選舉的最大關鍵。
●
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.
○
●
紐約時報
New York times, 12-13-2016 : 如今，台灣3分之2以上的海外直接投资流向大陸
―
台灣最大的贸易伙伴。...台灣人的共識是，與大陸某种程度的经濟依存無法避免，但過度仰赖则有風险。是以極端的
经濟政策失去了人民的支持。...北京的策略是，對台湾讓利益，讓台湾人更頃向于统一，但尚未成功。另方面，北京加大施壓力度，
中止台灣的官方沟通、减少陸客來台旅遊 和圍堵台灣的國際空間——。Today,
more
than
two-thirds
of
Taiwan’s
outward
foreign
direct
investment
is to
China,
which is
also
Taiwan’s
leading
trading
partner.
Taiwanese
has
emerged
a
consensus
that
some
degree
of
economic
interdependence
with
China is
unavoidable
but that
overdependence
is
risky.
Beijing’s
strategy
of
giving
Taiwanese
economic
benefits
so that
Taiwanese
will
become
more
inclined
toward
unification
has not
been
successful
...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/world/asia
○
●
英國BBC, UK,
6-14-2017:
Taiwan
has
become
one of
Asia's
big
traders.
It is
considered
to have
achieved
an
economic
miracle,
becoming
one of
the
world's
top
producers
of
computer
technology.
台灣創造了經濟奇蹟
，成為世界重要電子產品生產廠與亞洲主要貿易國家/
Taiwan
country
profile
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639
○
● Wikipedia,
Economy of Taiwan
台灣高科技產品在全球經濟扮演中要角色，但其關鍵技術與主
要組件須仰賴日本與美國的
提供與進口。臺灣的電子工業多為ODM。
Taiwan
is
the
22nd-largest
economy
in
the
world,
and
its
high-tech
industry
plays
a
key
role
in
the
global
economy.
(Taiwan
has
a
developed
capitalist
economy
that
ranks
as
the
22th-largest
in
the
world
by
purchasing
power
parity
(PPP)
)
It
is
ranked
highly
in
terms
of
...
economic
freedom,
and
human
development...These
SMEs
usually
produce
products
on
an
original
equipment
manufacturer
(OEM)
or
original
design
manufacturer
(ODM)
basis,
resulting
in
less
resources
spent
on
research
and
development.
Due
to
the
emphasis
of
the
OEM/ODM
model,
companies
are
usually
unable
to
make
in-depth
assessments
for
investment,
production,
and
marketing
of
new
products,
instead
relying
upon
importation
of
key
components
and
advanced
technology
from
the
United
States
and
Japan.
/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
○
●
Baidu China
: 国际贸易是台湾的经济命脉，中国大陆是台湾最大贸易伙伴、进出口贸易第一地区，其次为美国和日本。不同于邻近的韩国和日本，台湾经济以中小型企业而非大型企业集团为主。 台湾电子信息产业在全球产业链中地位举足轻重，全球大多数电脑电子零组件都在台湾生产。......目前当局积极推动产业转型升级，重点发展观光旅游、医疗照护、生物科技、绿色能源、文化创意、精致农业六大新兴产业和十大服务业。 2002年瑞士洛桑國際管理學院《世界競爭力年報》指出臺灣人平均一年工作時數是2,282小時，臺灣工時世界排名第一。2012年CNN援引勞委會和OECD的數據指出，臺灣人每年平均工作2,200小時，比日本、美國多出20％，和德國相比更高出35％。 PS: Apple Daily 10-1-2017: 台灣勞動部統計，2016年勞工時2034小時，全球第6, 次於新、墨、南韓、哥、希臘，但台灣勞工隱藏的加班時數過多，難以由統計看出過勞改善。
○
○
●
Credit
Suisse,
Oct.
18,
2018
:
country
Wealth per adult(USD)
GDP per adult
Total wealth (bn)
Share of world wealth
quality
United States
403,974
81,425
98,154
31.0%
Good
Singapore
283,118
75,242
1,289
0.4 %
Satisfactory
France
280,580
55,668
13,883
4.4%
Good
United Kingdom
279,048
54,621
14,209
4.5%
Good
Japan
227,235
47,980
23,884
7.5%
Good
Germany
214,893
57,955
14,499
4.6%
Good
Taiwan
212,375
31,146
4,065
1.3 %
Satisfactory
China
47,810
12,147
51,874
16.4%
Good
Global Wealth Rpt.,
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=77A4E912-A32D-8E84-CC8C21144CEE52E2
Global Weaalth Databook,
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=777FDF0E-E060-F608-52DAF97E062CC35B
○
●
瑞士信貸 Credit
Suisse,
Nov.
15,
2017
:
Global Wealth report 2017, Country summary
Country
Mean wealth per Adult (USD)
Median wealth per Adult (USD)
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
Compared to the world as a whole, Taiwan has high average
wealth and only moderate wealth inequality.
http://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/index.cfm?fileid=A6E9E182-E39B-0353-6751EB076EF35159
Credit
Suisse,
Dec.
2016
:
台灣
亞洲之虎
，
台灣人的平均財富USD
172,847,，超過多數為亞洲國家
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.)
●
聯合報 社論
United
Daily,
Opinion,
12-5-2017
:
台北薪資輸給北京
-
第三季月薪
台北
NT
43500
、
北京
rmb
9900,
equal
NT46000、
Shanghai
3rd
about
NT
43000.
/
智聯招聘survey.
○
●
聯合報 頭版頭條 10-6-2017; 中央研究院《臺灣經濟競爭與成長策略政策建議書》Academia Sinica of Taiwan,
10-5-2017
: Taiwan
Economic
Competition and
Growth Strategy
Policy Proposal
In the
past ten years,
its average
economic growth
rate has dropped
to 3.82%, which
is lower than
other Asian
countries such
as South Korea
and Singapore.
●
Le Monde of France, Mai '16,
reported the
economies of both sides were complementary, now compete each other.
Taiwanese
are gradually being excluded from the Chinese chain of production and supply. (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 used to be an indispensable part of
the world high-tech supply chain. Now the island that derives a fifth of its
economy from the likes of PCs, tablets and smart phones for export is unsure how
long all that can sustain. The most often cited reason: Taiwan isn’t keeping up
in software, which in today’s terms means mobile apps and artificial
intelligence as well as the stuff Microsoft does for PCs....Pay
for university professors is too low to attract world-class people from overseas
to teach... https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/04/23/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay/#204190537b43/Asia
/#BigBusiness
○
●
The China Times, opinion 中時 社論, 11-7-2017, The
United Daily, opinion 聯合報 社論, 11-10-2017: 台灣產業 5缺 : 水、電、土地、工人、人才。
○
●
國家政策基金會
National Policy Foundation
,
7-16-2009
台灣科技產業的問題與對策
缺乏關鍵技術 :
台灣科技產業的另一個問題，便是缺乏關鍵技術。重要的關鍵技術幾乎均由外國大廠所把持，台廠對於技術研發所挹注的資源偏低，淪為低毛利的代工的角色。
... http://www.npf.org.tw/2/6142
○
●
人民日報 海外版, 11-12-2017 "大陸崛起 台灣何必緊張" : 2016年中国的GDP約為台灣的23倍，廣東、
江蘇、山東、浙江、河南5
省皆已超過台灣，台灣憂心三、五年內台灣可能落到大陸十省之後。(brief
, UDN, 11-13-2017)
; (more to see The China Times, opinion,
12-18-2017 "當我們看不起的大陸超越我們").
China
26.3% Hong Kong 13.7% United States
12% Japan 7% EU
8.8%
(2016
est.)
China
19.1% Japan 17.6% United States
12.5% EU 10.6%
South
Korea
6.3%
(2016
est.)
○
Taiwan's
industries
Main industries
Electronics,
communications
and information
technology
products,
petroleum
refining,
armaments,
chemicals,
textiles, iron
and steel,
machinery,
cement, food
processing,
vehicles,
consumer
products,
pharmaceuticals
Agricultural:
Rice,
corn,
vegetables,
fruit,
tea;
pigs,
poultry,
beef,
milk;
fish
Natural:
Small
deposits
of coal,
natural
gas,
limestone,
marble,
and
asbestos
●
Green
Peace, 5-2-2019:
台灣漁業濫捕現狀仍然嚴重、亟需改革 。It
remains our view that Taiwanese fisheries still have many serious problems,
both environmental and social, and that the need for reform is clear and
urgent. <the
interpreter>, 2019: 台灣拒絕接受公約與改革 Taiwan ...illegal, unreported and
unregulated (IUU) fishing... Taiwan has so far refused to adopt the Work in
Fishing Convention.
<The
Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of
control',
歐盟自2015年起以黃牌警告台灣非法濫行捕魚, Green-Peace 嚴厲抨擊台灣政府明知卻縱容濫行捕魚 。EU
lifted TW's yellow card in Jun. '19.
●
●●
Taiwan
台灣外交Taiwan
diplomatic isolation
○
●
台海風雲
New York
Times
4-1-2019: Taiwan
protests China jets crossing center of Taiwan Strait, a
provocation that seeks to alter the status quo ... an intentional act.
Taiwan
News,
6-28-2019:
U.S.
Senate
passes
pro-Taiwan
defense
bill
calling
for more
patrols
in
Taiwan
Strait.
Reuters
6-27-2019:Canadian
navy
ships
sailed
through
Taian
strait
amid
tension
with
China
(Such
passages
upset
China
...
In
April,
Beijing
condemned
a French
decision
to send
a
frigate
through
the
Strait
as
illegal)
Japan Times, 4-1-2019: the U.S. sent ships through the
strait ( mission was unusual) ..
●
<台灣旅行法Taiwan Travel Act>
(Trump signed at 3-16-2018):
◆
NHK Japan, 3-17-2018
The
legislation aims to encourage mutual visits between US and Taiwanese officials at all
levels.
(https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20180317_08/)
◆
The
Diplomat,
3-3-2018
US Paves Way for
High-Level
Exchanges With Taiwan
(https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/us-paves-way-for-high-level-exchanges-with-taiwan/)
◆ New York Times,
3-17-2018
China’s Foreign Ministry said it had lodged “stern representations” with the
United States, saying the law sent a
“seriously wrong
signal” to the
forces of Taiwan
independence.
(https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/03/17/world/asia/17reuters-usa-taiwan-china.html
;
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-taiwan-china/china-says-resolutely-opposed-to-new-u-s-law-on-ties-with-taiwan-idUSKCN1GT0I9)
◆ Deutsche Welle, 3-17-2018 :
China has
reacted angrily
...
"severely
violate the
one-China
principle, the
political
foundation of
the China-US
relationship."
Taiwan ... calling it
a "friendly
move"
◆ Global Times of China, 2018: <Taiwan Travel Act> is a bill to
destroy Taiwan. ◆
People's Daily online (China
人民日報 海外版) 3-17-2018: "戲耍台灣
挑釁大陸"
◆
UDN Taiwan (台灣聯合報) 3-18-2018:
立委:
川普將台灣當棋子 挑釁大陸; 學者:台恐成夾心餅干; Joseph Bosco (美國防前官員): 與美國全面對抗, 中方不會贏.
◆
台灣聯合報
3-19-2018:
台旅法用字為道德勸服的"should", 並非具法律約束力 賦予法律義務的
"shall" / 胡念祖, 中山大學所長
○
●
英國BBC -
Taiwan country profile 6-14-2017:
因中國打壓 ，
台邦交國所剩不多 China
insists
that
nations
cannot
have
official
relations
with
both
China
and
Taiwan,
with the
result
that
Taiwan
has
formal
diplomatic
ties
with
only a
few
countries.
/
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16164639
●
Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan,
読売新聞「社説」Opinion,
6-22-2017 :
中国が台湾を孤立させる動きを強め、波風を立てている。軍事、経済両面での優位を背景にした圧力は、中台間の緊張を高めるだけだ。...中国の一連の外交攻勢は、台湾を自国の一部とする「一つの中国」原則を、台湾の蔡英文政権に認めさせる狙いだろう。...台湾の住民の間では、中国に政治的、経済的にのみ込まれることへの警戒感が強く、「中国離れ」が加速しているためだ。...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。(The
US is the key to keep the peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait)
○
●
法國
Le Monde
diplomatique,
France,
mai
2016:
"politiL’Amérique
centrale lâche Taipei" / Les deux rivaux du détroit de Formose
ne luttent pas à armes égales et, pour Taipei, l’isolement diplomatique
menace. (The two rivals of the
Taiwan Straits do not
fight on equal terms , the diplomatic isolation threatens Taiwan
海峽兩岸不對稱平等的戰鬥，威脅隔絕了台彎的外交。
)
○
●
Singapore's
The
Straits
Times,
11-9-2017
:
Taiwan
is the
most
important
issue in
Sino-US
ties, Xi
tells
Trump
“The Taiwan issue is the most important, most
sensitive core issue in China-US relations, and concerns the political basis
of the China-US relationship,” ... China “hopes that the US side continues
to scrupulously abide by the ‘one China’ principle, and prevents
disturbances to the broader picture of China-US ties”, Xi added.
Trump told Xi that the United States government upheld and stuck to the “one
China” policy, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported.
●
紐約時報 New
York
times,
12-13-2016:
蔡英文
的許多支持者不滿她做出的一些妥
協。在台灣總統的就职演讲裡，蔡英文提到了《中
華民國憲法》和两岸
條例法规。二者均暗示
她已接受了“一
個中國”的框架。In
Presidential
inaugural
speech,
Tsai
referred
to the
Constitution
of the
Republic
of China
and the
legislation
governing
cross-strait
relations,
both
imply
the
acceptance
of a
“one
China”
framework.
●
Yomiuri
Shimbun,
Japan,
Opinion,
5-22-2016
(読売新聞)
:
「台湾独立」志向の強い民進党の蔡英文主席が総統に就任した。台湾蔡新総統対中「現状維持」の意思示した
http://editorial.x-winz.net/ed-13620
(Tsia I.
W. with
strong
tendency
toward
"Taiwan
Independence"
expressed
"maintain
status
quo" in
her
Presidential
inaugural
speech
)
●
法國
Le Monde
diplomatique,
France,
"Taïwan en quête de souveraineté économique",
mai
2016:
selon laquelle il n’est pas nécessaire
de proclamer l’indépendance car Taïwan est déjà un Etat indépendant et
souverain. C’est certainement le sens qu’elle donne au « statu quo »
(
'it is
not
necessary
to
proclaim
independence
because
Taiwan
is
already
an
independent
and
sovereign
state.
This is
certainly
the
meaning
it gives
to
<status
quo>'
台灣已經是獨立主權國家，沒有必要宣布獨立。
這當然是它賦予"現狀"的意義
)
○
●
聯合報United
daily
News,
opinion
10-11-12017
:
「四不」的提法基本上是一種「自衛式」的表態，也是自我矛盾的詞組。舉例而言，所謂「善意不變」、「承諾不變」，其實只是說明自己不會貿然宣布台灣獨立，另一方面當然也是為自己保留退路。事實上，蔡英文去年片面拋棄「九二共識」，不僅已違背了「善意原則」，更違背了她宣稱要維持的兩岸「現狀」；
在這種情況下，還自稱「善意不變」，已失去了立足基礎。
https://udn.com/news/story/7338/2749610?from=udn-catelistnews_ch2
UDN
10-11-2017
: China
officially
responded
Tsai's
speech
at
Taiwan's
National
Day that
“Only by
adhering
to the
one-China
principle
and
opposing
Taiwan
independence
can
relations
between
the
sides
develop
with
peace
and
stability”.
聯合報10-20-2017
社論: 缺了台灣
(習近平)
就不能圓其"中國夢".
○
●
US News, 10-9-2017:
Taiwan's relations
with Beijing have deteriorated sharply since Tsai, ... took office last
year, with China suspecting she wants to push for the island's formal
independence, a red line for Beijing. China
has cut off a regular dialogue mechanism with Taiwan, ramped up military
drills around
the island and stepped up int'l pressure to limit Taiwan's diplomatic
footprint.
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-10-09/taiwan-president-tsai-pledges-to-defend-islands-freedoms
○
●
Spiegel
Germany, 1-9-2017,
<Donald
Trump:
Chinesische
Staatszeitung
warnt
USA
wegen
Umgang>
Die
staatliche
chinesische
Zeitung
"Global
Times"
hat den
künftigen
US-Präsidenten
Donald
Trump
gewarnt,
von der
"Ein-China-Politik"
abzurücken.
"Das
chinesische
Volk
würde
die
Regierung
auffordern,
sich zu
rächen",
hieß es
im
Leitartikel
des
Blattes,
das zum
Zentralorgan
der
Kommunistischen
Partei "Renmin
Ribao"
gehört.
"Es gibt
keinen
Raum für
Verhandlungen"
/ if "US
President
Donald
Trump to
abandon
the
one-China
policy."
"The
Chinese
people
would
call on
the
government
to take
revenge,"
"There
is no
room for
negotiations"
...
(Global
Times,
China)
背弃“一个中国”原则，中国人民将要求政府进行报复，那时就将没有讨价还价的余地
●
墨西哥報Mexican
newspaper
El Sol
de Méxicoformer,
2008:
馬英九:
二岸關係不是二國關係，而是特殊關係
，
雖然目前無法解決，暫時可以"九二共識"作為變通之道(former)
President
Ma:
the
China-Taiwan
relations
are
neither
between
two
Chinas
nor two
states.
It is a
special
relationship.
the
sovereignty
issues
between
the two
cannot
be
resolved
at
present,
the
"1992
Consensus",
currently
accepted
as a
temporary
measure
until a
solution
becomes
available.
●
CBS news 11-14-2018:
U.S. military might "struggle to win, or perhaps lose" war with
China or Russia
美國若為台灣與解放軍作戰、很可能陷入苦戰
險勝或遭擊敗
the
National Defense Strategy Commission: "It might struggle to win, or
perhaps lose, a war against China or Russia." ...
"If the United States had to fight Russia in a Baltic contingency
or China in a war over Taiwan," the report warned. "Americans could face a
decisive military defeat." (
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-military-might-struggle-to-win-or-perhaps-lose-war-with-china-or-russia-report-says/)
●
China's Military
Power Report / annual Report to US Congress (2019),
5-2-2019
Military and Security Developments involving P.R.C. 2019
台彎 VS 大陸, 軍力對比
★
"China could use missile attacks and precision air raids
against air defence systems, including air bases, radar
sites, missiles, space assets, and communications facilities
to degrade Taiwan's defences, neutralise Taiwan's
leadership, or break the Taiwan people's resolve," ...
aljazeera news said at May 3, 2019 that much of
China's military doctrine is focused on self-ruled Taiwan,
China might take if Beijing decides to use military force on
Taiwan, including a comprehensive campaign "designed to
force Taiwan to capitulate to unification, or unification
dialogue.
usni.org said at 2019/05/03 that Taiwan is the primary focus
of amphibious assault and sea-based missile launch
capability improvements made in 2018 by China’s People’s
Liberation Army (PLA), the PLA Navy and PLA Marine Corps.
pic. right: Apple Daily (headline news)
5-4-2019 ;
The Liberty Times 建議不對稱作戰 "asymmetric warfare", 北京為武力促統可能飛彈攻台.
●喵Annual Report to US Congress (2018):
台彎 VS 大陸 軍力對比
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
(北京將大量國防預算
集中於發展武統台灣的軍事力量)
◆
Apple
Daily 8-18-2018, headlines - 中國隨時武統台灣. 美軍力報告示警
◆
Taipei
Times, 8-18-2018 :
The Pentagon said China could
pursue a measured approach signaling its readiness for armed
conflict or conduct a methodical campaign to force
capitulation (http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2018/08/18/2003698716)
◆
United
Daily, 8-18-2018 : 陸仍準備武統 軍費是台灣15倍 China still seek unification by
forces -
Taiwan losing
military edge.
China’s official
defense budget has grown to about 15 times that of Taiwan.
A new method was applied to make
these tables below:
○
●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
○
●
蘋果日報,
Aug. 15, 2018: 美國簽<國防授權法>, 強化對台軍售
中共環球時報網, Aug. 15, 2018:
中國不是美國對手......美國會知道台灣並不便宜
★
●
USA Today 5-18-2018: Xi JinPing has signaled that China will seek to reclaim its
historical properties by 2049.(習近平已發出信號將尋求2040年收回台灣)
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
(2020年 - 中國最高領導人習近平給予人民解放軍準備入侵台灣的最後期限)
○
●
華盛頓郵報
Washington Post,
1-5-2018,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/01/05/can-china-really-take-over-taiwan/?utm_term=.e66214694331
Can China really
take over
Taiwan?
因台拒統一習近平命軍隊進入隨時備戰狀況
美如派8艘潛艇可摧4成入侵之解放軍 台須增加軍購 Xi commanded China’s
military to become
“battle ready.”
......
threatening that
relations with
Taiwan will turn
“grave” because
Taiwan’s
government
refuses to
acknowledge that
the island is
part of China. A
leading Chinese
analyst predicts
that China has
accelerated its
timetable to
2020 for taking
over the island
by military
means......Taiwan
needs to increase its defense spending considerably...“the outcome of the game
[between China and Taiwan] is undecided".
○
○
●
United States think tank the RAND Corporation,
Taiwan
News, 2-2-2018, Apple Daily 2-3-2018,
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3353460
美國之音報導軍事專門機構RAND報告, 如解放軍2020年攻台, 勝算已倒向對方 Likelihood of successful
Chinese attack against Taiwan rising: RAND Corp. China's jets
and missiles can damage U.S. and Taiwan air bases
According
to RAND, which specializes in military affairs, the balance in the Taiwan Strait
has been moving in China’s favor as the communist country was continuing to make
progress in its preparations and training ...
○
●
紐約時報New York times, 11-4-2017: 台灣防務體系的核心戰略
-
抵禦两週的中國軍事進攻，等待美國或國際社會的幫助...五角大廈5月份的報告警告說，台灣可以遏制中國潛在襲擊的「許多歷史優勢」(地理環境，及美國的支持)，已經被中國的軍事現代化「削弱或消除了」。美國海軍戰爭學院(Naval
War College) Andrew S. Erickson說：「台灣需要認識到，它的防務最終還是要看自己。」;
川普政府批准對台最新軍售，數字較少，缺乏能給台灣帶來真正優勢的重要系統。中國去年的軍費預算是1440億美元，而台灣的預算只有100億美元。
(Singapore's The Straits Times :
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwans-once-mighty-military-now-overshadowed-by-chinas
Taiwan's once-mighty military now overshadowed by China's 11-6-2017;
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/xi-tells-trump-that-taiwan-is-the-most-important-issue-in-sino-us-ties
Taiwan is the most important issue in Sino-US ties, Xi tells Trump
11-9-2017 )
○
●
紐約時報New York times, 5-18-2017:
台灣必须直接面
對中国解放軍的威脅!
中国領導長期宣称，必要
時以武力占领台灣。
而台灣長年以來都將抵抗解放軍的责任
推卸給美国，似乎寄望美国的子女冒生命危險來保衛我们的家園。 随着中国军力的發展、
與其强硬姿態的未受
制肘，台湾的命運或将
淪為中国主導。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.
長年以來，台灣政府未正
視中国不斷增強的威脅，
且假設美國一定會出兵解救台湾，並以此规劃國防、國民黨及倾向獨立的民進黨的政策，皆導致
軍力不足
―
現役正規軍砍半成二十萬人、 二百萬後備軍人形同虚设、
且士氣低落。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...
(ps: Baidu /
目前台灣常备部队约21万人，后备军人约300万人。
)
台灣國防现状，基本是
政客與軍方間互不信任的结果。
軍方一直身陷種種丑聞之中。Taiwan’s
defense policies
are largely a
result of deep
distrust between
the military and
politicians. The
military has
struggled with
wide-range
scandals ...
● 美國國務院
US Dept of State, U.S. Relations With Taiwan 9-13-2017:
美方堅持和平解決二岸爭端，反對片面改變現狀，鼓勵雙方基於尊嚴互重進行建設性談話 The United States insists on the peaceful resolution of cross-Strait
differences, opposes unilateral changes to the status quo by either side, and
encourages both sides to continue their constructive dialogue on the basis of
dignity and respect. /
https://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35855.htm
○
●
美國智庫傳統基金會 The Heritage
Foundation, The
Index of U.S.
Military
Strength, 2017
China’s
provocative
behavior has
expanded to
include militarization
of islands that
it has built in
highly disputed
international
waters in the
South China Sea.
China has also
adopted
aggressive naval
tactics to
intimidate such
neighboring
countries as
Japan and the
Philippines... the 2017 Index concludes that the current U.S. military
force ... certainly would
be ill-equipped
to handle two
nearly
simultaneous
major regional
contingencies
... / http://index.heritage.org/military/2017/assessments/
○
●Why China Can't Conquer Taiwan in a War
, 11-17-2017 Zachary Keck
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/why-china-cant-conquer-taiwan-war-23254
A new study by Michael Beckley (Tufts University),
published in the academic journal International Security argues that China’s neighbors
could thwart Chinese military aggression through anti-access/area denial
strategies with only minimal U.S. assistance. ... if China was far
more successful than the United States had been in those conflicts, Beijing’s
ability to execute an amphibious invasion is still far from certain. For
instance, Beckley notes that only ten percent of Taiwan’s coastlines are
suitable for an amphibious landing, which would allow Taipei to concentrate its
forces on a few key areas. Chinese forces trying to land would likely be
severely outnumbered...美國外交政治雜誌《美國利益》（The National
Interest）專文「為何中國無法武統台灣？」，引述美國Tufts University Michael
Beckley 《國際安全》期刊論文: 北京根本無法擊敗亞太鄰國；事實上，中共連台灣也無法征服；僅管北京確能透過一些外交手段，嚇唬鄰國。北京的周邊鄰國，可以透過「反介入/區域阻絕武器」(Anti-access and
area-denial，即A2AD武器防禦) ，並在美國適度協助之下，即可挫敗中國的領土擴張野心。
○
●
<The
Chinese
Invasion
Threat>
by Ian Eastonct., Oct. 3, 2017
:
中共於
2020年可能以發射飛彈、封鎖海空等的方式侵略台灣
，
最終可能幾乎確定無法成功 China has finalized a
clandestine plan to invade Taiwan in 2020 by launching missile attacks, blocking
the nation’s air and sea space, and carrying out amphibious landings,
Washington-based think tank Project 2049 Institute research fellow Ian Easton
said. ...China,
would "almost
certainly" fail in its full-scale invasion of Taiwan but its military
appears driven to prepare and carry out such an attack.
○
○
●
New York times, 10-19-2017:
https://cn.nytimes.com/china/20171019/china-xi-jinping-party-congress/dual/
○
習近平演講掌聲最熱烈的一段Chinese
president Xi
delivered the line that won the loudest
applause of his marathon speech: “We will never allow anyone, any organization,
or any political party, at any time or in any form, to separate any part of
Chinese territory from China.”
Apple Daily, 10-20-2017,
"趙少康傳真" :
習近平演講共32000多 字，其中800多字提到台灣
， 在習近平眼中，台灣問題似乎不那麼重要。
(brief)
●
英國
BBC ,
12-3-2016
○http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
中共試射飛彈事件導致美國派遣艦隊抵達台海 ，此越戰以來在亞洲最大規模的戰力展示， 向中共傳遞了清楚的訊息 he pivotal role of the US was
most clearly shown in 1996, when China conducted provocative missile tests to
try and influence Taiwan's first direct presidential election. In response, US
President Bill Clinton ordered the biggest display of US military power in Asia
since the Vietnam War, sending ships to the Taiwan Strait, and a clear message
to Beijing.
○
●
国家政策研究基金会 NPF
National Policy
Foundation in Taipei,
Taiwan;
10-7-2017 CTN
●
China has finalized a
clandestine plan to invade Taiwan in 2020 by launching missile attacks, blocking
the nation’s air and sea space, and carrying out amphibious landings,
Washington-based think tank Project 2049 Institute research fellow Ian Easton
said.
●
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Lo Chih-cheng (羅致政) raised doubts over
the time frame Easton asserted, saying that he did not think it is very precise.
●China,
according to the book <The Chinese Invasion Threat>, would "almost
certainly" fail in its full-scale invasion of Taiwan but its military
appears driven to prepare and carry out such an attack.
Annual Report to US Congress (2017):
台彎 VS 大陸 軍力對比
Military and Security Developments Involving
the People’s Republic of China 2017
https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/2017_China_Military_Power_Report.PDF
ps:
Apple
daily,
11-28-2017:
中共前往first
island
chain包括陜西出發的H-6K
(轟 6K),
不限於沿海第一戰線機場,
因此台灣解讀解放軍兵力,
不可侷限於單一戰區以免誤判.
(brief
- author
林穎佑
中正大學戰略國際事務研究所)
○
●
Apple Daily,
12-19-2017台彎VS大陸軍力對比
pic. left: China military capacity VS Taiwan;
pic. right: Chinese air force did lots of "patrol circling" (flying
around Taiwan and passing through 1st island chain ).
Source: Apple Daily News, head-page and focus news,
12-19-2017; data from Taiwan's national defense gov.●●
●請注意下段無法上傳,
必須以hard
copy顯示
!!
●
●
Apple Daily,
2-21-2018, opinion : 共軍非必勝 國軍非必敗
(ref to IISS of UK, and
<The
Chinese
Invasion
Threat>
by Ian Eastonct.)
○
●
US
Annual Report to Congress,
2016
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE Annual Report to Congress:
台彎VS大陸軍力對比 Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China
●
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.
"),
言論及新聞自由方面，媒體所有權集中對新聞自由
產生影響；新聞置入性行銷情況嚴重，罷工權嚴格受限。台灣工會密度遠低於經濟合作暨發展組織（OECD）的17%平均值，78.2%中小企業員工無法成立工會，大型企業則透過調動或將工會成員列入晉升黑名單。婦女懷孕是台灣常見的勞動歧視現象，性騷擾與不公平待遇等案件也時有所聞，社會文化因素(社會壓力使家族蒙羞)使許多婦女隱忍不報，性侵數字應7~10倍於通報數
；性侵也見於殘障人士、性剝削見於兒童，外籍家庭主婦與陸配、 LGBTI 、HIV/AIDS
仍舊遭到歧視；外勞是最容易遭受強迫勞動的族群，漁業、農業、製造業與建築業都是常見強制勞動的行業。US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019:
台灣過去五年來，人口販運者使外國男女在台灣遭受強迫勞動和性交易，販運者使當地男女遭受強迫勞動，當地婦女和兒童遭受性販賣。
台灣婦女和兒童遭受家庭性交易，其中包括販運者誘導和利用台灣以及外國婦女和兒童吸毒成癮使其遭受性販運的趨勢。
台灣販運者越來越多地利用互聯網，智能手機應用程序，直播和其他此類在線技術進行招募活動，通常針對兒童受害者，並掩蓋其執法中的身份。
販運者通過欺詐性婚姻和針對性交易的欺騙性就業機會，將來自中國和東南亞國家的婦女引誘到台灣。...
●
美國國務院
人權報告United
States
Department
of State
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights
Practices
:
3-3-2017
(report
of
4-20-2018
is about
same)
●
歧視Discrimination: 外籍與陸配是歧視標的 There was
reported discrimination, including employment discrimination, against persons
with HIV/AIDS
● 外籍
移工人權遭仲介剝削、是家暴與官員貪污的受害者:
Types of exploitation included migrant workers becoming victims of domestic
violence and official corruption. Human rights groups had long
protested that the law left migrant workers open to exploitation from
third-party brokers.
Principal
human
rights
problems
reported
during
the year
were
exploitation
of
foreign
workers,
including
foreign
crewmembers
on
long-haul
fishing
vessels
and
household
caregivers;
domestic
violence;
and
official
corruption.
Other
human
rights
concerns
during
the year
included
some
media
self-censorship
with
regard
to
China;
vote
buying;
violations
of legal
working
hours;
lack of
barrier-free
spaces
and
accessible
transportation
systems
for
persons
with
disabilities,
particularly
outside
Taipei;
gender-biased
sex
selection;
and a
rise in
child
abuse.
/
https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/265586.pdf
○
●
德國
國際透明組織
<Transparency
International>,
Germany, 1-25-2017:
台灣貪腐印象指數較去年退步1分
Taiwan retreated in Corruption Perceptions Index,
Taiwan
received
score
61, one
point
less
than the
previous
year, on
the
Corruption
Perceptions
Index
for 2016
published
by
Transparency
International.
Singapore got the highest score (84) and highest ranking (No.7) among
Asian countries, Hong Kong at No.15 with 77 points and Japan at No.20 with 72 points.
Feb.
2018
公布的新報告台灣貪腐印象指數
為63分.
○
● 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
●美國人權報告
(USA Country
Reports on Human Rights practices) , 3-13-2019:
媒體所有權集中對新聞自由的影響，特別是有中資投資的企業；報告另提及台灣新聞置入性行銷情況嚴重，削弱公眾對媒體的信賴。
United
States
Department
of State
Country
Reports
on Human
Rights
Practices
for 2016,
released at
March 3, 2017
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same)
:
Human
rights
concerns
during
the year
included
some
media
self-censorship
with
regard
to
China.
●
Wikipedia
台灣臉書(Facebook)綠色恐怖
!!
Wikipedia reference
('參考文獻')
recorded
that
in the summer of 2017, a "Green Terror on Facebook" triggered concerns
and public anger in
Taiwan. All Taiwanese mass media reported that
politicians
and online personalities said they had been denied access to their Facebook accounts after writing criticisms of Pan-Green coalition,
the ruling political party (DPP).
The China Times,
opinion,
at 11-18-2017
criticized
that
台灣默許臉書打壓反台獨言論自由Taiwan president Tsai I. W. gave tacit permission to Facebook (Taiwan) to block
content concerning anti Taiwan-independence (brief, http://opinion.chinatimes.com/20171118000516-262114).
Taiwan
administration
has not
responded
or
denied
this
severely
critiques
till
middle
of Dec.
2017.
●
台灣新聞自由現狀為“media
freedom on hold,”
●
中國影響新聞自由stating
that “the main threat to media freedom comes from China, which has been exerting
growing economic and political pressure on the Taiwanese media.”
●
當地政府干預國營媒體Local
government officials are also directly interfering in the editorial policies of
state-owned media
●
●
Taiwan
台灣軟實力
Taiwan soft power
○
●
軟實力（soft
power）是哈佛大學學者奈伊（Joseph Nye）提出的概念，指一國並非透過以軍事動武威逼、或金錢收買的方式，對外形成的吸引力與影響力 ( applying
power by persuasion and attraction
rather than
coercion or force.)。奈伊（Joseph Nye）主張軟硬實力是台灣解決二岸爭端、
及擴展國際空間 長久有效的好方法之一 ...
( hard
& soft power enable Taiwan to deal with China and expand its
international
space.
Dec. 8,
2010)。
●
關注國際事務與文化的英國雜誌《MONOCLE》，連續數年公布全球軟實力國家排行榜。《單鏡片》(《MONOCLE》)並沒有從金融和軍隊實力的老角度去評判，而是從按各國的
culture, politics, business, diplomacy and education(文化產出、政治水平、
外交基建、教育能力及商業誘因)等範疇因素評選各國的軟實力。BBC認為「軟實力」已經變為一種國際性的外交政策目標。
●
根據另分研究，
台灣也未能入列 2018年 Soft Power 30 Study
(by USC Center
on Public Diplomacy, July 2018) 與 2017年 Soft Power 30 Study (compiled by PR company Portand
Communication and University of Southern California)。 2018年入選的亞洲國家包括 Japan(No.5), S. Korea(20), Singapore(21), China(27)。
The top 30
nations of 2018 are 1. UK, 2. France, 3. Germany, 4. US,
5. Japan, 6~30 are Canada, Swiss, Sweden, Nederlands, Australia, Denmark, Italy,
Norway, Spain, Finland, Belgium, Austria, NZ, Ireland, S Korea, Singapore,
Portugal, Greece, Poland, Hungary, Czech, China, Russia, Brazil, Argentina。
2017's Soft Power 30 Study，
台灣敗給亞太國家包括
日本(Japan)、 南韓(South Korea)、澳洲(Australia)、
新加坡(Singapore)、紐西蘭(New Zealand)、 中國(China)。 前
30名是 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.
●
中國時報 ,
8-15-2017
:
台灣文創產值下降9.28%、而鄰國增加，台灣文化創意產業連泡沫也吹不出 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.
●
紐約時報
New York times,
12-13-2016:
As
Taiwanese
identity
has
consolidated,
with
more
than 90
percent
of
Taiwanese
believing
they are
in some
way
“Taiwanese”
/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13
○
●
英國
BBC,
12-3-2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34729538
Officially, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
still favours eventual independence for Taiwan, while the KMT favours eventual
re-unification. Opinion polls show only a small minority of Taiwanese support
pursuing one or the other at the moment, with most preferring to stick with the
current middle ground.
●
brookings.edu,
9-12-2016
“Taiwan’s
China
Dilemma,”
https://www.brookings.edu/events/taiwans-china-dilemma/
Shirley
Lin’s
new
book,
“Taiwan’s
China
Dilemma,”
explores
a
conundrum:
Despite
a shared
culture,
and even
as
Taiwan’s
economic
interdependence
with
China
deepened
in the
1990s
and
2000s,
the
island’s
people
felt an
increasingly
strong
identity
with
Taiwan
itself.
These
contradictory
trends
only
continued
during
Ma Ying-jeou’s
presidency,
and will
certainly
shape
the
environment
in which
leaders
in both
Beijing
and
Taipei
attempt
to
define
and
manage
the
cross-Strait
relationship
○
●
華盛頓郵報
Washington Post,
1-2-2017, The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese :
the 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. /
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/02/yes-taiwan-wants-one-china-but-which-china-does-it-want/?utm_term=.8d999292eabd
●
Some significant polls:
自我認知為台灣人? 中國人? 或二者皆是?
Percentage of Taiwanese residents who consider
themselves ?
Survey
Taiwanese
Chinese
Both Taiwanese and Chinese
NCCU, Jan. 2015
60.6%
3.5%
32.5%
TVBS poll centre, Oct. 2012
75%
15%
not an option here
TVBS poll centre, Oct. 2012
55%
3%
37%
Common Wealth Magazine, Dec. 2009
62%
8%
22%
Executive Yuan, Taiwan Admin., April, 2008
67.1%
13.6%
15.2%
source : Wikipedia
自我認知為台灣人? 中國人? 或二者皆是?
(59%: TWese, 34%: both)
Washington Post, 1-2-2017, The
Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese
https://sites.duke.edu/austinwang/2015/11/06/monkey-cage-article-how-taiwanese-view-the-future-of-the-cross-strait/
Austin Horng-En Wang, Monkey Cage article: How Taiwanese view the
future of the Cross-strait, PhD Candidate, Department of Political
Science, Duke University
統獨民調
Washington Post, 1-2-2017,
The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese
https://sites.duke.edu/austinwang/2015/11/06/monkey-cage-article-how-taiwanese-view-the-future-of-the-cross-strait/
Austin Horng-En Wang, Monkey Cage article: How Taiwanese view the
future of the Cross-strait, PhD Candidate, Department of Political
Science, Duke University
統獨民調
Washington Post, 1-2-2017,
The Taiwanese see themselves as Taiwanese, not as Chinese
pic. : United Daily News survey/poll at 11-20-2017
民調首度逆轉 -
49%台灣民眾對大陸民眾印象好。
40%對大陸政府印象好。
found "the table has turned" - The percentage of
Taiwanese having good impression on Chinese people increased to 49%,
good social perception on communist Chinese government increased to 40%.
United Daily News,
opinion at 11-20-2017:
40%台灣民眾願赴大陸工作.
The
percentage
of Taiwanese are willing to work in mainland China increased to 40%.
ps:
中共解放軍機不斷"常態威懾"繞台飛行at
the same time, China terrorized Taiwan with military force (aircrafts
etc) routinely flying around Taiwan in entire year of 2017 (UDN,
11-20-2017)
◆
pic.:
Apple
Daily,
4-20-2018,
headline
news :
a Survey
poll by
台灣民主基金會
●
2019年3月13日的美國人權報告(USA Country
Reports on Human Rights practices) 婦女懷孕是台灣常見的勞動歧視現象，性騷擾與不公平待遇等案件也時有所聞，社會文化因素(社會壓力使家族蒙羞)使許多婦女隱忍不報，性侵數字應7~10倍於通報數
；性侵也見於殘障人士、性剝削見於兒童，外籍家庭主婦與陸配、 LGBTI 、HIV/AIDS
仍舊遭到歧視；
●
US state government - 2019 Trafficking in persons report, Jun. 2019:
台灣過去五年來，人口販運者使外國男女在台灣遭受強迫勞動和性交易，販運者使當地男女遭受強迫勞動，當地婦女和兒童遭受性販賣。
台灣婦女和兒童遭受家庭性交易，其中包括販運者誘導和利用台灣以及外國婦女和兒童吸毒成癮使其遭受性販運的趨勢。
台灣販運者越來越多地利用互聯網，智能手機應用程序，直播和其他此類在線技術進行招募活動，通常針對兒童受害者，並掩蓋其執法中的身份。
販運者通過欺詐性婚姻和針對性交易的欺騙性就業機會，將來自中國和東南亞國家的婦女引誘到台灣。...
●
美國國務院
人權報告 The US Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
, released at 3-3-2017
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same)
●WEF <Travel
and tourism competitiveness report>(released at 4-6-2017)
<國際觀光旅遊競爭力>
報告評鑑 Taiwan's
"Female participation in the labor force"
排名全球
85.
○
●
英國 國際特赦組織 Amnesty
International (The London-based
organization), 2.25.2015: The organization
concerns Taiwan's gender discrimination. Taiwan’s passage of the
Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and the
enactment of laws to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by 2017 were important
starts, but still have to be fully implemented.
→台灣女權women
in Taiwan
●
●
Taiwan
台灣高教Taiwan universities
○
○
台灣高等教育亂象
、論文抄襲、與大學之國際排名......
Wikipedia :
It
(Taiwan) is ranked highly in terms of ... public education, economic freedom,
and human development. The country benefits from a highly skilled
workforce and is among the most highly educated countries in the world with one
of the highest percentages of its citizens holding a tertiary education degree.
/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan
However, Taiwan's education system has serious
problems as below:
●
台灣假論文太多
/ Lousy conducts and bad ethics in Taiwan's academic circle
happened again and again, but never be handled
seriously,
some careless-done fake scholarly papers are either ignorant or extremely
audacious, some are even fraud-crimes. Only legal punishments can stop
all these, Taiwan government should take
hard line now.
●
For recent years, Taiwan failed to solve
its educational problems which are numerous and
disorderly, even chaos (紛亂如麻),
such as
Taiwan University's world ranks were
falling down, the brain drain ( the outflow
of talent ), jobless college students, students graduated from
technical and vocational education systems can not meet society demands,
politics impeding lectures, learning activities,
and textbook contents. / UDN opinion, 12-9-2017.
○
●
The China Times 2-8-2018: UK's
Times Higher Education 亞洲排名
台大退步 2 位 (24th in 2017, 26th now) .
Singapore's
國立大學.
China's 清大, 北大, 港大, 港科大 居亞洲前五名.
●
聯合報The United Daily 10-17-2017 : 世界大學排名
台大節節敗退.
National Taiwan University's world ranks in
recent yrs.
ranking sys
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
National Chiao Tung University (交通大學) in Shanghai China
Academic circle lacks ethics / UDN 1-11-2017
http://udn.com/news/story/7338/2222591
Accomplice structure to fake scholarly papers
/ China Times 11-19-2016 http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20161119000399-260109
NTU should not be too snobby / The Liberty Times
11-25-2016 http://talk.ltn.com.tw/article/paper/1055359
Scholar : Only heavy punishment stops fake papers / UDN
11-19-2016 https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115844
Strange phenomenon
in academic circle /11-19-2016 UDN https://udn.com/news/story/10586/2115842
Faking papers is a long-time
malpractice / UDN 11-21-2016
https://udn.com/news/story/6885/2118616
○
●
中國時報, 7-20-2017: 聯考 38
分也可進大學 真是國際笑話 ! !
●
Forbes 4-23-2017, "Taiwan's Once Mighty High-Tech Sector
Is Falling Behind Because Of Low Pay" : Pay for university professors is
too low to attract world-class people from overseas to teach. https://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphjennings/2017/04/23/taiwans-once-mighty-high-tech-sector-is-falling-behind-because-of-low-pay/#204190537b43/Asia
/#BigBusiness
○
台灣科大National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)
5
501–600
中醫大China Medical University, Taiwan
○
○
● http://www.webometrics.info/en/Asia/TAIWAN
July 2017 Edition: 2017.2.1
台灣排名
world rank
國際排名
台灣排名大學Taiwan's
university
impact rank
openness
excellence rank
1
86
台大National Taiwan University
113
175
118
2
253
台灣交大National Chiao Tung University
184
359
383
3
264
台灣成大National Cheng Kung University
262
534
319
4
294
台灣清大National Tsing Hua University
264
532
359
5
432
台灣中大National Central University
575
340
508
○ ● Taiwan's universities
were not included in the following ranking lists, those universities in
China, Japan, S. Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore were included.
World University Rankings 2018
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings
QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of
university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS)
QS University Rankings: Asia — Top 10
2009-2016
1
SingaporeNational University of Singapore
2
Hong KongThe University of Hong Kong
3
SingaporeNanyang Technological University
4
Hong KongThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
5
ChinaTsinghua University
6
South Korea Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
7
Hong KongThe City University of Hong Kong
8
Hong KongThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
9
ChinaPeking University
10
South KoreaSeoul National University
QS Graduate Employability Rankings 2018 — Top 10
2016-2018
United States
Stanford University
United States
University of California, Los Angeles
United States
Harvard University
Australia
The University of Sydney
United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
Australia
University of Melbourne
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
United States
University of California, Berkeley
China
Tsinghua University
● 中國時報 頭版 9-30-2018: 大學畢業生可支配所得 連五年輸專科生
●
●
Taiwan
醫療
Taiwan's medical services
○
●
根據Lancet2017年公布的全球健康照顧評估Healthcare
Access and Quality Index (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),
選擇32種只要預防措施與有效醫療照顧就可避免死亡的疾病，統計分析共25年
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
○
●
德國
<國際透明組織Transparency
International>
委託國際蓋洛普民調公司研究 ( July 9,
2013),
"Have you or anyone in your
household paid a bribe to one of these 8 services in the last 12 months?" 台灣民眾認為最需行賄的機關，第一是司法體系，其次竟為醫療體系，民眾認為台灣醫療體系極度貪污或相當貪污的比率高達47%
(
medical
and health services were
one of corrupt/extremely corrupt institutions in this
country/territory)。接受醫療服務的國人，有兩成一表示曾行賄相關人員，高於全球平均，顯示在全民健保下，民眾仍藉由送紅包買通醫院獲得醫療服務。根據台灣自由時報(1-10-2017,
<回扣形式百百款 >
http://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/paper/1069887)
: 藥商滿足醫生不只給錢，透過贈品、贊助醫師出國進修或參與研討會，甚至轉手將錢捐給醫院基金會等方式，以及Transparency
International報告(12-9-2005)
，醫療界貪污統計指數32%可知，台灣醫界貪污係長期現象。<Transparency
International>
(
July 9,
2013) study :
"Have you or anyone in your
household paid a bribe to one of these 8 services in the last 12 months?"
Taiwanese
people think the institution needed to be paid bribery most is judiciary
system, second is Taiwan's
medical and health services,
the number of Taiwanese paying a bribe is higher than global average. (
Apple Daily 7-10-2013,http://www.appledaily.com.tw/appledaily/article/headline/20130710/35139300/
)
○
●Taiwan's medical & health performance is so successful (e.g. life expectancy, infant mortality and maternal mortality, are
better than U.S., although we spent only one-quarter of USD (PPP) in health expenditure.)
that former leader of health government,
Dr. Ye Ching-chuan, was invited to testify
at an US senate committee hearing on this issue
美國國會聽證關於台灣醫療健保的書面證詞，已列為國會正式紀錄。其中提及台灣只用了美國四分之一的費用，但健康成果，e.g.,平均壽命、嬰兒死亡率、產婦死亡率等，都比美國要好。健保實施前十年，全體國民平均壽命增加1.8歲，而實施健保之後十年，國人平均壽命增加2.9歲。
○
●
Baidu China :
截至2015年，台湾人均寿命79.84岁，男性76.72岁、女性83.19岁。生育率仅为1.065，
65岁以上的老年人口已占总人口10%以上
→台灣醫院Taiwan's
medical service
●
中正大學
National Chung Cheng university's survey
(head-page of the Liberty Times, 2-23-2016) found:
more than 84% Taiwanese people don't
believe judges, nearly 80% Taiwanese
don't believe
the impartiality of
Taiwan's prosecutors, and
public trust on Taiwan
judiciary system keeps falling down in
the past 8 years.
○
●
美國國務院人權報告
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights
practices,
(report
of 4-20-2018 is about same)台灣司法不夠獨立
justice ministry was insufficiently
independent and conducted politically
motivated investigations of politicians.
中正大學研究(National Chung Cheng University)
:76%受訪者不滿意政府反貪不足 .
●
中國時報, 10-15-2017"司法屈從是崩壞之始": 司法改革會議熱鬧登場,
卻灰頭土臉悄悄收場,
司改絲毫沒有進展 /
中國文化大學法研所教授李復甸;
The Taipei
Times, 12-1-2017: Taiwan gov. announced the bill for
"citizen judges" system which is closer to the Japanese system of lay judges
than the common law system of “trial by jury” in the UK or the US...
trying to
save Taiwan's judicial systems. (brief)
The China Times (中國時報 焦點新聞版) at
12-1-2017 評該國民法官制 "急就章", "剪貼", "許多的漏洞".
●
Taiwan is far behind to against torture and other
cruel.台灣一再拖延修改刑法反酷刑, 原因為何?
Apple Daily, headline, 12-9-2017:
◆
At end of 2017, a review found all conclusive advises by
international review
panel have not put into
practice at all.
◆
In 2013, an
international review panel ( human rights experts and scholars)
came Taiwan and concluded :
(1) "The Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment" should be added to Taiwan Criminal
Law, and should be put into force AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
(2) The best method
to root out torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment in Taiwan is that any person or officials who commits torture, those
sort of crimes, should not have free liability of what they did.
ps:
In 1984, The United Nations adopted the text of the
convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment. Most major countries including USA and China are
signatories
and ratifications.
In 2009, Taiwan adopted ICCPR and ICESCR as an alternative
criminal law, in name " law of application" ('施行法'), to against Torture and
Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.
PS2:The members of the review panel
visiting Taiwan in 2013 include Philip Alston, law professor at New York University; Eibe Riedel, former member of the United Nations Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights; Jerome Cohen, law professor at New York
University; and Nisuke Ando, professor emeritus at Kyoto University.
ps3:
https://tw.appledaily.com/headline/daily/20171209/37869068
● Lin Yi-hsiungLin Family Massacre
(林義雄)
:
Feb. 28, 1980. (intentionally pick the sate 228
?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Yi-hsiung
●
the Lei
Chen incident (雷震事件)
: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%9B%B7%E9%9C%87%E4%BA%8B%E4%BB%B6
● WuHan Hotel
(武漢大旅社) : http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/07/21/2003697080
● Liu Pang-yu
(劉邦友) Liu Mayor Office Massacre:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Pang-yu
● yin qingfeng
murder case (尹清楓命案) :
https://web.archive.org/web/20100421111208/http://forums.chinatimes.com.tw/special/oldman/main.html
●
the
self-immolation
of democracy
advocate Deng
Nan-jung (鄭南榕):
Taipei
Times, 7-20-2018
"Justice
commission looks
into suspect
political cases"
etc
Taipei Times,
7-20-2018, 自由時報
頭版
:The Transitional Justice Commission is reportedly targeting five cases for investigation: the murder of former Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairman Lin I-hsiung’s (林義雄) mother and twin daughters, the death of democracy advocate Chen Wen-chen (陳文成), the Lei Chen (雷震) incident, the Wuhan Hotel
(武漢旅社)
incident and the self-immolation of democracy advocate Deng Nan-jung (鄭南榕).
促轉會鎖定五大案
○
●
wikipedia:
The Chinese Civil War resumed, with the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP) led by Mao Zedong defeating the Nationalists and declaring the
People's Republic of China in 1949. Chiang's government and army retreated
to Taiwan, where Chiang imposed martial law and persecuted critics in a
period known as the "White Terror".
○
●
Taiwanese government still
involving political persecutions had been questioned.
French AFP
(Dec. 1, 2011) ,
Thailand's Bangkok Post
(Dec. 3, 2011), Yahoo UK & Ireland,
and all local media reported ( Dec. 2011) Taiwan's
opposition party
vice
presidential candidate and
NTU professor Lin Ruey-Shiung
(PhD., Johns Hopkins
University, USA, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg Germany.)
was subject to electromagnetic wave attacks.
Dr Lin thinks it's launched by a Taiwanese
intelligence government, but that unit denied, some media reported these weapons
most likely were imported from USA.
Many similar reports and sayings concerning this sort of political persecutions
can be found on the net.
○
●
FTV民視: 9-25-2013 20:01pm 監聽氾濫人人自危. The Liberty Times, 9.25.2013, Apple Daily, 2006:
Human rights in Taiwan is not good or lousy! 1/4 Taiwanese were being
listened by the government per year.
Stop HumanCruelty in
Taiwan too !!! make a law now !!
click links to
view :
☉see
animal cruelty,
report it :
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/406098091375381067/?lp=true
★☉below each visual parody, cartoon on The dark side of Tw.
are
related or relevant reports or
comments
★◆
●
●Taiwan's
image ―
台灣惡名昭彰:
「毒品轉運中心」
「輸出大國」的污名
坐實
●
●
日本與澳洲警方已將台灣列為毒品輸出"高風險國家"
●
●
2016年, 台灣是日本境外毒品第3來源國 ......
ref to The China Times,
headline news, 4-4-2017
●
● 台灣反毒做假 CTN 7-2017
● 「台灣
已淪製毒王國」.
<聯合報>
頭版頭條,
11-2-2017 。
●
●
因執法不足的致命傷, 以及法制面諸多缺失, 台灣被The
Asia/Pacific Group
on Money Laundering (APG)
列為"加強追蹤名單" / UDN 聯合筆記
4-11-2017
●
●
毒品氾濫...已擴大惡化到難以阻止 /
蘋果日報
社評, 5-15-2017;
● Philippines President Duterte
(9-26-2017) : Triad supplying illegal drugs to PH is based in Taiwan,
not China / inquirer.net
†
國際社會公害
!
●
★
★
Taiwan, a rat or a soft chicken ! ?
●
紐約時報 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.
五角大廈於May
2017警告:台灣過去可以遏制中國襲擊的「許多優勢」(包括美國協防)，已經被中國的軍事現代化「削弱或消除了」。
●Le
Monde diplomatic of France, Mai 2016, depicted Taiwan as a
trembling sweating rat
(or mouse),
turning its back on an approaching huge cat (China), lifting high the banner "$O$"
.
法國 Le Monde
diplomatique
將台灣喻為
背對大貓(中國)
威懾、直冒汗發抖求救("$O$" )的老鼠。
點按看圖 ! click the image
(left) to view the graphic comment !
●
紐約時報New York times, 5-18-2017: 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 ... have left the military understaffed and in a
state of low morale... 台灣領導一廂情願假設美國定會出兵救援 ...
台軍士氣低落 陷於醜聞之中
●
美國 FreeBeacon
,
10-19-2017 : "中國習近平對台獨的籲請，
猛力關上大門 (Slams the Door on Taiwanese Appeals for Independence)"。
FreeBeacon at 10-19-2017 : "China’s
Xi Jinping Slams the Door on Taiwanese Appeals for Independence.".
Washington Post at 10-18-2017: "Mr. Xi’s biggest applause line was a vow to
'never allow anyone. . . to separate any part of
Chinese territory from China.' That would include...Taiwan."(19th
CPC national Congress).
●
德國 Spiegel, 1-9-2017, Global Times of
China:一中原則 ... 沒有討價還價的餘地("Es
gibt keinen Raum für Verhandlungen"."There is no room for negotiations" .)。
( a violent, penetrative
scientific power) "You called
Discovery, I called the Rape ..."
/ Jurassic Park ,
1990
★★
★
★◆
◆
●
中視新聞
12-14-2017
:
台灣詐騙犯真的遍佈全球
●
台灣變成國際詐騙輸出國,已成國際公害
/
<聯合報> 社論,
12-24-2017。
●台灣人詐騙全球、
惡名昭彰、
重創台灣形象
/
EBC TV
4-9-2017
6:54am
●
●台灣把詐騙犯當成資產
Taiwan largely sees these telecom frauds/phone scammers as an asset
rather than liability... / quora.com
●
BBC 4-22-2016:
Taiwanese massive international telecoms
frauds lead to diplomatic row between Taiwan and China, and cost Chinese
victims billions of Yuan and to have driven some to suicide
●
Taiwan's legal system is extremely tolerant of the
scammers. Not matter how much money was involved in a scamming case
/
https://www.quora.com/Does-Taiwan-rely-on-the-fraud-industry-heavily,
/4-16-2016
● 食安問題不斷,台灣最大挑戰
之一
The China Times. 8-6-2016,
an interview to Taiwan president 蔡英文
● 食安預算少的可憐
一人僅一元
/ 中時7-9-2017
●
長庚醫院毒物科主任,
Univ. of London博士殷宗海M.D.:
「儘量減少外食
!」
( ref. to 著作<食品不安全的年代如何自保>
,
April 2016
●
台灣農藥殘留容許量為歐盟1000倍
/
The China Times, Opinion <短評 "台灣越來越毒>, 4-21-2017
Beaviss : dummy !
there's no poison, addictives, MSG, lard oil, gutter oil,
added in these Chinese heritage arts - pork stone and cabbage jade
Butter-Head: so, we can eat these healthy foods now?!
ps4
a visual parody by Zola Zu
★
●
台灣政治屬於財團
(非人民),
且為政客控制
Taiwan politics belongs to
corporations (not the people) and is controlled by the political parties
<Foerign Policy> 2015.
★
●
台灣大腸癌發生率高居全球第一，許多黑心食品也有影響/
8-28-'15
apple daily
★★★
刀俎上的'魚肉'
Salmon is poking the bear ? Taiwan suffers !
Bloomberg
news 3-14-2018: In the future, Taiwan will suffer even more, as it gets
caught
in the middle between a stronger China and a inward-looking US...
夾在兩強中 台灣該糟了
●
台灣可能成為美中博奕下的籌碼或祺子 (a leverage, a bargaining chip)
● Global Times, mar. 2018: 中國100 小時內擊敗台軍;
●
台灣國防部長: 能抵抗中軍超過1周 (CTV 12-18-2016)
● ps:
歷年國防部長的估計(能抵抗中軍)時間愈來愈短;
●
台大公衛副院長:
台灣PM2.5空污標準落後15年，創造合法殺人環境 (dean, College of Public health, National Taiwan
University,
UDN headpage, 10-16-2017; Liberty Times 1-4-2016)
★★
●
Taiwan, in the lower ranks, placing
54th out of 57 nations in the CCPI with regards to cutting down carbon
emissions and other greenhouse gases. / Taipei Times, 11-23-2017★taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2017/11/23/2003682785
●
United Daily, Opinion,
12-2-2017: 台灣空汙污2/3 來自境內, 電力大量依賴燃媒為元凶
(brief) ★
★★
★
★
★◆
●
●
英國經濟學人雜誌 Economist (special edition 2017): Taiwan will turn into a tiger again台灣將再成猛虎
●台灣宣稱領空不容他人耀武揚威Taiwan declared no other air
forces are allowed to show their muscle in Taiwan air space / 蘋果日報Apple Daily
5-30-2016,...
●
<The
Diplomat> (4-14-2016) : Taiwan's illegal fishing is 'out of
control' -
歐盟於2015年以黃牌警告台灣非法濫行捕魚, GreenPeace嚴厲抨擊台灣政府縱容
(台'17修法成果待評估)
●
Washington Post 2-22-2018:
Taiwan is No.2
fishing nation as measured by
Global fishing Watch's Automatic Identification Sys., 2016.
●
2019年3月13日的美國人權報告(USA Country
Reports on
Human Rights practices) :
外勞是最容易遭受強迫勞動的族群，漁業、農業、製造業與建築業都是常見強制勞動的行業。
●
Taiwan's principal
human rights problems reported :
exploitation of foreign workers,
including foreign crewmembers
on long-haul fishing vessels 台灣主要人權問題之一:剝削外勞
/
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices,
3-3-2017
●
More
than 100 foreign laborers were raped
each year / BBC 1-24-2017
●
「台灣雇主苦日子來了」、「僱傭關係已經出現大翻轉」
(聯合
晚報, 2015-11-28) 台灣雇主為了留住外勞，只能盡量隱忍
(
經濟日報, 2015-11-28 )
ps: Many laborers are 'good' at committing
crimes (running away,
malicious destroy/damage,
guilty of
burglary, etc
),
something wrong
with TW system.
喪屍 的 老虎牙子
●●
<Reporters
Sans Frontieres>
(RSF, France) , 4-18-2019:
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.
●●
<Reporters
Sans Frontieres> (RSF, Reporters without Borders),
France, 4-27-2017 :
Local government officials are also directly interfering in the editorial
policies of state-owned media;
Taiwan's press freedom is at 45th place.
●●
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices, 3-3-2017 :
some media self-censorship with regard to China...... 3-13-2019:
self-censorship continued. Journalists said they faced pressure
from management to submit news stories to complement or support the
content of paid advertisements.
●
Those faceless coward-hackers tried to
damage speech-freedom and stop my modifying
this and some other web-pages. 6-10-2017
★
★
司法殉難 Justice's raped !
台灣政治一向挑戰
& 超越法律為能事
◆
司法為統治工具 司法官受政治控制
/ Liberty Times, 6-19-2016
◆
美國國務院人權報告
USA
Country Reports on Human Rights
practices, 4-20-2018:
台灣司法不獨立 難以公正
†
One of Taiwan's Principal
human rights problems :
rotten (corruption)
貪污當道
ref. to US Country Report on Human
Rights, 2015-2017, and PERC 2009, etc.
Torture on
Taiwan's own people - a major difference from what CIA did
(ps2)
台灣人權侵犯 超過美國CIA !?
Professor Lin R.S. was subject
to electromagnetic wave attacks / French AFP, Bangkok Post, Dec.
2011, Yahoo UK & Ireland, etc
†
★\
★
★
Republic
Of Cash /
台灣司法腐敗 官員貪污 officials corruption
(USA
Country Reports on Human Rights practices, March 3, 2017,
4-20-2018). 83 percent
(Taiwanese people) chose "bread" over "romance"
(Washington Post, 1-2-2017 討論台獨問題).
★
★★
★
★
Taiwanese 台灣水牛... 台灣『和』牛
?
have been patient sufferance of so many politically bullies
and toying,
hence turned into
obedient,
docile people
反抗被殺, 政治做弄與欺負 使台灣人變順民 !!
/ Ko P.
†
Washington
Post, 1-2-2017 : 83 percent chose
"bread" over "romance"...
Hawks at home,
chicken abroad,
「悶」經濟、「宅」政府 ―
芒刺向內
sharp spikes pointing to its own hoi polloi
☉ New York
times,
12-13-2016:
In
Presidential
inaugural
speech,
Tsai
referred
to the
Constitution
of the
Republic
of China
and the
legislation
governing
cross-strait
relations,
both
imply
the
acceptance
of a
“one
China”
framework.
★
★★
Taiwan, a soft chicken
台灣吃軟怕硬 遇強則弱 遇弱(菲律賓)更弱
◆
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
◆
New York times, 5-18-2017: 台軍士氣低落
The gov has left the military
understaffed
and in a state of low morale ...
ps:
The Philippines is little & weak, but not soft / Independent UK, etc,
10-11-2016,
Philippines refused to be "a dog with leash" / CNBC 10-25-2016
Taiwan
national flag still function /
working
as weather cock to learn which way and
how strong the political
windblowing 國旗成了政治風向雞
司法無恥
威信蕩然無存
重罪要犯逃逃樂
,"有錢買生"深植台灣人心
Little
ones take the rap.
Taiwan's legislators and judicial system don't have a sense of
shame on releasing many int'l telecomm scammers and fraud groups
(United Daily, 8-24-2016 editorial
).
In the past 8 years, about 100 major crimes escaped overseas
easily and happily (Next
magazine, Liberty Times, 12-31-2015),
including political leader Liu 劉松藩
(apple daily 12-8-2016) ps3
;ps17
†
★★
pic.
: political dig-dirt...ps1
◆
a keyhole or loophole ?
◆
監視人民 or 傾聽民意?
pic.
: 居下流眾惡歸
murder the image, firstly
pic.
: Looking for the guilty?
need only look into a mirror on WANTED poster
◆
在政治生態(政治挑戰超越司法)下,
當然沒辦法培養出守法知法的公民
/ <United Daily> 8-24-2016 editorial
TW
Taiwan lacks
creativity, not cold calculations
台灣創意貧弱 經濟發展引擎也不例外
; 經濟部logo vs. 加拿大logo
The logo
(pic. above) of Taiwan gov.
/ Ministry of Economic Affairs
(pic. above) is similar to Canadian logos (pic.below)
appeared earlier
click for
Taiwanese creativity
★ ps:
The China Times, 3-29-2017:
Taiwan lacks key tech. to make a coach
(large bus).
★
★
★
◆愈掃愈黃, 全球第一
Hypocritical government / 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 )
◆ 偽君子政權 朔造色情嫖樂No.1大國
...
◆
嫖妓就是對婦女施暴 (Prostitution is
violence against women / ref to <Prostitution : violence with no name>,
"Prostitution et Societe", 2010, "Int'l Day for the Elimination of
Violence against women", 11-25-2016 France
法國)
◆
創造與包庇性產業環境的政府(不是嫖客)才是大規模迫害女權的真凶。
†
★
'comfort women' style kowtow diplomacy 叩頭外交,
Taiwan served 2 powers,
USA and/or China
Taiwan's economy is
highly reliant on China,
Taiwan needs the US for national defense...
請注意下段無法上傳,
必須以hard
copy顯示
!!
PS: Apple Daily News, opinion, 3-22-2018: 最新 <台灣民意基金會>民調, 38.3% 支持台獨 ,
20.1% 統一, 24.1% 現狀, 75% 自認台灣人, 9.7% 中國人, 10.4% both.
中國的"惠(對)台31項措施", 41.9% 統戰花招, 30.1% 善意行為
★
★
