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On Friday, TSMC
announced plans to invest US$12 billion to build
the 5 nanometer fab, saying
that construction is scheduled to start next year.
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One hand washes the other but in this time of changing priorities, Taiwan is spitting in the face of changing priorities and distancing itself from China, its cultural cohort in everything but capitalism and exploitation. First it was FOXCONN making a deal to undercut American unions with a factory in Wisconsin, now it is TSMC ready to have union free workers exploited on American soil in Arizona. In both cases, the workforce in Taiwan gets the short end of the deal with migrant silicon valley workers from India exploited even further and keeping Taiwanese workers underpaid and overworked. This is the reward the US gives Taiwan for distancing itself from China while the real gift of independence for Taiwan has been taken off the table by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) of Tsai Ying-Wen. How does the clandestine US presence in Taiwan and English dependency work to make Taiwan America's eyes on China, blind to its own self-determination?
Formosan Association for Public
affairs (FAPA), located in the US to lobby congressmen and senators to support Taiwan-related
Bills posted this: The Taiwan Allies International Protection and
Enhancement Initiative Act was signed into law by President Trump last week.
The remaining Taiwan-related bills in the Congress include Senate's Taiwan
Assurance Act (S.878), Senate's WHO bill (S.249), House's Taiwan Envoy Act (H.R.5535),
House's Employment Fairness for Taiwan Act of 2020 (H.R.6014), and Taiwan
Symbols of Sovereignty Act (S.3310 & H.R.6287).” They also want
support to force China Airlines to change its name to reflect its Taiwan home
base so they can skirt prejudice against “real” Chinese. Taiwan’s Minister for
Transportation and Communications, Lin Chia-lung, said his ministry has an
“open mind” to changing the carrier’s name, but notes that “because [the
carrier] is a listed company, [we] need to respect the shareholders’ and
public’s opinions”. Will they wear “We are NOT Japanese” type buttons as the
Chinese did in the U.S. during internment of Japanese citizens during WW II?
Asians of all nations are victims of vicious racist attacks in the U.S. And the
DPP through FAPA sees the US as Taiwan’s friend?
Taiwan’s government is clearly
betting on the wrong horse to the detriment of its working class. In
passive-aggressive manor, Taiwan’s DPP threw insult at the WHO for not
recognizing being left out; Taiwan is part of China and should defer to her;
indeed, they mimicked her response without acknowledgment. By doing as well or
better than China and Hong Kong in controlling the outbreak, Taiwan has a
“we’ll show them” combative attitude.
Some supporters of Tsai Ying-Wen’s
campaign to smear the WHO for not dealing with Taiwan separately from China allegedly
insulted the WHO personally and sent death threats. The WHO leader fought back.
Taiwan led the way in suspicion and deriding China’s response to the outbreak
in the beginning mentioning “Wuhan” a thousand times a day in the media
“white-man” washing of the true nature of a pandemic; it belongs to all nations
unprepared to care for their common people, not China alone, though it served
Taiwanese well the precautions taken, but now the DPP is riding Trump’s racist
coattails, against its social cohort.
The UN agency has come under
continued fire from Trump, who mirrors Tsai Ying-Wen’s accusation that the WHO
is “very China-centric” and has ended funding.
Speaking on Wednesday,
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus defended the WHO's work and called
for an end to the politicization of COVID-19.
The disease first emerged last
December in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which has just ended an 11-week
lock-down. An advisor to the WHO chief earlier said their close work with China
had been "absolutely essential" in understanding the disease in its
early stages.
Trump's attacks on the WHO come in the
context of criticism of his own administration's handling of the pandemic,
especially early problems with US testing.
The
WHO approved a corona-virus test in January - but the US decided against using
it, developing its own test instead. However, in February, when the testing
kits were dispatched, some of them did not work properly, and led to
inconclusive results.
Public
health experts say the delay enabled the virus to spread further within the US.
Dr Tedros said
he had been at the receiving end of racist comments for the past two to three
months. "Giving me names, black or negro," he said. "I'm proud
of being black, or proud of being Negro." He then said he had received
death threats, adding: "I don't give a damn." The WHO chief said the
abuse had originated from Taiwan, "and the foreign ministry didn't
disassociate" itself from it.
"For years, we have been
excluded from international organizations, and we know better than anyone else
what it feels like to be discriminated against and isolated," Reuters news
agency quoted her as saying. "If Director-General Tedros could
withstand pressure from China and come to Taiwan to see Taiwan's efforts to
fight Covid-19 for himself, he would be able to see that the Taiwanese people
are the true victims of unfair treatment."
Taiwan foreign ministry spokeswoman
Joanne Ou said the comments were "irresponsible" and the accusations
"imaginary". The ministry said it was seeking an apology for
"slander", AFP news agency reported.
FAPA (Formosan Association of Public
Affairs) is the Taiwanese-American lobby group that funnels millions of dollars
to senators and congressmen to influence their stance towards Taiwan province’s
de facto separation from the People's Republic of China. They originally were mostly
middle-aged independence advocates with a smattering of easy-chair socialists
but now they are elderly, with no new generation, and have given up their
ideals to see Taiwan as a 51st State and Taiwan ties to the US stronger
than with its cultural cohort 129 miles across the Strait. Instead of
acknowledging the influence from China establishing policy that mirrored its
quick and effective reaction to the virus outbreak in late January, FAPA and
the ruling DPP want to ride Trump's coattails in blaming China for America's
problem of unpreparedness and aiding the CIA in further distancing
reunification, not for Taiwanese benefit alone. Too bad that the KMT used a
populist approach supporting a clown that rivaled Trump for the presidency, and
lost momentum of a populace reeling from a 20 year failing economy and
underpaid work force; indeed losing workers to China that paid higher wages.
Taiwan has become Asia's Florida; 1 out of 4 citizens over 65 and legally holding
duel US passports. The lies the DPP is spreading (65,000 people died from
COVID-19 in China, for example) and supporting the renaming of China Airlines
(how about China Petroleum, China University Hospital, etc.) because it has
given Taiwan a bad name is ludicrous.
Using the WHO's refusal to address
Taiwan's demand for consideration, embarrassing themselves at news conferences,
and taking Trump's tract of blaming China, calling the WHO China's proxy, will
not work as the proof is in the pudding; at least 20,000 confirmed US deaths (out
of a quarter billion) to China's lock-downed Hubei Provence's 3,000 (saving the
more than billion people outside Wuhan) is a figure that over a hundred nations
in the WHO recognize as reality. Taiwan is riding the wrong horse into the
future and I fear it will come to no good. How long can the American bubble in
Taiwan last when the bubble-blowers in the White House and Senate is running
out of soap. I don't fly China Airlines because the food sucks, the seats are
tight, the cost is high, and the equipment is old, nor do I fly Air China with
its poor handling and bureaucratic transfers. Changing the name of either
airline will make no difference to me or most savvy travelers.
FAPA's renewed demand that China
Airlines be renamed because 'China was giving it a bad name.' That bad name is
the fault of racist Euro-Americans like Trump blaming instead of congratulating
China for its fast and effective response to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan.
I wouldn't fly China Airlines or Air China if they were both renamed Trans Love
Airways; both airlines suck. This red herring is FAPA's only recourse to
admitting it's lobbying from a sinking ship.
The lie the US and Taiwan are
spreading about the WHO not telling the world of the danger. I wrote in an
article Jan. 20: “Yesterday, the World Health Organization said the virus
represents a risk outside of China as the United States reported its first case
of person-to-person transmission.” They did indeed tell the US and the world to
be prepared.
The
hilarity of Taiwan's DPP rejection of China while pandering to the US and
feigning independence is too much. Tsai Ying-Wen has given up the fight for
Taiwan independence
Meanwhile, the English media in
Taiwan is controlled by the US, the defense is supported and backed by the US,
English is taught from primary school up, most government officials and ruling
class hold US passports, US citizens have special visa privileges here, the
Taiwan dollar exchange is according to the US. Most NGO's are from the US, the
church is beholden to the US, street signs and weapon instructions, propaganda
in line with US, MSN, Facebook and Google given free access to private date,
Lockheed-Martin research tied to US CIA, shall I continue? Okay. The US helped
rescue CKS and turned a blind eye to the 228 Massacre, US fast food chains,
clothing, music, and culture of US origin... Taiwan is OWNED by the US CIA,
surveillance, and it's not symbiotic; they will and have jerked Taiwan around
for 70 years playing both sides KMT and DPP; every Taiwan president has secret
briefings with the US before taking office (except maybe Lee Tung-Huai who told
the US they weren't his father) and now most COVID-19 cases are FROM THE
US, NOT CHINA as they let their guard down to US-European repatriation.
American youth are here in droves paraprofessionals using Taiwan as a
way-station to touring the world. You're not denying that Taiwan is a vassal of
the U.S. more than any other land? Its Chinese cohort is stymied.
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