I find your criticism of Legislator May Chin (
I do agree that the Hans in Taiwan who are now colorfully divided into the green and blue tribes have completely usurped the inherent rights of the genuine non-Han "Native Taiwanese" to reclaim their sacred lands.
It's a very sad fact that Taiwan's Indigenous people are now like the Palestinians and maybe even suffering more from discrimination and facing the possibility of cultural and ethnic extinction.
Adding more insult to their near fatal injury is the fact that Han politicians have even usurped their only remaining sacred and inherent property, which is the "Native Taiwanese" title, in the guise of "nativization" or "localization" doctrines. A very obvious looking Han politician can shamelessly claim to be a "Native Taiwanese" for purely political gain.
Could one imagine US President George W. Bush claiming to be a "Native American?"
More ominous is the fact that these very people are even shrewdly utilizing this "Native Taiwanese" slogan to ethnically divide and separate those Hans who arrived with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), who in the past also grossly trampled on the rights of the Hans who colonized Taiwan earlier, thus effectively converting "Ilha Formosa" into "Ilha de Kosovo."
Thus the sandwiched true non-Han Native Taiwanese Naruwans are now known worldwide as the "Palestinians of Taiwan," and since Chin is the only politician brave and vocal enough to let Japan and the whole world know of their rights and existence, why not?
She deserves more respect than those politicians who say they love Taiwan but on the other hand say the Dioyutais belong to Japan when the Ilan fishermen are being harassed to bankruptcy by Japan and who even suggested that she should kneel at Yasukuni shrine.
Hiro Nobumasa
Tainan
Saudi Arabian largesse is flooding Egypt’s cultural scene, but the reception is mixed. Some welcome new “cooperation” between two regional powerhouses, while others fear a hostile takeover by Riyadh. In Cairo, historically the cultural capital of the Arab world, Egyptian Minister of Culture Nevine al-Kilany recently hosted Saudi Arabian General Entertainment Authority chairman Turki al-Sheikh. The deep-pocketed al-Sheikh has emerged as a Medici-like patron for Egypt’s cultural elite, courted by Cairo’s top talent to produce a slew of forthcoming films. A new three-way agreement between al-Sheikh, Kilany and United Media Services — a multi-media conglomerate linked to state intelligence that owns much of
The US and other countries should take concrete steps to confront the threats from Beijing to avoid war, US Representative Mario Diaz-Balart said in an interview with Voice of America on March 13. The US should use “every diplomatic economic tool at our disposal to treat China as what it is... to avoid war,” Diaz-Balart said. Giving an example of what the US could do, he said that it has to be more aggressive in its military sales to Taiwan. Actions by cross-party US lawmakers in the past few years such as meeting with Taiwanese officials in Washington and Taipei, and
Denmark’s “one China” policy more and more resembles Beijing’s “one China” principle. At least, this is how things appear. In recent interactions with the Danish state, such as applying for residency permits, a Taiwanese’s nationality would be listed as “China.” That designation occurs for a Taiwanese student coming to Denmark or a Danish citizen arriving in Denmark with, for example, their Taiwanese partner. Details of this were published on Sunday in an article in the Danish daily Berlingske written by Alexander Sjoberg and Tobias Reinwald. The pretext for this new practice is that Denmark does not recognize Taiwan as a state under
The Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan has no official diplomatic allies in the EU. With the exception of the Vatican, it has no official allies in Europe at all. This does not prevent the ROC — Taiwan — from having close relations with EU member states and other European countries. The exact nature of the relationship does bear revisiting, if only to clarify what is a very complicated and sensitive idea, the details of which leave considerable room for misunderstanding, misrepresentation and disagreement. Only this week, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) received members of the European Parliament’s Delegation for Relations