Neutral travelers fight back
CC: Johnny Neihu,
We were talking of the two English articles published recently in Taipei Times, which we are not very happy with, because the written content seems to favor the editor's own opinion, and some of our answers were even misinterpreted ("Swiss couple fall in love with Taiwan," Nov. 13, page 4, and Johnny Neihu's NewsWatch: "Truly the next best thing to China," Nov. 17, page 8).
But there was another article in the China Post, which matched more our feelings ("Global nomads make sojourn in Taiwan," Nov. 17).
Sometimes it's sad to spend so much time for interviews if the result can be so disappointing. Having said this, we are happy that all the other newspapers, which followed the DPP's press release of Oct. 13, are related more to the facts and realities of our world record journey and don't carry the "smell of politics."
We still want and have to point out that we don't carry any missions around the world, e.g. with political, religious, commercial or any other possible content.
We are and remain as neutral as Switzerland!
Emil and Liliana Schmid
Johnny replies: When I wrote about you guys it was obviously all in good fun. Now I'm not so sure. As neutral as Switzerland, eh? You gotta admire a country that has given safe haven to dirty money for decades but handed 25,000 Jews back to the Nazis.
Now that's neutrality.
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