Newly sworn in Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Legislator-at-large Liu Shu-pin (劉書彬) — who replaced former TPP legislator-at-large Wu Chun-cheng (吳春城) following his resignation — on Monday questioned a National Science and Technology Council official about Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s investments in the US and its core chip manufacturing technologies. However, she consistently misspoke throughout her inquiry, saying meter (米) instead of nanometer (奈米).
When reporters attempted to ask her about the mistake, Liu said: “I was just speaking too quickly. You didn’t hear me clearly.”
I happened to be eating lunch at a street stall when I saw the report on the news the following day. I nearly spit out my food.
Liu was actually speaking quite clearly. She said “meter” — and not very quickly, either. From her debut, it was evident that this legislator-at-large had not done her homework, and that lying comes quite easy to her — is this the kind of lawmaker that the TPP carefully selected as Wu’s replacement?
If Liu were a member of a different party, there is no doubt that former TPP chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) would have criticized her no end, calling her anything from a cockroach to a rat.
Some lawmakers benefit from the public’s resources, yet live in their own bubbles, completely oblivious to the costs we bear while using our livelihoods to accomplish nothing. It is truly disappointing.
This kind of figure will only harm the TPP’s reputation further — the original video went viral and garnered online mockery, with comments such as “a chip that large ... are they going to carve it with a plow?”
Liu has already become a laughingstock.
Fang Fu-chuan is an international trader.
Translated by Kyra Gustavsen
On May 7, 1971, Henry Kissinger planned his first, ultra-secret mission to China and pondered whether it would be better to meet his Chinese interlocutors “in Pakistan where the Pakistanis would tape the meeting — or in China where the Chinese would do the taping.” After a flicker of thought, he decided to have the Chinese do all the tape recording, translating and transcribing. Fortuitously, historians have several thousand pages of verbatim texts of Dr. Kissinger’s negotiations with his Chinese counterparts. Paradoxically, behind the scenes, Chinese stenographers prepared verbatim English language typescripts faster than they could translate and type them
More than 30 years ago when I immigrated to the US, applied for citizenship and took the 100-question civics test, the one part of the naturalization process that left the deepest impression on me was one question on the N-400 form, which asked: “Have you ever been a member of, involved in or in any way associated with any communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world?” Answering “yes” could lead to the rejection of your application. Some people might try their luck and lie, but if exposed, the consequences could be much worse — a person could be fined,
Xiaomi Corp founder Lei Jun (雷軍) on May 22 made a high-profile announcement, giving online viewers a sneak peek at the company’s first 3-nanometer mobile processor — the Xring O1 chip — and saying it is a breakthrough in China’s chip design history. Although Xiaomi might be capable of designing chips, it lacks the ability to manufacture them. No matter how beautifully planned the blueprints are, if they cannot be mass-produced, they are nothing more than drawings on paper. The truth is that China’s chipmaking efforts are still heavily reliant on the free world — particularly on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Keelung Mayor George Hsieh (謝國樑) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) on Tuesday last week apologized over allegations that the former director of the city’s Civil Affairs Department had illegally accessed citizens’ data to assist the KMT in its campaign to recall Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) councilors. Given the public discontent with opposition lawmakers’ disruptive behavior in the legislature, passage of unconstitutional legislation and slashing of the central government’s budget, civic groups have launched a massive campaign to recall KMT lawmakers. The KMT has tried to fight back by initiating campaigns to recall DPP lawmakers, but the petition documents they
RSS