2019台灣燈會在屏東，只怕不識貨

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以中華民國為名的台灣治理當局

柯文哲偏愛兩岸事務。繼2015年提出「兩岸一家親」後，近日更提出「中華民國是國；台灣是家」—前者呼應習近平，後者抄襲馬英九，毫無創意可言。

研究稱中國未實現甲烷減排目標 NYT 20190130

【Comment】

Asia dominates world coal consumption, in which China shares roughly half of all world in both coal mines and burns.  When other financial institutions restrict their loans to coal industries, China increases it on the contrary.

亞洲在世界煤炭消費中占主導地位，其中中國在煤礦和燒傷中佔據全球約一半的煤炭消費量。 當其他金融機構限制對煤炭行業的貸款時，中國則相反增加。

為課稅鋪路 美商務部判定進口車威脅國安 自由 20190216

【Comment】

Anyone who has watched “The Fate of the Furious” might agree that the parts of automobiles are an issue of national security.

Swedish ambassador to China recalled after bizarre meeting over detained bookseller WP 20190214

【Comment】

Like Canada, the reason why the Nordic countries could play a neutral and humanitarian role in the international community is partly that they are at a remote location, free from involving into the most disputes as other places do. 

高俊明辭世、施明德痛哭：有真正高尚的人格 新頭殼20190215

【Comment】

高牧師明明是施明德的「恩人、受惠者、受保護者」，施明德卻視為「外界通俗的眼光」、「那個意義就很小了」，而以「公義」（共同為台灣付出、共同為苦難、為愛、為公義受苦的弟兄）為化妝，轉為「弟兄」（提高自己位階）關係。

獨家：美方望落實《台灣旅行法》 傳AIT緊鑼密鼓安排台美高層互訪！ 讀報20190214

【Comment】

The US has passed serial legal bills, resolutions and executive orders to build a concrete floor for enhancing the US-Taiwan relations.
It needs time to cook.

美國將禁止中國設備進入5G市場 NYT 20190214

【Comment】

It is believed that President Trump will issue an executive order to prevent the use of 5G equipment from “adversarial powers,” which does not limit to HUAWEI and SINOTEC.

Using definition, not list, to regulate the targets of the enforcement of laws will give the US more flexibility in operational level.

韓國議長指日本明仁天皇是「戰犯的兒子」

【Comment】

Through the Japan-Korea merger of 1910, the Korean Emperor joined the Japanese Empire and became a member of the Japanese royal family.  Korea then was monarch sovereignty, not popular sovereignty, nation, meaning the Korean Emperor, not the people, has the ultimate authority to decide the fate of the nation.

1910年的日韓合併，大韓皇帝加入日本帝國，成為日本天皇家族成員。當時的大韓帝國，是君主主權。皇帝決定國家。

South Korea politicos will never stop manipulating nationalism for its cheap political cost and the high returns, from the votes to the financial aides from Japan.  President Moon tore the agreement the former President Pak has made with Japan concerning the comfort women.

從表現而言，韓國是不會停止操作民族主義的。非常便宜划算的政治動員，韓國可以得到巨大援助資金。每一屆的韓國總統多少都這樣做，文在寅一上任也毀棄已經談妥的慰安婦協議。

Does “the son of the main culprit of war crimes” bear the same crime as his ancestor even the son has done nothing?  If it is so, the war may last forever.  Perhaps it is the plot in the politicos' mind, not to end the war in order to take advantages from it from time to time.

戰爭罪主嫌的子女，無論當時未成年也未執政，也背負戰爭罪嗎？假使如此，戰爭何時可以結束？對某些方面而言，使戰爭無法才是無本萬利？

陛下謝罪要求の韓国国会議長、ブルームバーグがインタビュー音声データ公開    Yahoo 20190213

韓国の文喜相国会議長が米通信社ブルームバーグのインタビューで、旧日本軍の従軍慰安婦問題について、天皇陛下による謝罪で問題が解決すると述べたことや、陛下を「戦争犯罪の主犯の息子」と表現したことについて、同社は１２日までに公式サイトなどで文議長のインタビューの音声データの一部を公開した。音声データでは、文議長が「その方は戦争犯罪の主犯の息子ではないか？」などと述べている。

文議長は韓国メディアの取材に対し、「戦争犯罪の主犯の息子」発言の趣旨について「戦争時の日本の国王の息子という意味だ」と釈明していたが、ブルームバーグ側が改めて客観的な「証拠」を示した形だ。

河野太郎外相はこの日の衆院予算委員会で「極めて無礼な発言だ。謝罪と撤回を求めている」と述べた。

South Korea Lawmaker Seeks Imperial Apology for Japan Sex Slaves   

Bloomberg 20190210

Japan’s emperor should hold hands with women forced to work in the country’s military brothels and make a personal apology if Tokyo wants to end the decades-old dispute, South Korea’s top lawmaker said.

National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang said in an interview Thursday that Japanese Emperor Akihito -- as the “the son of the main culprit of war crimes” -- should deliver the apology before his planned abdication in May.  Moon was asked how the two U.S. allies could resolve a worsening diplomatic feud fueled by disagreements over Japan’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula, much of it under the emperor’s late father, Hirohito.

“It only takes one word from the prime minister, who represents Japan -- I wish the emperor would do it since he will step down soon,” said Moon, South Korea’s No. 2 elected official and a former presidential envoy to Japan.  “Isn’t he the son of the main culprit of war crimes?”

“So, if a person like that holds the hands of the elderly and says he’s really sorry, then that one word will resolve matters once and for all,” he said.

The Japanese prime minister’s office didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for comment on Moon’s remarks.

The speaker’s comments underscore the widening divide between the neighbors, whose ties have sunk to one of their lowest points in more than half a century.  The direct challenge to the emperor -- a revered figure, whose father was once considered a living god -- risked further angering Japan.

While Akihito offered his “deepest regret” in 1990 for Japan’s colonization of the peninsula, many Koreans argue the country has failed to properly atone for specific wrongdoings, especially forcing local women to serve as “comfort women” in military brothels.  Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak outraged Japan in 2012 when he demanded a fuller apology as a condition for an imperial visit.

The dispute reemerged after President Moon Jae-in was elected in 2017 and moved to undo the comfort women pact his predecessor reached with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  After the death of comfort woman-turned-campaigner Kim Bok-dong last month, Moon vowed to do everything in his power to “correct the history” for the 23 surviving victims.

In the interview, Moon Hee-sang said the “most sincere apologies” and compensation fund Abe offered comfort women in the December 2015 deal fell short of the sort of personal contrition German leaders have shown for their own country’s wartime atrocities.

“That is a legal apology,” he said Thursday.  “Countries can exchange apologies, but the problem is there are victims.”

More than 90 percent of South Koreans believed that Japan still needed to apologize over the comfort women issue, according to a joint survey of both countries published by the Seoul-based Hankook Daily and Tokyo-based Yomiuri newspaper in July.  That compared with less than 8 percent of Japanese who said another statement was necessary.

In 2001, Akihito told reporters that he felt affinity with Korea because one of his ancestors was said to have married a Korean princess.  The 85-year-old monarch is due to cede the throne to Crown Prince Naruhito in May, after saying his declining health had made it difficult to carry out his duties.

Moon Hee-sang, 73, has long been a fixture in progressive South Korean political circles and served as a top aide to the current president’s mentor. In July, he was elected speaker of the 300-seat National Assembly, a position of ceremonial rank second only to the president. The pair are not related.

Washington Visit

The speaker will likely be asked about South Korea-Japan ties next week, when he’s slated to lead a multiparty delegation to Washington to meet top U.S. officials including American counterpart Nancy Pelosi. The two sides are also expected to discuss U.S. President Donald Trump’s next meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un later this month in Vietnam.

Moon Hee-sang described the summit as a “great opportunity that arrives once in a thousand years” to establish peace on the peninsula, which been in a state of unresolved war since 1950. Reduced hostilities between the two Koreas would also improve ties with Japan, he said.

The speaker credited Moon Jae-in with bringing Trump and Kim to the negotiating table.

“He is the president who has won trust from the both sides,” Moon Hee-sang said. “The three have a fantastic chemistry.”

— With assistance by Jon Herskovitz, Isabel Reynolds, and Emi Nobuhiro

(Updates with request for Japanese response in fifth paragraph.)

追憶永遠的秘書長黃爾璇教授 張葆源@民報 20190211

黃爾璇老師告別式：

2019年2月24日（日）上午11點，台北市第二殯儀館景仰樓一樓至真一廳。

【Comment】

謹借用此文向老師致敬。

至今，東吳政治系官方網頁雖有他系少有的感人「退休暨離職教師」，其中有傅中梅（正）、黃昭宏等，卻不見黃爾璇，好像歷史真的可以被抹除一樣。

當然，連國際法大師的系主任杜蘅之（年輕時一樣衝撞體制），也付之闕如，就覺得遺憾了。

能趁此機會修復歷史事實嗎？這僅僅是最低程度的轉型正義。

反對片面改變現狀 AIT：美國不支持台灣獨立公投 自由20190213

【Comment】

Many Taiwanese people are not able to distinguish the shared values from the national interests.  They are not always bind together.

The Formosa Alliance is making an excuse for China to invade Taiwan for free, which will force the US, as well as China, an dilemma between war and peace. 

It is especially true when the US and China are facing the national security stand-off.

白狼的統促黨比你想的更接地氣！宮廟、農漁會、深綠鄉鎮都有它 天下雜誌20180813

【Comment】

王喬王，被認為是宮廟系統，與統促黨，是合作？或競爭關係？

宮廟「現金流龐大，再加上財務不受監督」，這就是「宗教法人法」遇到王喬王強力抵制（扭曲為建立免受政府監督的法律）的原因。

新疆「再教育營」：為何哈薩克族人遭到扣押 BBC 20190212

新疆「再教育營」：為何哈薩克族人遭到扣押    BBC 20190212

中國否認土耳其知名維吾爾族音樂家阿不都日衣木·艾衣提（Abdurehim Heyit，前譯黑伊特）在新疆的「再教育營」死亡，令外界再次關注中國新疆的「拘留中心」。中國政府堅稱那些是「再教育營」，但哈薩克人艾布塔（Aibota Serik）把這些中心比作「監獄」。她的父親被關在那裏。

藏獨女孩當選多倫多大學學生會長 中國留學生崩潰罷 蘋果20190211

【Comment】

Chemi Lhamo, born in Bylakuppe, India as a stateless, now a citizen of Canada by naturalization.

The image of the Chinese nationalism in the mind of Chinese is, in fact, the Han nationalism, or the Han Racialism, more precise.

齊美拉莫，是出生於印度、歸化加拿大的圖博人。這樣也算中國人？

中國人心中的民族主義，是種族主義，而且是漢族種族主義。

中國經濟官家錢【台灣真要賺這筆？ 談中國官二代資金外逃熱錢】

中國經濟官家錢

美中自2016年夏天，從經濟領域開始對峙；到2017年，對峙已被確認為無關個人或政權偏好的國安問題。美國對中國「停止加徵新關稅」90天寬限期，將在3月1日屆滿，而川金第二會選在於2月27至28日在河內舉行。此舉擺明了，加徵新關稅很難轉圜。

The end of the ‘1992 consensus’ HoonTing@Taipei Times 20190212

The end of the ‘1992 consensus’    HoonTing@Taipei Times 20190212

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Early last month, Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) and President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) each gave speeches that set off debate as to whether there really is such a thing as the so-called “1992 consensus.”