Some friendly advice from Hong Kong’s anti-corruption agency…
The ICAC reminds parents that when making school admission applications for their children, they should never offer bribes to staff members in exchange for school placements…
Does entry to an ESF kindergarten really guarantee children a fast-track to Harvard and a career as a dazzlingly accomplished doctor or lawyer? Or are these parents planning to leave Hong Kong in the coming years (several have Pinyin names)? Or – are they just insecure and desperate social climbers?
A long open letter to Xi Jinping from Taiwanese tycoon Robert Tsao, founder of chipmaker United Microelectronics. As well as saying the PRC has no right to Taiwan, he shreds much of the CCP’s official version of Chinese history…
Taiwan was occupied by the Qing Empire in 1683 and was ceded by the Qing to Japan in 1895, a period of 212 years. That can hardly be called “since ancient times.” Much of Ukraine was ruled by the Mongols from 1240 to 1362, more than 120 years. If one claimed that Ukraine has “since ancient times been the territory of today’s Mongolia,” that would obviously be a joke.
In 1928, Mao Zedong explicitly advocated that Taiwan should be independent and establish a “Taiwan Republic.” In 1936, Mao told American journalist Edgar Snow in Yan’an that if the Korean people wished to break free of Japanese imperialism, “we enthusiastically support their struggle for independence,” and that “the same applies to Taiwan.” In other words, in 1936 your Party did not even consider Taiwan to be Chinese territory, yet later it changed its tune and claimed “Taiwan has since ancient times been Chinese territory.” This shows the Party’s habit of rewriting history to suit political needs.
…A contract [the Joint Declaration on Hong Kong] formally signed by the Chinese and British governments in 1984 was declared non-binding as a mere “historical document” thirty years before its term expired. Yet the 1943 Cairo Declaration and the 1945 Potsdam Proclamation, more than eighty years ago, are absolutely “historical documents,” but your state insists they remain legally binding today. Is this not blatant double standards?
…your Party insists on unifying Taiwan because Taiwan has already realized popular sovereignty. Therefore you must silence the Taiwanese people, so that the Chinese people do not take Taiwan as an example and demand that your Party return power to the people, is that not so?
Does Robert Tsao ever visit (coughs, mainland) China or have business interests there? Thought these Taiwan tycoons were all in the KMT fold; apparently not…
Incidentally, I’ve met some (very) old Taiwanese who fondly remembered the Japanese governance & after the war certainly did not have any good experience of the KMT – until the KMT needed them to actually run Taiwan and manage infrastructure/banking etc. They have even less affection for the CCP.
Let’s face it – Taiwan has its own character now, and self-determination should take precedence.
What a superb rebuttal of Xit Jumping thought.
>HKJC Irregular
With the Taiwanese, I know making money often means not getting involved in anything political regarding China. Pro KMT usually have historical family ties, etc., in China and do business with and via them. People less pro KMT – may have more business via other Chinese routes.