Video of Taiwanese beauties in Geneva -- UNCUT

Who loves Taiwan, crybaby?

WHO's reckless and disgraceful and causing Taiwan to lose face? That would be the Minister of Health Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川).

What happened? Some Taiwanese students studying in Europe, including Huang Hai-ning (黃海寧) -- the good-looking 30-year-old who is a PhD candidate in France and the daughter of former Taichung County councilor Huang Pin-huang (黃丙煌) (DPP) -- caught up with Yeh in Geneva and wanted to make sure he wouldn't sell out Taiwan to China.

They had a pretty good reason to worry.

Taiwan is already listed as "China (Province of Taiwan)" on the World Health Organization (WHO) web site -- clearly the result of a 2005 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between China and the WHO. President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) implausibly denies having any knowledge of this MOU.

It's more than just "implausible." Chang Jung-Kung (張榮恭), then-spokesman and director of the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT -- y'know, Ma's party?) department of mainland China affairs said that he had "obtained the contents of the memorandum through China's relevant institutions in charge of Taiwan affairs," according to a May 29, 2005 CNA article republished on GlobalSecurity.org.

Getting back to the events at hand, Huang repeatedly asked Yeh what name Taiwan would be using at the World Health Assembly (WHA), but Yeh refused to give a direct answer to any of her questions. He could only shout insults and try to run away. Eventually, he made his way to a waiting vehicle and took off.

Can you guess what happened just a short time later?

Yeh held a press conference and... cried! zOMFG!!!!111!

What Luby said
Instead of trying to describe my own incredulous reaction to this scene, let me just quote something I received in the mail today which says it much better than I could [from Luby Liao's blog, presented here with minor edits]:

Some thoughts:

1. [Yeh] could not talk coherently.

Student: What title are we using to participate in the WHA?

Yeh: Please have self-respect... Can you speak Taiwanese? ... We must have dignity... What do you want?... Why do I need to answer your question?... I love Taiwan....

2. Not only did he NOT answer legitimate and intelligent questions, he mumbled irrelevant (We must have dignity) and offensive (Why do I need to answer citizens' questions?) gibberish.

3. He became foul-mouthed, using language[] that made me shudder.

4. Michael Turton: Afterwards he convened an instant press conference (using taxpayers' money), where he sniffled and whimpered. He never answered the question: What title are we using to participate in the WHA?

Isn't a Minister supposed to be an outstanding citizen, capable, ethical and patriotic? Why is this Minister incoherent, evil, and openly selling out his country?

Take a look at the 5-minute video, with no edits, and see everything the pro-blue media left out:


5:01 YouTube video: "葉金川失控飆罵愛國學生 保證一刀未剪完整版"
Translation: Yeh Ching-chuan loses control, unleashes a whirlwind of abusive
language when confronted by patriotic students: the complete, uncensored version

I hereby declare Huang Hai-ning a National Treasure!

The same footage can be seen here with Hanzi subtitles added and a discussion by the Talking Show (大話新聞) panel:


10:36 YouTube video: "09-05/19 SET-大話新聞( DaHwa News)14/6"
Translation: May 19, 2009, SET Talking Show, part 6 of 14 [of that evening's show]
If anybody finds a version with English subtitles, let me know so I can share it with readers who might not understand the Mandarin and Taiwanese in the ones above.

FURTHER READING:
* In today's Taipei Times, Yeh's 'heckler' shares her story

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Supermodels and douchebags: Taiwan, 台灣, Huang Hai-ning, 黃海寧, World Health Organization, 世界衛生組織, World Health Assembly, 世界衛生大會, Yeh Ching-chuan, 葉金川, Ma Ying-jeou, 馬英九, Memorandum of Understanding, 備忘錄, MOU

Cross-posted at It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!

Ma Ying-jeou's spokesman deviates from truth again

... or should I say "is still doing so"?

Answering a question from an Associated Press reporter about a 2005 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the World Health Organization (WHO) and the People's Republic of China (PRC), Ma Ying-jeou's (馬英九) spokesman Wang Yu-chi (王郁琦) had this to say (paraphrased here in the pro-unification China Times [中國時報], translation mine):

是否有這份備忘錄，從未獲得證實 [...]

The existence of this MOU hasn't yet been confirmed.

For them to not know about this MOU could only be the result of pure willful ignorance.

Read this, and know more than they (say they) do
The Formosan Association for Public Affairs (FAPA) has posted the text of a WHO document titled "Implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the WHO Secretariat and China" online where the whole world (except for the Ma administration?) can read it. The document refers to Taiwan by the bizarre name of "Taiwan, China." Since the MOU was signed with the PRC, it doesn't require logical superpowers to deduce that they don't mean "Taiwan, ROC."

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Click thumbnails to enlarge
(I've re-uploaded the pages to a
server separate from FAPA's)
CleverClaire has links to several documents hosted on Google Docs which are related to the Ma administration's belittling of Taiwan's sovereignty, including a text-based version of the one linked in image form above. That document contains this:

7. Participation by Taiwanese medical and public health experts in technical activities is subject to the following conditions:

* The experts shall participate in their personal capacity. When designations are used (e.g. on conference badges or list of participants), reference shall be made to "Taiwan, China";

Then-PRC Minister of Health Gao Qiang (高強) also discussed the existence of the MOU in the Chinese media and elsewhere in May 2005. "Unconfirmed"? 才怪!

And, wait just a minute! Didn't Ma's Minister of Health, Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川), claim that they "broke through" the "Taiwan, China" formula of the MOU? [alt. link] Sounds to me an awful lot like they did know.

Truly, madly...
Really -- can the Ma administration be trusted about anything, much less with Taiwan's sovereignty?

Ma Ying-jeou has changed the status quo. Why isn't the US State Department raising a stink? Oh, that's right. All that stuff about the previous president's "changing" of the status quo was but a ruse.

FURTHER READING:
* Check out Jerome F. Keating, PhD's latest: "Dumb and Dumber, the Naming of Chinese Taipei and its Acceptance."

* An article in today's Taipei Times reveals contradictions between the statements of Minister of Health Yeh and WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham.

* Michael Turton has a discussion of swine flu, er, H1N1, uh, swine flu "fever" with news of a new test kit developed in Taiwan and links to related discussions by CFR and Bruce Jacobs. My wife has also scoured local pharmacies and been unable to purchase protective masks at any of them. The much higher-priced ones that can be found in convenience stores are the only ones that seem to be currently available.

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Temporary participants: Taiwan, 台灣, World Health Organization, 世界衛生組織, Memorandum of Understanding, 備忘錄, MOU, People's Republic of China, 中華人民共和國, PRC, 中共, Formosan Association for Public Affairs, 台灣人公共事務會, FAPA

Cross-posted at It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!