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US to cut VOA broadcasts in Chinese

Taipei Times

Voice of America (VOA) plans to end all radio and TV broadcasts in Mandarin and Cantonese starting in October amid a budget cut plan announced by US President Barack Obama, reports said yesterday.

The decision is highly controversial and has already engendered some strong reactions among China watchers.

“Shocking and idiotic,” said Arthur Waldron, professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on China.

‘Carrier killer’ won’t stop US: admiral

Taipei Times

A new “carrier killer” missile that has become a symbol of China’s rising military might will not force the US Navy to change the way it operates in the Pacific, a senior Navy commander said.

Defense analysts say the Dong Feng 21D missile could upend the balance of power in Asia, where US aircraft carrier battle groups have ruled the waves since the end of World War II.

However, Vice Admiral Scott van Buskirk, commander of the US 7th Fleet, said that the Navy does not see the much-feared weapon as creating any insurmountable vulnerability for the US carriers — the Navy’s crown jewels.

American movie about Taiwan’s struggle for democracy is being filmed in Taiwan

Michael Richardson

ADVANCE MOVIE TRAILER

A Los Angeles film crew from Gatling Pictures is in Taiwan filming a documentary about the long struggle for democracy on the island. The movie is to be titled Tsua-Lei-Dan and will examine Taiwan’s uncertain place in the world.

The Taiwan documentary is only the second production of Gatling Pictures, a new company founded in 2009 by Jeff Broadway. Broadway interned at 20th Century Fox where he learned his movie-making skills. The independent producer is a post-graduate student at the London School of Economics.

Open letter to the DPP chair Tsai Ing-wen

Central Taiwan Society 台灣中社

Dear Chairperson Tsai,

Just before the Lunar New Year break, the Philippine authorities took it upon themselves to extradite 14 Taiwanese suspected of criminal activities in their country to China, disregarding Taiwanese sovereignty. The move was widely seen as showing a lack of respect to our country. It was also a turn of events that enraged a lot of people here in Taiwan.

We believe that this was not simply a result of the Philippines’ adherence to the “one China” policy. We feel that it reveals something decidedly more sinister happening stage left. We suggest that Beijing had a hand in writing the script of this particular play, a collaborative effort with President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the government he heads. How does the expression go? Thick as thieves.

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