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Formosa betrayed redux: 2010 edition

Allen Houng 洪裕宏

While President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and those who benefit from trade relations between Taiwan and China are busy promoting a proposed cross-strait economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA), there is a truth that they dare not face up to: That the real problem is the widening gap between rich and poor, accompanied by worsening class oppression.

When these economic and political beneficiaries, following the trend of economic globalization, keep traveling between China and Taiwan, what they dare not admit is that they have sold out democratic values and reneged on their promises to society.

China could ‘crash’ this year, top investor warns

Taipei Times

Investor Marc Faber said China’s economy will slow and possibly “crash” within a year as declines in stock and commodity prices signal the nation’s property bubble is set to burst.

The Shanghai Composite Index has failed to regain last year’s high while industrial commodities and shares of Australian resource exporters are acting “heavy,” Faber said. The opening of the World Expo in Shanghai last week is “not a particularly good omen,” he said, citing a property bust and depression that followed the 1873 World Exhibition in Vienna.

Taiwan needs place in the world

Nat Bellocchi 白樂崎

How to enhance the international space for Taiwan is a complex issue that needs to be addressed by the international community. Unfortunately, it is not even on the current agenda as we are preoccupied with other issues deemed more critical to international safety and security and therefore of higher priority to policymakers.

However, it is essential that we elevate this issue to a higher level of attention and that we get it right. The main problem, of course, is that after Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) was expelled from China in the late 1940s and occupied Taiwan, the US continued to recognize his regime as the legal government of China, and referred to it under the “Republic of China” moniker.

‘Formosa Betrayed’ set for Taiwan release in August

Taipei Times

Formosa Betrayed, the first US-made movie devoted to a storyline set during the White Terror era, is scheduled for theatrical release in Taiwan by Sky Digi Entertainment Co this August, the film’s producer said.

“Since before the movie was completed, thousands of fans have wondered when it would be released in Taiwan. Now, we are excited to announce that the film is scheduled to be in Taiwanese theaters beginning the weekend of August 6, 2010,” Taiwanese-American filmmaker William Tiao (刁毓能) said in an open letter issued on Friday.

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