It is the money and fake news, not democracy that works in America. This Hawaii Super PAC Is Spending Millions To Defeat One Political Opponent This Year 在美國起作用的是金錢和假新聞,而不是民主。 這個夏威夷超級政治行動委員會今年將花費數百萬擊敗一位政治對手 By Blaze Lovell
Cory Lum/Civil Beat There’s a good chance you’ve recently come across attack ads taking aim at state Rep. Sylvia Luke, who’s running for lieutenant governor.
The race is getting ugly, and it’s in large part thanks to Be Change Now, a super PAC funded by contractors who do business with the Hawaii Regional Council of Carpenters. The PAC is backing lieutenant governor candidate Ikaika Anderson and spending more than $2 million this year supporting his run.
If the name “Be Change Now” rings a bell, it’s probably because that same group helped propel Lt. Josh Green to his current position in the 2018 election.
So why pick on Luke? The ads are seen as political payback for a financial bailout package for the Honolulu Rail project that Luke helped shepherd through the Legislature.
Get the scoop on Be Change Now’s tactics and learn why Luke’s camp has called the ads misleading.
Pelosi top priority in Taiwan is not the one night stand with English Tsai but to meet with TSMC executives to blackmail them into submission 佩洛西在台灣的首要任務不是與蔡英文一夜情,而是會見台積電高管勒索他們屈服
My media friend from Taiwan said that the most important meeting in Pelosi’s schedule was not with the DPP authorities or President Tsai, but a meeting she specifically demanded with the CEO of TSMC, the leading manufacturer of the world’s most advanced semiconductors set up by Chiang Ching-Kuo and his technocrats, Sun Yun-Suan and Morris Chang, during the pinnacle of Taiwan’s economic miracle in the 1980s. TSMC is the designer and manufacturer of the super awesome M2 chips powering our iPhones and Macbooks.
US Congress has passed bills forcing TSMC to set up chip fabs in Arizona and transfer their technology to the US, even though this is very much against the wishes of TSMC management. TSMC has repeatedly said that costs in the US are too high, and there are not enough quality engineers with the skills needed in the US. But the US Commerce Department and US Congress don’t care because they are run by lawyers who are only good at issuing sanctions and threatening other countries through legislation and the power of the US military.
In short, Pelosi and the US Congress do not give a damn about Taiwan’s “democracy”. They only care that TSMC’s fabs and engineering know-how are wholesale transferred to the US and don’t ever fall in China’s hands. This was the reason behind her demand to meet TSMC’s management while she was in Taiwan.
Poor Taiwan. It is getting stripped of its TSMC crown jewel and assets by the US even before it has died.
Pelosi’s Taiwan visit* George Yeo – Singapore’s former foreign affairs minister
Extracts:
It is not in China’s interest to start a war. But ‘For the US, it is better to fight now. If you fight a year from now, China will be stronger. If you fight 10 years from now, China will be even stronger.’
When Pelosi flew into Taiwan, the US Indo-Pacific Command was all prepared for war. China was also prepared for war. The US played it very carefully. It was a provocation but it was very carefully done, so the US cannot be accused of being ‘offside!” “Biden said he doesn’t think the visit is a good idea; the Pentagon said it was a bad idea, but Nancy Pelosi is a power in her own right. As Speaker of the House, the US has to support her when she goes overseas.”
At the end, neither side wanted a war, so they contained it.
In retaliation, China announced live-fire military drills around Taiwan starting Aug 7, well after Pelosi is set to leave the region. China also halted fish and fruit imports from Taiwan, while suspending the export of natural sand to Taiwan.
Information had it what Pelosi spoke to Mark Liu, Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. TSMC, accounts for a fifth of the world’s production of latest generation chips. A US$52 billion American Chips and Science Act passed a day prior to Pelosi’s visit is designed to boost US semiconductor manufacturing for direct financial assistance to companies building chip-manufacturing plants in the US, and for advance chip-manufacturing research and workforce training.
China has to manage a new reality and exercise a degree of leadership without seeking to displace the US, which is feeling insecure.”
China will become the number one economy, the biggest market in the world and the biggest importer in the world. For many multinationals, including those in the US, China will be a more important market than their own countries.
Asean nations will increasingly look to China to drive domestic growth. Since 2009, mainland China has overtaken the US and Europe to become Asean’s largest trading partner.
Globalisation has reached its peak and the pendulum is swinging back to increasing localisation, Covid-19 has accentuated that trend.
Pelosi’s visit is not just an example of toothless brinkmanship, rather, both sides are studying their opponent’s plans and processes. China knows that if there is a war, it must face a similar menu or even a bigger menu of sanctions and actions compared to Russia.
The guess is both sides are gathering intelligence and thinking how to counter each move “the next time round”
Zhu Kun, male. Born in Xining, Qinghai in 1957, and moved to Nanjing with your mother in 1963. Now he is a member of Jiangsu Young Artists Association, a member of Nanjing Artists Association Zhu Kun, and a professional painter.
Basic Information Chinese name Zhu Kun
Country of Citizenship China
place of birth Xining, Qinghai
date of birth 1957
Profession professional painter
representative work “Autumn Rain”
He spent his youth in Qinghai, and the magnificence and magic of the plateau evoked his childhood art dream. In 1976, he entered Nanjing “July 21” University of Arts and Crafts to study, and later served as a craft designer at the Nanjing Arts and Crafts Research Institute, and a member of the art gallery of the Cultural Center. In 1989, he resigned from public office. In the same year, he entered the oil painting class of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing for further studies. After graduation, he became a freelance painter.
Zhu Kun’s oil paintings mostly express the style of the plateau in the Western Regions. His works are profound and dynamic, focusing on the sacredness and solemnity of nature and the dependence of people on it, pursuing the effect of the unity of nature and man.
In 1989, 9 oil paintings including “Meditating in Autumn Rain”, “Sakura” and “Fisherman’s Dream” were selected into the “Jiangsu Modern Oil Painting Exhibition”, and all the works were collected by Japanese collectors.
From 1992 to 1998, dozens of oil paintings, such as “The Boat Song in the South” and “Ancient Dunhuang”, were selected for exhibition in Japan, Malaysia, the United States, Hong Kong and other places, and were widely praised.
In 1993, the special edition of Beijing “Oriental Pictorial” introduced Zhu Kun’s oil paintings;
In 1995, his work “Buddhism” was selected into the “Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition” and included in the collection of “Contemporary Chinese Oil Paintings”.
In 1997, “Zhu Kun Painting Collection” was published (Jiangxi Fine Arts Publishing House);
In 1998, the “Zhu Kun Oil Painting and Sculpture Exhibition” was successfully held in Hong Kong. “Ta Kung Pao” and several other newspapers have made special reports.
Why China objects to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan – Ambassador Qin Gang Publishes an Article on The Washington Post
In response to US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s op-ed on The Washington Post entitled “Why I’m leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan”, Ambassador Qin Gang published an article entitled “Why China objects to Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan” on The Washington Post on August 4, 2022. The full text is as follows:
Taiwan has been an inseparable part of China’s territory for 1,800 years. In 1943, the leaders of China, the United States and Britain issued the Cairo Declaration, which clearly states that all territories Japan stole from the Chinese, such as Taiwan, shall be restored to China. The Potsdam Declaration of 1945 affirmed that the terms of the Cairo Declaration would be carried out. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, passed in 1971, recognized that the representatives of the government of the People’s Republic of China are the only lawful representatives of China to the United Nations.
When China and the United States established diplomatic relations on Jan. 1, 1979, the United States recognized in the joint communique with China that the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal government of China. Four decades have passed since, and the United States has long been committed to not developing official relations with Taiwan.
By order of succession, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the third-highest-ranking official in the U.S. government. Traveling in a military aircraft, Pelosi paid a high-profile “official visit to Taiwan” this week, as her office described it in her arrival statement, and was given full-protocol treatment by Taiwan’s Democratic Progressive Party authorities, who make no secret of pursuing independence in their party platform. Such a visit has openly broken America’s commitment not to develop official relations with Taiwan.
These are extremely irresponsible, provocative and dangerous moves. The one-China principle is part of the postwar international order and has become a general international consensus. As a country that thinks of itself as a champion of the “rules-based international order,” the United States should naturally abide by the one-China principle.
In the past, the United States has violated and undermined the principle by adopting the Taiwan Relations Act and the “Six Assurances” to Taiwan. And it is doing so again now in a broader attempt to unilaterally change the status quo on Taiwan and alter the postwar international order.
Fifty years ago, Henry Kissinger, who was personally involved in the negotiations for the normalization of China-U.S. relations, witnessed how the Taiwan question was properly handled on the basis of the one-China principle. Recently, he noted, “The United States should not by subterfuge or by a gradual process develop something of a ‘two-China’ solution.”
People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are Chinese. China will show the utmost sincerity and make the utmost efforts to achieve peaceful reunification, but China will not allow Taiwan to be divided from it in whatever form.
The current Taiwan authorities have rejected the facts and legal grounds that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same China, in a pursuit of independence with the help of the United States. Their tactics include trying to sever historical and cultural bonds with the mainland, erasing national identity and stoking confrontation. The United States, meanwhile, sees Taiwan as a means to contain China and has been hollowing out the one-China principle. In the past 18 months alone, the United States has made five rounds of arms sales to Taiwan.
President Biden has said many times that the United States will not change its one-China policy and does not support “Taiwan independence.” But for the “Taiwan independence” forces, Pelosi’s visit represents an exceptionally strong signal that “the U.S. is on Taiwan’s side.” This goes against the one-China principle, the three Sino-U.S. joint communiques and America’s own commitments. Moreover, the Pelosi visit will lead “Taiwan independence” forces further down a dangerous path, with peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait hanging in the balance.
Just think: If an American state were to secede from the United States and declare independence, and then some other nation provided weapons and political support for that state, would the U.S. government — or the American people — allow this to happen?
The Taiwan question is about China’s sovereignty and unity — not democracy. But it is true that Pelosi’s visit has aroused the indignation of the 1.4 billion Chinese people. If the United States truly takes democracy to heart, it should show respect for the call of the Chinese people, who constitute about one-fifth of the world population.
With both covid–19 and the Ukraine conflict growing into protracted crises, it is high time for China and the United States to strengthen cooperation and work with other countries to find solutions. Instead, some politicians choose to damage China’s core interests, either to seek the limelight or to cement their political legacy. Their actions will only erode China-U.S. relations and subject our peoples and militaries to peril.
Taiwan is one of the very few issues that might take China and the United States to conflict. Extra caution and a sense of responsibility are indispensable when it comes to Taiwan.
Video: Former Taiwan Ambassador to New Zealand: Tsai & her Gov’t sat at home watch China military exercises around the Taiwan island. US is gone, Japan said no comments. Gag orders issued suspended freedom of speech or face arrest. The former Taiwan ambassador gave an example, if a rapist has bad intentions on your beautiful daughter, as a father, should you protect your daughter, or invite the rapist to your home for dinner? What Tsai Government did is when US want to destroy Taiwan’s Crown Jewels (the beautiful daughter), the TSMC, what did Tsai Gov’t do? She said go ahead! (It is not in the video. Let’s also look at what China did when US want to destroy Huawei, China gave US the middle finger and fight like any good father protecting the beautiful daughter). The retired Taiwan ambassador also praise South Korea President went to vacation just to avoid meeting with Pelosi. Many thought he was not smart until he has the wisdom also gave Pelosi the middle finger. He knows Pelosi going there to destroy Samsung, the beautiful daughter of South Korea. If you live in Taiwan and looks at what Tsai Government is doing. There is no future for the 23 millions people there! 裴洛西亞洲行”不擇手段” 為謀求自身”歷史定位”! 與拜登”較勁”? 不惜到台灣、南韓點火! 介文汲:尹錫悅”民調”崩! 但經濟無法與中脫鉤! 蔡英文禁言論自由命警察拉人 https://rumble.com/v1espsz-us-is-gone-japan-said-no-comments.html https://www.facebook.com/100036400039778/posts/763419068214754/?d=n