Lai Ching-teh’s “Taiwan Independence” Remarks
Beach landing exercise
This is China’s airspace
Only option left
Pingtan strait bridge
12-26-20 China’s first combined highway and railway cross-sea bridge, the Pingtan strait bridge, comes into use on Sat, after 7 years of construction overcoming obstacles including weather, hydrology and geology, ending the lack of railways on Pingtan island in E China’s Fujian Province.
Don’t say you have not been forewarned
“People on either side of the Taiwan Straits are not willing to go to war. But if one day war breaks out, #Taiwan secessionists would be the chief criminal,” and “Don’t say you have not been forewarned,” reads an article published by People’s Daily.
Kushner Owed Money To Bank Tied To Taiwan’s Government During WH Tenure
Jared Kushner owed money to a bank with ties to Taiwan’s government while working at the White House, according to a new book by Forbes’ senior editor Dan Alexander, White House, Inc., signaling a possible conflict that was never reported due to a loophole in disclosure laws and one that could have implications for the country’s diplomatic relationships with Taiwan and China.
Kushner and his partners bought an old warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, called the Austin Nichols House in 2015 for a reported $275 million and turned it into a luxury condo building.
The deal came witha $175 million mortgage on the property held by Kushner and his partners; a 2017 split left a bank called Mega International Commercial Bank 兆丰银行 with $50 million of the loan, according to financial documents reviewed by Alexander.
The loan documents specifically name Kushner as one of the two guarantors of the debt.
丁怡铭9月23日回应掩饰这是“公开借贷”，搪塞“不是什么密帐或利益交换，这本书的作者可能搞错了”。对此，曾任台湾“金管会”“主委”的国民党“立委”曾铭宗质疑兆丰银行为何后来突然承接贷款，提出三个疑点。
曾铭宗质问：“兆丰是上市金融机构，基于公司管理及对投资人的保护，应该说清楚三点疑虑。首先，这笔贷款早在2015年5月开始，为何一开始没参贷的兆丰，2年后突然承接贷款。其次，总贷款金额为1.75亿美元，兆丰就参贷了5000万美元，贷款比例相对很高，这与过往参与国际联贷的惯例是否有差距？再者，看起来库什纳应该是以企业方式贷款，兆丰在参贷时，是否知情库什纳在这家公司的持股比例。”
据知情人士表示，库什纳在借贷公司持股极可能连5%都不到，“蓝委”赖士葆也质疑，这笔巨额借贷是否有经过兆丰银行董事会决议、利息有多少、有无吃亏等？兆丰银行都应作出说明。“桌面下还有多少金钱交易？！”岛内民众痛斥：“这贷款是由兆丰银行借出的，兆丰银行不吭声，却由民进党当局行政机构出面，不打自招！贷款是政治决定的！台湾民众的存款是给民进党做公关的！”
Ryukyu Scops-owl
The Ryūkyū scops-owl or elegant scops-owl (Otus elegans) is a small rufous-brown owl with a brown face disk and a cinnamon facial ruff. The bill is olive-grey and it has yellow eyes.
It is found on the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, on Lanyu Island off south-east Taiwan, and on the Batanes and Babuyan Islands off northern Luzon, Philippines, in tropical or subtropical evergreen forest. It is becoming rare due to habitat loss.
Taiwan’s OTT-TV ban politicizes cultural interactions with the mainland
The economic affairs authority of Taiwan launched a new rule targeting technology giants iQIYI and Tencent from carrying out “illegal operations” in Taiwan without an official license, which experts said is a move that reflects Taiwan Democratic Progressive Party’s desire to follow in the US footsteps and create problems via political manipulation in an attempt to diverge from the mainland.
The authority has given OTT-TV 14 days notice, after which the plan will be officially announced on September 3, according to a statement by the Taiwanese economic affairs authorities on Tuesday.
An OTT media service is a streaming media service offered directly to viewers via the internet, meaning it bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms, and therefore any local controls too.
In July this year, the Taiwan communications authorities adopted draft measures on the management of internet audio-visual services to cater to OTT service providers both in and outside the region. Such an approach is considered an attack on OTT practitioners on the mainland, and has also been referred to as “iQIYI, Tencent terms” in Taiwan.