That is the good thing with democracy.
It allows those with better ideas and capabilities
to rise up to serve the people.
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Not at all. He is not pro-DPP or pro-KMT. Most of his articles focused
on Taiwan politics, I dont think any of his articles have been
translated into English.
On Jul 21, 2:00 pm, bmo...@nyx.net wrote:> On Jul 20, 3:08 am, "abianc...@
my-deja.com"
my-deja.com>
> wrote:
>>> Yep, read the following news (in Chinese), that's what Nan Fangshou
>> was talking about Taiwan politics, what a mess!
>
>
>> Nan Fangshou is one of most famous political critic in Taiwan.
>
> Is he controversial in Taiwan? Or do most people in Taiwan consider
> him to be speaking the truth?
>
> Also, do you know if any of his writings are translated into English?
>
>
>
>> On Jul 18, 3:42 am, baldeagle
yahoo.com.sg> wrote:>
>>> Nan Fangshou, a prominent Taiwanese was in Singapore recently as a
>>> speaker at a forum organised by a Chinese newspaper. Some of his
>>> comments are translated and reproduced below:
>
>>> -- Democracy may be a very good thing...but there is a severe price to
>>> be paid.
>
>>> -- Popular politics could only bear bitter fruits. Chen did not
>>> start being bad. He turned bad after 2003..Taiwan politics(democracy)
>>> was then in shambles.
>
>>> -- The start of irresponsible speech (freedom of speech) began from
>>> magazines..it spread to the press and TV. In Taiwan, the stronger the
>>> language, the more popular it is. In the end, nobody can tell who is
>>> right and who is wrong...what is right and what is wrong.
>
>>> -- Leadership is no longer about leading...it is about pandering to
>>> popular and loudest views. Mr. Chen was a master at it. There was no
>>> moral integrity.
>
>>> -- Good leaders were concerned about the suffering of the people. Mr
>>> Lee TH and Chen SB did not seem to feel anything for the people. They
>>> did not care if the people were hit by flood, typhoon or earthquake.
>>> Instead, they were concerned about issues that they could make them
>>> popular and make good money.
>
>>> -- Under democracy, Taiwanese are left to fend for themselves. So life
>>> was hard..many with low income have hardly enough to eat....thousands
>>> are jobless. Why?
>>> " You are not competitive enough, you deserve it" This was the
>>> explanation given by Chen for their hard life. No help for the poor.
>>> (In Singapore, the poor suffer the same hard life and our leaders
>>> are equally UNCARING...no help for the poor Singaporean).
>
>>> -- In Taiwan, politics become perverted and the norms of judgement
>>> become perverted,
>
>>> The US have only praises for Taiwan for adopting this liberal
>>> democracy. The USA want to shaft such uncaring democracy down the
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