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  • All right

  • Welcome to a first trial test of the dot TW report

  • Now today originally we were going to record Current Affairs Taiwan, but Michael Turtin couldn't make it today

  • And so I thought I'd test this out and give it a run now if this works out

  • Well the idea is to do about a ten minute or so report a few times a week

  • Now it will be a little bit different than say an ICRT report

  • Which of course covers all the news in a very quick format. This is focused entirely on politics and foreign affairs

  • Things like that, and it's a little bit more about why certain things

  • jumped out or are important so the idea is to give a little bit of context and a little bit of

  • So you can get a little bit more of a sense of what goes into

  • Our thinking when we do current affairs Taiwan on Sunday evenings, I'm sorry Monday

  • Now all of this content you can follow on our website

  • tiled the Taiwan report website which is report dot

  • TW (Report.tw) so, you can check it out

  • You can check out all these articles you can

  • Double check and you know follow up and get a little bit more depth than content if you like

  • Alright, so I'm gonna start with some of the sillier news from today

  • The this is a Taiwan News report, which I pulled some there's actually a longer more in-depth

  • CNA one that came out later

  • But I went with the Taiwan news one because they tend to be the fastest and they were in this case

  • Now the this is a Chinese promoters

  • There's a YouTube video video put up by Potter King

  • now this is pretty funny because he got Tsai Ing-wen to show up there at their studio and

  • he decided to flirt with the

  • President Tsai Ing-wen so the video was titled first person in the world

  • to flirt with a president that was posted up on Saturday and

  • It was I saw little bits of it on on the TV news and it looked like it was funny and kind of cute

  • Tsai kind of dealt with it very well. You know, she bantered with them and it was a little bit of fun

  • however

  • China which has

  • providing them with some funding

  • Company in China Chinese promoter I should say

  • asked them to delete the video because it said

  • They use the term president

  • Now Potter King has said there's absolutely no way that they will do so and they will not

  • They will basically the money isn't that important to them

  • So let's move on

  • All right, this is the love Ferris wheel now if you remember if you remember going way back

  • During the campaign for Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu came up with several ideas

  • some of which were not

  • Exactly realistic this one however, technically probably could happen

  • now the idea was is that there would be a very large ferris wheel looking over the Love River and

  • But instead of just like a little normal like your normal ferris wheel

  • Each of the carriages would essentially be a like a little love motel room. So

  • That people could be like a little hotel

  • And then there would be a shopping complex. Now. It turned out that they didn't really have a good site for this

  • near the Love River but what they did have is some other areas around however as

  • the Taipei Times reported not a single investor has expressed an interest in

  • Developing the old port zone at the port of Kaohsiung

  • one of the locations considered by the Kaohsiung city government to implement its love ferris wheel and

  • shopping mall project

  • Now

  • the

  • The mayor then went on and blamed them

  • So the sorry, let's see here the city accused of not cooperating

  • This is the ports company in implementing the project and threatened to raise the percentage of funds

  • It would receive from the development of pier 21 from 42 to 50 percent, you know in order to put the screws on

  • No, that's not the only person that Mayor Han Kuo-yu blamed he also blamed Lin Chia-lung

  • saying that and then here's some headlines from local Chinese language sources our

  • transportation Bureau blocking love Motel ferris wheel Lin Chia-lung spits back

  • excuse and in Fount media because of the

  • quote love motel ferris wheel hand slams

  • Transportation Bureau Lin Chia-lung Don't pass the buck to others because political promised check

  • bounced

  • Alright there's some polling, you know, which I didn't see in the English press so I put together something here for you on

  • Report.TW

  • local Taiwan media poll shows Su Tseng-chang's

  • Cabinet hits new highs and Langella long sweeps the top spots

  • So according to a Taiwan Brain Trust Poll

  • the executive UN cabinet headed by Su Tseng-chang has hit a new high in popularity with

  • 48.7% expressing satisfaction and

  • 35.5%

  • dissatisfied now of his various ministers Lin Chia-lung and his Ministry of Transportation

  • Came out tops in all three categories polled public visibility

  • 45.7 so people know who he is their satisfaction with him at forty nine point three and Ministry of Transportation

  • That's his department. The satisfaction was fourteen point seven, which put it ahead of every other of

  • Every other one mostly people don't really know what they think of most of these

  • ministries or the details

  • All right, here's a quick one, I'm gonna go over Focus Taiwan

  • Taiwan US companies to ink pact on f-16 maintenance center

  • alright, so this is important because

  • Now this is here. Let's take a look at this Taiwan's state-owned Aerospace Industrial Development Corp

  • AIDC and US defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp are to sign a strategic partnership agreement

  • Tuesday to promote the establishment of an F-16 fighter jet maintenance center in Taiwan according to AIDC

  • No this may I'm not a defense analyst so I'm not really sure but this seems to me like this would be a good way

  • both to get engineers in Taiwan AIDC up to speed on

  • certain parts maintenance

  • And so on and so forth on

  • F-16 but in fighter jets in general this also may be a way that the US

  • May be helping to funnel some technology to a AIDC. Now AIDC is developing

  • They're the ones who did the previous

  • the indigenous fighters and

  • They are working right now on building a new set of trainer jets

  • For the Taiwan Air Force now, I don't know for sure if there's gonna be any technology transfer, but it's definitely a possibility

  • and of course because you know the United States would get a lot of objections from China if they openly did a

  • Technology transfer this may be a very subtle way of going about it

  • now, it's going to be set up in the Shalu District of

  • Taichung there's another remote possibility that comes from this and that is that if there's an emergency with an F-16

  • the

  • U.S. F-16 and they're in the area they could land at Taichung CCK Airport Air Force Base and then

  • This would be just nearby

  • So, all right. Those are just a few that I've picked out for today. I've got some more coming tomorrow, which I'll go over

  • But very quickly before I go take a look

  • the the report is linked to here on our site the

  • the Committee to Protect

  • Journalists has come out with a very long report

  • Called one country one sensor how China undermines media freedom in Hong Kong and Taiwan

  • Take a look at it. I may go into it a little bit tomorrow

  • but for

  • Now you have access to the whole thing

  • But just very quickly here take a look at some of the things here Taiwan faces a dilemma

  • how does it maintain its openness and press freedom while facing an adversary that has vast resources and

  • Technological prowess and lacks the values that have made Taiwan a democracy

  • based on CPG reporting Taiwan does not have a clear answer as

  • This report documents China's influence over local local legacy and social media has grown

  • That influence has become potentially more worrisome as general elections on January 11th, 2020 approach

  • Reflecting fears that China is intervening surreptitiously

  • To sway the outcome

  • Now facing potential threats Taiwan has employed a patchwork of legal and regulatory

  • Approaches to punish media for inaccurate reporting or distortions while experimenting with other methods of fighting lies with truth

  • Anyway, the report goes into considerable depth talks a lot about the Want Want Group and so on and so forth

  • But I think I'm gonna leave it there. We've hit the ten-minute mark, so hopefully you'll get more of these in future

All right

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臺灣報道 12.16.2019,調侃總統,愛河愛情旅館,內閣,F-16戰機,自由媒體。 (Taiwan Report 12.16.2019, flirting with president, Love River love motel, cabinet, F-16s, free press)

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