台湾：从未要求波兰媒体撤回太阳花报道

choi

BBC Chinese, Apr 6, 2014.
www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/simp/chin ... and_sunflower.shtml

My comment:
(a) The only English-language news report I can find is the following:

LOA Iok-sin 賴 昱伸, Polish Media Asked to Retract Siege Reporting. Taipei Times, Apr 6, 2014.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/04/06/2003587381

Quote:

"Having published a series of reports on the occupation of the legislature, the Polish media group Niezalezna — which owns several print and online news outlets in Poland, including the daily Gazeta Polska Codziennie, the weekly Gazeta Polska and the monthly Nowe Panstwo — received a letter from the Taipei Economic and Cultural Bureau in Poland

"Hanna Shen, the reporter for the media group who wroted [sic] the story * * * said she was shocked when she received the letter. 'My newspaper has been publishing articles very critical of the governments of Russia, China and the former Ukrainian government, but we never received any letter from the representative offices of those countries asking us to retract anything,' she told the Taipei Times in a telephone interview in English.

(b) The newspaper does not have follow-up report today ( a day later), which usually publishes reports of the next day by the 11 am--US Eastern (Standard or Daylight-saving) Time--of that day (due to the fact that Taiwan's time is a half day ahead that of US).
(c) Usually, a ONLINE report of this newspaper is read by hundreds of people a day (there is a counter at the bottom of the Web page). As of now (2:30 pm EDT, Sunday, Apr 6, 2014), however: "This story has been viewed 50237 times."
(d) Google the news media group, and I can find no return in English about it *certainly no Wiki page). There is a Polish-language Wiki page for the group, which looks like it was founded in the second half of 2000s (online only?). Here is its website, in Polish ONLY (no English switch): Niezalezna

niezalezna.pl

choi

(1) Alison Hsiao and Loa Iok-sin, Wang Vows Monitoring Law Before Pact. Taipei Times, Apr 7, 2014.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/04/07/2003587457

My comment:
(a) View the photo only.
(b) Just like the protest in Tiananmen Square in 1989, political factions in Taiwan are maneuvering around the protest there.
(c) Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng = 立法院院長 王金平

(2) Alison Hsiao, KMT Is ‘Shocked,’ Does Not Endorse Wang’s Promise. Taipei Times, Apr 7, 2014.
www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2014/04/07/2003587458

My comment: There is no need to read the text. Viewing the title is enough.


(3) 海峡论谈:王金平出招！学运收场露曙光还是九月政争回马枪?  VOA Chinese, Apr 6, 2014.
www.voachinese.com/content/strai ... 140406/1887479.html

Quote:

"老谋深算的台湾立法院长王金平 [a political rival of Ma Ying-jeou at least since both running for KMT chairmanship in 2005 when Lian Chan stepped down after losing two presidential elections, both against Chen Shui-bian] 在沉默了20天之后终于谋定而后动，决定出招，而且下手快、 狠、准，在星期天 [11am local time] 出人意外地前往立法院探视占领立法院议场的学生 [for the first time since the Sunflower Protest started: both visiting--and entering--the Legislature AND speaking out about the protest]，王金平除了对学生们发出温情呼唤，要孩子们 '早点回家，' 也承诺在两岸协议监督条例完成 立法前 '不会召开服贸协议相关的党团协商会议。'

"至于马英九总统，虽然对王金平到立法院探视学生表示肯定，但总统府方面表示，事前并不知道王 金平声明的内容 * * * 而国民党团 [press conference at 1:30 pm local time, attended by three including 林 and 費] 则是对王金平的声明感到震惊 [國民黨政策委員會執行長林鴻池: 「非常錯愕」]，还 [國民黨團首席副書記長/立委 費鴻泰: 「感覺整個黨被出賣」, 「強烈被出賣的感覺」] 批评王金平出卖了国民党。

"华盛顿国际文化社社长陈咏智则以美国的法条和经验为例，表示领导人处理学生运动应该更为果 断。他说，1989年六四天安门事件中，最大的症结也是赵紫阳没有在五月以前和学生对话，如果领导人亲自与学生对话，可能矛盾早就已经解决，不会酿成后来 的悲剧，领导人如何处理学运，在历史上的评价究竟变成英雄还是狗熊，端看领导人当下的果断与智慧。

Note: 华盛顿国际文化社社长陈咏智
(a) Google his name in simplified Chinese and the returns are mostly in traditional Chinese ("旅美詩人陳詠智"), but occasionally in simplified Chinese ("资深音乐家陈咏智").

(b) His linked-in profile:

Wing Chi Chan
www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Wing-chi/Chan
"President at Washington Cultural International, Inc
Washington DC Metro Area | Performing Arts

Current: Adjunct Professor of Music at Green Mountain College, President at Washington Cultural International, Inc.
Past: Vice President at Washington Symphony Orchestra, Director of Development at Washington, DC Youth Orchestra, Consultant at National Endowment fo...
Education: University of Amsterdam, Northern Illinois University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong


(4) 陳蜀強, 王金平拋不協商 藍營震驚批出賣 　王表態挺生訴求 府黨傻眼不知情 　20藍委陪王唸聲明 林鴻池感錯愕. 台視新聞, Apr 6, 2014.
www.ttv.com.tw/103/04/1030406/10304064957103L.htm

Note:
(a) 洪秀柱 (1948- ; 原籍在浙江省餘姚，生於中華民國台北縣; KMT; 立法院副院長 2012- )  Chinese Wiki
(b)  民進黨總召 [集人] 柯建銘:  總召集人 is translated "caucus head"--in Taiwan political terminology: the head of DPP legislators
(c) 院際協商: an informal meeting between executive and legislative branches 院, presided by president (as opposed to a meeting of the three as KMT members, an old practice which KMT, whose credo had been 以黨領政, stopped decades ago when criticized).

(5) 海峡论谈:学运后浪推前浪，专家评台港学运. VOA Chinese, Apr 6, 2014
www.voachinese.com/content/strai ... 140406/1887488.html
("台湾文化部长龙应台说，太阳花从行动层面来看，在组织、分工和国际宣传上令人叹为观止，可以说是台湾60年来一波又一波的运动累积之后沉淀下来的 '成果展。' 不过龙应台也批评这些占领立法院的学生在思想层面上非常薄弱，充满了矛盾和没有想透的东西，包括以破坏法治的方式来号称支持民主")

My comment: Ms Lung Yingtai is Ma's protege.