本帖最后由 choi 于 1-25-2021 13:04 编辑
Edith M Lederer, Outgoing US Ambassador Says World Must End Taiwan's Exclusion. Associated Press, Jan 21, 2021.
https://apnews.com/article/beiji ... 583b28d94cb4f9c8f45
Note:
(a) "To make the point even more graphic, Ambassador Kelly Craft accompanied the tweet with a photo of herself in the UN General Assembly Hall where the island is banned. And she carried a handbag with a stuffed Taiwan bear sticking out of the top, a gift from Taiwan's representative in New York, Ambassador James Lee."
(i) 台湾美国事务委员会,简称台美会 (new name since May 2019, from 北美事務協調委員會)
駐紐約台北經濟文化辦事處長 李光章
(ii) Today is Jan 23, 2021. Thee Jan 20, 2021 (Kelly Craft's last MORNING there) tweets are still there in the official Twitter Account of US ambassador to UN.
https://twitter.com/usambun?lang=en
The above description refers to a Jan 20, 2021 tweet that says, "The time is right for nations of the world to stand as one in opposition to the PRC’s efforts to exclude & isolate Taiwan. All @UN member states should recognize the benefits of Taiwan's meaningful participation in int’l organizations & the damage done by its continued exclusion."
Click that photo to see the entirety of the photo.
(iii) In the tweet directly above the (ii), there is a video and there is transcript. The latter is available by clicking the caption "Statement by Ambassador Kelly Craft on Taiwan (via VTC) | United States..."
(iv) Regarding Craft's last tweet, located at the very top. Taiwan per se was not mentioned, but its near shows up.
(b) Formosan black bear 臺灣黑熊
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosan_black_bear
(is a subspecies of the Asiatic black bear [which 'lives in the Himalayas, in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, the Korean Peninsula, northeastern China, the Russian Far East, the Honshū 本州 and Shikoku 四国 islands of Japan, and Taiwan'])
(c) Kelly Craft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Craft
(1962- ; née Kelly Dawn Guilfoil; BA from the University of Kentucky in 1984; headed [note past tense] Kelly G [first initial of the maiden name] Knight [Knight is second husband's last name] LLC, a business advisory firm based in Lexington, Kentucky; wed [the third husband] Joe Craft in April 2016, a billionaire coal-mining executive for Alliance Resource Partners, LP [limited partnership], the third-largest coal producer in the eastern United States; US ambassador to Canada 2017-2019; became UN ambassador on Sept 10, 2019 -- predecessor: Nikki Haley)
(d) There is no such report in VOAChinese.com, Radio Free China, BBC, 法广 or 德国之声.
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