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VOA Chinese, Oct 21, 2011
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... ment-132345568.html
(*美：台海歧异和平解决* 针对马英九以公投推动和平协议的说法，美国官方重申既定立场，没有特别评论。台湾中央社星期四报导说，美国国务院发言人表示，美国基于三个联合公报及台湾关系法的一个中国政策没有改变。美国欢迎近来两岸关系的改善，反对台海任一方采取片面行动改变现状。美国认为台海议题必须在两岸人民同意之下，以和平方式来解决")
My comment:
(a) I was utterly confused by this "国务院发言人," for I can not find it anywhere in the web site of the US Department of State, particularly Daily Press Briefings of the entire week (Oct 17 Monday- Oct 21 Friday, which is yesterday).
(b) The same happened a few days ago:
曹郁芬, 馬拋公投決定說 美方事前不知. Liberty Times, Oct 20, 2011
http://www.libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/oct/21/today-fo1-4.htm
("台灣總統馬英九拋出兩岸和平協議議題並且要先公投決定，美國國務院在聲明中表示，美國根據三公報和台灣關係法的一個中國政策沒有變，美國歡迎兩岸關係最近的改善，反對兩岸任何一方採取片面行動改變現狀，相信台海議題必須以兩岸人民都能接受的方式和平解決")
At the time, I could not--and still can not--find such a declaration.
In the home page of Department of State, the tap "MEDIA CENTER" at the top horizontal bar contains a menu: besides Daily Press Briefings, there is Press Releases and Special Briefings. With regard to Taiwan at least, US rarely uses the latter tool. The only occasion I can recall is that in the midst of acrimonious words of war between Chen (Shui-bian) and Bush administrations, Chen's Secretary General 總統府秘書長 Mark CHEN Tang-shan 陳唐山（in office: Mar 27-May 20, 2008) talked about abolition of 國家統一委員會 (abbreviation: 國統會) on or about Feb 28, 2006, Department of state did issue a clarification.
(c) Going back to (a). Unlike the Liberty Times (in (b)), the VOA report does cite 中央社, which explains a lot.
廖漢原, 國務院重申 台海問題和平解決. 中央社, Oct 20, 2011
http://www2.cna.com.tw/ShowNews/ ... aOPL&pTypeSel=0
Quote:
"美國國務院發言人向中央社表示
"美方並未對馬總統首度提出以公投方式決定是否推動和平協議，多做評論。
Apparently State Department spokesman made the case to Central News Agency 中央社--and presumably the same to Liberty Times, individually or together.
----------------------------------Separately
(1) 吴敦义: 和平协议须有过半民意支持. VOA Chinese, Oct 21, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... POLL-132300928.html
(2) 美禁俄官员入境，俄对美开出黑名单. VOA Chinese, Oct 22, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/n ... a-US-132373108.html
Note: Moscow Takes Action on US ‘Magnitsky Blacklist.’ Voice of Russua, Oct 22, 2011
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/10/22/59168075.html
Both the officialdom and media in both natuions use blacklist or list--not persona non grata, the legal term used in diplomacy.
(3) 后卡扎菲时代的中利关系. VOA Chinese, Oct 21, 2011.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20111021-libya-132341138.html
(4) 北约维和部队与科索沃塞族人对峙. BBC Chinese, Oct 22, 2011.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ovo_serb_nato.shtml
(5) “福岛英雄”获西班牙皇太子奖. BBC Chinese, Oct 22, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... ain_fukushima.shtml
("五名东京消防厅、日本警察厅和陆上自卫队的代表前赴领奖")
Note:
(a) 福岛英雄们 'Heroes of Fukushima'
(b) Prince of Asturias Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias_Awards
(annual prizes awarded in Spain by the Prince of Asturias Foundation; The awards are presented in Oviedo, the capital of the Principality of Asturias, at a ceremony presided by Felipe, Prince of Asturias; section 1 Categories: the 2011 Concord award to "Fukushima 50")
(i) Prince of Asturias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Asturias
(1388- ; The current Prince of Asturias has instituted the Prince of Asturias Awards [in 1980]; modelled after that of Prince of Wales in English kingdom)
Quote: "The title was to belong to the official successor of the Castilian throne. Thus the first Prince and Princess of Asturias were the young Henry of Castile and Catherine of Lancaster [in 1388]. In the first years the title was not only honorary, as it included the ownership of the territory of Asturias; the Prince ruled the Principality in representation of the King and was able to appoint judges, mayors, etc. This was changed by the Catholic Monarchs, who limited the scope of the title making it merely honorary
(ii) Ferdinand and Isabella
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_and_Isabella
(Catholic Monarchs; Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon[, who] were second cousins, being both descended from John I of Castile; they were given a papal dispensation to deal with consanguinity by Sixtus IV; Their marriage [in 1469] united both crowns; The title of "Catholic King and Queen" was bestowed on them by the Pope Alexander VI in 1496, for defending Catholic dogmas within their realms; started Spanish Inquisition (1480-1834); expulsion of non-Christians (moors and Jews); exploration by Christopher Columbus in 1492; Isabella died in 1504; Ferdinand remarried Germaine of Foix--he died in 1516)
* dispensation (n): "an exemption from a law or from an impediment, vow, or oath"
www.m-w.com
(iii) Asturia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturias
(The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages; Section 1 History: In the Mesolithic period 中石器時代, a native culture developed, that of the Asturiense)
(iv) Fukushima 50
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_50
(the alias given by the media to a group of employees at the crippled Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant; these 50 employees remained on-site after 750 other workers were evacuated; Japanese at the site swelled to 580 on Mar 18 and more than 1,000 on Mar 23, 2011)
(6) 委内瑞拉总统前私人医生逃亡海外. BBC Chinese, Oct 22, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... cancer_doctor.shtml
("纳瓦雷特在10年前曾为查韦斯进行治疗，并与查韦斯的家人和医疗队伍有联系。这位医生上周在一个杂志访问中说，他从查韦斯的家人口中得知查韦斯的骨盆部位长了一个恶性肿瘤，预言他活不过两年")
Note:
(a) Dr Salvador Navarrete said Pres Hugo Chavez had a "sarcoma" which is translated as 肉瘤 in Taiwan, whereas carcinoma is 腺癌.
(b) Spanish--Basque in fact--surnames Navarrete and Navarro refer to places with the name Navarrete in Basque Country; "nafarrete" in Basque language means "plateau between two small valleys." The Spanish noun "nava" is a ‘treeless plateau.’
(c) cancer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer
(Cancers are classified by the type of cell that the tumor resembles and is therefore presumed to be the origin of the tumor. These types include carcinoma, sarcoma, lymphoma and leukemia, germ cell tumor and blastoma)
Quote: "Carcinoma [is a] cancer[] derived from epithelial cells. This group includes many of the most common cancers, particularly in the aged, and include nearly all those developing in the breast, prostate, lung, pancreas, and colon. Sarcoma [is a] cancer[] arising from connective tissue (i.e. bone, cartilage, fat, nerve), each of which develop from cells originating in mesenchymal cells."
* mesenchyme (n: German Mesenchym, from mes- + New Latin -enchyma; First Known Use: 1888)
* mes- (combining form; Latin, from Greek mesos):
"1: mid : in the middle <mesocarp>
2: intermediate (as in size or type) <mesomorph> <meson>"
* -enchyma (noun combining form; New Latin, from parenchyma): "cellular tissue <collenchyma>"
(7) 中国媒体评卡扎菲之死政治意义. BBC Chinese, Oct 21, 2011
http://www.bbc.co.uk/zhongwen/si ... 1_china_media.shtml
(8) No Missile Defense Cooperation Without Guarantees – Lavrov. RIA Novosti, Oct 21, 2011
http://en.ria.ru/world/20111021/167965072.html
("Moscow will not cooperate with NATO on a joint European missile defense network until it receives legally binding guarantees that this network will not be targeted against Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday")
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