TW Tycoon Wants Quick Unification

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(1) Andrew Higgins, Tycoon Prods Taiwan Closer to China. Washington Post, Jan 21, 2012
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wo ... QAhswmFQ_story.html

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Tsai Eng Meng of Want Want Group and Taiwan’s third-richest person "says he can’t wait for Taiwan’s merger with China.

"When China Times, a leading Taiwan newspaper Tsai purchased in 2008, published an article that described China’s top negotiator on Taiwan as 'third rate,' the editor was promptly fired. * * * Journalists, said the tycoon in an interview in a Taipei hotel that he also owns, are free to criticize but 'need to think carefully before they write' and avoid 'insults' that cause offense. The dismissed editor, he said, was a talented writer but 'hurt me by offending people, not just mainlanders. On lots of things people were offended.'

"Tsai said he, too, used to fear China’s ruling Communist Party * * * but that changed after the 1989 military assault on student protesters in Tiananmen Square. While the crackdown outraged most in Taiwan, Tsai said he was struck by footage of a lone protester standing in front of a People’s Liberation Army tank. The fact that the man wasn’t killed, he said, showed that reports of a bloody massacre were not true

"His corporate jet is painted bright red.

Wuerkaixi "said he used to regularly get asked to write columns in China Times but not anymore.

"When a provincial Communist Party boss traveled to Taiwan from China in 2010, he got an effusive greeting from Tsai on the front page: 'On behalf of colleagues at Want Want, I welcome the Hubei Province (Party) Committee Secretary.' The Chinese official, who visited CtiTV, a cable channel owned by Tsai, was invited to 'give guidance.'

(2)
(a) Hon Hai's Gou urges Ma to remain decisive. China Post (Taipei), Jan 16, 2012.
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiw ... 329141/Hon-Hais.htm
(b) Robin Kwong, Terry Gou: Managing “1m Animals.” Financial Times, Jan 20, 2012 (blog)
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics ... -1-million-animals/

(3) Chou Yung-chieh and Elizabeth Hsu. US Scholar Surprised by Taiwan Solidarity Union's Vote Gain. CNA, Jan 21, 2012
http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/W ... amp;ID=201201210013