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Updated Sunday, November 8, 2009 11:00 am TWN, The China Post news staff

The beef war is now fought on the domestic front

No parallels can truly be drawn between Su and Ma on the one hand and the eunuch and the Empress Dowager on the other, of course. The sole purpose of the farcical diatribe is to promote an impression of Ma as an ignorant tyrant like the Empress Dowager who nonchalantly gave away chunk after chunk of territory in betrayal of Chinese national interests. Taiwan was ceded to Japan under the Treaty of Shimonseki to conclude the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95. Su is depicted as Ma's slave and running dog, just as the eunuch was to the Empress Dowager. All indications now are that the beef war between the ruling Kuomintang and the opposition will continue until December 5 when eligible voters go to the polls to elect 17 mayors and magistrates across the country.

Both parties have kicked off their respective unofficial campaigns. Official campaigning can only start two weeks before Election Day, according to the Central Election Commission. They are barnstorming now anyway.

There won't be a letup in the opposition's election campaign and smearing is the only tactic the opposition party can afford to adopt. If the war on American beef ever comes to a tie, DPP politicians have a ready substitute cause in the ongoing gambling scandal with the professional baseball league or a very recent alleged scandal involving Premier Wu Den-yih.

The baseball scandal has escalated to the point that a Japanese head coach of the Brother Elephants has been incriminated in game-fixing. Shin Nakagomi was released on bail a couple of days ago, while 16 players and bookmakers are being implicated, with at least four of them having been taken into custody for further questioning. The administration is going all-out to bail out Taiwan's ailing Chinese Professional Baseball League, which an increasingly large majority of people want to disband.

The premier, meanwhile, is in hot water because he and his wife were shown visiting the Indonesian resort island of Bali last year with a local mafia don who is now on parole after doing time for murder, gun-running, and extortion. Opposition lawmakers are demanding that President Ma force Wu to step down as premier for his intimacy with the mob in the land-locked county of Nantou. Wu was sworn in less than two months ago to take over from Liu Chao-shiuan, who quit in order to take responsibility for government incompetence in handling relief efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot.

War or no war over American beef, the Democratic Progressive Party will continue escalating the political upheaval until it wins or loses the all-important local islandwide elections.

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July 13, 2010 shepherd1777@

Just read wikipedia about the terrible sanitary conditions US cattle and poultry is raised. And at the end, they are gamma irradiated for disinfection. Do you like a steak from a cow which eat its own feces, drinks its own piss and is shining x-rays in the dark? Just stick the US flag into the meat at sale in the supermarkets and nobody will buy it. This problem solves all by itself.


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