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Updated Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:47 am TWN, The China Post news staff

Fired GIO officer Kuo returns to Taipei today

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Kuo Kuan-ying, fired as public information officer at Toronto for calling himself a "superior out-of-province" man, is returning to Taipei as he has promised.

In an interview with TVBS cable TV network, Kuo said he will appeal for invalidation of his dismissal as first secretary for public information at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office at Toronto, Ontario.

A TVBS correspondent was able to speak to Kuo at Vancouver in transit from Toronto to Taipei. Kuo is expected to arrive at Taoyuan International Airport this morning.

Asked if he is going to visit the Government Information Office, Kuo said,"What GIO? What is it? Tell me what the GIO is. I don't know. Why should I visit it?"

But Kuo, alias Fan Lanqin, promised to continue writing for his own blog.

Though he said he isn't visiting the GIO, Kuo may have to.

The GIO is looking into another controversy Kuo has just raised.

Fan Lanqin, which literally means "Pan-Blue Respectable," is the pen name he used to write articles insulting native-born islanders of the nominally existing province of Taiwan. He calls the islanders "Taiwan yokels."

In those articles, Fan Lanqin calls Taiwan a "Ghost Island," a renegade province of the People's Republic, which should take it over by force and place it under military rule.

On last Wednesday, the United Daily News published an article signed by "Pan Shun-yun, GIO officer in France." Pan wrote in support of Fan Lanqin, who is described as a "literary genius" very popular among GIO colleagues.

Kuo said he wrote the Pan article. "I wrote it and asked Mr. Pan if I could use his name and official title to have it published as his," he pointed out.

"And Mr. Pan agreed," said Kuo, who may be required to testify at another GIO disciplinary committee meeting.

A meeting was called in the morning to find if Pan violates the code of conduct for public functionaries. No decision was taken, however.

Su Jun-pin, GIO director-general, said the disciplinary committee, which will meet again, "will deal with the case in full accordance with the law."

The chances are that Pan may be disciplined for letting Kuo use his name and official title in publishing the article in self-defense.

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March 31, 2009 mtsai16@

By urging the People's Republic of China to take over Taiwan, a "Ghost Island," by force and place it under military rule, Kuo is advocating the disappearance of the Ma administration.

How will President Ma and his administration react to this destructive stance?

March 31, 2009 mtsai16@

According to Wikipedia, after the First Sino-Japanese War Taiwan and the Penghu Islands were ceded to Japan "in perpetuity" in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. How can Taiwan and the Penghu Islands then be called a "renegade province"?

Perhaps the Qing government thought Taiwan and the Penghu Islands were less important than the rest of China's territory due to their peripheral locations and thus could be discarded to the victor.

Psychologically, how do children neglected and abandoned by their parents feel after having grown up?

April 1, 2009 IlOVETIBET@

Imperial Japan is no more. The blood of Chinese patriots flowed like rivers when she tried to take over the Motherland. By perpetrating the myth that Taiwan was never part of China or ceded to the murderous Japanese prior to and during World War II is disingenuous at best. Possible Ms. Tsai is from the opposition DPP?

April 1, 2009 mtsai16@

IlOVETIBET@ wrote:
Imperial Japan is no more. The blood of Chinese patriots flowed like rivers when she tried to take over the Motherland. By perpetrating the myth that Taiwan was never part of China or ceded to the murderous Japanese prior to and during World War II is disingenuous at best. Possible Ms. Tsai is from the opposition DPP?

My argument was: Who likes to be given away when times were bad and then reclaimed when times are good? I sense that Taiwan was used as a pawn by the Qing government. The last sentence in my previous message implies that.

FYI, Tsai is a popular family name in Taiwan. Since, there is no "s" after the initial letter in my e-mail address, I could be a mister as well. I try to refrain myself from attributing any comments to anyone without definite proof.

April 1, 2009 spankee888.rock@

This scalawag’s monthly salary is paid by the Taiwanese, and yet he made a fool of the people of Taiwan. We called this treason. On behalf of all the Taiwanese, let us torch this filthy, stinking [expletive deleted] alive. Anybody got matches?

April 2, 2009 weikuo21@

spankee888.rock@ wrote:
This scalawag’s monthly salary is paid by the Taiwanese, and yet he made a fool of the people of Taiwan. We called this treason. On behalf of all the Taiwanese, let us torch this filthy, stinking [expletive deleted] alive. Anybody got matches?

Lets have him ready for the Moon Festival.



	Kuo Kuan-ying, alias Fan Lanqin, in Vancouver. Kuo, fired as public information officer in Toronto, stopped over at Vancouver on his way back to Taipei yesterday. He told TVBS he would appeal for invalidation of his dismissal by the Government Information Office. (Reproduced from TVBS) Enlarge Photo


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