- Jul 23 Fri 2010 18:08
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北京出馬溝通,特區政府靠邊
- Jul 21 Wed 2010 07:40
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看廣東人捍衛母語
為紀念去年七月五日東土耳其斯坦(新疆)烏魯木齊市發生的血案,「月詹會」再度邀請世維大會主席熱比婭來台灣訪問,但是因為馬英九政府屈服於共產黨壓力而禁止她入境,因此只能由女兒熱依拉「代母出征」來到台灣,再度燃起台灣民眾對維吾爾族人權的關心。
為了安撫維人的對抗情緒,北京聲稱改變策略,協助新疆地區發展經濟,把十九塊地區交給中國的十九個省市「包養」,情況就如清末民初列強瓜分中國那樣。廣東省被分配包養喀什地區疏附縣、伽師縣、兵團農三師圖木舒克市。其實,新疆豐富的資源才是他們掠奪的對象,還有漢化的任務。然而就在同時,廣東也有被北京中央政府「漢化」的危機,非常的諷刺。
廣東乃古之「南蠻」所在,當然非純種中國人。歷經幾千年人口遷徙,粵語反而保留了中國古漢語的韻律。然而不懂中國歷史的中共領導人,把受北狄影響的普通話當作純正漢語,要來消滅粵語,最近更藉廣州要舉辦亞運會的機會,以打造「國際城市」為名,由廣州市政協要求電視台的粵語節目改播普通話,立刻引發粵民激烈反應。
這隻黑手也伸到東莞,把明朝名將袁崇煥在當地紀念公園雕塑上的一句粵語名言「掉那媽,頂硬上」也鏟掉了,因此加深民眾的對立情緒。廣州的網民近日在網上各個論壇串連,初步決定七月二十五日傍晚舉行名為「齊撐粵語行動」的活動,並呼籲民眾當日穿白色衣服參加。按目前的規劃,參加者將在集會場所被問粵語歇後語,答中者會獲贈印有袁崇煥那句話的T恤,在場亦會有人派發傳單與紀念品。
講普通話是為了方便溝通,但是不能因此而打壓有其他特色的方言。這次捍衛粵語的活動,不是偶然的,而是多年被打壓情緒的爆發。但廣東省委書記汪洋還強調要對廣東人進行「教化」,流露出像馬英九把台灣人看作「披髮左衽」的種族優越感。然而這次出來捍衛粵語的,有不少是年輕人,可見這不是簡單的問題。
香港的母語就是粵語,電視台、電台都以粵語為主,卻是中國最國際化的城市,可見以國際化打壓粵語是完全不能成立的藉口。然而自從一九四九年共產黨統治廣東以後,北京卻不斷以打壓地方主義為名,把以葉劍英為首的廣東「老革命」都整肅過一遍。改革開放借助廣東,所以容忍一些,地方勢力由葉劍英兒子葉選平坐鎮。廣東最後一任粵籍省委書記是謝非,一九九八年調北京擔任人大副委員長,從此廣東一把手就由外省籍人士出任。謝非到北京後得重病,一九九九年逝世,才六十七歲。以中國對高幹醫療條件之好,他的去世就有被毒死的傳說。
共產黨所打壓的,不止是粵語,而是各地的方言與文化。因此捍衛粵語的活動引起其他地區人士的共鳴。打壓粵語的舉動,明顯是共產黨中央集權的思維與運作模式,因此共產黨才是維人與廣東人及其他地方人士的共同敵人。
中國要走一百年前「聯省自治」的道路,才能保障地方文化及利益。可惜這條道路後來被孫中山破壞掉了。現在這場捍衛廣東話的運動會不會引發政治衝突,或有什麼深遠影響,大可仔細觀察。
台灣多種語言的運用,是台灣民主化的成果。當年國民黨打壓台語的做法雖然已成為歷史,但如今馬英九還要勾結共產黨走回這條老路嗎?
(作者林保華為資深時事評論員,http://blog.pixnet.net/LingFengComment)
- Jul 20 Tue 2010 20:38
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請英國人來台灣成立“廉政公署”
何智輝一案暴露出來的台灣司法隊伍內部的醜聞,一方面證明了當年國民黨
秘書長許水德所說的“法院是國民黨開的”是句真理,而且也說明台灣司法
改革的迫切性。
- Jul 20 Tue 2010 20:26
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香港泛民的隔代鴻溝
香港泛民在立法會議員五區總辭出現分歧以後,到對政改方案是採取對抗還
是妥協方面再度出現重大分歧,在某些情況下甚至上升到“敵我矛盾”的層
次。在這個分歧中,我們也看到某些年齡世代上出現的鴻溝。
- Jul 18 Sun 2010 23:26
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《蝸居》美化貪官
花了幾個晚上,終於持續看完三十五集的《蝸居》。它在中國被禁播的理由
,據說是因為“黃”。然而即使是涉黃台詞,也是用雙關語,例如“鞭長莫
及”、“你來咬”、“小鋼炮”等等,如果不是心存“邪念”,很容易就溜
過去了。有的人說是超過三級片,那是太恭維了,因為幾乎沒有什麼性感誘
人的動作出現。因此,它的被禁,根本原因是迎合時下高房價所引發民眾的
不滿。在“穩定壓倒一切”的路線下,它被“和諧”了,雖然實際上是更不
和諧。
- Jul 16 Fri 2010 09:54
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北京的新疆政策換湯不換藥
新疆7.5事件一週年前,北京絞盡腦汁,拋出所謂“新政”:
首先,今年4月把舊人王樂泉換掉,才能體現其新。因為一提起王樂泉,就
會想到他的強硬與殺戮的屠夫形象。然而,他並非被貶,而是出任中央政法
委副書記,還是負責少數民族地區的“維穩”,因此仍然可以遙控。新人張
春賢,據說在湖南的作為是“柔中有剛”,因此北京的意圖是他可以“柔性
治疆”,改變過去“藏柔疆硬”的情況。也就是運用“兩手”的另一手。問
題是北京對西藏的柔性,也沒有使藏人服從,對新疆又能奈何?因為問題不
在柔或剛的手腕,而是政策的本身內容。
- Jul 15 Thu 2010 07:04
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農業銀行上市~樓市調控 中國官商大鬥法
台灣金融名嘴在評論中國經濟事務時,都極力迴避中國內部利益集團之間的鬥爭,有意無意的美化中共特權集團,但也就會給投資者不正確的信息。今明2天中國農業銀行A股與H股在香港與上海掛牌買賣,可能的話,中國政府一定會全力撐住股價,然而外資態度如何,容我們觀察。台灣、香港的房地產業沒有類似情況嗎?】
樓市調控 官商大鬥法
- Jul 14 Wed 2010 18:04
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Capital grab exposes China’s risk
By Paul Lin 林保華
Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010, Page 8
The Foxconn Technology Group affair shows that China’s economic growth model, which is focused on low wages to promote exports, has reached a turning point. This, however, is not the only worry for China’s economic development. Chinese-investment banks have been actively raising capital in Hong Kong recently, and this shows the hidden risk of the Chinese financial sector.
On April 14, the European edition of the Financial Times ran a report — “Big four China banks in ‘$70bn gap’” — saying Beijing’s method for surviving last year’s financial crisis in fact laid the groundwork for the nation’s next economic bubble.
The conclusion came from a domestic Chinese source: Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) president Yang Kaisheng (楊凱生) who published an article in the 21st Century Business Herald in which he expressed his concern for capital shortfalls and bad loans facing the Chinese banking sector in the next five years. According to Yang, as part of a state-led response to last year’s financial crisis, Chinese banks were pressured by the Chinese government to issue NT$3.9 trillion (US$121 billion) worth of essentially bad loans to individuals, businesses and national infrastructure projects. This figure is double the amount of bad loans in 2008.
Following the financial storm that broke in the fall of 2008, China spent 4 trillion yuan (about NT$19 trillion) to save the market. Its stock markets took the lead in a rebound, and real estate prices repeatedly set new highs. China acted like the savior of the global economy, behaving like the nouveau-riche wanting to buy the whole world.
Suddenly, however, its financial situation took a turn for the worse. Originally, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (溫家寶) said the money aimed at saving the market would be used mostly for infrastructure projects, while in fact most of the money went into the central government’s state-owned enterprises or local governments’ financing platforms and was used to shore up the stock and real estate markets. The Chinese State Council’s control measures were not effective until it issued its 10-point statement in mid-April.
The central government and its government owned enterprises are still wrestling with local governments. Real estate dealers warn that if housing prices drop by more than 30 percent, it is very possible that many people will default on their housing mortgages and that would hurt the banking sector. In response to this situation, the four biggest state-owned Chinese banks, ICBC, Bank of China (BOC), China Construction Bank (CCB) and Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank), all decided that they would be raising capital by issuing A shares on the Shanghai stock exchange and H shares on the Hong Kong stock exchange. In late March, the State Council approved the fundraising project, requiring that most of the capital be raised through H shares.
The part of the fundraising that has caught the most attention is the initial public offering (IPO) of AgBank, which is scheduled for the middle of this month in Shanghai and Hong Kong. At about NT$880 billion, it is the world’s largest IPO.
The reason AgBank has not been listed on the stock exchange yet is that it is the worst of China’s four big banks and has the most bad loans. Maybe its listing will be “the last tango.”
The other banks will also raise capital, by selling shares and bonds. Their A+H fundraising goals are NT$332 billion for ICBC, NT$475 billion for BOC, NT$356 billion for CCB and almost NT$200 billion for the Bank of Communications. It is very unusual for all these big banks to raise capital at the same time.
In order to raise capital, the stock price must be stimulated to attract investors, but the Chinese stock market is performing poorly and the government has lost control, and this is affecting Hong Kong too. Although patriotic businessmen, such as tycoon Li Ka-shing (李嘉誠), showed their support by becoming shareholders of AgBank, the market has reacted coldly, forcing the bank to repeatedly lower the initial share price. The initial price of the Hong Kong H shares is now even higher than the price of the Shanghai A shares. Some Chinese banks have even rushed to raise capital before AgBank. When ICBC listed its shares in Hong Kong in 2006, its IPO was over-subscribed 76 times, whereas AgBank’s IPO only is over-subscribed 14 times.
China’s state-owned enterprises bought many private companies last year, causing an increase in the number of state-owned enterprises and a drop in the number of private companies. The State Council, however, issued a “new 36-point statement” in mid-May to encourage private investment in certain industries. This to a certain extent reflects the government’s capital shortfall.
Facing the possibility of another global financial crisis, both Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) and Wen have stopped bragging about themselves while asking foreign governments not to withdraw from the market because this would affect China’s foreign trade. We should also pay attention to changes in the Chinese economy after this year’s World Expo in Shanghai ends on Oct. 31. The Ma administration must not let the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) with China obscure its view of these issues.
Paul Lin is a political commentator based in Taipei.
TRANSLATED BY EDDY CHANG
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- Jul 14 Wed 2010 09:41
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幾個「異數」政經人物
記得中國海協會會長陳雲林前年十一月來台灣,國民黨要員在晶華酒店邀宴彈冠相慶,宴會結束賓客離開時,圍困的民眾緊盯離開酒店的每部車,防止陳雲林走脫。有人會報告車裡是什麼人時,圍住車子的民眾會有不同反應,當台積電董事長張忠謀離開時,民眾聽到他的名字,各自很快散開,沒有聽到任何罵聲。
今年六月底,經濟部投審會通過台積電入股中芯案,張忠謀表示不增加持股、不介入經營及不排除出脫持股。表面理由固然是中芯經營情況不佳,然而背後難道不是「敬而遠之」嗎?
為了推銷ECFA,馬政府請了日本趨勢專家大前研一來背書,這位聲稱二○○五年台灣將與中國統一的「專家」,說ECFA是台灣的「維他命」,張忠謀發表不同看法:「台灣不能只有依附大陸市場,未來仍要放眼全球。」張忠謀還認為對大前研一的話要打七、八折。善哉斯言,維他命果然是「維他」而不是「維我」。固然有人說商人在商言商,學者在學言學,然而還有一個做人的「良心」問題。台商與中國打交道,應該像張忠謀那樣不卑不亢,不應該為利益而歪曲事實、大拍共產黨馬屁,損自己人格。
國民黨裡有好些面目可憎的政治人物,包括一些變成官員的學者,然而在我看來,也有幾個「異數」。這一期的《財訊》雜誌介紹國民黨立委黃昭順的家庭背景,一家幾乎全是醫生,不但醫德不錯,也有深厚的台灣情。然而我心裡也難免產生疑問,她這個不貪錢財、醫德高尚的家庭,會認同馬英九與中國統一的路線嗎?不要忘記,中國是共產黨特權集團實行一黨專政、踐踏人權的國家,不是穿西裝的紳士,而是穿西裝的流氓,窮人不被當人,醫院是「有病無錢莫進來」,時時有因為缺了一點錢,或來不及籌錢就放任病人喪命的慘劇發生。黃家會贊成讓這種惡習來污染台灣嗎?
黃昭順也不是馬團隊的人物,她一直有心選大高雄市長,然而馬英九就是假裝看不見,一直遴選馬團隊的人出來,到民調實在贏不過她時,才勉強推她出來參選。被這樣的黨控制,不也要跟著出賣自己的良心,會有台灣人民的福祉嗎?
還有一位現任總統府秘書長的廖了以。他出任內政部長,是非常偶然,那是準內政部長廖風德驟然過世,因此匆匆讓廖了以頂上這個全國最大部部長。
然而他不是馬的嫡系,還因為他的母親是日本人,對鼓吹「血濃於水」至上而又有強烈反日情緒的種族主義者馬英九來說,怎麼會信任廖了以?
廖了以與其他國民黨官員不同的地方還在於發放消費券時,出現的短差數字,由自己個人承擔賠償。八八水災受到批評後,他二話不說,就到基層救災。對照當時那些官僚的表現,以及最近桃園國際機場與苗栗剷平農地事件那些「紳士」的醜態,廖了以確是他們中的「異數」。馬英九利用內閣改組,把他明升暗降出任總統府秘書長,親馬媒體說馬透過他了解地方派系,其實是「就近看管」才真。廖了以秘書長任內出奇低調,想來是五味雜陳。
我突然有個奇想,五都選舉後,是否可能出現由國民黨中的「異數」出來配合民進黨施政(民進黨應有這個雅量),實現「綠藍共治」,從而為未來台灣的大團結先行一步?
(作者林保華為資深時事評論員,http://blog.pixnet.net/LingFengComment)
自由時報
- Jul 12 Mon 2010 21:05
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馬英九~馬紳士的“政治運動”
馬英九曾說,他上台以來,與共產黨的語言越來越接近了,這與他說ECFA已
使台灣走上“不歸路”,都是他難得說的真話,或者說是高度亢奮下情不自
禁下說的話。因此他最近針對台灣政壇,說要發動一場“紳士運動”,自然
也是一場“政治運動”。共產黨是發動政治運動的能手,台灣還沒有被共產
黨統治,馬英九已經迫不及待要發動“政治運動”了。只是“紳士”是資本
主義與封建主義的名詞,馬英九把這個名詞“共黨化”,顯得不倫不類。
- Jul 11 Sun 2010 22:19
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蔡英文流亡論風波
(原題:蔡英文試解族群結)
●一句“中華民國是流亡政府”,蔡英文招致藍營當局和統媒猛烈圍剿,卻
被蘋果日報斥之為斷章取義,一犬吠影,種犬吠聲。馬英九也及時煞車,蔡
強調團結擺平爭議。
- Jul 10 Sat 2010 16:13
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香港政改~泛民分裂,北京獨贏?





