Tim Maddog, Taichung, TaiwanApr 14th, 2008 - 13:38:58

This article is full of mistakes and biases that would be obvious only to close observers.

First, the China Times, which is the source of this survey, is close to Ma Ying-jeou. They are known for very inaccurate polls which always favor Ma's positions.

Next, the 'news' keeps repeating huge lies in zombie-like fashion about the relationship between Taiwan and China. When a story says 'Taiwan and China split at the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949,' it is making stuff up. Taiwan was not part of China in 1949. It was Ma Ying-jeou's Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) which lost to the Chinese Communist Party and fled to Taiwan.

At this point, there are said to be over 1,400 Chinese missiles targeting Taiwan. For '[o]nly 22 percent' to realize that 'China is still hostile toward Taiwan,' they'd have to be China Times readers. If you saw the treatment reporters from Taiwan got today at the Boao Forum, you'd think differently.

Look at what China is doing in Tibet, and see how they manipulate the media when they can and criticize it when they can't. Their claims to Taiwan are false, and the media is their accomplice in obfuscating the facts.

Tim Maddog, a Taiwan Matters blogger

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hahaApr 14th, 2008 - 14:08:16

Maddog,

You are laughable. Don't treat other readers like idiots, ok? Taiwan was not part of China in 1949? What a joke!

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DavidApr 14th, 2008 - 15:55:59

Tim Maddog,

ChinaTimes looks like quite a fair media to me. Taipei Times, on the other hand keeps giving out biased journalism, so there is actually no difference to mainland propaganda machine. Maybe, Xinhua is even slightly better as we know it is based in undemocratic country.

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