April 15, 2002
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Back in SH....
Well, after a long 12 hour flight, I'm back in SH. This past weekend in Stanford was one of my most productive ever, and even more so, I'm getting excited about this damn conference. I've even got a couple people who want me to send them my resume! Keep your fingers crossed for me!
My last evening at ASES Stanford consisted of dinner along with a panel of reputable speakers from Silicon Valley (one being the founder of Hotmail). From their various anecdotes and speeches, it was quite apparent from the start that all eyes were on China. Hope for me yet.
What was even more interesting was the speaker from Deloitte & Touche. He was the Director of Asian Operations and after the panel had finished speaking, I approached him alongside a group of other eager beaver students. Being very pro-China, he continued to answer questions about China's future and somehow got onto the topic of Taiwan. Apparently, hot of the presses, this guy has found out about major corruption between the U.S. and Taiwanese governments.
He hates what the US is doing to Taiwan/China relations and here are some reasons why. Apparently, Taiwan's ruling party has a slush fund of a couple hundred million in USD that is used to bribe Republican party officials. Everytime a US official visits Taiwan, the party receives money from this slush fund helping them fund their campaign. This not only encourages Republicans to show up on Taiwan's front lawn, but pisses Chinese officials off because it is almost like a sign of TW independence.
TW is also the largest purchaser of US arms with about 50% of US arms sales going to TW. It is argued that the US has a fear of China and TW getting back together. This all powerful ZhongGuo will truly be able to test the US's superiority in the world.
He mention's that many in Taiwan don't really care about separating with the mainland. That many statistics show that (aside from politics) TW is doing a lot to warm up to China. TW student rates are soaring in China, business investment in China from TW businesses also increasing year by year, and more and more from TW travelling to see China. All these occur despite the many barriers that are set up (you cannot travel to China straight from Taiwan, you have to come in through a hub like HK or something and students, to get into Chinese Universities must take a standardized test that isn't offered in TW).
Well, here's what I found after surfing around a bit on the net.
Comments (4)
stanford... geez.. the smart people these days ::looks at u::
*crossing fingers for you*
ahhh... so many things in china are corrupt.
The theory I've heard is that Taiwan is a puppet state for the US. Geographically, they are in a prime spot between China, Japan and Korea. If the US loses control of them, they lose a good military spot if things ever got to that point. I dunno...stuff I've heard...
i'm not enjoying the fact that the US is manipulating to keep the tension between China and Taiwan so stagnant. socially economically and politically it's all counterproduction....what crap.
what do you do in SH?
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