WikiLeaks on Pres Ma Ying-jeou

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范正祥, 《維基解密》 AIT：馬是民族主義者 有大中國情結. Liberty Times, Oct 2, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/oct/2/today-fo1.htm

My comment:
(a) 輪轉  Hoklo for "fluent"
(b) The report is based on
08TAIPEI1093
http://billypan.com/wiki/08TAIPEI1093
("SUBJECT: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU: AN INTRODUCTORY PROFILE Classified By: AIT Director Stephen M. Young, Reasons: 1.4 (b/d);" dated July 24, 2008)

The date was just two months after his inauguration. However, the cable is just garden variety (an English phrase meaning "ordinary"), in my view.

(c) The Chinese-language subject in the Wiki page is 馬英九凡事猶豫又缺乏擔當，形象都是媒體塑造, which I assume is translated by somebody (but I can not tell who translated the title AND the summary) and the English-language subject is not the same as the Chinese-language subject.
(d) In fact, the text of the diplomatic cable was qciting his critics when saying he was indecisive.

"Critics of the president attribute Ma's current difficulties to what they say is his longstanding problem of indecisive and ineffective leadership, especially when facing crises." paragraph 1, Summary.

"Ma's detractors argue he is more media-constructed image than real substance, claiming that he is an indecisive and weak leader who avoids confronting difficult problems and panics in the face of crisis." paragraph 8, text.


----------------------------Separately
(1) 彭顯鈞, 馬︰做很多事 還被說無能. Liberty Times, Oct 2, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/oct/2/today-fo9.htm

Note: Five-year-olds in Taiwan went to kindergarten tuition-free, starting August, this year.

(2) 彭顯鈞, 寫成「不獨不統不武」馬震怒要澄清; 順序不同有何差異 各方不解. Liberty Times, Oct 2, 2011.
http://libertytimes.com.tw/2011/new/oct/2/today-fo2.htm

(3) 台总统选举美选边？专家：美有国家利益.
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110930-taiwan-election-130877073.html

Note: 容 安澜  Alan D. ROMBERG, director of East Asia program, Stimson Center (a thinktank)
http://www.stimson.org/experts/alan-d-romberg/


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