I saw this news on friends computer yesterday. The employees name is a Chinese name but I don’t know if local employee or American employee. I can’t find any info in English about it. Anyone have any news or other info?
According to local news, the employee’s name is 張安麗 (Zhang An-li or could be Chang An-li depending on the romanization system) and a US citizen. [Source]
And it gets even better: Old Granny is not poor, but owned an apartment valued at 50 million NT$ on Zhongxiao East Road. Faced with hospital bills, the building was transferred to 張安麗 (Zhang An-li / Chang An-li) [Source]
More shockingly, Grandma Zhang isn’t even really sick. She is pretending to be ill and uses the hospital as a free nursing home. [Source]
This appears to be another lovely case of ABCs on the loose. Loaded with money and property, yet want the taxpayer to pick up the tab. ABCs, especially Taiwanese Americans, are masters in abusing and milking welfare systems of Taiwan and the United States. More than half of elderly ABCs milk the welfare system in California, when ABCs are actually the most successful cohort in terms of salaries and educational background. [Source] Not even to mention ABCs not actually living in Taiwan for decades returning for scheduled surgery and other expensive treatment.
Unlikely Taiwanese, more likely Chinese Nationalist- one of those elites. AIT does not employ Taiwanese. It’s the Chinese Nationalists that AIT trust usable.
Don’t overseas Taiwanese need to keep paying into nhi while they are gone if they want to use it when they return? Or can they just come back whenever and get stuff covered?
Taiwanese can suspend their NHI during their overseas trip (must be >1 year without re-rentry if I remember correctly) and can simply reactivate their coverage upon return. There might be a waiting period of around 3-4 months, but that is not a big problem for scheduled treatment. The savings of treatment under NHI coverage vs. the expensive US healthcare system are still tremendous.
Article says that the old lady has no other relatives nor kids here and her daughter works in the US. Even claimed her doctor was in the US. Hubby worked for president Chiang and yes, came to Taiwan in 1949. That may explain why they did not kick her out of Veteran’s hospital before.
In this case seems person is Taiwanese-American with family ties here in Taiwan. FYI, quite a few Taiwanese working for US gov, and some that speak Taiwanese as their first language (at home), so very much Taiwan-Chinese background.
It’s a mistake to identify every Chinese-looking person that lives on Taiwan as Taiwanese. 99% of 1st generation Mainland Chinese do not think themselves as Taiwanese, neither do the majority of their children, who were born on Taiwan.
Former President Ma, who himself is a mainland Chinese, ‘advised’ that mainland Chinese would be upset if they are referred to as Taiwanese.
Most so-called ‘Taiwanese’ employee of AIT would be mainland Chinese. They have far closer relationship with the US government, especially the State Department.
Remind you that Chinese Nationalist Arm was shipped to Taiwan by the US Navy in the first place. Taiwanese were once the enemy of the US during the WWII. Some intricacies in the relationship among the US, Chinese Nationalist Party, and Taiwanese.
In this case, the gradma is not Taiwanese. Her family belongs to the elite class of the Chinese nationalists.
Many Taiwanese Americans work for the US govenment because they are or become US citizens.
Mainland Chinese were shipped to Taiwan by the US Navy to defend the Red and to ‘monitor’ Taiwanese. So AIT tends to hire mainland Chinese not ethnic Taiwanese. Also, the State Department has been consistently hostile toward the indigenous democracy movement carried out byt the Taiwanese.
The Taiwanese learned a clear lesson during the 228 massacre.
I was of course speaking of Taiwanese as in Nationality (not culture, race, political historical connections, etc), in that the people hired by the US to work at AIT are of Taiwan nationality (as in Republic of China nationality), not China nationality or any other nationality. No one should think that AIT only hires by ethnicity.
Anyone with Taiwan nationality is Taiwanese as in Republic of China nationality.
It’s inappropriate to define ‘Taiwanese’ based on nationality. Taiwan is not a nation- the State Dept just reinterated that point yesterday.
It would be hard to understand Taiwan without preliminarily acknowledging the difference between mainland Chinese and Taiwanese, especially their political difference.
In brief, many Taiwanese hate to be identified as Chinese and many Chinese on Taiwan hate to be identified as Taiwanse. So foreigners comeing to Taiwan are advised to understand that. It would help foreigners live in Taiwan in greater depth.
Well, yes, an Acting Assistant Secretary of State said that, and that’s one way of describing the situation, but it leaves out a lot.
Admiral Harris recently mentioned that the U. S. doesn’t have diplomatic relations with Taiwan, but he didn’t say that Taiwan was not a country, and he did bring up the Taiwan Relations Act, and other matters having to do with the defense of Taiwan.
Some years back, Lee Teng-hui said that Taiwan was not a normal country, and he briefly reminded everyone of the reasons why this was so, but he didn’t say that Taiwan wasn’t a country.
And besides, by the Frank Zappa Standard, Taiwan is definitely a country:
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline.