The new Director at AIT Therese Shaheen seems to have some low tolerance for the typical mantra we’ve been hearing the past few years regarding business in Taiwan and China.
This story definitely put a smile on my face (I even wrote my Congresswoman supporting what Shaheen said). Shame that the article didn’t report on the Chamber of Commerce’s reaction.
And the headline isn’t accurate–but typical for the Taipei Times.
[quote=“Dahudze”]The new Director at AIT Therese Shaheen seems to have some low tolerance for the typical mantra we’ve been hearing the past few years regarding business in Taiwan and China.
This story definitely put a smile on my face (I even wrote my Congresswoman supporting what Shaheen said). Shame that the article didn’t report on the Chamber of Commerce’s reaction.
And the headline isn’t accurate–but typical for the Taipei Times.
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Both the banks in China and Taiwan could use a shakeup. The NPLs in this place are pretty bad. but then again so is Japan’s banking situation.
While she might be right on some of the China hype, which taiwan brains is she referring to?
So in the China Post article today, she is said to be urging Taiwan to improve its defenses against China. of course, with a plug for US arms sales. ahh true motives.
China has been upping it’s preparations for an invasion over the past few years, conducting more mock-invasion exercises, building up it’s naval fleet, and installing more missiles aimed at Taiwan.
I am continually interested - why is it when you go to Taiwan or Chinese embassy or consulate in a foreign country - it is almost entirely populated by Chinese employees - and when you go to a foreign embassy in China or Taiwan - almost everyone who works there is Chinese.
“A former director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) has filed a whistleblower lawsuit in which he accuses employees there of selling US visas and keeping the fees.” voy.com/113223/208.html
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This isn’t too hard to figure out. How many non-ethnic-Chinese are out there who speak fluent Chinese and would like to work at an embassy?[/quote]
[quote]Wood ordered the audit shortly after becoming the director. He says that this is when the problems first began. AIT employees refused to turn over financial records to the auditors, telling them that they had been eaten by termites.¨
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