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Hsinchu school apologizes amid outrage over students' Nazi consumes
2016/12/24 18:16:45
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Taipei, Dec. 24 (CNA) A high school in Hsinchu City apologized Saturday after its students dressed in costumes resembling Nazi uniforms and brandished swastika banners in a cosplay party held at the school a day earlier, triggering controversy on the Internet and drawing condemnation from Israel's representative office in Taipei.

The Hsinchu Kuang-Fu High School admitted that it failed to carefully review the students' plans of their costumes for the party, but claimed that it did not mean it supports the violence committed by the Nazis.

Nazi Germany refers to the period in German history from 1933 to 1945 when the country was under the control of Adolf Hitler, who masterminded the Holocaust, one of the most inglorious periods of modern history.

The private school said it assumed responsibility for the students' improper behavior, adding that it will improve its education and help its students to gain a broader global view.

It apologized to the public for the controversy over the Nazi costumes worn by its students.

The school's apology came after photos of some students of a class at the school dressed in costumes that looked like Nazi uniforms, wielding swastika flags and displaying Nazi tanks made of paper cartons at a cosplay event were posted on the Internet, triggering widespread criticism.

The Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, which represents Israel's interests in Taiwan in the absence of bilateral diplomatic ties, issued a statement condemning the acts by the students.

"It is deplorable and shocking" that only seven decades after the world witnessed the horrors of the Holocaust, a high school in Taiwan supports "such an outrageous action," said Asher Yarden, Israel's representative to Taiwan.

Schools should educate for tolerance and understanding among people, he said.

"We strongly condemn this tasteless occurrence and call on the Taiwanese authorities, at all levels, to initiate educational programs which would introduce the meaning of the Holocaust and teach its history and universal meaning," he said. "Israel would support such endeavors as may be necessary."

In response to the incident, Taiwan's Ministry of Education said it has formed a task force that will visit the school to look into the incident and assist in improving its educational programs.

Education Minister Pan Wen-chung (潘文忠) also issued an apology for the incident, urging all schools in Taiwan to learn a lesson from the incident.

The ministry said it will impose punishments on the school for its "administrative negligence of duty" and that it will cut its subsidies for the private school.

(By Lu Kang-chun, Chen Chih-chung and Elaine Hou)
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See the link below for the pictures. It was not some "innocent" mistake in which the costume looked kinda liked the SS uniform or a Buddhist swastika mistaken for the Nazi one, these students & teacher went full Nazi with their parade & uniforms complete with 50ish students marching in formation in SS uniform while shouting sieg heil, using the nazi salute, holding up giant the nazi eagle emblem & nazi flags with a fake Hitler/Himmler up front in a cardboard tank
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See the link below for the pictures. It was not some "innocent" mistake in which the costume looked kinda liked the SS uniform or a Buddhist swastika mistaken for the Nazi one, these students & teacher went full Nazi with their parade & uniforms complete with 50ish students marching in formation in SS uniform while shouting sieg heil, using the nazi salute, holding up giant the nazi eagle emblem & nazi flags with a fake Hitler/Himmler up front in a cardboard tank
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One word says it all, a bunch of spoilt rich kids who think it is funny. This guys should all be expell from school but you can bet thats not going to happen because of their rich family connection.
 
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Western press stirring shit or is this for real, I hope it is not because i can see it leading to no where with not a good outcome.
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There is the likelihood of China threat spin as I believe this relationship has been longstanding but it would also not be a surprise if this relationship was ramped up given relevant history on all sides.

The main driving force on the PRC side would be concern over a potential Taiwan conflict, specifically instigation or intervention by the US and/or Japan against the PRC. Other drivers would be the PRC mirroring foreign support for Taiwan, Tibet, and in recent years Hong Kong independence movements against the PRC.

The independent Ryukyus were invaded and forcibly assimilated by Japan only in the 1870s, China only abandoned its protectorate/tributary claims in 1895, and there has been a vocal Ryukyus independence movement at least since Japan's defeat in WW2 so it is a genuine native cause.
 
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This shows you why its a bad idea to have Trump as president.

Trump had a plan to work with Russia to cut back nukes in 1987. Might he try it now?

Donald Trump had a plan to help rid the world of nuclear weapons long before he ran for president.

In 1987, reporter Ron Rosenbaum interviewed Trump about his plan. It was for a story that was published in Manhattan,inc. Rosenbaum has written about why and how the interview came to be on Slate and republished the magazine story in its entirety on the site.

Now that Trump is the president-elect and no longer just a New York City real estate developer or reality television star, his thoughts on nuclear weapons take on a greater importance.

Earlier this week, he tweeted that U.S. must “greatly expand its nuclear capabilities.”

On Friday, “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinnski reported that Trump said, “let it be an arms race because we will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all.”

In August, before the election, “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough reported that Trump asked a foreign policy expert – three times during an hour-long briefing – why the U.S. couldn’t use nuclear weapons .

Nine countries are reported to have nuclear weapons. Russia (7,300 total inventory, according to the Federation of American Scientists) and the United States (7,000 total inventory) possess by far the most. France, China, the United Kingdom, Israel, Pakistan, India and North Korea also have nuclear weapons.

Since the 1980s, the U.S. has worked with Russia to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear warheads. President Barack Obama signed the New START treaty (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) with Russia in 2010 to reduce the number of nuclear weapons deployed by each country and cut the number of delivery vehicles for those weapons.

Nuclear proliferation was a problem private citizen Trump was concerned with in the late-1980s, according to Rosenbaum. This was before the Soviet Union had broken up.

The following is excerpted from Rosenbaum’s piece on Slate:

“Most of those [pre-nuclear] countries are in one form or another dominated by the U.S. and the Soviet Union,” Trump says. “Between those two nations you have the power to dominate any of those countries. So we should use our power of economic retaliation and they use their powers of retaliation and between the two of us we will prevent the problem from happening. It would have been better having done something five years ago.”

“But I believe even a country such as Pakistan would have to do something now. Five years from now they’ll laugh,” Trump said. “You think Pakistan would just fold? We wouldn’t have to offer them anything in return?”

“Maybe we should offer them something. I’m saying you start off as nicely as possible. You apply as much pressure as necessary until you achieve the goal. You start off telling them, ‘Let’s get rid of it.’ If that doesn’t work you then start cutting off aid. And more aid and then more. You do whatever is necessary so these people will have riots in the street, so they can’t get water. So they can’t get Band-Aids, so they can’t get food. Because that’s the only thing that’s going to do it — the people, the riots.”

Trump goes on to say the same tactics can be used with France and other nations.

The world has certainly changed in many ways since 1987, notably the breakup of the Soviet Union that left the United States as the world’s lone superpower.

Trump’s most recent statements about nuclear weapons came soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin told Russians that “we need to strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces, especially with missile complexes that can reliably penetrate any existing and prospective missile defense systems,” according to a translation by Agence France-Presse.

Trump has been accused by many, including Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and several Republicans, of being too close and friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia hacked in the DNC and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails to help Trump win the election.

Some of Trump’s Cabinet picks, including Rex Tillerson, his choice for Secretary of State, are considered friendly with Putin. Trump spoke with Putin twice in the two weeks after he won the Nov. 8 election.

Sarah Kendzior, writing for Quartz, explores the topic of nuclear weapons in-depth in a piece published Friday. She writes that “Trump and Putin aren’t heading to war with each other — they’re heading to war together.”
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One word says it all, a bunch of spoilt rich kids who think it is funny. This guys should all be expell from school but you can bet thats not going to happen because of their rich family connection.
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The crazy thing is the parents also did nothing. Like Panasian said earlier there is just an emotional antipathy towards Nazi germany in most of Asia understably.
 
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See the link below for the pictures. It was not some "innocent" mistake in which the costume looked kinda liked the SS uniform or a Buddhist swastika mistaken for the Nazi one, these students & teacher went full Nazi with their parade & uniforms complete with 50ish students marching in formation in SS uniform while shouting sieg heil, using the nazi salute, holding up giant the nazi eagle emblem & nazi flags with a fake Hitler/Himmler up front in a cardboard tank
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Sad, pathetic, and completely unacceptable behavior. I wonder if it's a KMT-associated school, since the party had connection to the German Nazis.
 
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