Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Retired professor Cheng Tzu-leong (鄭自隆) was named Thursday as the new chairman of Chinese Television System (CTS), which has been under fire for running a series of erroneous news tickers on its cable channel last week.
Having spent a diplomatic career working on Russia/USSR and Taiwan/China, I have followed events in those regions closely for more than fifty years. Early on, I expended countless brain cells obtaining spoken and written proficiency in Russian and Chinese. Therefore, I feel I must speak out now on Vladimir Putin’s reckless invasion of Ukraine and what it means for Asia.
There is cause for grave concern, but also reason not to go overboard on the comparison between what is currently unfolding in Ukraine and Taiwan’s situation. Putin’s reckless adventurism caught the world by surprise, but we might have seen this coming.
As Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, we continue to see heartbreaking images families torn apart by the conflict; women and children trying to stay alive in bunkers; an opera house destroyed by bombs; hundreds injured or dead; and a whole lot of chaos and madness.