Talk:James Soong
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[edit] Taiwanese & Media
Its conventional knowledge here in Taiwan that Soong barred the use of Taiwanese in Television media and had helped propagate the widespread use of Mandarin in Taiwan. Should that detail be included?
[edit] Son's "real" name
(Quick Note): I'm not exactly clear what the first sentence means (on Taiwan?)
Maybe Taiwanese media has extremely good etiquette, but despite the controversies about James Soong's son, only detailed info on James Soong is available, not on his son. For example, the most basic info: what is the son's English name? English translations of Chinese news simply uses half-decent Wade-Giles: Soong Chen-yuan (combining a non-Wade surname).
But obviously Soong Chen-yuan would not use this order in the USA, regardless how Chinese he is. But it's apparently not Chen-yuan Soong or Chenyuan Soong. Nor is it his Chinese give name with "Sung" or "Song". So he probably has an English name like his father. In any case, Googling around showed no result. I just thought that if we have his son's name here, we should have his "real" name too, since he's American.
--Menchi 07:10 6 Jul 2003 (UTC)
"Soong is rumored to have close ties to organized crime as exemplified by his cordial friendship with convicted racketeer and local heavy, Yen Ching-piao."
The statement above by the pro-independence anon could not be verfied. Googling both names at once does not present a direct relationship, except in a highly biased article by the Taipei times. And in that article, it just stated "And in fact only a few days before Chen's visit to the pilgrimage, PFP Chairman James Soong (宋楚瑜) and KMT Vice Chairman Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) turned up at the start of the pilgrimage to pay their respects to Yen." This does not imply there was a close relationship. --Jiang 06:32, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
MT: Why is there no mention of the Lafayette scandal here? Soong was fingered in a French Court as the bagman for a $400 million payoff. There should at least be some mention!
MT: I've added a blurb about the Lafayette scandal, and about the recent conviction of Soong on tax evasion charges.
[edit] Relations
Is James Soong related to the Soong sisters? David Cannon 11:17, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- Not in the least. Unless you go back like 100 generations... It is a fact that the Soong Sistes' family originally was not even the Soongs, but the Hans. See Charlie Soong. --Menchi 11:33, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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- Thank you, Menchi, for clarifying this matter for me. David Cannon 01:03, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I'm confused by the amount he allegedy stole. The article mentions the total being 12 million dollars, divided into individual banking accounts of his relatives. Yet, one sentence later, it states that there was 6 billion in his son's. That doesn't seem to add up.
- I've changed the 6 billion to 6 million on the assumption that it was a typo, but I could be wrong. -anonymous
[edit] PFP does favor unification
The idea of cross strait unification obviously appeared in PFP 2004 NATIONAL COMMITTEE presidential speech (親民黨第一屆全國委員會閉幕典禮主席致詞全文) for many times. I guess they have no reason trying to hide it. Instead, they conveyed their idea of unification clearly and cordially to the public. Based on Soon'g speech, we really should not distort the fact and deprive PFP of the credential as a strong proponent for unification.
1) 此外，楚瑜希望....能重新整合成統一的中國，讓人民感受到尊嚴、驕傲與自豪。2) 除了「一中屋頂」，我們更主張「兩岸兩席」。親民黨的「兩岸兩席」概念是以「一個中國」為前提，.....親民黨的兩岸兩席，則是朝向「合」的方向發展。3)我們盼望兩岸和平....大陸也變得更開放自由民主時，兩岸能自然走向整合或統一。[1]
[edit] Vandalism/Censorship
I have restored what user 206.15.185.25 deleted. This user also vandalised a different page (one on my watchlist). What he appears to have done here is to censor/vandalise paragraphs without reasonable explanation in talk.--Toddy1 04:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
