While the focus of most has been on some nutty Chinese general’s attempts to start World War III, Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council has been focusing on an altogether more concrete threat … Kung Fu fighters:
The Mainland Affairs Council’s rejection of an application for Chinese Shaolin monks to teach Shaolin Kung Fu in summer camps has prompted complaints that the government is trying to restrain cross-strait exchange activities.
Although there is debate about exactly why the monks aren’t being allowed to visit Taiwan, the man who invited them has his suspicions:
Shiau-shinn Lin (林孝信), chairman of Taiwan Secom, blasted the government’s decision in an interview in a Chinese-language newspaper yesterday.
“We invited some other Chinese Shaolin monks to Taiwan in early June. I don’t understand why the government now has a different position on the issue,” Lin said.
The association told the newspaper that the application was rejected by the council on the grounds of “national security.”
So, is the MAC afraid that these kung fu monks will storm the presidential palace as part of China’s “decapitation strategy”? Or is it just the case that the association knows they’ll get more media coverage if they imply that?
time to return to the warm bosom of motherland.
There may be more truth to this than meets the eye. When I visited the Shaolin Temple in 1987, if there were real “Shaolin monks” – the kind with the David Carradine, Western-inspired prowess – they were very reclusive. The place was nearly deserted and even souvenir hawkers were absent, but for maybe one or two with little on offer. (The place is — or was — in the middle of bumfuck.)
The “resurgence” of these “masters” is dubious at best. While I have no doubt that martial arts are taking place there, they have little if anything to do with the temple other than using its famous name as an iron-on for their “gees.”
What a slam-dunk (pardon the mixed metaphor) of sending “famous” ass-kickers from the Shaolin Temple to teach ass-kicking in Taiwan, when in fact they are also collecting information for the Chinese Communists.
Do we need these people here? Is it a real exchange of cultures?
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Now they will let them in. According to a CNA report:
“MAC officials also said that cross-strait professional exchanges must follow the group-in, group-out pattern, and the sponsors intended to send monks all over island to accept students of all levels and they also wanted to bring the monks over to make money — all of these are gross violations of the law, they said.”
“…the first group of 45 Shaolin martial arts monks will arrive in Taiwan Aug. 11, and the time of arrival of the second group of 15 monks has yet to be decided.”
Kung Fu is an obsolete fighting system used by the retards that never intend on fighting to win. The only martial arts the Taiwanese people needs to know is the American martial arts. That’s where we pick up American rifles, pistols, and shoot until all motherfuckers go down to their graves!! =P
If Taiwanese people is serious about learning a useful stand up striking arts, they should look at Muay Thai. Kung Fu is just an obsolete fighting system for people that think they can walk on water and on the side walls like what they see in the movie! =/