[ICANN-EU] FYI: election in Taiwan

["Jeanette Hofmann" <jeanette@medea.wz-berlin.de>]

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From: "Craig Hubley" <craig@hubley.com>
To: "Feng Ling Chiu" <icann@mrok.net>
Cc: <okhela@iafrica.com>; <craig@hubley.com>; 
<critt@bellsouth.net>
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2000 11:53 PM Subject: Re: don't give 
up !


> Miss Chiu,
> 
> This is disturbing, that "their official candidate" would
> be endorsed without mention of other Taiwanese running...
> 
> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Feng Ling Chiu wrote:
> > Thanks for your encouragement. I am a bit depressed and 
> > don't want to talk much. I am sorry for this late reply.
> 
> I won't waste much of your time.  But I would like to know
> what you think of the Chinese pressure on the ICANN election:
>  
> > A few days ago, TWNIC, the official network administration
> > of Taiwan, requested all Taiwanese members to reendorse
> > the candicate. They implied that all members should endorse
> > their official candidate Kuo-Wei Wu.....
> 
> Do you think that this will cause endorsements to move away from you
> and towards Kuo-Wei Wu?
>  
> > That's why i feel depressed and don't what to do next.
> 
> Can you put out a notice to the same people?  Or, perhaps, if 
> you want to ensure a woman with civil society ties is on the
> ballot for Asia-Pacific, recommend that your own supporters now
> endorse Yukika Matsumoto? 
> http://www.members.icann.org/nom/cp/155.html
> 
> Since only three self-nominated members can make it to the ballot, it
> now appears that only one of Jong Ho Kim or Yukika Matsumoto will get
> to the ballot - and her positions and background seem more like your
> own than like Kuo Wei Wu.  Or Hong Jie Li who seems to have Chinese
> government behind him.  It was quite suspicious that so many Chinese
> were able to sign up in the last couple of days of voter registration
> in July while people in Africa and Latin America were unable to...!
>  
> > Anyway, thank you very much for you email and your support!
> > It gives me strength.
> 
> The war is not lost in the first battle.  Since endorsements can be
> changed, the most important phase is right now when those who give up
> on their own endorsement can use some persuasion on others to get the
> best candidates (out of those strongly supported) onto the ballot...
>  
> > All the best!
> > 
> > Feng Ling Chiu
> > ...
> > nominated, Dr. Lulin Gao, of WIPO and the Chinese
> > > patent office, will gain most of the support of
> > > the official Chinese-speaking players in ICANN...
> > > I dread to think what this will mean for Taiwan.
> 
> This is probably what TWNIC seeks to prevent, and I can't blame
> them.
> 
> You probably have to make a choice whether it is civil society
> and women who are most likely to be oppressed by such victory,
> in which I'd say back Matsumoto, or Taiwan itself, in which case
> I'd say back Wu.
> 
> I'd like to know what you decide to do, and how you contact the
> endorsers in Asia... so that I can recommend that whoever you 
> back, be backed by the Global Greens or some other Green effort.
> We are quite concerned about women being under-represented and
> civil society interests failing to be represented at all, with
> religious speech in particular under attack.  But the Chinese
> hegemony over the language itself as expressed on the Internet
> would have grave consequences for Taiwan and consumers of goods
> labelled in Chinese, to the degree that information about these
> will be available online, or information about these can be
> controlled online.
> 
> I think the two mainland Chinese candidates are unacceptable if
> for this reason only, and that all candidates in democratic
> countries should be uniting to prevent a Chinese candidate from
> being elected.  If only because they are subject to political
> pressure to make decisions that disadvantage Taiwan, democracy,
> and human rights.
> 
> If you see this situation differently, I would very much like
> to know how you see it.
> 
> Craig Hubley
> craig@hubley.com
> 
> 
> 
> 

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