Mainland Chinese man claiming to be ex-navy captain breaches Taiwan defences in speedboat

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Mainland Chinese man claiming to be ex-navy captain breaches Taiwan defences in speedboat

‘The coastguard and the first-line security reporting mechanisms were not effectively managed,’ New Taipei City mayor says

Lawrence Chung in Taipei
Published: 5:56pm, 11 Jun 2024

Taiwan’s coastguard has arrested a mainland Chinese man who drove his speedboat directly to a ferry pier outside Taipei on Sunday in a breach that has raised security concerns on the island.

The man was arrested only after he arrived at the pier around 11am, despite being spotted from a coastguard lookout post while approaching the ferry terminal in the Tamsui River in New Taipei City.

The man, identified by his last name Ruan, is 60 years old and was spotted on Sunday 11km (6 nautical miles) off the coast of Tamsui district in New Taipei City. After entering the Tamsui River, which leads to downtown Taipei, the boat hit a ferry at the pier, according to the coastguard.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-dismisses-taiwans-concerns-after-man-arrested-river-leading-taipei-2024-06-12/

China dismisses Taiwan's concerns after man arrested on river leading to Taipei

By Reuters
June 12, 2024 12:48 AM EDT Updated 5 hours ago

BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters) - China's government said on Wednesday that a Chinese man arrested near Taipei after crossing the Taiwan Strait on a speedboat was acting on his own and that Taiwan should not be so suspicious, in a case that has alarmed Taiwanese security officials.

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Speaking at a regular news briefing in Beijing, Chen Binhua, spokesperson for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said what the man had done was "purely his personal action".

"There is no need for the Democratic Progressive Party authorities to see soldiers hiding behind every tree and bush, carrying out political manipulation while pretending to act earnestly," he said, referring to Taiwan's ruling party.

The man will be punished once he returns to China, Chen added, without giving details.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. A single speedboat does not an invasion make

Easy to overlook a single speedboat. But yes, potentially a cell of terrorists in one speedboat.

50 speedboats would not be missed. But even 50 speedboats does not a realistic invasion make (old style English wording).



Also, Chinese do not have "last names" in the sense Americans do. The usual pattern is family name first. Much better to say his "family name" or "surname". It is a kind of euro-ethnic-centrist ignorance that people writing about Chinese-Taiwanese events should know to avoid. (no source given for first excerpt)

In other cultures the surname is placed first, followed by the given name or names. The latter is often called the Eastern naming order because Europeans are most familiar with the examples from the East Asian cultural sphere, specifically, Greater China, Korea (both North and South), Japan, and Vietnam. This is also the case in Cambodia and among the Hmong of Laos and Thailand. The Telugu people of south India also place surname before personal name. There are some parts of Europe, in particular Hungary, where the surname is placed before the personal name.[Wikipedia]