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China-Japan-Koreas
Taiwan MPs brawl over deal with China
2010-07-09
[Iran Press TV Latest] Rival politicians in Taiwan's parliament have traded blows over a controversial trade pact with China, injuring several lawmakers.

The fisticuffs broke out immediately after the debate started on the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement on Thursday.

At least four lawmakers were injured as lawmakers threw objects and kicked each other.

Two MPs, one from the ruling party and the other from the opposition were hospitalized.

"He was bleeding after he was hit in the corner of the eye, and doctors had to stitch him up," Premier Wu Den-yih told reporters referring to Wu Yu-sheng, a member of the ruling Kuomintang party.

Negotiators from Taiwan and China signed the trade pact last week.

The ruling party politicians have hailed the agreement, saying it will bolster the island's economy.

Opponents claim the flood of Chinese imports will hurt small local businesses.
Posted by:Fred

#3  S-o-o-o IOW, IIUC TAIWAN'S GOVT is having the overt internal quarrel that KIMMIE + NOKOR'S REGIME should be having, oer the Sino-DPRK agreement to set up near-term, likely CHINESE-CENTRIC/DOMINATED FREEPORTS OR SEZS-EEZS in North Korea.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2010-07-09 20:55  

#2  The opponents are correct! Commie conquest via $.99 Stores! How can one nation - even using slave labor - make sooooooooo much cr*p?
Posted by: borgboy   2010-07-09 03:42  

#1  Those dudes are always mixing it up on the floor.
Nothing new here.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-07-09 03:02  

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