Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

Chèng-hú chhái-káng hia̍p8-tēng

Divide and conquer; set two groups against each other

Lāng káu sio kā

Literally: “Make the dogs bite each other”

People-to-people; between the peoples (of two countries)

Bîn-kan

Tâi-ôan kap Bí-kok hun-hióng chhin-bi̍t ê bîn-kan koan-hē.

Taiwan and the United States enjoy a close relationship between their two peoples.

Closer relations

Khah chhin-bi̍t8 ê koan-hē

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Lań tùi tio̍h8 kap Tiong-kok ū khah chhin-bi̍t8 ê koan-hē, kî-bāng chin kôan.

We have high hopes for closer relations with China.

Free Trade Agreement (FTA)

Chū-iû bō∙-e̍k8 hia̍p8-tēng

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ū chin chē lâng chú-tiuⁿ chhiam-tīaⁿ Bí-Tâi chū-iû bō∙-e̍k hia̍p-tēng

Many people favor signing a US-Taiwan FTA.

Don’t worry!

Copyright 2008 Tân Gī-jîn.  Used with author’s permission

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An lah! Má Chóng-thóng ē chhiam-tēng lióng-hōaⁿ hô-pêng hia̍p-tēng.

Ū liáu hô-pêng hia̍p-tēng, chiū bián kiaⁿ chiàn-cheng.

Hah! Lán kap kî-thaⁿ só·-ū kok-ka hô-pêng siong-chhú, sī in-ūi ū chhiam hô-pêng hia̍p-tēng – - ma?

Chiū sī chit-chióng ài chhiam-tēng hô-pêng hia̍p-tēng ê kok-ka, góa chiah siōng-kài kiaⁿ  – - oh…

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Don’t worry! President Ma is going to sign a cross-Strait peace treaty.

Once there’s a peace treaty, then you won’t have to be scared about having a war.

Hah! We have peaceful relations with all other countries.  Is this because we have signed peace treaties with them?

It’s just those countries that you need to sign peace treaties with that I’m most scared of…

broad and multifaceted

 

sī chin kóng-hōan jî-chhíaⁿ iū-koh sī to-bīn-hiòng ê ————————- Bí-kok kap Tâi-oân chi kan ê koan-hē sī chin kóng-hōan jî-chhíaⁿ iū-koh sī to-bīn-hiòng ê. The US-Taiwan relationship is both broad and multifaceted.

Join up with China to oppose the CCP and KMT

 

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It-hiòng to̍k-chhâi, ap-pek jîn-bîn ê kok-kiōng lióng-tóng, liân-chhiú ap-chè Tâi-ôan, kiò chò liân Kiōng chè Tâi.

 

Liân Kiōng chè Tâi í-keng hiong-kàⁿ-kàⁿ chìn-hêng tiong.

 

Án-ne lán Tâi-ôan mā èng-kai liân-ha̍p Tiong-kok jîn-bîn, hóan-chè chit nn̄g-ê iáu-siū-kut-tóng, lióng-kok jîn-bîn chiah ū chū-iû bîn-chú chun-giâm.

 

Chán oh! Liân Tiong hóan-chè Kok-Tiong!

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The two parties that have always been autocratic and oppressive to the people–the KMT and the CCP–are joining hands to suppress Taiwan, which is called “joining with the Communists to keep Taiwan down”.

 

This awful “joining with the Communists to keep Taiwan down” is already underway.

 

Well then, Taiwan should also join together with the people of China, to fight back against these two evil parties…the people of our two countries will then finally have the dignity of freedom and democracy.

 

What a great idea! Join with the Chinese to oppose the the Nationalists and the Chinese Communists!

 

Cede (territory) to

Koah-nīu

Kā Tâi-oân koah-nīu hō· Ji̍t8-pún

Cede Taiwan to Japan

One-sided, unilateral

Tan-hong-bīn