After the recent Typhoon Morakot devastated the island of Taiwan with over 100 people dead and many hundred people missing, mainland China donated 1000 prefabricated housing sets (mobile homes?) along with other aid including tents, blankets, and money. However, some Taiwanese people rejected this donation of temporary housing because they feared poisonous toxic chemicals in the materials. Here is part of an English news report from Reuters:

TAIPEI, Aug 19 (Reuters) – A Taiwan town where 700 people were displaced after the island’s worst typhoon in 50 years has declined mobile homes from political rival China, fearing the they might contain toxic chemicals, officials said on Wednesday.

Chiatung Township refused 100 quick-assembly homes after Taiwan’s notoriously anti-China county of Pingtung said that based on news reports in China, they might contain formalin, a chemical that can be hazardous in high doses, deputy county magistrate Chung Chia-pin said.

“Although the homes are a humanitarian donation, we need to consider safety first,” Chung said. “Also, not just China, but other countries are also offering these donations.”

The homes, which reached Taiwan on Tuesday, should be tested for any contamination, said township chief Lai Hsieh-ho.

China said the homes had already been checked.

“These mobile homes are strictly produced according to Taiwan’s design requirements and technical standards by the mainland’s top producers,” Fan Liqing, spokeswoman for China’s Taiwan Affairs Office, told a news conference.

Upon seeing this news and many comments made by some Taiwanese people on Taiwanese BBS forums like PPT, many Chinese people were very offended and upset.

Comments from Tianya:

dior0823:

You give and they make sarcastic remarks; You say “wait until they have a need and then give” and they say our donation was not proactive! Only one thing to say: lowly people. That’s why we should have given them [prefabricated housing] that actually had excessive chemicals, because either way they are people who want to die but have not succeeded yet [people who are “asking for it”], so it is the same whether they die sooner or later, and yet they want to spend mainland people’s money. How come the disaster wasn’t just a little bigger? This is my biggest regret!

超哥1986:

…WW‘s mentality~~ the same as bang zi~~

Ms_静:

If they don’t want it, then they can go find America and Japan and beg them for it.

cayou米吐:

Some people have nothing better to do,

spending every day caring about foreigners’ business.

Does the country of Taiwan have 5 mao money’s relation with us?

It would be better to pay more attention to the Fujian, Zhejiang disaster victims.

左佳穗:

I really want to know what is inside these Wan-Wan‘s brains???

甜池:

I have seen this so much I no longer feel anything. Mainlanders going onto PTT are basically looking to make themselves angry, so I basically no longer go there. Most WW people are:

If we give materials/supplies, they suspect us of giving black-hearted [evil] adulterated/contaminated goods,

but if we do not give materials/supplies, they curse us for only talking big [but not doing anything].

If we give money, they suspect us of maliciously trying to reunify,

but if we do not give money, they again curse us for being a bunch of vulgar poor bastards without compassion.

Only one thing to say, no matter what you do it is wrong and harboring evil intentions. The only feeling I have within my heart towards TW [Taiwan] compatriots now is that this bunch of lowly cunts have themselves destroyed my feelings towards them after we have given so much to them.

chunfofo:

Continue tightly clutching the thigh of the [foreign] devil’s America…all are SB.

高语婕:

No matter what they say, they are still our fellow compatriots, no matter how they look at us, we are born from the same roots.

Right now there is no need to bicker here, the disaster survivors are the most important, let’s just ignore those people who have nothing to do but talk about others.

nanopanda:

I am not that magnanimous. I will not donate money to them. The mainland has also extremely seriously disaster-stricken.

熊猫数叶子:

Let us do what we do [and not care about what they say]~ those people criticizing us in Taiwan have nothing better to do, using their money to come yell at us~ would it not be better for them to save some electricity costs, internet costs, and go help those disaster victims?

舞着叉叉的恶魔:

Let them talk. We were donating to the disaster area, not to mental retards.

dior0823:

1000 sets of prefabricated housing does not need to be too good, it just needs to be environmentally safe and habitable for the moment [because the people will not live in them forever, it is just temporary housing]! This typhoon was too small, only that few people died in Taiwan. Coming to the mainland to order body bags, it was difficult for us to deal with the factory producers. Only a few hundred, there’s no profit [in that small amounts]! If possible, the mainland can donate 23 million body bags, guaranteed to be environmentally safe, guaranteed to be non-polluted! Then throw it into the sea, feed the fish, and it would be considered a good deed for humanity! Next, the mainland can emigrate 30 million people to Taiwan, and from then on everything will be OK!

Comments from KDS:

灵灵:

Give them face but they do not want face. If a few more Taiwanese die, then it will be peaceful.

pooruhc:

The south of Taiwan has always had a high concentration of Taiwanese independence supporters, so this incident we could say was our own fault. Looks like there is not much hope for peaceful reunification, so let us give up our fantasies and prepare to fight.

奥特MAN:

Authentic “cold butt pressed upon hot face” [being warm/friendly to someone but that person treats you coldly].

China has an old saying: Once you eat/accept other people’s things, it is harder to criticize them.

南希子:

Taiwan, the motherland is calling for you to accept the mobile homes…

金牛座:

They are much better at resisting hard disks than us SHR [Shanghai ren, Shanghai people]. We only talk, but they take action.

格鲁古古:

This is why it is said that Taiwanese are stupid/foolish. They don’t even know that the gcd [gong can dang, Communist Party] always likes to give outsiders high quality goods to use, and give their own people counterfeits + poisoned goods. The past Sanlu melamine and Mengniu incidents are the best examples.

采菊东篱下:

Great Chinese manufacturing.

夜乌子:

Chengguan battalion 1, prepare yourselves [for battle].



tintim:

Bullshit donating. They have plenty, so why give them money? Look, we give them and they do not even want it.

五作小郎君:

The poisoned stuff we cannot bear to give you guys [Taiwanese] to use! It is all for ourselves.

J.A&S.A:

It will be great the day Shanghainese can be this niubi.

无极限:

Extremely stupid/foolish.

There are no problems with the aid. Accept what is mainland China’s humanitarianism. Why refuse aid in order to criticize others? If the original destination did not need it, then rejecting it could still be understood. But refusing urgently needed materials/supplies, how can the local head/leader do right by the people? Taking any problem and politicizing it, typical of Asians, typical of Chinese.

上海菜泡饭:

The facts once again demonstrate

that military force is necessary to liberate Taiwan. As for Taiwanese pigs, we can only treat them with the neutron bomb.

耶耶的熊:

If they really have the gall, then they should also return all the money we donated~~~motherfuckers! They just know how to take money~~~

没雨:

We still do not know where [their] 5.12 donation is! A lot of them were empty promises, and then making it so difficult to donate to the Taiwanese. I really do not understand, Zhejiang and Fujian were also victims of Morakot, so why is the difference this big? Truly sad!!!

上海菜泡饭: