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#GRUBSHEET STORY GOES GLOBAL

Posted on October 19, 2020 9 Comments

Our story yesterday on the attack by two Chinese diplomats on a Taiwanese official in Suva was confirmed this afternoon by the Taiwanese Foreign Ministry in Taipei and has gone global.

Here are the links to a selection of stories:

The Washington Post :

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/taiwanese-staffer-injured-in-clash-with-chinese-side-in-fiji/2020/10/19/8bbef522-11c7-11eb-a258-614acf2b906d_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0MyffNsfp2h4mFDFb6N4zciYNdUmm_aRRGq3OPK6lLLW8ZRCbsK4ZmGiM

The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/taiwan-official-in-hospital-after-alleged-violent-attack-by-chinese-diplomats-in-fiji

ABC Australia:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-19/taiwan-diplomat-allegedly-assaulted-by-chinese-officials-fiji/12782794

The Times of India:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/taiwanese-staffer-injured-in-clash-with-chinese-side-in-fiji/articleshow/78743374.cms

The Bangkok Post:

https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2004559/taiwan-says-chinese-diplomats-assaulted-official-in-fiji

Asahi Shimbun (Japan):

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13843709

The Australian:

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/chinese-taiwanese-embassy-staff-brawl-in-fiji-as-pacific-tensions-flare/news-story/2c2b49ace5f5038e8e207457254cb29f

There has been no official statement from Beijing but the Chinese Embassy in Suva is maintaining that it was their diplomats who were attacked and that reports on social media (Grubsheet) “are totally inconsistent with the facts”. Here’s the local statement:

http://fj.china-embassy.org/eng/sgxw/t1824986.htm

As I said in our previous story, the Suva embassy would have us believe that two Chinese diplomats went to a Taiwanese reception and were assaulted by a person who ended up in hospital with a head wound. Yes, that makes sense. He obviously assaulted their fists with his head.

As of this evening Fiji time, Grubsheet’s online security protection had blocked 186 “malicious log-in attempts” today, up from a handful even during some of our most controversial postings over the past two months. So that if one of these eventually succeeds and the website goes down, we’ll know where the finger of blame can be pointed. The Chinese are masters of cyber warfare and Grubsheet is a very small target in the overall scheme of things – a minuscule dot in the vastness of cyberspace.

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  1. AvatarBroofstoyefski says

    October 19, 2020 at 7:45 pm

    Of course the hopeless police will believe the two Commies who attempted to somehow “sabotage” the Taiwanese event. However stories like this is bound to catch fire very quickly and it’s happening.

    I won’t be surprised if FFP itself doesn’t make a statement either.

    Reply
  2. AvatarKoicalevu says

    October 19, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    I have a feeling the PLA – Unit 61398 will be paying close attention to your site in the coming days.

    Reply
    • AvatarBroofstoyefski says

      October 19, 2020 at 8:51 pm

      Exactly, any despotic communistic regime would target whistleblowers like grubby, especially with the recent attempted “hacks.”

      Reply
  3. AvatarRajiv Sharma says

    October 20, 2020 at 12:38 am

    Congrats on breaking this story.

    Reply
  4. AvatarSteve says

    October 20, 2020 at 2:14 am

    Thank you for reporting the fact and reveal what happened to the world.

    Reply
  5. AvatarAtoese Tuimalealiifano says

    October 20, 2020 at 6:16 am

    Koicalevu aka ? Pardon my ignorance. What is PLA?

    Reply
    • AvatarBroofstoyefski says

      October 20, 2020 at 1:09 pm

      China’s military cyber intelligence unit, PLA just means “People’s Liberation Army.”

      Reply
  6. AvatarAvs says

    October 20, 2020 at 10:44 am

    Nice!! People need to see the bullying that China is participating in around the world. Well done!!

    Reply
    • Avatarchairmao commie dude not says

      October 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm

      Beijing has intensified its efforts to block symbols of Taiwan’s soft power and de facto independence, denouncing the island’s flag, or events like the national day celebration as illegitimate.

      “Talk about squeezing Taiwan’s international space,” Margaret Lewis, a law professor at Seton Hall University in New Jersey who studies China and Taiwan, said in an interview. “It’s sad to see even a celebratory reception at a hotel in Fiji is declared a space by the Chinese government that cannot have freedom of assembly.”

      Reply

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Grubsheet Feejee is the blogsite of Graham Davis, an award-winning journalist turned communications consultant who was the Fijian Government’s principal communications advisor for six years from 2012 to 2018 and continued to work on Fiji’s global climate and oceans campaign up until the end of the decade.

 

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