fear too much of Red

Taipei Times - archives: "Then the wire got the museum director’s lame excuse:

“‘In accordance with professional museum ethics, we can’t collect disputed artefacts,’ said Chou Kung-shin [周功鑫], director of the museum which boasts the world’s largest collection of classical Chinese art.”

That might make sense, were it not for the fact that the entire National Palace Museum collection is disputed — the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) looted the whole damn pile, and Beijing still claims it all.

None other than a KMT legislator summed up my thoughts nicely.

“‘The museum is spineless. [Berge] wants to give the relics to you and you won’t even accept?’ said Lee Ching-hua [李慶華], a lawmaker from the ruling Kuomintang party.”

Yes, being director of the National Palace Museum is hard — especially in the touchy-feely era of “warming cross-strait relations.”"