Mainland Chinese man claiming to be ex-navy captain breaches Taiwan defences in speedboat

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. A single speedboat does not an invasion make

Easy to overlook a single speedboat. But yes, potentially a cell of terrorists in one speedboat.

50 speedboats would not be missed. But even 50 speedboats does not a realistic invasion make (old style English wording).



Also, Chinese do not have "last names" in the sense Americans do. The usual pattern is family name first. Much better to say his "family name" or "surname". It is a kind of euro-ethnic-centrist ignorance that people writing about Chinese-Taiwanese events should know to avoid. (no source given for first excerpt)

In other cultures the surname is placed first, followed by the given name or names. The latter is often called the Eastern naming order because Europeans are most familiar with the examples from the East Asian cultural sphere, specifically, Greater China, Korea (both North and South), Japan, and Vietnam. This is also the case in Cambodia and among the Hmong of Laos and Thailand. The Telugu people of south India also place surname before personal name. There are some parts of Europe, in particular Hungary, where the surname is placed before the personal name.[Wikipedia]