The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) caucus yesterday accused President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) of caving in to the US’ demand that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) hand over confidential information.
The US Department of Commerce on Sept. 23 asked US and foreign semiconductor companies, including TSMC and South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co, to provide information on chip inventory and sales within the next 45 days, media reports said.
US President Joe Biden’s administration is considering invoking the Defense Production Act to force companies to provide the information, the reports said.
US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo was cited by Reuters as saying that
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COVID-19: KMT councilor adds fire to Chen ‘execution’ row
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Tainan City Councilor Lu Kun-fu (盧崑福) of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday sparked further controversy when he echoed remarks by KMT caucus whip Alex Fei (費鴻泰) that Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung (陳時中) should be executed for an increase in domestic COVID-19 cases.
Chen heads the Central Epidemic Command Center.
Lu at a question-and-answer session at the Tainan City Council said that a lapse in disease prevention measures at China Airlines, which has led to a cluster infection, could have been controlled.
However, as the airline’s pilots were allowed a shortened quarantine period of three days and were placed in a hotel with other guests, the local outbreak began, Lu said.
DPP slams KMT for criticism of Kelly Craft’s visit
MEMORY LOSS? The DPP said former president Ma Ying-jeou must have forgotten that he had in 2009 welcomed John Bolton with much fanfare
By Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday criticized Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) officials who said that US Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft’s planned visit to Taiwan was “not helpful” and would “rile China.”
“The KMT just wants to placate China, and does not like us doing things that will make positive change. If we do not, Taiwan would sink deeper into the ‘one China’ trap, which is much more dangerous,” DPP Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) said.