As the Dajia Matsu procession passed through Changhua County on Saturday last week, China Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) founder Chang An-le (張安樂) led a group of party members to welcome the palanquin bearing a statue of the sea goddess Matsu. A scuffle ensued between police, CUPP members and others. The incident was a publicity stunt. As the CUPP has been marginalized in Taiwan, it has been trying to grab attention by stirring up trouble.
From the CUPP members’ “dress code” that day vests bearing the words “Taiwan independence will lead to war” people should be able to see through
When retired army colonel Hsin Peng-sheng (辛澎生) was found guilty of spying for China, the prosecution was dissatisfied with his six-month prison sentence and appealed the case.
However, he was found not guilty by a court of appeal, and he has been acquitted again in a retrial.
The judges’ reasoning was that there are no facts or evidence to prove that Hsin developed a spying organization on behalf of China.
Unsurprisingly, the judges of the High Court’s Kaohsiung branch took a simplistic view and followed the letter of the law, because they are not worldly wise and do not know much about how
<strong>Fang Fang’s love of China</strong>
The father of one of my classmates was a veteran who went into the civil service when he was middle-aged. When the ban on travel to China was lifted for Taiwanese with relatives on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, he returned to China.
He came back to Taiwan and stayed, never again returning to China. He said that Taiwan was a good place to live, that one could settle down here and nobody would be after his pension.
This elderly public servant was more discerning than Taiwanese TV personality Fang Fang (方芳) and the
<strong>Army not KMT’s servants</strong>
When the Transitional Justice Commission criticized the conduct of the Republic of China (ROC) armed forces under the leadership of former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), Veterans Affairs Council Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬) shot back with “that is how it was.”
His answer needs qualification; he needs to add “but it is no longer the case.” He owes this much to the armed forces, to set the question into the correct historical context.
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) once said that Chiang did not want talent in his military, he just wanted minions, to explain the Chinese communists’ victory over
KMT’s anti-Taiwan clique must be thwarted
By Chen Chi-nung 陳啟濃
Japanese Representative to Taiwan Hiroyasu Izumi on Friday last week posted a New Year’s message to Taiwan on Facebook, writing that in his first year in office, he has witnessed Taiwan’s democracy in action and expressing his gratitude to Taiwan for its adept handling of the COVID-19 pandemic within its borders.
The whole world will forever associate last year with Taiwan, he added.
Izumi’s heartfelt message is a far cry from the empty platitudes and formulaic language of diplomatese.
The Japanese are a notoriously fastidious people; such high praise from a nation of perfectionists is proof that President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) administration’s shepherding of the nation through the tempestuous pandemic has been second to none, including Japan.