Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Huang Kuo-shu (黃國書) on Oct. 17 confirmed a report that he had been an informant for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) authoritarian regime when he was a student and had spied on dissidents. Huang was initially outed in a report by the Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper), published the same day.
DPP cofounder Chiang Peng-chien (江鵬堅) has also been implicated after being accused of having worked as an undercover agent of the Ministry of Justice’s Investigation Bureau, and there has been further speculation that lawyers defending dissidents rounded up and tried by the
Anyone who has lived in Taiwan very long quickly sees that October is a month of posturing, irony and anomalies. This year’s October not only met that mark, but was rich in overtones and humor.
Oct. 1 is the National Day of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), formally established in 1949, and so the month always begins with PRC posturing. This October, Chinese president Xi Jinping (習近平) reiterated China’s worn out claims on how it must reunite what really had never been united in the first place.
As backstory, Xi’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded in 1921, a
Anyone who has lived in Taiwan very long quickly sees that October is a month of posturing, irony and anomalies. This year’s October not only met that mark, but was rich in overtones and humor.
Oct. 1 is the National Day of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), formally established in 1949, and so the month always begins with PRC posturing. This October, Chinese president Xi Jinping (習近平) reiterated China’s worn out claims on how it must reunite what really had never been united in the first place.
As backstory, Xi’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was founded in 1921, a
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