Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers voiced their disapproval of a report by the legislature’s Legislative Research Bureau recommending that the government reduce swathes of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ).
In the report titled A Brief Analysis of Issues Pertaining to the Country’s ADIZ which was later withdrawn from the Legislative Yuan’s Web site the agency said that the zone’s southwestern portion overlaps with air corridors that Chinese warplanes must take to conduct exercises outside of the Bashi Channel.
This means that Taiwan’s air force must scramble fighter jets in response to routine air and sea drills conducted by the
By Wu Su-wei and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writerDemocratic Progressive Party （DPP） lawmakers voiced their disapproval of a report by the legislature’s Legislative Research Bureau recommending that the government reduce swathes of Taiwan’s air defense identification zone （ADIZ）.
Big-name Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politicians and high-ranking military officers frequently visit former president Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) mausoleum in Cihu (慈湖) in Taoyuan’s Dasi District (大溪) to lay flowers and commemorate the self-styled “generalissimo” and his son former president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國).
However, are these “big beasts” of the pan-blue camp and top military brass really as loyal to the memory of the two Chiangs as their public pilgrimages make them out to be?
In April 2015, former premier Hau Pei-tsun (郝柏村) led a delegation of 21 retired generals and more than 100 other retired high-ranking officers to the Cihu Mausoleum
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsu Chih-chieh (許智傑) on Monday called on the military to alter insignia containing the outdated Republic of China (ROC) “begonia” map used by some of its branches.
The proposal to change the insignia is the latest move by the DPP to “desinicize” Taiwan, after it renamed the nation’s postal service, redesigned the cover of the passport and the imagery on China Airlines aircraft, reduced content about China’s history in national curricula and renamed overseas representative offices.
With polls showing that Taiwanese overwhelmingly identify as “Taiwanese” and not “Chinese,” there is nothing wrong with these changes in principle,