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"Taiwan Travel Bill" Would Give Us “Face” But Involves Perilous Risks

The US House of Representatives recently passed the Taiwan Travel Bill, which would lift the ban on the exchange of visits between high-ranking officials of the United States and Taiwan; the bill will ...

2018/01/17

368

Amending Laws in Slumber Reflects the DPP Caucus's Absent-Mindedness

After an 18-hour marathon review and voting, the amendment bill to the Labor Standards Act, as amended, was passed in the third reading on January 10. In fact, when the legislative action proceeded to ...

2018/01/16

310

The Tsai Government’s Two “Consultations”: All Empty Rhetoric

With regard to the further revision of the Labor Standards Act this time, no matter how the DPP railroaded the proceedings in the parliament to gain victory, the label of the "Capitalist Progressive P ...

2018/01/15

373

With Sticks and Carrots, Kim Jong-un Manipulates the World

The two Koreas on the 9th reopened the high-level dialogue which had been suspended for more than two years. North Korea agreed to dispatch a team of athletes to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics; the t ...

2018/01/12

389

When Tsai Ing-wen's Little Abacus Meets Xi Jinping’s Big Computer

At a year-end tea with the media, Tsai Ing-wen said she believed Xi Jinping was a "rational" decision-maker and would not use force against Taiwan. Who knew a week later Mainland China unilaterally de ...

2018/01/11

392

A Win for the NPP Is a Loss for Rule of Law in Taiwan

Huang Kuo-chang and other New Power Party (NPP) legislators assembled illegally on Ketalagan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Palace, protesting against the further revisions of the "Labor Stand ...

2018/01/10

376

Kuan Accidentally Elected NTU President, Is This the Beginning of Reforms?

Kuan Chung-ming, an Academia Sinica academician, economist, and former chairman of the Cabinet’s National Development Council, won the most votes in two rounds of balloting as a dark horse, and was ac ...

2018/01/09

365

We Should Not Consider the Pro-Reunification Faction and CCP as One and the Same

Mainland student Zhou Hongxu was convicted [by the court of the first instance] on charges of developing an organization under the "National Security Act," the case has stirred up reverberations. The ...

2018/01/08

368

Who Is Going to Blaze the Trail as Popular Opinion Turns Direction Sharply?

2017 was a year that left people on Taiwan bewildered with fear and uneasy with misgivings. Internationally, "The National Interest," a US international affairs magazine, carried an article expressing ...

2018/01/05

405

We Shouldn’t Be Too Optimistic about the New Year’s Economy

This country's economy mainly relies on the momentum of foreign trade, which left two separate records last year-- consecutive growth for 14 months in export volume and consecutive growth for 16 month ...

2018/01/04

369

Is the US Still Reliable?

In the first US national security strategy report of the Trump administration, Trump's personal concept of "America first" came out distinct; another important facet of "America first" is trade war. T ...

2018/01/03

377

Let’s See When "Anti-Green Antibodies" of Social Movements Grow?

Labor groups and students launched a march against the bad amendments to the Labor Standards Act at the end of last year. The march encountered endless confrontations, and the crowds would not disband ...

2018/01/02

375

A Gov’t that Forces People to Choose Between Sticks and Hammers

As the National Women's League (NWL) refused to sign the administrative contract forsaking its assets, Interior Minister Yeh Jiunn-rong announced the removal of Cecilia Yen Koo (辜嚴倬雲) and Yeh Chin-fon ...

2017/12/29

393

What Is the Gov’t’s Counter-policy Vis-à-Vis the M’land’s Hefty Penalties Against Our Fraud Offenders?

Last year Taiwan’s fraud ring suspects in Kenya were repatriated to the Chinese Mainland; recently they were all convicted by Beijing No. 2 Intermediate Court, the most serious offenders receiving sen ...

2017/12/28

356

Stabilization Fund Aims to Stabilize Electricity Prices, Not the DPP’s Election Prospects

Minister Shen Jong-chin recently indicated at the Legislative Yuan that hiking electricity prices would impact commodity prices and that next April when the government was scheduled to convoke the Ele ...

2017/12/27

372

Putting Partisan Interests in the Middle and Leaving National Objectives on the Side

After setbacks one after the other in amending again the "Labor Standards Act" and in the "minesweepers case," the DPP introduced a series of political bills and railroaded them in parliament with lig ...

2017/12/26

373

White Terror Painted Green, We Still Recognize It

Wang Ping-chung and three others of the New Party Youth Wing on December 20th were searched and arrested by prosecutors and investigators with a large number of officers; the four were interrogated fo ...

2017/12/25

382

Targeting the New Party Hurts Cross-Strait Relations, Gov’t Should Pursue Accountability & Prudently Handle the Aftermath

The Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Justice conducted early in the morning large-scale searches on the residences of New Party spokesman Wang Ping-chung and three other members on the groun ...

2017/12/22

375

New Southward Policy Office: "Retiring After Successfully Having Completed its Mission"?

The Presidential Palace recently proclaimed that the New Southward Policy Office would be "dismantled" starting next year. In other words, this brain organization charged with planning the New Southwa ...

2017/12/21

327

Moriarty’s Taiwan Visit Reflects the Tsai Government's Predicament, Both Domestic and Foreign

James Moriarty, Chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan, came to Taiwan for a visit last week and called on Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan and President Tsai Ing-wen. The deepest impression th ...

2017/12/20

362

The First Salvo under the Plebiscite Act, as Amended: Normalization of Cross-Strait Economics and Trade

The Legislative Yuan passed an amendment bill to the "Plebiscite Act" in the third reading, massively lowering the various bars for a plebiscite. A proposal may be introduced by only one ten thousandt ...

2017/12/19

398

The Ridiculousness Behind Guarantee of No Hikes in Gas & Electricity Prices

Economics Minister Shen Jong-chin recently, in answering a question from DPP legislator Huang Wei-cheh about the “taboo” of the dual hikes in gas and electricity prices, declared that although prices ...

2017/12/18

367

The Myth of Contraction: When Taipei's Pay Scale Loses to Beijing

Despite the fact that Taiwan's pay scale has been in the doldrums being an open secret, when people learned that the average salary in Taipei is lower than in Beijing, they were still startled that it ...

2017/12/15

486

Facing the Changing International Situation, What is Tsai Ing-wen’s Strategy?

The recent international situation has been treacherous and volatile. After North Korea successfully test-fired the Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile, the crisis in the Korean Peninsula in ...

2017/12/14

358

Paradoxical Promotion of the Transformational Justice View of History

Proclaiming to fully implement "transformational justice," the DPP, relying on its overwhelming majority in the Legislative Yuan, forcibly passed a bill titled “Statute Governing the Promotion of Tran ...

2017/12/13

525

Investing in Taiwan: Lai Ching-te’s Wishful Thinking

The Cabinet convoked an ad hoc meeting for accelerating investments in Taiwan, reviewing the situation of foreign and overseas Chinese direct investments (FDI). The Premier proposed three strategies t ...

2017/12/12

352

Prosecutor-General Yen Ta-ho, Please Leave an Image of Paradigm for Guardian for of Justice

Ching Fu’s minesweepers case has spawned several scandals, including loan fraud, leaving layers and layers of suspicions. However, the Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office has been investigating the ...

2017/12/11

401

"Transitional Justice" to Become the DPP's Ladder for New Authoritarianism

While the protests against the revisions to the "Labor Standards Act" are still alive, the DPP immediately launched a battle for enacting the bill titled “Statute Governing the Promotion of Transforma ...

2017/12/08

418

Two Battles for Revising Labor Standards Act Have Destroyed Lin Chuan and Wounded Lai Ching-te

A year ago this week, the DPP, in high-handed moves, completed the legislative action of an amendment bill to the Labor Standards Act, loudly cheering victory and proclaiming that it had secured unpre ...

2017/12/07

424

Sandwiched by Coal-Burning and Air Pollution, Are Free Rides on Public Conveyances Really a Solution?

In order to counter the impending arrival of peak air pollution during the winter, local governments in central and southern Taiwan have recently tossed out magic solutions one after another. The firs ...

2017/12/06

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