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Political diversity key to normalcy

Imperial monarchies can transform into constitutional monarchies through democratization, with the progressive, or left, and conservative, or right, camps ruling by choice. Some imperial monarchies directly turn into “people’s democratic dictatorships” through communist revolutions, which are just communist dictatorships in practice. Based on leftist ideology, these so-called “people’s democracies” become communist autocratic regimes. Both left-wing and right-wing political parties have the potential to become authoritarian and totalitarian.

The right-wing regime of Adolf Hitler was a historical catastrophe, but was the left-wing regime of Joseph Stalin not also a historical catastrophe? And what about communist China under Mao Zedong’s (毛澤東) rule? Whether right or left, only in a true democratic system can the meaning and value of progressivism and conservatism be realized.

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Philippines and New Zealand in talks for defense pact

The Philippines and New Zealand have begun negotiating an agreement that would allow them to deploy troops on each other’s soil, the two countries said yesterday, as concerns over maritime tensions with China grow.

Manila has been seeking to boost defense ties in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond in the face of China’s growing confidence in asserting its claims over the hot spot South China Sea.

A first round of talks was held in Manila on Thursday last week between the Philippines and New Zealand’s defense departments, they said in a joint statement.

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Making history through recalls

It is everyone’s duty to protect the country. No one is an outsider. Of course, it is the same for political parties. People should make an effort to educate themselves. The government should also support and work with people to restore normalcy in the country. Our country is ours to save.

Our country is facing external threats. Chinese warplanes have made constant incursions around Taiwan. A Chinese-owned cargo vessel allegedly damaged an undersea cable near Taiwan’s northeastern coast earlier this month. In October last year, three Taiwanese members of the I-Kuan Tao (一貫道) religious group were arrested in China.

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Feckless foreign policy of the KMT

As Taiwan’s domestic political crisis deepens, the opposition Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) have proposed gutting the country’s national spending, with steep cuts to the critical foreign and defense ministries. While the blue-white coalition alleges that it is merely responding to voters’ concerns about corruption and mismanagement, of which there certainly has been plenty under Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and KMT-led governments, the rationales for their proposed spending cuts lay bare the incoherent foreign policy of the KMT-led coalition.

Introduced on the eve of US President Donald Trump’s inauguration, the KMT’s proposed budget is a terrible opening missive to its most crucial ally.

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Newsflash


An announcement posted on the Facebook page of the Indigenous Youth Front on Saturday objects to comments made by Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin.
Photo taken from the Indigenous Youth Front Facebook page

An Aboriginal group yesterday criticized Non-Partisan Solidarity Union Legislator May Chin (高金素梅) over her remarks at a summit on cross-strait relations in Beijing.