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No end to transitional justice: Tsai


President Tsai Ing-wen, left, yesterday at a 228 Incident memorial ceremony in Keelung presents Liu Chen-hsiung with a certificate restoring the reputation of his father, Liu Hsin-fu.
Photo: Tu Chien-jung, Taipei Times

The nation’s transitional justice efforts would soon reach a new milestone with the Cabinet taking over the responsibilities of the ad hoc Transitional Justice Commission, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said yesterday during a 228 Incident memorial in Keelung.

During an address to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the 1947 Incident, Tsai said that the commission, established in 2018, would disband at the end of May after issuing its final report on human rights abuses under the then-Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) regime.

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Taiwanese not ready for defense: Fukuyama


US political scientist Francis Fukuyama takes part in a video conference yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Renowned US political scientist Francis Fukuyama yesterday said he thinks Ukrainians are much more willing to defend themselves than Taiwanese, which poses a significant threat to Taiwan’s future and independence.

Fukuyama, the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, made the remarks in a speech titled “Threats to Liberalism and the Liberal World Order” in a virtual forum held by the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science Foundation.

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Newsflash


Premier William Lai presides over a ceremony on Friday in Taipei to honor this year’s outstanding civil servants.
Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times

The National Development Council yesterday proposed eight major policies to Premier William Lai (賴清德) in a plan outlining how to turn Taiwan into a Chinese-English bilingual country by the year 2030 to embrace global competition.