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Eric Chu’s ties to CCP raise more trust issues

Tzou Jiing-wen 鄒景雯

When asked why the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) did not send him a congratulatory message until the day after being elected chairman of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), Eric Chu (朱立倫) said that the timing of the letter was “a joint decision” by him and the CCP, a response that stunned everyone.

Chu, who lost the presidential election in 2016, is trying to stage a comeback to pave the way for a presidential bid in 2024, so it is quite surprising to see that his political wisdom has declined so incredibly fast. What other surprises can we expect from secret agreements that he might have made in exchange for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) congratulatory letter? Chu has a responsibility to all Taiwanese to offer an explanation.

US calls on Beijing to halt provocation of Taiwan

Bloomberg

US Department of State spokesman Ned Price speaks at a media briefing at the Department of State in Washington on Aug. 16.
Photo: AP

The US yesterday called on China to halt its “provocative” pressure on Taiwan after a record number of daily incursions by Chinese warplanes, saying the military actions are destabilizing and risk leading to “miscalculations.”

Su slams PRC’s incursions with 38 jets

Taipei Times

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-16 fighter jet is pictured in an undated photograph.
Photo courtesy of the Ministry of National Defense

Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) yesterday criticized China after 38 of its military aircraft crossed into Taiwan’s air defense identification zone (ADIZ) on Friday, the most in a single day since Taiwan began issuing a tally on such incursions in September last year.

Trade bloc better without China

David Kilgour and David Matas

A major goal of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), intended to cover about 40 percent of world trade, was to ensure that rule-of-law nations, not China, would write the rules for the world economy in the 21st century.

The administration of former US president Barack Obama concluded that the TPP would spur economic growth and create new jobs, while building US strategic interests in Asia. Former US president Donald Trump saw it as adding to American decline in manufacturing and withdrew immediately on taking office in 2017.

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