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Aboriginal White Terror period victims remembered

Taipei Times

Jih Chin-chun, the first Taiwanese Aborigine to fall victim to the White Terror era, smiles before being executed in Taipei on Aug. 29, 1952.
Photo courtesy of the Transitional Justice Commission

Jih Chin-chun (日進春), a member of the Saisiyat community, was the first Taiwanese Aborigine to fall victim to the White Terror era when he was shot by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) military police at a riverbank in Taipei 69 years ago, the Transitional Justice Commission said yesterday.

Jih has been memorialized by a picture, in which he is shown laughing, captured just before he was executed on Aug. 29, 1952, the commission said.

Abandonment of Taiwan unlikely

Theodore Leshnick

As the US is pulling out of Afghanistan, many Americans wonder what the war was all for. Seeing planes airlifting refugees out of Kabul brings back memories of planes flying into the Twin Towers in 2001.

In the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the US invaded Afghanistan. The US was grieving and wanted to get revenge.

Whether it got revenge is subjective. The objective truth is that the US got Osama bin Laden, a 20-year conflict and US$2.261 trillion in war debt.

Taiwan, Japan ruling parties talk trade

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party legislators Tsai Shih-ying, top left, and Lo Chih-cheng, top center, and Japanese Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers Masahisa Sato, top right, and Taku Otsuka, bottom center, yesterday discuss trade and defense during a videoconference.
Photo courtesy of the Democratic Progressive Party

The ruling parties of Taiwan and Japan yesterday held their first diplomatic and defense policy discussion, with representatives of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) pledging to support Taiwan’s bid to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Defense autonomy to deter China

Taipei Times Editorial

As the local media continue to ponder over the events in Kabul, many have rightly pointed out the folly of comparing Afghanistan with Taiwan. Culturally, politically, economically and geographically, the two countries are poles apart. Nevertheless, the hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, and the country’s return to rule under the oppressive Taliban regime, has ignited a debate within Taiwan over whether the US can be relied upon to come to its defense.

On Tuesday last week, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) wrote on Facebook: “I want to tell everyone that Taiwan’s only option is to make ourselves stronger, more united and more resolute in our determination to protect ourselves.”

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