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Beijing fueling anti-China sentiment

Taipei Times Editorial

With the Jan. 11 elections right around the corner, public anger toward China has been running high due to a couple of attempts this week by Beijing to oppress Taiwanese. China has long meddled in Taiwan’s affairs and has gotten its way in many high-profile debacles over the past few years, but this time, both incidents ended in Taiwan’s favor.

Chinese product boycott necessary

Taipei Times Editorial

US Representative Ted Yoho on Tuesday last week called on US citizens to boycott Chinese products for human rights, citing Beijing’s oppression of Hong Kong, Xinjiang, Tibet and Taiwan. In a House committee hearing commemorating International Human Rights Day, Yoho correctly pointed out that the oppression only went unanswered because of China’s economic dominance.

Sweden, Taiwan hold first climate meeting in Madrid

Taipei Times

Environmental Protection Administration Minister Chang Tzi-chin, left, shakes hands with Mattias Frumerie, head of Sweden’s delegation to the 25th Conference of the Parties, on the sidelines of the conference in Madrid on Thursday.
Photo courtesy of the Representative Office of Taiwan in Sweden via CNA

Sweden on Thursday held its first bilateral talks on climate change with Taiwan at the 25th Conference of the Parties (COP25) in Madrid.

Academic urges TRA-like Japan law

Taipei Times

International relations academic Genki Fujii, fourth left, Formosa Republican Association Chairman Yen Ching-chang, center, Japanese Conservative Union Chairman Jikido Aeba, fourth right, former National Security Council deputy secretary-general Parris Chang, right, and others gesture at a seminar in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

Japan should enforce a law parallel to the US’ Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) to consolidate its partnership with Taiwan, Jikido Aeba, a Japanese lawmaker and academic, told a seminar in Taipei yesterday.

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