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AIT posts interview after TVBS axes it

Taipei Times

>American Institute in Taiwan Chairman James Moriarty speaks at National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu on Nov. 7.
Photo: Hung Mei-hsiu, Taipei Times

The American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) on Thursday posted on Facebook an interview AIT Chariman James Moriarty did with Television Broadcasts Satellite (TVBS), after the channel pulled it from its programming lineup one day after airing.

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Revamping Taiwan-US relations

Parris Chang 張旭成

On June 12, when the world was transfixed on the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore, a major ceremony was taking place in Taipei to mark the opening of a new diplomatic complex of great geopolitical significance. Occupying 6.5 hectares, with a cost of US$225 million, the new five-story American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) is the biggest diplomatic compound in Asia, bigger even than the US embassy in Beijing.

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New face needed for NT$200 bills

Martin Oei 黃世澤

Following the introduction of the NT$200 bill, very few people have chosen to use it. One reason for the low adoption rate is that Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) image is on the bill and as a form of silent protest many Taiwanese have avoided using it.

As a result of Chiang’s actions following the 228 Incident in 1947 he is known as a butcher in Taiwan.

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Beijing waging political warfare against Taiwan

Taipei Times

People waving People’s Republic of China national flags participate in a rally on Oct. 1 last year outside Taipei Railway Station.
Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei Times

The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Wednesday published its annual report, in which it quoted Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation research fellow Peter Mattis as saying that Beijing’s aim is to create “a ‘fake civil society’ that can be used against Taiwan’s democratic system.”

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Newsflash

The way the government has danced to the tune of China in its recent designation of an air defense identification zone (ADIZ) in the East China Sea is tantamount to a “tacit acknowledgement” that China has sovereignty over Taiwan’s territorial airspace, an academic said yesterday.

China declared the ADIZ with the intent to claim that the airspace over Taiwan falls within its jurisdiction, and the Taiwanese government’s docile response can be interpreted as an agreement to hand over sovereignty to China under international law, said Chris Huang (黃居正), an associate professor at the Institute of Law for Science and Technology at National Tsing Hua University.