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Annette Lu blasts Obama for calling Taiwan ‘entity’

Taipei Times

From third left, Northern Taiwan Society chairman Chang Yeh-sen, former vice president Annette Lu and Eastern Taiwan Society vice president Winston Yu chant slogans at a news conference at the National Taiwan University Alumni Hall in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and pro-independence activists yesterday protested against US President Barack Obama after he described Taiwan as an “entity,” reiterating Taiwan’s statehood after a discussion about the nation’s image in mainstream US politics.

‘One China’ destined for the dustbin of history

James Wang 王景弘

What is left of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) still does not want to see Taiwan succeed. It has tried to put a damper on the telephone call from President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) to US president-elect Donald Trump, warning Tsai not to allow herself to become a pawn in Washington’s chess game, and to learn the lessons of the limitations of the nation’s expectations from the era of its dealings with former US president Ronald Reagan.

MAC may replace ‘1992 consensus’

Taipei Times

Mainland Affairs Council Minister Katharine Chang, center, speaks to reporters yesterday.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Katharine Chang (張小月) yesterday said that the council is working on a new cross-strait policy to replace the so-called “1992 consensus” as part of its efforts to overcome the impasse across the Taiwan Strait.

It is the time to ‘Light Up Taiwan’

Taipei Times Editorial

Since the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 2758 on Oct. 25, 1971, recognizing the People’s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China and expelling “the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) from the place which they unlawfully occupy at the United Nations and in all the organizations related to it,” Taiwan has been isolated from the international community and subjected to unfair treatment.

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