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Ma and KMT’s selective tough stance

President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) unusually strongly worded statement on Wednesday denouncing the Japan Coast Guard’s seizure of a Taiwanese fishing boat stands in stark contrast to his lukewarm attitude over the deportation of Taiwanese from Kenya to China earlier this month.

In the statement, Ma vowed to take immediate concrete measures to safeguard Taiwan’s fishing rights within a range of 12 to 200 nautical miles (22.2km to 370.4km) around the uninhabited Okinotori atoll, calling it the high seas.

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On legislating transitional justice

For several consecutive days, the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) legislative caucus has been blocking legislation for the promotion of transitional justice proposed by the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). They first withdrew en masse from voting on the draft act, then proposed that it be reconsidered. In the end, the KMT was too few in numbers, and the party lost the vote on whether the proposal should be reconsidered before being submitted to the Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee by 68 votes against 25.

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Taiwan among nations targeted by US exercises


A US FA-18 jet lands on the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier in the South China Sea on April 15.
Photo: AP

The US military conducted “freedom of navigation” operations against 13 countries last year, including Taiwan, and several to challenge China’s claims in the South and East China seas, according to an annual Pentagon report released on Monday.

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Ma’s delusions tar his legacy

Even though President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) is to step down in less than a month, he still appears to be stuck in “la-la land,” feeling content with his governance and record with no sign he is aware of how Taiwanese really feel or mainstream public opinion.

Ma’s apparent delusional state is evidenced by his comments in a recent interview with the Straits Times from Singapore.

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Newsflash


Taiwan Thinktank deputy chief executive Lai I-chung shows a graph of a public opinion survey indicating that more than 68 percent of Taiwanese are not satisfied with President Ma Ying-jeou’s performance, at a press conference in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

On the eve of the final year of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) second four-year term today, Ma’s disapproval rating stood at nearly 70 percent or higher in various surveys, while his approval rating was as low as less than 20 percent.