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Expert pleads for 228 Incident papers

Taipei Times

Wu San Lien Foundation for Taiwan Historical Materials secretary-general Tai Pao-tsun yesterday speaks at an event at the National 228 Memorial Museum in Taipei.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) should be required to open party archives to allow academics to search for a list of people targeted during the 228 Incident, a leading expert on Taiwanese history said yesterday.

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The place of Su Beng in the fight for freedom

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

Long-time Taiwan independence advocate Su Beng (史明), 97, is affectionately known by the epithet Uncle Su Beng. Su’s monumental memoirs — which reach an impressive length of more than 1,000 pages and are to be published by Avanguard Press on May 20, the same day that president-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to be sworn in as president — are of both political and cultural significance.

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US has Taiwan’s back: admiral

Taipei Times

US Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi hold a joint news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
Photo: Reuters

As China deploys fighter jets, missiles and radars across the South China Sea, the US is to continue supporting Taiwan’s security, a top US admiral told the US Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.

“I believe China seeks hegemony in East Asia,” said Admiral Harry Harris, head of the US Pacific Command.

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New national anthem needed

Taipei Times Editorial

A national anthem, an indispensable representation of any sovereign nation, plays a crucial role in fostering national unity, instilling national pride and reinforcing a patriotic spirit.

It is therefore understandable that President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) has expressed concern over the frequency of the national anthem being sung by students at elementary and junior-high schools.

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Newsflash

Although the Ministry of National Defense and some Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators played down the significance of an incident involving two Chinese fighter aircraft in the Taiwan Strait late last month, analysts say the matter is more than simply routine.

Confirming on Monday media reports that one of two Chinese Sukhoi-27 fighter aircraft shadowing a US U-2 spy plane had crossed the median line in the Taiwan Strait on June 29, ministry officials maintained this was an isolated incident and did not regard it as provocative.

The Chinese aircraft are believed to have been from the 40th Fighter Regiment, 14th Fighter Division at Nanchang-Xiangtang Air Base in Jiangxi Province.