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Lingering shadow of political terrorism

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

Last month’s 228 Memorial Day marked the 69th anniversary of the 228 Incident in 1947. However, the historical significance of the event was outshone by the bright lights of this year’s lantern festivals, which took place across Taiwan during the three-day 228 holiday weekend.

It has been almost 70 years since the troops dispatched by Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) landed in Keelung in early March 1947 and initiated a crackdown and massacre following the events of Feb. 28 that year.

Most reject idea of ‘one China’: survey

Taipei Times

Despite China’s repeated attempts to force Taiwan’s incoming administration to accept the idea that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to “one China,” a survey released yesterday showed that most people reject the construction.

The survey, conducted by Taiwan Indicators Survey Research (TISR) on Thursday and Friday last week, sought to gauge Taiwanese perception of the notion that “both sides of the Strait belong to one China,” which is backed by both the Taipei and Beijing constitutions.

Calls for Martial Law era articles to be declassified

Taipei Times

Taiwan Association for the Care of the Victims of Political Persecution During the Martial Law Period secretary-general Tsai Kuan-yu (蔡寬裕) has called on the government to declassify important articles and reveal the methods that the military police used to extract confessions.

Tsai’s remarks came in the wake of a recent controversy caused by a military police visit to a civilian’s home over an alleged online sale of classified government documents.

Beijing has only itself to blame

Taipei Times Editorial

China’s rise and its efforts to expand its diplomatic and economic reach have been the subject of torrents of analysis over the past two decades, with much praise coming from domestic pundits and a lot of handwringing from those in other nations, especially Western ones. The one thing the two camps appear to agree upon has been that China’s rise is seemingly inexorable.

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