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Debates are for show, not reality

Taipei Times Editorial

Many people have high expectations of the presidential debates, especially candidates with lower support ratings, as they hope that the leading candidate will reveal flaws as she comes under fire and that her approval ratings will drop, providing them with an opportunity turn the situation around. By the same token, if the leading candidate does not stumble, she is likely to be victorious.

The Origin of Taiwanese Shrine

Dr. Hsu-Tung Yang & translated by Simon Lin

Since ancient times, people of Taiwan have been constantly colonized and indoctrinated with ideologies of feudalism, emperors and princes by colonizers, and thus have a very blur concept about “god”. In order to survive from physical livelihood to mental suppression, people have emerged themselves into a phenomenon of “self-handicapping and self-devaluation”, and believe that only officials, generals and conquerors can be called as “god”.

Chu needs to honestly define ‘1992 consensus’

James Wang 王景弘

Young master Eric Chu (朱立倫), the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) chairman, who also became the party’s presidential candidate by putting an end to the candidacy of Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), has begun to issue threats, saying, absurdly, that it would be “provocative” if Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) decided not to recognize the so-called “1992 consensus.”

Making a mockery of the judiciary

Taipei Times Editorial

One has to ask what it will take for the judicial system to get its act together — and how long the public must wait for that to happen.

Just over a month after the Control Yuan reprimanded the Ministry of Justice for negligence because two Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politicians convicted in high-profile corruption cases absconded before having to report to prison, another defendant has fled the nation after his final conviction.

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