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China’s pursuit of semiconductor firms

Taipei Times Editorial

Can anything prevent China becoming a major player in the global semiconductor industry? The announcements by several Taiwanese semiconductor firms that they are selling non-controlling stakes to China’s Tsinghua Unigroup are an indicatation that Beijing is stepping up efforts to build its own semiconductor industry and reduce its reliance on foreign suppliers.

Beijing, Ma attempt to trap Taiwan

Liberty Times Editorial

Are there really three tickets in the presidential election race? This is a question that demands attention.

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) is in trouble.

First, there were the internal power struggles and jockeying for position ahead of its presidential primary; the ouster of its former presidential candidate, Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱); and its bungling of the legislator-at-large list, criticized as a “historic worst” within the party.

Insurance for Chinese students

Taipei Times Editorial

A growing concern in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) camp that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) would change her position on whether Chinese studying in Taiwan should be included in the National Health Insurance (NHI) program has pushed this hackneyed, old issue over which the government and the opposition have sparred too many times once again to the top of the political agenda, making it an election issue.

One Taiwan and ‘one China’

Taipei Times Editorial

“The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is the Republic of China (ROC),” ROC founder Sun Yat-sen’s (孫逸仙) granddaughter Lily Sun (孫穗芳) said during a visit to the Legislative Yuan on Monday.

Lily Sun’s remark came as she responded to media queries on her thoughts about the founding of the ROC in China, which is now the PRC.

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