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Developing young minds

Taipei Times Editorial

A Taoyuan city councilor sent the room into peals of laughter, mostly scornful, when she asked officials at a council meeting who Chung Chao-cheng (鍾肇政) is and “whether he is still alive and so famous” that there have to be awards and local buildings named after him.

Widely considered one of the most important advocates of Hakka culture, Chung, now 90 years old, is a literary figure who was born in Taoyuan and has lived there most of his life. He has won national arts awards and medals.

Economic annexation of Taiwan

Lai Chung-chiang 賴中強

Carrying out his father’s dying wish to “turn Taiwanese independence into gradual unification with China,” President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) last year said that he wanted to hold a meeting between the leaders of the two “areas” to “stabilize” the so-called “1992 consensus” and create a permanent political framework that successive governments would be unable to alter.

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.

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