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Defining the dynamic ‘status quo’

Leung Man-to 梁文韜

At about the time Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) visited the US, tensions between the US and China had built up tremendously. Just before the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank’s (AIIB) articles of association were signed, the two nations were having strategic and economic dialogues as an attempt to minimize differences and ease tension to pave the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) visit to the US in September.

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NPP reveals ‘two-state’ China policy

Taipei Times

New Power Party Acting President Huang Kuo-chang, center, speaks during a news conference yesterday in which the party announced its China policy.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

The New Power Party (NPP) yesterday said its cross-strait policy would focus on demonstrating that Taiwan and China are two separate nations, while amending laws according to the cross-strait factual “status quo.”

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Student slips by police in Taipei rally

Taipei Times

Student Yu Teng-chieh, center, scuffles with police outside the Ministry of Education in Taipei yesterday during a protest against curriculum adjustments.
Photo: Chen Chih-chu, Taipei Times

In an apparent attempt to petition Minister of Education Wu Se-hwa (吳思華) over a set of controversial adjustments to high-school curriculum guidelines, a high-school student yesterday managed to break through a police cordon in front of the ministry’s building in Taipei, but was handcuffed and detained.

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Students rally against altered curricula

Taipei Times

High-school students protesting in Taipei yesterday against planned alterations to high-school curriculum guidelines hold banners and umbrellas bearing slogans outside the Ministry of Education’s K-12 Education Administration.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

Hundreds of high-school students in Taipei yesterday protested against what they said was the Ministry of Education’s “China-centric” alterations to curricula.

Protesters said their use of an image of a black umbrella looming over Taiwan signified the ministry’s “opaque” and “arbitrary” manipulation of textbooks.

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Newsflash

Curfews at dormitories, bans on demonstrations, skyrocketing tuition and gender inequalities in school regulations are among the violations of student rights’ that are still common at schools, a group of students said yesterday after investigating 65 universities across the country.

“Apparently, many schools are still under martial law, since more than 60 percent of the universities in the country still have school rules restricting students’ rights to hold assemblies and demonstrations,” Cheng Yi-chan (鄭亦展), a student at Chang Gung University’s Computer Science and Information Engineering Department and a member of the Student Rights Team, told a forum yesterday.