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Mayor’s office confirms death threat

Taipei Times

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) received a death threat in a telephone call on Friday last week, Taipei City government spokesman Sidney Lin (林鶴明) said yesterday.

Media reports emerged on Wednesday night quoting Ko’s chief of staff Tsai Pi-ju (蔡壁如) as saying that a caller had criticized remarks made by Ko and warned him to “be careful,” because otherwise he would be “executed.”

China targets Taiwan’s young

Taipei Times Editorial

China, which makes no secret that its ultimate goal is to annex Taiwan, has of late made engaging young Taiwanese a top priority in its “united front” strategy against Taiwan.

At the two-day “2015 Workshop on Taiwan Affairs” in Beijing that concluded on Tuesday, in addition to affirming the so-called “1992 consensus” and an anti-Taiwanese independence stance, officials made a point of stressing that measures would be taken to “actively promote cross-strait visits and expand exchanges among young people and members of the general public on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.”

Prosecutors decide not to indict student activists

Taipei Times

Activist Lin Fei-fan, right, hands out bubble milk tea near the Shida Night Market in Taipei on Monday, having lost a bet about President Ma Ying-jeou resigning as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman over last year’s elections.
Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times

The Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday said it would not prosecute student activists who were involved in a heated protest outside the Presidential Office Building in 2013 during which 27 police officers were injured.

PRC’s new air routes merit tough response

Peng Ming-min 彭明敏

China’s unilateral declaration of its new air routes in close proximity to the Taiwan Strait median line poses a serious threat to Taiwan’s national and flight security, and is detrimental to cross-strait relations. However, the government’s slow and weak response to such tyranny is even more frustrating.

Bullying of all kinds must be met with strong protest or counteractive measures. Faced with such invasive and barbaric actions by the Chinese, the government should respond appropriately, such as by ceasing all exchanges or talks with Beijing.

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