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Chen to be reassessed, Lu to start hunger strike

Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu, right, talks with new Democratic Progressive Party Greater Kaohsiung Council Speaker Kang Yu-cheng yesterday.
Photo: CNA

The medical team formed to assess jailed former president Chen Shui-bian’s (陳水扁) health scheduled a third round of re-evaluation of Chen’s condition for Monday after visiting Chen yesterday without concluding a report for the Ministry of Justice’s Agency of Correction.

Chen, on charges of corruption, has been imprisoned since late 2008 and his health is steadily worsening.

Chinese reform is doomed to fail

Jerome Keating

Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) anticorruption campaign has been going full swing since 2012 and it certainly is not a case of killing chickens to scare the monkeys. Many are pleased to see that Xi is swatting tigers as well as flies. However, despite that and despite Xi’s promise that this is not temporary, the campaign will fail. This is not what most Chinese want to hear and it is also not what many outside China want to hear, but the campaign will nonetheless fail.

KMT agent of CCP’s pseudo ‘peace’

The Liberty Times Editorial

Following the nine-in-one elections in Taiwan on Nov. 29, China’s Taiwan Affairs Office held a news conference reiterating its adherence to the so-called “1992 consensus” and its opposition to Taiwanese independence. The office’s spokesperson said it would not change its guiding policy of peaceful cross-strait development, while expressing hope that this development would continue at a stable momentum and that “compatriots” on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will protect the fruits of this process.

KMT must repay debt it owes to Taiwanese

Lin Kien-tsu 林健次

Party funding, whether it comes from independent investors, joint investments with the government or private actors using financial assets, necessarily begets the allocation of privileges. This is bad for fair competition, it is bad for economic ethics, and it is bad for national productivity and competitiveness. Sole rights and monopoly control help a party, not the populace. Party assets obtained via these business dealings, or “investments,” are essentially dirty money, or what one might call illicit assets.

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