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Taiwan must assert itself in poll

Jerome Keating

With the Nov. 29 nine-in-one elections around the corner, Taiwanese have much to think about, as they tend to be cautious and discriminating in their choices. Those elected will influence internal affairs in the nation’s major cities for the next four years, and care needs be taken to select competent people who can both relate to and understand the needs of their electorate.

Lien Chan reveals hatred, ignorance

Taipei Times Editorial

Former vice president Lien Chan (連戰) — father of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Taipei mayoral candidate Sean Lien (連勝文) — showed his lack of understanding of Taiwan’s history and lack of sympathy for the Taiwanese who lived through the Japanese colonial period by calling independent mayoral candidate Ko Wen-je’s (柯文哲) father and grandfather “traitors” because they were educated under the Japanese educational system and once adopted a Japanese surname.

Hubristic, self-entitled KMT must be voted out

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

Where does the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) sense of entitlement — its belief that it should hold power throughout the nation, at all levels of government — come from? Is it from its glowing record?

Looking at the popularity of its representatives at city and county government levels, it becomes evident that their administrations are consistently rated near the bottom. The KMT mayoral candidates for Taipei and Keelung are harping on about change and transformation, as if their own party had not been responsible for the situation in those cities.

Obama lauds Taiwanese democracy

Taipei Times

US President Barack Obama acknowledged Taiwan as a “thriving” democracy for the first time on Saturday in a speech on the US’ policy in Asia that he gave at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he was attending the G20 summit.

In the speech, Obama said that Americans believe in democratic government and “that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people.”

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