Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

KMT not designed to be democratic

Liberty Times Editorial

There has been considerable debate recently about President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) eligibility to stand for a third term as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman.

Many of his supporters within the party say this is an “in-house affair.” Former KMT chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄), for example, has said that a party’s right to decide its own personnel matters should be acknowledged and that the matter was an internal one so people should respect the KMT’s autonomy. All the party needs is consensus within its own ranks, Wu said.

Law professor Yuan Hong-bing says China is behind the case of Chen Shui-bian (Photos)

Michael Richardson

Yuan Hong-bing says Hu Jintao plotted against Chen Shui-bian

Imprisoned former President Chen Shui-bian of the Republic of China in-exile is confined to a small room and has few possessions. Presently at a government hospital in Taipei, while serving a lengthy sentence for alleged corruption, Chen keeps a copy of Incarcerated Taiwan at his bedside. The book, written by law professor Yuan Hong-bing, tells the story of Chen Shui-bing as a political prisoner. Chen is viewed as the victim of collusion between the Kuomintang in Taiwan and the Communist Party in China.

US report raises questions over cross-strait ties

Taipei Times

A handout photograph taken on Thursday and released by the Japan Coast Guard shows a coast guard vessel, right, spraying water at a Taiwanese boat, bottom left, after the latter ventured near the disputed Diaoyutais, in the East China Sea.
Photo: AFP

A new report from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) raises a potentially difficult question for Taipei about its current relationship with Beijing.

“One issue for US policy concerns trends across the Taiwan Strait since 2008,” says the report, made public on Monday.

The report asks whether Taiwan’s moves to grow closer to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have “created a greater willingness” in Taipei to cooperate with Beijing on issues “in which it sees their interests as aligned.”

Chinese intellectual Yuan Hong-bing cites secret document in Chen Shui-bian case

Michael Richardson

Yuan Hong-bing cites secret Chinese documents in Chen case

Law Professor Yuan Hong-bing escaped from the People’s Republic of China where he taught at Peking University. An advocate of democracy, Yuan found himself under arrest and his literary works banned in the years following the Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Yuan was able to obtain release from jail and eventually travelled to Australia where he sought political asylum. The refugee scholar now makes his home in Taiwan where he is a law professor, political writer and poet. He is the president of the Intellectual Freedom Association of China and the chief editor of the“Sacred Fire of Liberty” website.

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