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US lawmakers urge Harris to meet with Lai

Taipei Times

Six US lawmakers have sent a joint letter to US Vice President Kamala Harris, urging her to meet with Vice President William Lai (賴清德) during his stopovers in the US on the way to and from Paraguay next month.

Lai is to lead a delegation to attend the inauguration of Paraguayan president-elect Santiago Pena on Aug. 15.

While US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that Lai is expected to “transit the United States on both the incoming and outgoing legs” of the trip, neither government has disclosed Lai’s itinerary in the US.

Ma’s cross-strait student exchanges

Tzou Jiing-wen 鄒景雯

Former president Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) eponymous Ma Ying-jeou Foundation spent NT$5 million (US$159,990) to bring 31 Chinese Communist Party (CCP) students and six accompanying CCP personnel to Taiwan for a nine-day exchange visit, arriving on July 15 and leaving on Sunday.

The delegation can fairly be called a CCP group because the 37 participants were selected by China, with Peking University CCP party secretary Hao Ping (郝平) leading the group and all the student participants being members of the Communist Youth League. This trip was not something that ordinary Chinese students had a fair chance of joining.

Ko and the proliferation of misogyny

Chang Yueh-han 張約翰

Last week, a series of anonymous complaints allegedly made by the same bride-to-be who used the name “K” in the “roadside wedding banquet chaos” furor in January once again sparked controversy on social media.

“K” first caused a backlash when she wrote on Facebook that she found roadside banquets to be “low-class,” and insisted on holding her wedding at a hotel. Many Internet users accused her of having a bad case of “princess syndrome.”

The recent complaints revealed a similar profile to “K” — a gold digger who is self-centered, jealous, deluded and suffers from “princess syndrome.”

US sends another nuclear-propelled sub to South Korea

Taipei Times

A nuclear-propelled US submarine has arrived in South Korea in the second deployment of a major US naval asset to the Korean Peninsula this month, South Korea’s military said yesterday, adding to the allies’ show of force to counter North Korean nuclear threats.

The USS Annapolis arrived at a port on Jeju Island about a week after the USS Kentucky docked at the mainland port of Busan.

The Kentucky was the first US nuclear-armed submarine to visit South Korea since the 1980s. North Korea reacted to its arrival by test-firing ballistic and cruise missiles in apparent demonstrations that it could make nuclear strikes against South Korea and deployed US naval vessels.

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