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Japan’s Taro Aso visits Lee Teng-hui’s grave

Taipei Times

Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso visited former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) grave at a military cemetery in New Taipei City yesterday afternoon, shortly after arriving in Taiwan.

Aso was accompanied by members of his delegation, including Japanese lawmakers Keisuke Suzuki and Kenji Nakanishi, and Lee Teng-hui Foundation chairwoman Annie Lee (李安妮), Lee Teng-hui’s daughter.

Annie Lee thanked Aso for attending a public memorial for Lee Teng-hui at the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Japan in August 2020 when he was Japanese deputy prime minister.

China targeting placemaking: group

Taipei Times

China is targeting projects to enhance public spaces in its “united front” tactics, a lawmaker said yesterday after New Taipei City-based cultural conservation group Am Kehnn Cultural Workshop (暗坑文化工作室) said that Beijing has conducted a covert campaign to infiltrate Taiwanese placemaking projects.

Taiwan’s placemaking scene is awash with Chinese money, Am Kehnn Cultural Workshop wrote on Facebook on Thursday, adding that almost every region in the nation was among the winners at a cross-strait construction and creation contest held by China’s Fujian Province.

Media get Taiwan history wrong

Gerrit van der Wees

There is no doubt that US-China relations are tense, as — under Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) — the communist government of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is increasing its political, economic and military pressure on democratically governed Taiwan. Somehow the existence of a free and vibrant democracy on its doorstep is a thorn in the thigh of the undemocratic rulers in Beijing.

So there is no doubt that Beijing is the problem. And this problem could easily be resolved if the leaders in Beijing would accept Taiwan as a friendly neighbor, and strive toward peaceful coexistence, but somehow the PRC’s distorted version of history gets in the way.

Beware of Chinese video games

Wu Cheng-yin 吳政穎

The market for China’s video game industry has become quite competitive in recent years. Meanwhile, Beijing has tightened its gaming regulations, leading to consumers losing interest. As a result, China’s video game companies have been investing in overseas markets, including Taiwan’s.

For a long time, China-invested mobile games have topped the ranking charts in Taiwan. In other words, Chinese companies are hugely profiting from Taiwanese. For example, the mobile game Demon Legends developed by China’s Haikou Fengli Network Technology Co was released in traditional Chinese on July 21 for iOS. Since then, it has topped the App Store in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.

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