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Only Lai grasps Taiwan’s history

Chu Meng-hsiang 朱孟庠

It brought much relief to hear Vice President and the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) presidential candidate William Lai (賴清德) say, “If a Taiwanese president can enter the White House, we will have achieved the political objective that we have been pursuing,” in a forum in Yilan County on July 10, before the DPP’s National Congress on July 16.

Taiwan needs a president with a historical sense.

After a century of struggle, Taiwanese national identity has been shaped by history, but difficulties still exist.

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.”

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