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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.

Taiwan should regulate TikTok

Roger Wu 吳哲文

As next year’s presidential election gets closer, there are increasing concerns in Taiwan regarding the issue of election interference by China.

Short-video sharing apps on mobile devices have become all the rage recently, and one of the most popular of these is Douyin and its international version TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd.

TikTok has 4 million users in Taiwan alone, and people in the 18 to 24 age range account for 40 percent. These users regard TikTok as a source of news, information and entertainment, with other Chinese apps like Xiaohongshu becoming main amusement sources in people’s daily lives.

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