Taiwan Tati Cultural and Educational Foundation

The debate over a controversial trade pact Taipei intends to sign with China entered the classroom yesterday, as students from nine universities met to debate whether the government should move to sign the agreement.

The event, held at National Taiwan University (NTU) by the pro-independence Northern Taiwan Society, saw students raise concerns that an economic cooperation framework agreement (ECFA) with China could have a negative impact on their future career prospects and more fragile Taiwanese industries.

The rightist ruling Chinese Nationalist Party displayed its undemocratic and intolerant mentality in the first shots of the campaign for the November election for five municipality mayoral posts has already been given by a flap over Taiwan's special mayoral posts in five special municipalities encompassing 13 million people.

In response to statements in an academic seminar on the character of the "Repubic of China" as an "exile regime" made Wednesday by opposition Democratic Progressive Party Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen acknowledged the historical reality that the authoritarian KMT regime was externally imposed on Taiwan after its expulsion from the China mainland by the Chinese Communist Party's People's Liberation Army.