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Gou vaccine criticism selfish ploy to help Kao

Huang Rong-wen 黃榮文

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co founder Terry Gou (郭台銘) recently criticized the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) government’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement policy.

Gou accused the government of refusing to purchase the next-generation Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, saying that his aged mother is unable to receive a booster dose of the updated Pfizer vaccine in Taiwan.

Minister of Health and Welfare Hsueh Jui-yuan (薛瑞元) in response mocked Gou as a salesman for Pfizer.

China conducts ‘strike drills’ around Taiwan

Taipei Times

China’s military said it staged “strike drills” in the sea and airspace around Taiwan yesterday in response to an unspecified “provocation” by Taipei and Washington.

China staged war games around Taiwan in August following a visit to Taipei by US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and on Saturday it condemned the US for a new defense authorization law that boosts military assistance for Taiwan.

Tsai to announce one-year conscription: source

Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is expected to call a high-level national security meeting on Tuesday during which she would order the expansion of conscription from four months to one year, a source familiar with the matter said.

On Dec. 7, Minister of National Defense Chiu Kuo-cheng (邱國正) told lawmakers that a decision on the length of military service would be announced before the end of the year.

TikTok is China’s Trojan horse

Taipei Times Editorials

With its inventive videos and bizarre memes, TikTok once billed itself as “the last sunny corner on the Internet.” Since launching five years ago, the app has become a global sensation, amassing millions of users every year.

Despite delighting consumers and advertisers, others believe the “sunny” app has a dark side. As ByteDance is the parent company of TikTok and is headquartered in China — a nation whose government is known for surveillance and propaganda — its ownership has triggered fear about it becoming a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tool for tracking people worldwide and censoring content.

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