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Student panned for baseball remarks

Taipei Times

The Mainland Affairs Council and lawmakers yesterday accused a visiting Chinese university student of denigrating Taiwan’s sovereignty by referring to the national baseball team that won a first-ever Premier12 title as “China, Taipei team” (中國台北隊).

“We deeply regret the Chinese student’s words, that have hurt the feelings of Taiwanese... The Ma Ying-jeou Foundation, as the organizers, should remind group members not to use inappropriate words and behavior,” a council statement said.

“We hope these young Chinese can accurately observe the true views of Taiwanese, which would be a positive development for interactions between young people on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait,” it said.

Lai feted with red carpet in Hawaii

Taipei Times

President William Lai (賴清德) was feted with red carpets, garlands of flowers and “alohas” as he began his two-day stopover in Hawaii on Saturday, part of a Pacific tour.

Looking relaxed in a Hawaiian shirt, Lai flitted around the US island state, visiting the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawaii’s leading museum of natural history and native Hawaiian culture, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency and the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor.

Lai was given the “red carpet treatment” on the tarmac of Honolulu’s international airport, his office said, adding that it was the first time a Taiwanese president had been given such a welcome.

A question of loyalty to the nation

Chu Meng-hsiang 朱孟庠

Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Weng Hsiao-ling (翁曉玲) has motioned to abolish the “Wu Sz-huai” (吳斯懷) clauses of the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) — which forbid all Taiwanese who enter China from engaging in any activities detrimental to national security or interests. This motion led the Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP) to report her for infringing upon the National Security Act (國家安全法), which Weng called a lawless and undisciplined attempt to threaten a legislator.

However, the true lawless and undisciplined person is Weng — the one standing in the enemy camp, despite her identity as an authentic, 17th-generation Taiwanese.

How can a victim develop affection and approval for the one who harmed them?

Daring to remember Taiwan’s past

Wei Hsin-chi 魏新奇

After our mother’s passing in 2022, my younger sister and I began organizing the letters our father, Wei Ting-jao (魏廷朝), sent us from prison. He served time from 1979 to 1987 after the Formosa Incident, also known as the Kaohsiung Incident — where a Human Rights Day rally held by democracy leaders during the martial law period led to the use of tear gas and arrests by police.

We decided to donate my father’s letters to the Jingmei White Terror Memorial Park in New Taipei City. We are ever grateful to the civil servants at the Ministry of Culture, not only for respecting these pieces of history, but for personally visiting my old home in Jhongli District (中壢) in Taoyuan to collect them.

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