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Ma remains silent during questioning

Taipei Times

Former president Ma Ying-jeou yesterday makes a statement outside the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Former President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) yesterday exercised his right to remain silent during questioning at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office as part of an ongoing inquiry into an alleged breach of financial regulations during the sale of three media companies formerly run by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT).

US, China and a potential trade war

Sushil Seth

There is much talk about a potential global trade war, arising from the tit-for-tat announcements by Washington and Beijing about punitive tariffs on some of each other’s trade goods. US President Donald Trump initiated it by saying that China must reduce its massive trade surplus with the US.

An important plank of then-US presidential candidate Trump’s electioneering was to set right the perceived unfair — to the US — trade regime with its trading partners, particularly China, which had led China to accumulate large trade surpluses through low US tariffs on Chinese goods, as well as “manipulating” its currency to make its exports even cheaper than they already were with depressed wages in China.

Chance of Chinese invasion slim: poll

Taipei Times

Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation chairman You Ying-lung yesterday discusses the result of the foundation’s latest monthly opinion survey at a news conference in Taipei.
Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times

The majority of Taiwanese do not think that China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would invade Taiwan, a poll showed yesterday, with only 25.7 percent thinking such a scenario was likely.

Dirty gifts from China to the US

Winston Dang 陳重信

This month, a dust storm blowing out of China — the strongest in five years — brought PM2.5, toxic pollutants (SO2, NOx, O3) and microorganisms flying through the atmosphere not only in Asia, but also the western portion of the US and British Columbia. In all, 4,000 tonnes of dust will reach North America.

These toxic pollutants have all been identified as sources of respiratory diseases and lung cancer. Such storms are having a substantial impact on human health, the environment, ecosystems, weather and the climate. They have affected the health of Taiwanese, Japanese, Koreans and Americans, and it has been estimated that 3.6 million tonnes of Asian dust particles fall in Japan annually.

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