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Transitional justice must be taught

Taipei Times Editorial

Students at Hsinchu Kuang Fu High School at the weekend triggered controversy by wearing costumes resembling Nazi uniforms and wielding swastika flags at a campus cosplay event, prompting shock and condemnation from the Israeli and German missions in Taipei, with the Presidential Office and the Ministry of Education also quick to denounce the event and chastise the school for administrative negligence.

Principal resigns over Nazi outrage

Taipei Times

Hsinchu City’s Kuang Fu High School principal Cheng Hsiao-ming announces his resignation yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Hsinchu Kuang Fu High School principal Cheng Hsiao-ming (程曉銘) yesterday resigned over the outrage caused by a cosplay event at the school on Friday, when some students wore Nazi uniforms and carried swastika banners.

US stance on Taiwan is outdated

James Wang 王景弘

US President Barack Obama takes a low-key approach toward China and is often humiliated by Beijing. As Obama is about to step down, he has embarrassed himself yet again by echoing Beijing’s “one China” policy this month.

Obama got only one thing right at his year-end news conference when he said that “it should be not just the prerogative, but the obligation of a new president to examine everything that’s been done and see what makes sense and what doesn’t.”

Annette Lu blasts Obama for calling Taiwan ‘entity’

Taipei Times

From third left, Northern Taiwan Society chairman Chang Yeh-sen, former vice president Annette Lu and Eastern Taiwan Society vice president Winston Yu chant slogans at a news conference at the National Taiwan University Alumni Hall in Taipei yesterday.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) and pro-independence activists yesterday protested against US President Barack Obama after he described Taiwan as an “entity,” reiterating Taiwan’s statehood after a discussion about the nation’s image in mainstream US politics.

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