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China Youth Corps sold property in Taipei: sources

Taipei Times

People on Monday walk past a building on Taipei’s Zhongshan N Rd Sec 1 that the China Youth Corps sold to Sunrise Construction on Monday last week.
Photo: Lo Pei-der, Taipei Times

The China Youth Corps on Monday last week completed the sale of an alleged Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) asset in Taipei, a property estimated to be worth NT$450 million (US$14.3 million), just days before the Act Governing the Handling of Illegal Assets by Political Parties and their Affiliate Organizations (政黨及其附隨組織不當取得財產處理條例) took effect, sources said.

China aims to divide and conquer

Paul Lin 林保華

With US presidential nominees Hillary Rodham Clinton and Donald Trump battling it out for the top job, the US lacks the energy and focus to take care of international affairs; the last thing Washington wants at the moment is for a war to flare up.

This explains the White House’s muted response to the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s verdict on the South China dispute between China and the Philippines: It confined itself to calling for a peaceful resolution to the dispute and warning each side to refrain from doing anything that might intensify the conflict.

Tsai to head judicial reform committee

Taipei Times

Presidential Office spokesman Alex Huang (黃重諺) yesterday said that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) would head a preparatory committee for national affairs conferences on judicial reform to be set up by the office, in an effort to prevent the pending nominations of the Judicial Yuan president and vice president from impeding long-awaited progress toward judicial reform.

“Actually, in addition to serving as convener, [Tsai] will also designate a civil opinion leader to be the deputy convener of the committee, which will consist of legal and non-legal professionals,” Huang said.

The problem with Tsai’s top judicial candidates

James Wang 王景弘

President Tsai Ing-wen’s (蔡英文) nominees for Judicial Yuan president and vice president last month faced serious criticism, with many people questioning the candidates’ backgrounds. The government responded by saying “people did as they were told during the Martial Law era.” The statement is neither right nor helpful in defending the candidates.

The truth is, under martial law, most people chose to avoid politics, and preferred not to challenge the authorities. They wanted, after all, to stay out of prison. However, they also wanted to avoid becoming accomplices to injustice or becoming brainwashed.

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