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Tsai’s frustrating ‘Post’ interview

Taipei Times Editorial

It was refreshing to read the Washington Post interview yesterday that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) gave senior associate editor Lally Weymouth on Monday, although nothing earth-shattering was revealed and there were no “scoops.”

It was also frustrating.

KMT should follow Ma Ying-jeou to Itu Aba

James Wang 王景弘

Former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) looked like a snake oil salesman when he held up a half-empty bottle of fake “Taiping Island water” at a news conference, while simultaneously attempting to smear the name of National Taiwan University professor Chiang Huang-chih (姜皇池), saying “not one word is true” of an article written by Chiang last year.

Ma continued to sound like a “professional student” (informer for the government): As an angry young man, he chimed in with China in his defense of the Diaoyutai Islands (釣魚台), and as an angry old man, he is working hard to show that Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島) is really an island and not a “rock.”

CCP’s Tom Sawyer ploy nears end

Wayne Pajunen

In his book The Hundred-Year Marathon, Michael Pillsbury writes: “We believed that American aid to a fragile China whose leaders thought like us would help China become a democratic and peaceful power without ambitions of regional or even global dominance.”

No longer.

“Looking back, it is painful that I was so gullible,” Pillsbury concludes.

Artistic compromise and China

Taipei Times Editorial

One of the essences of art is the attachment of importance to the authenticity of expression. As such, the question arises as to exactly what level of intimidation and pressure might have been applied to force a dedicated artist such as Taiwanese director-actor Leon Dai (戴立忍) to forgo his beliefs — having participated in and supported various social movements in Taiwan — and issue a 3,000-word statement on Friday last week distancing him from his past actions.

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