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KMT still has a talent for great mendacity

James Wang 王景弘

Some people are thick-skinned. They do not care much about what other people think. Such people know that they can get away with saying what they want. They can stand in front of others and spout platitudes about being loyal to the party and a patriot and being up for the fight, but this is little more than Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) propaganda and a carefully crafted policy designed to govern Taiwan through a “divide and conquer” strategy. And it has the gall to say that it has “class” and “standards.”

Debates are for show, not reality

Taipei Times Editorial

Many people have high expectations of the presidential debates, especially candidates with lower support ratings, as they hope that the leading candidate will reveal flaws as she comes under fire and that her approval ratings will drop, providing them with an opportunity turn the situation around. By the same token, if the leading candidate does not stumble, she is likely to be victorious.

The Origin of Taiwanese Shrine

Dr. Hsu-Tung Yang & translated by Simon Lin

Since ancient times, people of Taiwan have been constantly colonized and indoctrinated with ideologies of feudalism, emperors and princes by colonizers, and thus have a very blur concept about “god”. In order to survive from physical livelihood to mental suppression, people have emerged themselves into a phenomenon of “self-handicapping and self-devaluation”, and believe that only officials, generals and conquerors can be called as “god”.

Chu needs to honestly define ‘1992 consensus’

James Wang 王景弘

Young master Eric Chu (朱立倫), the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) chairman, who also became the party’s presidential candidate by putting an end to the candidacy of Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), has begun to issue threats, saying, absurdly, that it would be “provocative” if Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) decided not to recognize the so-called “1992 consensus.”

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