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KMT too entrenched to change

Taipei Times Editorial

The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday expelled former spokesperson Yang Wei-chung (楊偉中), a decision made by the its Evaluation and Discipline Committee on Tuesday and approved by its Central Standing Committee yesterday.

Given that Yang was expelled for “damaging the party’s reputation,” many are saying that it shows the party’s intolerance for dissenting views. However, the truth is probably that from the beginning the KMT was never structurally “porous” enough for young, new voices to stir up change.

Tsai looking for dialogue with China

Taipei Times

President Tsai Ing-wen addresses the Paraguayan parliament on Tuesday.
Photo: CNA

The government will continue to look for ways to maintain dialogue with China, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) said during her state visit to Paraguay on Tuesday, several days after Beijing said that it had halted a regular communication mechanism with Taipei.

Taiwan, Colorado sign driver’s license agreement

Taipei Times

Taiwan has signed a reciprocal driver’s license agreement with Colorado, the 19th US state with which the nation has forged such an accord, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday.

The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Denver, Colorado, signed the memorandum of understanding with the Colorado state government on Wednesday, the ministry said in a statement.

Aborigines continue to be oppressed as in past

Lin Yu-lun 林于倫

During Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, which is observed by China’s Uighurs, the Chinese government used the promotion of Chinese culture as an excuse to force students to eat zongzi, glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves that are traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Threatening students who did not eat zongzi, local officials told them that their families would be punished.

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