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Software developer recants Chen Shui-bian opposition

Taipei Times

Prominent software developer Cheng Yi-ting (鄭伊廷) earlier this week posted on social media a comment saying that former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) was a visionary hated by “ignorant people” — including Cheng herself — during his time in office.

Cheng is the founder and owner of RocoDev and previously led a programing team who won the grand prize in the Facebook Developer World Hack 2012, a global competition hosted by the social media giant.

The KMT’s two-faced strategy

Taipei Times Editorial

Only days after Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) presidential candidate Eric Chu (朱立倫) announced his campaign logo, with the slogan “One Taiwan,” President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) embarked on the journey that he had long yearned for, with his reassurance of the “one China” principle as a gift for his Chinese counterpart.

Tsai decries comparison of cross-strait ties with Paris

Taipei Times

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, left, claps hands during a rally marking the opening of a joint campaign office for DPP Legislator Chen Ou-po and herself in Yilan County yesterday.
Photo: CNA

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday panned Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) for comparing cross-strait relations with France and Syria.

No such thing as ‘Chinese people’

Lee Hsiao-feng 李筱峰

If democratic Taiwan and authoritarian China were united, Taiwan’s democracy would disappear, which would make it more difficult for authoritarian China to become a democratic nation. In other words, the meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) hurt Taiwan and was of no benefit to China.

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