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This nation belongs to Taiwanese, not the KMT

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

Had it not been for Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC) would have perished on Oct. 1, 1949, when it was ousted by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite that, the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), the fragments of a past China, hijacked Taiwan and continues to talk about its “glorious restitution” of the nation, words spoken to justify and consolidate its colonial rule. However, it was only able to take over and then occupy Taiwan thanks to the Allied Powers, and after that it continued to benefit from the Cold War era.

Report of Martial Law joke by Soong draws ire

Taipei Times

A man takes a picture of a portrait of People First Party Chairman James Soong at press conference in Taipei on Thursday at which Soong announced his presidential candidacy.
Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times

Student activist Chen Wei-ting (陳為廷) and New Power Party legislative candidate Freddy Lim (林昶佐) joined netizens yesterday in panning comments by People First Party (PFP) Chairman and presidential candidate James Soong (宋楚瑜) on the Martial Law period as inappropriate.

Soong declared his presidential bid on Thursday and his campaign photograph showed Soong covered in mud.

The boy who lived to the fullest: Dai Lin

Liberty Times

Dai Lin holds a poster by Banciao’s Jiangzicui Station that reads, “FREE HUG. We have all been apathetic for too long. Let’s give each other a hug,” in an undated photo in New Taipei City to bring love to society after Cheng Chieh’s mass murder in Taipei’s MRT.
Photo: TAKEN from Facebook

Following the mass murder incident committed by Cheng Chieh in Taipei’s MRT metro system in May last year, several members of the public undertook an initiative of free hugs at Jiangzicui Station in Banciao. Among them was Dai Lin, who held a poster that read, “We have all been apathetic for too long. Let’s give each other a hug.” With real actions, he and his friends brought back some warmth in society. Lin’s mother posted a picture of Lin offering free hugs to people by the MRT station on her Facebook page on Saturday last week and wrote ardently, “He was such a kind and passionate kid.”

Ma’s clamorous opus in four parts

Huang Kuo-chang 黃國昌

If the past few years of President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) term in office were to be set to music, it would be an opus in four parts entitled “illegal abuses of power,” “making trouble,” “fomenting conflict” and “refusing to correct past errors,” with a clear musical motif running through the piece, as it does his record in office.

It runs through the political storm he whipped up in September 2013; it runs through the infamous attempt to rush through the review of the cross-strait service trade agreement; and the strain can still be heard in the present controversy over the adjustments to social studies high-school curriculum guidelines, again devised behind closed doors.

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