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China preparing for Taiwan conflict: report

Taipei Times

A J-31 stealth aircraft of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force lands on a runway after flying at the 10th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, on Nov. 11, last year.
Photo: Reuters

China’s massive military modernization program is dominated by preparations for a conflict with Taiwan and the possibility of US intervention, a Pentagon report said on Friday.

The report, which was issued in Washington, said that Beijing is ready to conduct missile attacks and precision strikes against the nation’s air defense systems, air bases, radar sites, missile silos, space assets and communications facilities.

ROC uses Taiwan as war memorial

Winston Chen 陳文松

Media reports say that while the government is planning an official commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end of the war of resistance against Japan, the National Museum of Taiwan History in Tainan has compiled Japanese colonial-era military propaganda songs played in Taiwan to promote the invasion of China and collected them on the official Web site celebrating a century of Taiwan’s recording industry. According to the reports, these military propaganda songs include the Imperial Japanese Navy anthem — the “Warship anthem” — Japan’s Patriotic March and the Manchukuo anthem.

Administrative neutrality violated

Taipei Times Editorial

For anyone who cherishes Taiwan’s democratic achievements, it was certainly disturbing to see six government officials accompanying Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) on his recent visit to China for the 10th Cross-Strait Economic and Cultural Forum in Shanghai — a sight that has left many shaking their heads and wondering whether the nation’s state apparatus has been manipulated for partisan gain.

The six officials were from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC), the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Culture and the Council of Agriculture.

A national rebirth could start with end of KMT

Lee Min-yung 李敏勇

A nation’s mother tongue education includes language as well as literature. When educating people, an advanced program is one that lets students first read works by native authors and then read works by foreign authors, so that learners get both a domestic and an international outlook.

Is the Republic of China (ROC) a Taiwanese nation or a Chinese nation? Is the mother nation Taiwan or China? Deep in people’s hearts, it is crystal clear to most that the nation is Taiwanese, but the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), which has not changed its mentality as a colonial ruler, does not think so.

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