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A vicious distortion of Taiwan’s history

James Wang 王景弘

President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) are on the brink of collapse and they have few tools left in their bag of tricks.

All they can do is incessantly, and without any semblance of integrity, nag that Democratic Progressive Party Chairperson and presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) “does not speak clearly” in regard to maintaining the so-called cross-strait “status quo.”

It is Ma who has been talking a lot of nonsense and it is he who has been ambiguous.

EU calls for moratorium on executions

Taipei Times

Taiwan Alliance to End the Death Penalty members protest outside the Ministry of Justice building in Taipei on Friday.
Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times

The executions of six death-row inmates on Friday triggered a statement from the EU calling for an immediate moratorium on capital punishment in Taiwan, which in turn prompted heated debate among netizens.

The EU issued the statement hours after the executions on Friday night, which brought the number of prisoners executed by President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) administration to 32 since April 2010, when Ma ended a four-year moratorium on the death penalty.

HK’s young find new meaning in Tiananmen vigil

Taipei Times

Thousands of people attend a candlelight vigil at Victoria Park in Hong Kong yesterday to mark the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989.
Photo: Reuters

Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers joined a candlelight vigil last night marking the 1989 student-led Tiananmen Square Massacre, an annual commemoration that takes on greater meaning for the territory’s young after last autumn’s pro-democracy demonstrations sharpened their sense of unease with Beijing.

Ma arranges US cleanup after Tsai

Taipei Times Editorial

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is facing her biggest test on the road toward the presidency. The US is Taiwan’s most important ally, and in a bid to avoid a repetition of what happened during her visit to the US four years ago, when her Taiwan Consensus failed to woo her hosts, she is now attempting to win international recognition of her policy to maintain the cross-strait “status quo.”

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