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Ukraine — a mirror to Taiwan’s transition

Yang Shin-nan 楊信男

Every time Ukraine is mentioned, most people think of Chernobyl and the Orange Revolution, but the country has a lot in common with Taiwan, making a closer look worthwhile.

Ukraine’s independence was not followed by a period of transitional justice; power remained with the Communist Party until the Orange Revolution in 2004. The main players in the revolution were former president Viktor Yushchenko, President Viktor Yanukovych and former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Tsai Ing-wen needn’t apologize: Lee

Taipei Times

Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) yesterday said Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) did not need to apologize for the controversy caused by her pension savings account that provides an 18 percent preferential interest rate.

Lee said reform of the system must be fair and just and the focus must be on the system, rather than on individuals collecting the dividends.

China’s Hu upbeat, resists US pressure on currency

Taipei Times

Chinese President Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) urged an end to a “zero sum” Cold War relationship with the US and proposed new cooperation, but resisted US arguments about why China should let its currency strengthen.

Indeed, in a sign that the future of the US currency continues to concern the most senior levels of the Chinese government, he said the US dollar-based international currency system is a “product of the past.”

KMT Government Still Out of Step with Policies: What Does it Tell Us?

Jerome F. Keating Ph.D.

Taiwan has hundreds, perhaps thousands, of foreign students from a wide variety of foreign countries studying at its universities. These students come, take their classes, experience the country and go away richer. But now that the Ma government seeks to get Chinese students into Taiwan universities (some with greater benefits than Taiwanese themselves), all of a sudden problems arise on the horizon. Any self-respecting Taiwanese should therefore have a lot of questions to ask why its government right hand does not seem to know what the left is doing.

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