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PRC pushes integration of Taiwan culture

Taiwan News Editorial

In the wake of the signing of a controversial "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement," the authoritarian People's Republic of China has launched drives to push President Ma Ying-jeou's rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government to accept political negotiations and help promote "cultural unification" under a "Chinese national identity."

While Ma appears committed to delay political talks until after the crucial Nov. 27 municipal mayoral elections, the KMT government seems to have fewer qualms about cooperating with the Chinese Communist Party - ruled PRC's intention to subordinate Taiwan culture under the reactionary umbrella of "Chinese national culture."

What Taiwan people must do while Ma waits for Hu

Taiwan News Editorial

During the last two decades, the policy positions toward the authoritarian People's Republic of China adopted by Taiwan governments has always been complicated by regional concerns and domestic politics.

Contrary to the Taiwan-centered policy adopted by former presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, President and ruling rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) chairman Ma Ying-jeou has been widely criticized for moving "too fast" toward his PRC counterparts since taking office in May 2008.

Hau stays mum over Xinsheng

Taipei Times

Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) yesterday remained low key about an inconclusive investigation by the city into questionable expenditures for the Xinsheng Overpass reconstruction project, urging the public to wait for the result of a legal inquiry into the controversy.

Hau said his government “put its heart and soul into the probe” and would make public the results once the interviews were concluded.

Ma's blind spots risk Taiwan's well-being

Taiwan News Editorial

In an exclusive interview with the vernacular China Times, President Ma Ying-jeou revealed numerous blind spots that expose the risks that the China-centric policies of his rightist Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government pose for Taiwan's future well-being.

The prime point of the president's lengthly discourse was that his policies of cross-strait reconciliation with the authoritarian Chinese Communist Party-ruled People's Republic of China were generating "peace dividends" for Taiwan, including an inflow of 1.5 million Chinese tourists and the signing of the controversial "Cross-Strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement" and other pacts with the PRC and will pave the way for the realization of his China policy goals of "peace and prosperity."

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