Taipei Times - Editorials

The government’s atrocious handling of the expansion of US beef imports — opaque, peremptory and confused, regardless of the merits of the products — is becoming a real cause for concern in terms of the bigger picture: cross-strait detente, and particularly a proposed economic pact with China.

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EDITORIAL : Death will not silence the protests

If China hopes to quell unrest in Xinjiang by kidnapping, jailing or even executing scores of Uighurs, the results will fall short. Decades of oppression — economic, cultural, religious and linguistic — have at times welled into protests or riots in China’s biggest territory, as seen again this summer. Clamping down further on the region, history tells us, is more likely to fuel unrest than squash it.

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EDITORIAL : A plebiscite on a petty beef?

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EDITORIAL : No more trials by media

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EDITORIAL : The problem of surplus capital

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EDITORIAL : Baseball: greed, vanity and shame

For better or worse, baseball is Taiwan’s national sport.

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EDITORIAL : Time for some facts about US beef

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EDITORIAL : US beef and the curse of Yu Wen

Those familiar with Taiwan’s political scene will recall the name Yu Wen (余文), a Taipei City Government staffer during President Ma Ying-jeou’s (馬英九) stint as mayor from 1998 to 2006. Following Ma’s indictment in 2006 for misusing his special allowance, Yu became a fall guy in some observers’ eyes, serving nine months in jail for failing to keep Ma’s accounts in order.

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EDITORIAL : By all means, please interfere

The focus of this weekend’s ASEAN summit in Thailand was, as one would expect, the economy. With representatives from six extra countries attending talks — Australia, India, New Zealand, China, Japan and South Korea — all eyes were on the future of Asia’s growing economic strength.

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EDITORIAL : The ‘former bitter rivals’ fantasy

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