Disputes about education reforms marked pan-blue electioneering this weekend, with Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and People First Party (PFP) leaders criticizing the Chen Shui-bian (
While stumping for PFP legislator Hwang Yih-jiau (
The Cultural Revolution was a period of Chinese history from 1966-77 in which People's Republic of China leader Mao Zedong (
While stumping for Hwang yesterday, Soong identified a "new Gang of Four:" Vice President Annette Lu (
Chen Shui-bian said publicly Nov. 8 that "some people mistake the enemy country for the motherland." Examination Yuan member Lin Yu-ti (
Recent moves by the Chen Shui-bian administration have confused the people's value systems, Soong said yesterday.
Similarly, KMT spokesperson Chang Jung-kung (
From the Ministry of Education's history reforms, to Yao and Lin's comments Friday that Republic of China founder Sun Yat-sen (
Chang also commented on Chen Shui-bian's comments yesterday acknowledging Sun as the nation's father, Chang told the Taipei Times that while Chen's comments may seem more neutral on the topic, it was the KMT's stance that the recent comments by the administration's officials were better indicators of Chen's true feelings on the matter.
"This has become such an important issue that Chen had to come out and say something, or else lose moderate voters in the year-end legislative elections," Chang said.
"However, the recent remarks by the Minister of Education, etc. are still reflective of what the DPP and Chen thinks. They're [the comments] are more like [the DPP's] feelers to see how the voters will react," Chang said
Chang added that he believed that the recent actions of the administration were indicative of the administration's movement towards declaring Taiwanese independence.
NO RECIPROCITY: Taipei has called for cross-strait group travel to resume fully, but Beijing is only allowing people from its Fujian Province to travel to Matsu, the MAC said The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) yesterday criticized an announcement by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism that it would lift a travel ban to Taiwan only for residents of China’s Fujian Province, saying that the policy does not meet the principles of reciprocity and openness. Chinese Deputy Minister of Culture and Tourism Rao Quan (饒權) yesterday morning told a delegation of Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers in a meeting in Beijing that the ministry would first allow Fujian residents to visit Lienchiang County (Matsu), adding that they would be able to travel to Taiwan proper directly once express ferry
FAST RELEASE: The council lauded the developer for completing model testing in only four days and releasing a commercial version for use by academia and industry The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) yesterday released the latest artificial intelligence (AI) language model in traditional Chinese embedded with Taiwanese cultural values. The council launched the Trustworthy AI Dialogue Engine (TAIDE) program in April last year to develop and train traditional Chinese-language models based on LLaMA, the open-source AI language model released by Meta. The program aims to tackle the information bias that is often present in international large-scale language models and take Taiwanese culture and values into consideration, it said. Llama 3-TAIDE-LX-8B-Chat-Alpha1, released yesterday, is the latest large language model in traditional Chinese. It was trained based on Meta’s Llama-3-8B
STUMPED: KMT and TPP lawmakers approved a resolution to suspend the rate hike, which the government said was unavoidable in view of rising global energy costs The Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday said it has a mandate to raise electricity prices as planned after the legislature passed a non-binding resolution along partisan lines to freeze rates. Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers proposed the resolution to suspend the price hike, which passed by a 59-50 vote. The Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) voted with the KMT. Legislative Speaker Han Kuo-yu (韓國瑜) of the KMT said the resolution is a mandate for the “immediate suspension of electricity price hikes” and for the Executive Yuan to review its energy policy and propose supplementary measures. A government-organized electricity price evaluation board in March
NOVEL METHODS: The PLA has adopted new approaches and recently conducted three combat readiness drills at night which included aircraft and ships, an official said Taiwan is monitoring China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) exercises for changes in their size or pattern as the nation prepares for president-elect William Lai’s (賴清德) inauguration on May 20, National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Tsai Ming-yen (蔡明彥) said yesterday. Tsai made the comment at a meeting of the Legislative Yuan’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, in response to Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Ting-yu’s (王定宇) questions. China continues to employ a carrot-and-stick approach, in which it applies pressure with “gray zone” tactics, while attempting to entice Taiwanese with perks, Tsai said. These actions aim to help Beijing look like it has