Legislative Speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平) met former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) at Lee's residence in Hone Shee Villa in Tahsi, Taoyuan County to talk about Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) party affairs earlier this week, a source from the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) said yesterday.
But Wang would not comment on whether he met Lee earlier this week.
The TSU source, who wished to remain anonymous, pointed out that Wang talked with Lee about the KMT's internal affairs for over an hour, and they discussed several issues, such as Wang's bid for KMT chairmanship and party reform.
Although Wang has remained on good terms with Lee after Lee broke ties with the KMT, Lee was not happy with Wang's close tie with KMT chairman Lien Chan (連戰) in the series of protests after the presidential election, and the two were said to become distant.
Yet Wang's secret meeting with Lee earlier this week seemed to break the rumor that they were becoming distant.
Lee has been encouraging Wang to bid for the KMT chairmanship and lead the KMT to become a pro-localization party, analysts say.
Meanwhile, it is also important for Wang to remain on good terms with Lee and the TSU to keep himself in the race for the legislative speakership next year, since he may be in a difficult situation after the legislative election if the pan-green camp wins a majority of seats in the legislature, as many polls predict.
A group of Taiwanese-American and Tibetan-American students at Harvard University on Saturday disrupted Chinese Ambassador to the US Xie Feng’s (謝鋒) speech at the school, accusing him of being responsible for numerous human rights violations. Four students — two Taiwanese Americans and two from Tibet — held up banners inside a conference hall where Xie was delivering a speech at the opening ceremony of the Harvard Kennedy School China Conference 2024. In a video clip provided by the Coalition of Students Resisting the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), Taiwanese-American Cosette Wu (吳亭樺) and Tibetan-American Tsering Yangchen are seen holding banners that together read:
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Heat advisories were in effect for nine administrative regions yesterday afternoon as warm southwesterly winds pushed temperatures above 38°C in parts of southern Taiwan, the Central Weather Administration (CWA) said. As of 3:30pm yesterday, Tainan’s Yujing District (玉井) had recorded the day’s highest temperature of 39.7°C, though the measurement will not be included in Taiwan’s official heat records since Yujing is an automatic rather than manually operated weather station, the CWA said. Highs recorded in other areas were 38.7°C in Kaohsiung’s Neimen District (內門), 38.2°C in Chiayi City and 38.1°C in Pingtung’s Sandimen Township (三地門), CWA data showed. The spell of scorching