The Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) Central Standing Com-mittee yesterday approved the appointment of Chang Jung-kung (張榮恭) as chairman of the party's Culture and Communications Committee, a position which includes the role of spokesman.
Chang had headed the Mainland Affairs Division under the party's policy committee before he was named to the new position, replacing Alex Tsai (蔡正元).
Tsai will be transferred to the post of deputy executive director of the policy committee.
It was reported by local media that Tsai's replacement was related to his recent argument with Chiang Fang Chih-yi (蔣方智怡), a daughter-in-law of late president Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) and member of the KMT's Central Standing Committee.
Reportedly unsatisfied with Tsai's performance in campaigning for the party's candidates in the year-end legislative elections, Chiang Fang openly criticized him at last week's Central Standing Committee meeting.
Regarding the media reports, Chiang Fang said yesterday that her remarks last week were meant to improve the party's campaigning efforts and were "nothing personal."
The Central Standing Committee yesterday also confirmed the expulsion of four politicians from the party who campaigned for President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) and Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) during the run-up to the March 20 presidential election.
The four are Huang Chao-cheng (黃兆呈), chief of Kaohsiung County's Linyuan Township; Pan Chien-fang (潘建芳), chief of Kaohsiung County's Yenchao Township; Chen Sheng (陳勝), an official at the KMT's branch office in Kaohsiung County's Maolin Township and Hung Tien-sheng (洪天盛), head of an Aboriginal group.
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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