The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) yesterday continued to publicize the governing party's stance on visits by opposition leaders to China, issuing an English-language version of the "Resolution on Visits by Political Parties to China" to foreign media outlets.
Hsieh Whai-hui (
"We hope that the DPP's basic position on these issues can be understood through this letter," Hsieh said.
Meanwhile, in response to Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan's (
"Political theory says that a nation's sovereignty cannot be divided. Lien's remarks, however, indirectly recognize Chinese sovereignty [over Taiwan] and accept Beijing's `one China policy,'" he said.
"In fact, Lien's description of the status quo in the Taiwan Strait actively implements the content of Beijing's `Anti-Secession' Law, which we think is a serious step backwards in terms of the history of Taiwan's constitutional development," Lee said.
Former president Lee Teng-hui (
"We believe that Soong is not qualified to stand in for Taiwan's government and the people of Taiwan in negotiating with China," Northern Taiwan Society chairman Wu Shuh-min (
Wu said China should hold talks through official channels if it holds sincerity and goodwill toward Taiwan.
China might accelerate its strategic actions toward Taiwan, the South China Sea and across the first island chain, after the US officially entered a military conflict with Iran, as Beijing would perceive Washington as incapable of fighting a two-front war, a military expert said yesterday. The US’ ongoing conflict with Iran is not merely an act of retaliation or a “delaying tactic,” but a strategic military campaign aimed at dismantling Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and reshaping the regional order in the Middle East, said National Defense University distinguished adjunct lecturer Holmes Liao (廖宏祥), former McDonnell Douglas Aerospace representative in Taiwan. If
Prosecutors in New Taipei City yesterday indicted 31 individuals affiliated with the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for allegedly forging thousands of signatures in recall campaigns targeting three Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers. The indictments stem from investigations launched earlier this year after DPP lawmakers Su Chiao-hui (蘇巧慧) and Lee Kuen-cheng (李坤城) filed criminal complaints accusing campaign organizers of submitting false signatures in recall petitions against them. According to the New Taipei District Prosecutors Office, a total of 2,566 forged recall proposal forms in the initial proposer petition were found during the probe. Among those
ECHOVIRUS 11: The rate of enterovirus infections in northern Taiwan increased last week, with a four-year-old girl developing acute flaccid paralysis, the CDC said Two imported cases of chikungunya fever were reported last week, raising the total this year to 13 cases — the most for the same period in 18 years, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said yesterday. The two cases were a Taiwanese and a foreign national who both arrived from Indonesia, CDC Epidemic Intelligence Center Deputy Director Lee Chia-lin (李佳琳) said. The 13 cases reported this year are the most for the same period since chikungunya was added to the list of notifiable communicable diseases in October 2007, she said, adding that all the cases this year were imported, including 11 from
The Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) today condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) after the Czech officials confirmed that Chinese agents had surveilled Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) during her visit to Prague in March last year. Czech Military Intelligence director Petr Bartovsky yesterday said that Chinese operatives had attempted to create the conditions to carry out a demonstrative incident involving Hsiao, going as far as to plan a collision with her car. Hsiao was vice president-elect at the time. The MAC said that it has requested an explanation and demanded a public apology from Beijing. The CCP has repeatedly ignored the desires
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