The People First Party (PFP) will renew its push for a "cross-strait peace advancement bill" to counter President Chen Shui-bian's (
Under the PFP's proposal, a "peace advancement" committee would be set up under the Legislative Yuan to direct the government's cross-strait policies.
"We need the committee to keep Chen's personal domination over cross-strait policies in check," PFP caucus whip Hwang Yih-jiau (
The unification guidelines were adopted by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government in the early 1990s as its long-term blueprint for eventual unification with China, and the council was established to carry them out.
The current government under Chen has said that the guidelines violate the principle that the people should decide Taiwan's destiny, and should therefore be scrapped. The government has also slammed the PFP's proposed `peace bill,' which would write the "one China" principle into the nation's law, as a "by-law" of China's "Anti-Secession" Law.
With Chen appearing increasingly likely to ditch the council by the end of the month, the pro-unification pan-blue camp has continued to voice its opposition.
"The public's safety depends on stable cross-strait relations, which shouldn't be dominated by the president, who only cares about his party's interests," Hwang said.
In the wake of Chen's plan to abolish the council and guidelines, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) recently floated the idea that its new draft constitution for the nation would consider changes to the national flag, title, and territory.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislative caucus whip Pan Wei-kang (
PFP Legislator Chang Hsien-yao (
"The government should not draft a controversial constitution when US-Taiwan relations are so tense. The PFP will block such actions with all its strength, as they are no different from suicide by charcoal-burning," Chang said.
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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