President Chen Shui-bian (
In the statement titled "Unity is our only option. A temporary rival shouldn't become a permanent enemy," Chen told the four DPP presidential aspirants that "party unity is the only thing party members and supporters will bear in mind when they cast votes in the primary."
Chen said his victory in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections proved that it was party unity that had turned the tide and helped him win the elections with a narrow-margin.
"With unanimous support from party members, I was nominated without a primary ... Of course, history will not repeat itself, but it's certain that no one can succeed alone. Only the support from rivals' camps can create favorable conditions for the party's nominee to win an election," Chen said in the statement.
The president has made two previous attempts to mediate among the DPP's four contenders -- Vice President Annette Lu (
"The goal of the primary is to select a candidate or to form the presidential ticket with the best chance of winning next year's election. It should help the party multiply the strengths of the four contenders rather than detracting from those strengths," he said in the statement.
Chen urged the four DPP presidential hopefuls to refrain from attacking each other and consider party unity.
"No one can score points by making remarks that will cause our friends pain and gladden our enemies, nor will anyone behaving that way be supported by party members," Chen 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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