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Presidential stamp issue drags in Executive Yuan

The Executive Yuan has yet to decide on whether to approve a proposal by president-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) that would see the nation’s official title “Republic of China” instead of “Taiwan” on memorial stamps issued to celebrate Ma’s inauguration on May 20.

“We can only make a decision on the stamp matter when Taiwan Post Co sends its proposal to the Executive Yuan,” Executive Yuan Spokesman Shieh Jhy-wey (謝志偉) said yesterday.

Under the new design, the Chinese characters of Taiwan will be replaced with “Republic of China,” and the English “Taiwan” will be used within brackets following the English words “Republic of China.”

According to the act governing the administration of the Post Office (郵政法), Taiwan Post Co needs to gain approval from the Executive Yuan before releasing a new stamp.

“We heard that [Ma’s office] initially liked only [the Chinese characters for the] ‘Republic of China’ on the stamp, but now it was okay with putting ‘Taiwan’ in brackets. This proved one thing: only Taiwan is the name that can match reality,” Shieh said.

Shieh made the remarks after appearing in court in a defamation lawsuit brought against Lin by Ma.

Ma filed the lawsuit against Shieh after he accused Ma of serving as a student spy for the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), monitoring and reporting on overseas Taiwanese students taking part in anti-government protests, when Ma studied law in the US.
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