Despite premier-designate Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄) saying that he would reveal his Cabinet lineup by the end of the month, the local media continued its guessing game yesterday.
The latest name in the frame is Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Organization and Development Committee Director Liao Fung-te (廖風德), rumored to be the next Minister of the Interior.
President-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and Liu met yesterday morning at KMT headquarters to continue discussions on the lineup of the incoming Cabinet, but remained tight-lipped about prospective candidates.
“The list is not determined yet. I will not say anything now,” Liu said to reporters before meeting Ma.
Meanwhile, Taichung Mayor Jason Hu (胡志強) said yesterday that he did not want the Presidential Office secretary-general post.
Hu said he would prefer to finish his second term as Taichung mayor.
“I have ‘three noes’ to answer your question — no willingness, no possibility and no change of mind,” Hu told reporters at KMT headquarters when approached for comment.
Hu dismissed reports that he was considering accepting Ma’s invitation to serve as in the Presidential Office.
“There’s no new developments and my decision to stay in Taichung remains unchanged,” Hu said.
KMT Secretary-General Wu Den-yi (吳敦義) and KMT Vice Chairman Chan Chun-po (詹春柏) were two other prospective candidates rumored to be in line for the position of Presidential Office secretary-general, although KMT Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) said he was reluctant to lose Wu Den-yi from his current position.
“I depend on Wu Den-yi too much and his responsibility as party secretary-general is a heavy one,” he 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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