President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was urged yesterday not to forget “the nature and true color of the Chinese Communists” and to uphold the sovereignty of the Republic of China.
Accusing Taiwanese police of “using force against their countrymen and women,” Taipei City Councilor Lee Wen-ying (李文英) of the Democratic Progressive Party said: “Human rights in Taiwan have been lost as a result of the force used by police against anti-China protesters” at venues visited by Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Strait Chairman Chen Yunlin (陳雲林) in the past two days.
Lee went to the Presidential Office to present several books and an appeal to Ma, calling on him not to sacrifice the nation’s sovereignty.
Explaining her actions, Lee said that Mao Zedong’s Quotations and the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) published by the Epoch Times — represent the most telling record of the Chinese Communists’ “vicious and unscrupulous nature.”
Another book she presented, former president Lee Teng-hui’s (李登輝) The Taiwanese in a New Era, argues that Taiwanese should “outperform the era” and that the country’s president should represent the people of Taiwan rather than himself, she said.
Records of China’s Judicial Persecution of Taiwanese Businessmen, meanwhile, is an account of Taiwanese businesspeople in China who were “rejected” by Chen and his aides after they were exploited and bullied, she said.
The first two F-16V Bock 70 jets purchased from the US are expected to arrive in Taiwan around Double Ten National Day, which is on Oct. 10, a military source said yesterday. Of the 66 F-16V Block 70 jets purchased from the US, the first completed production in March, the source said, adding that since then three jets have been produced per month. Although there were reports of engine defects, the issue has been resolved, they said. After the jets arrive in Taiwan, they must first pass testing by the air force before they would officially become Taiwan’s property, they said. The air force
The Coast Guard Administration (CGA) yesterday said it had deployed patrol vessels to expel a China Coast Guard ship and a Chinese fishing boat near Pratas Island (Dongsha Island, 東沙群島) in the South China Sea. The China Coast Guard vessel was 28 nautical miles (52km) northeast of Pratas at 6:15am on Thursday, approaching the island’s restricted waters, which extend 24 nautical miles from its shoreline, the CGA’s Dongsha-Nansha Branch said in a statement. The Tainan, a 2,000-tonne cutter, was deployed by the CGA to shadow the Chinese ship, which left the area at 2:39pm on Friday, the statement said. At 6:31pm on Friday,
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) third aircraft carrier, the Fujian, would pose a steep challenge to Taiwan’s ability to defend itself against a full-scale invasion, a defense expert said yesterday. Institute of National Defense and Security Research analyst Chieh Chung (揭仲) made the comment hours after the PLAN confirmed the carrier recently passed through the Taiwan Strait to conduct “scientific research tests and training missions” in the South China Sea. China has two carriers in operation — the Liaoning and the Shandong — with the Fujian undergoing sea trials. Although the PLAN needs time to train the Fujian’s air wing and
STRIKE: Some travel agencies in Taiwan said that they were aware of the situation in South Korea, and that group tours to the country were proceeding as planned A planned strike by airport personnel in South Korea has not affected group tours to the country from Taiwan, travel agencies said yesterday. They added that they were closely monitoring the situation. Personnel at 15 airports, including Seoul’s Incheon and Gimpo airports, are to go on strike. They announced at a news conference on Tuesday that the strike would begin on Friday next week and continue until the Mid-Autumn Festival next month. Some travel agencies in Taiwan, including Cola Tour, Lion Travel, SET Tour and ezTravel, said that they were aware of the situation in South Korea, and that group
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