The common theme for the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidates in the year-end regional elections will be “A fairer Taiwan, better lives” (公平台灣, 進步生活), party spokesman Chao Tien-lin (趙天麟) said yesterday after a weekly Central Standing Committee meeting.
Speaking on behalf of DPP Chairperson Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文), Chao said many people were calling for the party to solidify its strategy ahead of the special municipality elections next year and the presidential election in 2012, but the focus right now was the December polls.
However, the other races would be discussed after this Sunday’s DPP national congress, Chao said.
Saying the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) could resort to buying votes, Chao said Chiayi Commissioner Chen Ming-wen (陳明文) reported that the problem has worsened and could sabotage the DPP’s chance of winning.
Chao said Chen had urged President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), who will take up the KMT chairmanship on Saturday, to restrain his candidates and fight a clean fight.
Chen also urged Tsai to mobilize the DPP legislative caucus to bring attention to the issue.
“The chairwoman agreed with Chen and said she would invite members of the DPP caucus to visit the Ministry of Justice and the Chiayi District Prosecutors Office to get to the bottom of the matter,” Chao said.
Taiwan would benefit from more integrated military strategies and deployments if the US and its allies treat the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea as a “single theater of operations,” a Taiwanese military expert said yesterday. Shen Ming-shih (沈明室), a researcher at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said he made the assessment after two Japanese military experts warned of emerging threats from China based on a drill conducted this month by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Eastern Theater Command. Japan Institute for National Fundamentals researcher Maki Nakagawa said the drill differed from the
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