The legislative by-election in Taipei is an opportunity for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to cooperate with Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wang Ting-yu (王定宇) said yesterday.
The DPP in the nine-in-one local elections on Saturday had a bruising defeat and Ko narrowly won re-election.
Five legislative by-elections are to be held, as Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lu Shiow-yen (盧秀燕) was elected Taichung mayor, KMT Legislator Wang Hui-mei (王惠美) was elected Changhua County commissioner and KMT Legislator Yang Chen-wu (楊鎮浯) was elected Kinmen County commissioner.
Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
In addition, DPP Legislator Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) was elected Tainan mayor and DPP Legislator Pasuya Yao (姚文智) resigned from his post to run for Taipei mayor.
Wang Ding-yu said that the DPP should seriously consider its relationship with Ko, as many young people chose not to vote for the party’s candidates because it went against Ko in the Taipei mayoral election.
If they do not handle their relationship properly, the DPP and Ko are to face difficulties posed by the KMT, which has become stronger due to Chinese support, he said, adding that they could end up harming each other and the nation.
“The relationship should be dealt with in the five legislative by-elections, especially in Taipei,” Wang Ding-yu said. “Both sides should find common ground for collaboration, rather than emphasize their differences.”
If the DPP and Ko nominate their own candidates for the Taipei by-election, the seat would almost certainly be taken by the KMT, he added.
A small number of Taiwanese this year lost their citizenship rights after traveling in China and obtaining a one-time Chinese passport to cross the border into Russia, a source said today. The people signed up through Chinese travel agencies for tours of neighboring Russia with companies claiming they could obtain Russian visas and fast-track border clearance, the source said on condition of anonymity. The travelers were actually issued one-time-use Chinese passports, they said. Taiwanese are prohibited from holding a Chinese passport or household registration. If found to have a Chinese ID, they may lose their resident status under Article 9-1
Taiwanese were praised for their composure after a video filmed by Taiwanese tourists capturing the moment a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Japan’s Aomori Prefecture went viral on social media. The video shows a hotel room shaking violently amid Monday’s quake, with objects falling to the ground. Two Taiwanese began filming with their mobile phones, while two others held the sides of a TV to prevent it from falling. When the shaking stopped, the pair calmly took down the TV and laid it flat on a tatami mat, the video shows. The video also captured the group talking about the safety of their companions bathing
PROBLEMATIC APP: Citing more than 1,000 fraud cases, the government is taking the app down for a year, but opposition voices are calling it censorship Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairwoman Cheng Li-wun (鄭麗文) yesterday decried a government plan to suspend access to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (小紅書) for one year as censorship, while the Presidential Office backed the plan. The Ministry of the Interior on Thursday cited security risks and accusations that the Instagram-like app, known as Rednote in English, had figured in more than 1,700 fraud cases since last year. The company, which has about 3 million users in Taiwan, has not yet responded to requests for comment. “Many people online are already asking ‘How to climb over the firewall to access Xiaohongshu,’” Cheng posted on
A classified Pentagon-produced, multiyear assessment — the Overmatch brief — highlighted unreported Chinese capabilities to destroy US military assets and identified US supply chain choke points, painting a disturbing picture of waning US military might, a New York Times editorial published on Monday said. US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s comments in November last year that “we lose every time” in Pentagon-conducted war games pitting the US against China further highlighted the uncertainty about the US’ capability to intervene in the event of a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. “It shows the Pentagon’s overreliance on expensive, vulnerable weapons as adversaries field cheap, technologically
RSS