I had assumed that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (
It also seems likely that they want to negotiate special arrangements for themselves within a "Taiwan Special Administrative Region." China, for its part, wants to enlist their assistance in softening up Taiwan prior to an invasion. It's a win-win situation for them.
It's not possible to get too upset about this. The people of Taiwan freely elected these two parties, one run by a martial law authoritarian, the other by a serial kleptomaniac, into a position where they can do their endless undemocratic mischief. Taiwan is getting precisely what it deserves.
Stephen Carter
Taichung
Watch your back door closely. The Chinese will make the KMT look good in an effort to bring them back to power in Taiwan. Remember, a wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf. As any deposed dictator would, the KMT wants to resume power.
Taiwan has outgrown dictatorship, and the KMT ought to be moved into a category like the KKK in the US. We allow them to babble in our free society, but are quick to prosecute. I think the KMT will continue to be a problem until the land and money it stole from the Taiwanese people have been taken back for the public good.
Democracy is a beautiful thing. Every individual counts. Look past the rhetoric and lies. Look past the offers of free fertilizer when you know there is a high probability of that it contains weed seeds that will affect the rice crop.
Mike McKenzie
Lebanon, Missouri
Chinese state-owned companies COSCO Shipping Corporation and China Merchants have a 30 percent stake in Kaohsiung Port’s Kao Ming Container Terminal (Terminal No. 6) and COSCO leases Berths 65 and 66. It is extremely dangerous to allow Chinese companies or state-owned companies to operate critical infrastructure. Deterrence theorists are familiar with the concepts of deterrence “by punishment” and “by denial.” Deterrence by punishment threatens an aggressor with prohibitive costs (like retaliation or sanctions) that outweigh the benefits of their action, while deterrence by denial aims to make an attack so difficult that it becomes pointless. Elbridge Colby, currently serving as the Under
Ho Ying-lu (何鷹鷺), a Chinese spouse who was a member of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) Central Standing Committee, on Wednesday last week resigned from the KMT, accusing the party of failing to clarify its “one China” policy. In a video released in October, Ho, wearing a T-shirt featuring a portrait of Mao Zedong (毛澤東), said she hoped that Taiwan would “soon return to the embrace of the motherland” and “quickly unify — that is my purpose and my responsibility.” The KMT’s Disciplinary Committee on Nov. 19 announced that Ho had been suspended from her position on the committee, although she was
The Ministry of the Interior on Thursday last week said it ordered Internet service providers to block access to Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (小紅書, also known as RedNote in English) for a year, citing security risks and more than 1,700 alleged fraud cases on the platform since last year. The order took effect immediately, abruptly affecting more than 3 million users in Taiwan, and sparked discussions among politicians, online influencers and the public. The platform is often described as China’s version of Instagram or Pinterest, combining visual social media with e-commerce, and its users are predominantly young urban women,
Honduras’ election has opened a diplomatic moment that Taiwan cannot afford to ignore. Tegucigalpa’s 2023 decision to switch recognition from Taiwan to Beijing was a setback, but it is not irreversible. The incoming government in Honduras faces the same stubborn challenges that made China’s sweeping promises appealing in the first place — migration pressures, energy insecurity and limited foreign investment. Taiwan has an opportunity to make a unique offer consisting of credit lines and export credit. The offer should be strategic, well-structured, and large enough to command the attention of Honduras and other nations in the Western hemisphere. Taiwan’s development assistance has
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