Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice presidential candidate Su Tseng-chang (
Thanking Lee for his remarks, Su said Lee was a seasoned politician with great prestige and that the party would determine whether there are things it should improve.
"Lee has the DPP's best interests at heart and we must take his warning seriously so that this does not actually happen," Su said.
Lee said on Saturday that in a DPP and the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) face-off in the legislative elections, the DPP could lose so much it would have to "pull its pants down."
Such a scenario would put the very existence of a government made up of native-born Taiwanese at stake, Lee said.
Referring to the new "one district, two votes" electoral system, Lee called on Taiwanese to cast their second ballot in favor of the political parties that are upholding the pro-localization drive.
Only the combined power of the DPP and the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) can maintain the political status of native-born Taiwanese, he said.
Echoing Lee's comments, TSU Chairman Huang Kun-huei (
"The two upcoming elections are battles to safeguard the political establishment of native-born Taiwanese," he said.
"The DPP and the TSU must work together to win the legislative elections and secure a victory by DPP presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (
With Hsieh and his KMT opponent Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) at loggerheads over campaign issues, Huang said yesterday that debate over issues of national identification would come naturally if the economy were handled properly.
Hsieh has invited Ma to debate the UN membership bid, while Ma has said Hsieh should discuss the economy instead.
Huang yesterday urged Taiwanese to vote for the TSU to allow it to continue playing a balancing role between the DPP and the KMT.
The US-Japan joint statement released on Friday not mentioning the “one China” policy might be a sign that US President Donald Trump intends to decouple US-China relations from Taiwan, a Taiwanese academic said. Following Trump’s meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Friday, the US and Japan issued a joint statement where they reaffirmed the importance of peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and support for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international organizations. Trump has not personally brought up the “one China” policy in more than a year, National Taiwan University Department of Political Science Associate Professor Chen Shih-min (陳世民)
‘NEVER!’ Taiwan FactCheck Center said it had only received donations from the Open Society Foundations, which supports nonprofits that promote democratic values Taiwan FactCheck Center (TFC) has never received any donation from the US Agency for International Development (USAID), a cofounder of the organization wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. The Taipei-based organization was established in 2018 by Taiwan Media Watch Foundation and the Association of Quality Journalism to monitor and verify news and information accuracy. It was officially registered as a foundation in 2021. National Chung Cheng University communications professor Lo Shih-hung (羅世宏), a cofounder and chairman of TFC, was responding to online rumors that the TFC receives funding from the US government’s humanitarian assistance agency via the Open Society Foundations (OSF),
ANNUAL LIGHT SHOW: The lanterns are exhibited near Taoyuan’s high-speed rail station and around the Taoyuan Sports Park Station of the airport MRT line More than 400 lanterns are to be on display at the annual Taiwan Lantern Festival, which officially starts in Taoyuan today. The city is hosting the festival for the second time — the first time was in 2016. The Tourism Administration held a rehearsal of the festival last night. Chunghwa Telecom donated the main lantern of the festival to the Taoyuan City Government. The lanterns are exhibited in two main areas: near the high-speed rail (HSR) station in Taoyuan, which is at the A18 station of the Taoyuan Airport MRT, and around the Taoyuan Sports Park Station of the MRT
An alleged US government plan to encourage Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) to form a joint venture with Intel to boost US chipmaking would place the Taiwanese foundry giant in a more disadvantageous position than proposed tariffs on imported chips, a semiconductor expert said yesterday. If TSMC forms a joint venture with its US rival, it faces the risk of technology outflow, said Liu Pei-chen (劉佩真), a researcher at the Taiwan Industry Economics Database of the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research. A report by international financial services firm Baird said that Asia semiconductor supply chain talks suggest that the US government would