Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Hsu Tain-tsair (許添財) said during his first visit to China on Monday that the country is an “unavoidable” and “undeniable” market for Taiwan.
Hsu, who has served two terms as mayor of Tainan and has been elected to the legislature five times, made the comments after meeting Chinese financial experts in Shanghai.
Hsu said that the normalization of economic ties between Taiwan and China has given rise to various problems.
“If we can’t solve these problems, both sides of the Taiwan Strait will suffer,” he said.
Hsu said that economic uncertainty and market intervention would hurt both nation’s economies.
He warned that Taiwan could pay a heavy price if it failed to resolve these problems because if its economy began to sink, then democracy could take a step backward and the social cost paid by Taiwanese would be high. However, he did not elaborate.
“What worries me is the autonomy of Taiwan’s economy: how healthy it is, particularly in terms of its dependency on the Chinese market,” he said.
Hsu said that it is critical for Taiwan’s economy to achieve healthy development since it can no longer avoid or deny its need to use the Chinese market.
It is important that “we come to China to gain an understanding of the country first-hand by meeting local officials and researchers,” he said.
Hsu is leading a 10-member group of former local government officials and businesspeople on the visit. The group will proceed to Beijing today before traveling to Xiamen.
LOUD AND PROUD Taiwan might have taken a drubbing against Australia and Japan, but you might not know it from the enthusiasm and numbers of the fans Taiwan might not be expected to win the World Baseball Classic (WBC) but their fans are making their presence felt in Tokyo, with tens of thousands decked out in the team’s blue, blowing horns and singing songs. Taiwanese fans have packed out the Tokyo Dome for all three of their games so far and even threatened to drown out home team supporters when their team played Japan on Friday. They blew trumpets, chanted for their favorite players and had their own cheerleading squad who dance on a stage during the game. The team struggled to match that exuberance on the field, with
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. The single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, saber-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Taiwanese paleontologists have discovered fossil evidence that pythons up to 4m long inhabited Taiwan during the Pleistocene epoch, reporting their findings in the international scientific journal Historical Biology. National Taiwan University (NTU) Institute of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology associate professor Tsai Cheng-hsiu (蔡政修) led the team that discovered the largest snake fossil ever found in Taiwan. A single trunk vertebra was discovered in Tainan at the Chiting Formation, dated to between 800,000 to 400,000 years ago in the Middle Pleistocene, the paper said. The area also produced Taiwan’s first avian fossil, as well as crocodile, mammoth, sabre-toothed cat and rhinoceros fossils, it said. Discoveries
Whether Japan would help defend Taiwan in case of a cross-strait conflict would depend on the US and the extent to which Japan would be allowed to act under the US-Japan Security Treaty, former Japanese minister of defense Satoshi Morimoto said. As China has not given up on the idea of invading Taiwan by force, to what extent Japan could support US military action would hinge on Washington’s intention and its negotiation with Tokyo, Morimoto said in an interview with the Liberty Times (sister paper of the Taipei Times) yesterday. There has to be sufficient mutual recognition of how Japan could provide
RSS