Protesters yesterday threw eggs at images of Taiwanese speedskater Huang Yu-ting (黃郁婷) and the Chinese flag outside the Sports Administration building in Taipei.
Members of the Taiwan Republic Office staged the event to protest Olympic flagbearer Huang, who on Thursday posted pictures of herself online wearing the China national team’s skinsuit.
Office director Chilly Chen (陳峻涵), who was last year confined to his home for throwing eggs at a statue of Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), called for the resignation of national sports officials over the incident, calling it a “political scandal” that she was allowed to carry the Chinese Taipei flag at the
Taiwanese independence advocates yesterday marched as part of a “Taipei Spring” movement, demanding a referendum to abolish the Republic of China (ROC) Constitution and to formally establish Taiwan as a country.
Movement spokeswoman Wang Yen-pin (王演彬) said that amid China’s continuing military threat, he and other constitutional advocates are initiating a campaign patterned after the Prague Spring of 1968 in then-Czechoslovakia.
It is a matter of urgency to tell the world that Taiwan and China are different countries, with separate governments and political systems, he said after the march outside the legislature.
“Taiwan has much space to maneuver for international diplomacy and support
Independence advocates yesterday urged the Ministry of Education (MOE) to stop misinforming students about sovereignty issues.
Grandfather and Grandmother Association of Taiwan head Tseng Kian-hui (曾健輝) said textbooks containing information that Taiwan can rightfully claim territories administered by China should be updated.
The world also needs to know that China’s claim over Taiwan and parts of the South China Sea is baseless, he added.
Tseng’s group was joined by the Provisional Government of Formosa group headed by Sim Kiantek (沈建德), a former professor at a National Chung Hsing University Taiwan Republic Office director Chilly Chen (陳峻涵) and members of the Taiwan
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) yesterday spoke of “four safeguards” as he called on Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) to recognize the “undeniable fact that Sun Yat-sen’s (孫逸仙) overthrow of the Qing Dynasty established the Republic of China [ROC].”
Chu made the remarks at an exhibit at Taipei’s Zhongshan Hall to mark the 76th anniversary of Retrocession Day, when the KMT claims the Japanese ceded Taiwan to the ROC.
For 100 years, Taiwan’s history has been inextricably tied to the ROC, Chu said.
“It was through our resolve and hard work that we took back Taiwan. It was