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0 0 1 minute read Washington: Former US President Barack Obama, who supported Myanmar’s engagement with the military to promote democratic change, said on Monday (26 April) that he was “led by heart-wrenching violence” in a coup. Was used against civilians to retreat from power. In a rare statement, Obama said he supported efforts by the Biden administration and like-minded countries to impose costs on Myanmar’s generals. “After a decade of illegitimate and brutal independence of the military, more than a decade after independence, people have not attempted to accept it,” Obama ...

MAC head Chiu trying to find a scapegoat: KMT By Sherry Hsiao / Staff reporter The Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) yesterday accused Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Minister Chiu Tai-san (邱太三) of looking for a scapegoat for the predicament in cross-strait relations. In an interview with the Central News Agency on Tuesday, Chiu was quoted as saying that “Beijing can use the ‘1992 consensus’ to declare to the international community that Taiwan is an internal affair.” The so-called “1992 consensus,” a term former MAC minister Su Chi (蘇起) in 2006 admitted making up in 2000...

Group calls for women to be conscripted By Jason Pan / Staff reporter Independence advocates from the Taiwan Republic Office yesterday called on Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) politicians to amend the law so that women could also be conscripted to bolster Taiwan’s armed forces in the face of escalating Chinese military aggression. The advocates rallied outside the Legislative Yuan, demanding that KMT Legislator Charles Chen (陳以信) and KMT Taipei City Councilor Hsu Chiao-hsin (徐巧芯) make good on their promise of amending the Military Service Act (兵役法) to enable conscriptio...

US delegation wraps up three-day visit to Taipei SEEKING CLARITY: Some members of the US delegation asked KMT legislators in a meeting to address their party’s position on the so-called ‘1992 consensus,’ sources said By Chen Yun / Staff reporter, with CNA A US delegation tasked by US President Joe Biden to reaffirm the country’s commitment to its partnership with Taiwan yesterday wrapped up a three-day visit to Taipei. Former US senator Chris Dodd, former US deputy secretaries of state Richard Armitage and James Steinberg, and US Departmen...

China may choose a ‘legal war’: analyst HONG KONG BLUEPRINT: Foundation on Asia-Pacific Peace Studies chief adviser Chao Chun-shan said China might brandish its ‘Anti-Secession’ Law against Taiwan By Chen Yu-fu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer Beijing’s treatment of Hong Kong is to serve as a blueprint of its future legal war against Taiwan if it decides against the military route, an expert told a forum yesterday regarding the implications of last week’s change to the territory’s election law. The Friends of H...