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Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

(May 20, 2022) This week, 80 years ago, 59-year-old Lt. Gen. “Vinegar” Joe Stilwell walked out of the jungles of Burma to India to escape capture by the Japanese.

Retired army general Yu Pei-chen (于北辰) on Friday announced on Facebook that he was leaving the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). POP Radio politics talk show host Chiu Ming-yu (邱明玉) said that she has heard that Yu might run as an independent candidate for city councilor in this year’s local elections. Instead of running as an independent candidate for the Taoyuan City Council, Yu could be the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) candidate for Taoyuan mayor. According to news reports, DPP internal polling shows that, despite having been born into a KMT-supporting military family,...

<strong>Army not KMT’s servants</strong> When the Transitional Justice Commission criticized the conduct of the Republic of China (ROC) armed forces under the leadership of former president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石), Veterans Affairs Council Minister Feng Shih-kuan (馮世寬) shot back with “that is how it was.” His answer needs qualification; he needs to add “but it is no longer the case.” He owes this much to the armed forces, to set the question into the correct historical context. Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping (鄧小平) once said that Chiang did not want talent in...