EDITORIAL: KMT must reclaim anti-PRC roots
During a speech to mark Double Ten National Day on Sunday, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) made a simple statement of fact: “The Republic of China [ROC] and the People’s Republic of China [PRC] are mutually exclusive.” Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Eric Chu (朱立倫) and others within the party, including former president Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), went berserk and accused Tsai of “violating the Constitution” and altering the so-called “status quo.” That the party elite are incensed over a choice of words that could easily have passed from Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣ä...