The KMT’s vice presidential candidate Jennifer Ju-hsuan Wang (王如玄) is now embroiled in controversies over the nature of her property investments. Wang’s nomination currently looks like a statement to voters that profiting off public assets is a core value of the KMT.
The surface of the water is smoking hot. The air, filled with a sulfurous fragrance. Spa cottages scatter up and down the hills…
Welcome to Beitou (北投), the home of the Shaman, the ancestral lands of Austronesian and Han settlements.
The presence of Chinese ballistic and cruise missiles targeting Taiwan is not the problem. The problem is Beijing’s desire to annex Taiwan. Taiwan would not be more secure with missiles out of the picture, however temporarily or permanently.
帝王雖然獨裁，但他們不是聖賢，只要人民團結組織起來就可以反抗、推翻他們，台灣人民可以用選票讓國民黨陣營下台，讓習近平、馬英九和世界都看見台灣人民的想法與理念。
If Taiwan takes steps to improve governance while increasing representation in the government, it will remain an encouraging example to other democracies worldwide.