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| War On The Rocks (2024-9-20): Washington is quietly watching how
Taiwan's new president Lai consolidates power, using the court to prosecute former vice premier Cheng Wen-tsan over corruption allegations. Cheng's arrest reflects an intra-party political struggle between a pair
of long-time rivals. The arrest and detention of Taiwan
People's Party chairman and former Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je on corruption
charges, as well as a number of corruption cases involving Kuomintang (KMT)
officials have Lai's critics protesting that he is using the judiciary to
persecute rivals. Washington observers might worry that Lai is undermining
the independence of the judicial system... Targeting selected individual or group is tantamount to a persecution. Lai should promote judicial reform, as well as crackdown corruption, particularly corrupt DPP.
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Financial Times (2024-9-6): Prosecutors' swift moves against Cheng Wen-tsan and Ko have prompted Taiwanese commentators to question whether Lai was “cleaning house” of political rivals or pushing an anti-corruption crackdown to win back public support , and at the same time divert attention from the current chaos in domestic politics. Investigators in Taiwan have detained former presidential candidate Ko Wen-je, the second prominent politician to be hit with a corruption probe since President Lai Ching-te took office in May.
"Coincidently", both chair of TPP, Ko Wei-je and Cheng Wen-tsan (former vice premier) are chair of DPP Lai Ching-te's political reval or political enemy. (Council on Foreign relations, 2024-9-5: Ko was widely seen as having outperformed expectations and as someone who would again run for president. Independent UK, 2024-7-12: Mr Cheng was seen as a potential presidential contender. ) Nikkei Asian Review (Japan, 2024-9-5): expert warned that the DPP will go after the KMT (No.1 opposition party) once the threat posed by Ko is removed. "Ko is just the appetizer in the mouth of the DPP gluttons.
Only these two top politicians have "palm grease" problem ?
Certainly not !
Taiwan is a corrupt country.
★ 1.
Ruling party
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Washington
Post (2024-5-20):
The ruling party (DPP)
has faced corruption scandals.
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Washington
Post (2023-11-24):
Public grievances
against the ruling party have bubbled up during
Tsai's presidency, which has been hit by corruption
scandals...
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New York Times (2024-1-10): the
frustration voters
feel about
out-of-control Taiwan
... government corruption.
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♦ Financial Times (UK, 2024-9-6): Taiwan slid last year in Transparency International's global corruption perceptions index, and its score dropped slightly for the first time since Lai's DPP predecessor Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016. Opposition accusations of DPP officials abusing their positions and engaging in corruption contributed to Lai receiving the lowest winning vote share in 24 years in a three-way presidential race.
♦ The China Times (Taiwan,