DEEP BLUE:The China Youth Corps first operated as a subordinate of the defense ministry’s General Political Warfare Department, now the Bureau of Political Warfare
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 21, 2017
By: Yang Chun-hui and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee is on Friday expected to
The China Youth Corps’ Chih Ching Building on Songjiang Road in Taipei’s Zhongshan District is pictured on Feb. 10. Photo: Chien Jung-fong, Taipei Times
order public hearings to investigate whether the China Youth Corps (CYC) is an affiliate organization under the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) de facto control.
The assets committee has said that the CYC — known as the China Youth Anti-Communist National Salvation Corps until 2000 — was under direct control of the KMT.
The public hearings are to determine whether the KMT continues to exercise de facto and direct control over the corps’ personal management and financial operations, a determination that could lead to the confiscation of any or all of the organization’s illegally-obtained assets, committee members said.
The corps’ legal status has changed three times since its founding on Oct. 31, 1952, the committee said. [FULL STORY]
