SERVING BEIJING: Soldiers have a duty to protect the nation and if they kowtow to China then they should not be receiving pensions, the DPP’s Tsai Shih-ying said
Taipei Times
Date: Feb 18, 2019
By: Chung Li-hua / Staff reporter
The Executive Yuan has drafted an amendment to extend the period during which retired
The entrance to the Executive Yuan is pictured in Taipei on Thursday.
Photo: CNA
generals would be prohibited from traveling to China in an apparent response to two retired generals praising Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) at a political event in China last year.
The Executive Yuan on Thursday said it has drafted an amendment to the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (台灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例) to extend the period during which former generals, mayors, science officials and intelligence officers must obtain Ministry of the Interior approval before they can travel to China to 15 years from three years.
The proposed amendment aims to prevent retired government and military officials from attending events in China that could unduly assert Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan, the Executive Yuan said.
The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) official People’s Daily on Jan. 29 reported that two retired Taiwanese generals, Huang Shing-chiang (黃幸強) and Chen Ting-chung (陳廷寵) in December last year attended the Cross-Strait Generals Forum in Xiamen in China’s Fujian Province. [FULL STORY]
