ASSETS FROZEN: The corps’ directors were required to deliver work report to the KMT and Chiang Kai-shek said the corps was affiliated with the defense ministry
Taipei Times
Date: Aug 08, 2018
By: Stacy Hsu / Staff reporter
The Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee yesterday
China Youth Corps director Ger Yeong-kuang, center, speaks at a new conference in Taipei yesterday after the Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee designated the corps as an affiliate of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT). Photo: Chu Pei-hsiung, Taipei Times
designated the China Youth Corps as an affiliate of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT), demanding that the corps declare its assets within four months.
The committee reached the decision after determining that the KMT had controlled the corps’ personnel, operations and finances — the criteria for listing an organization as a party affiliate under the Act Governing the Handling of Ill-gotten Properties by Political Parties and Their Affiliate Organizations (政黨及其附隨組織不當取得財產處理條例).
“In terms of the corps’ personnel, its first director was Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), the son of then-president Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and who later became a KMT chairman,” committee chairman Lin Feng-jeng (林峯正) told a news conference in Taipei, adding that Chiang Ching-kuo’s successor, Li Huan (李煥), also had plenty of experience working in the KMT.
That the corps’ directors were required to deliver work reports to the KMT’s Central Standing Committee before the lifting of martial law suggests that the party had control over the corps’ operations, Lin said.
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