CKS Hall can be a place to honor presidents: Lu

Taipei Times
Date: Jan 30, 2019
By: Su Fun-her and Jake Chung  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer

The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall should be transformed into space dedicated to

The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall is pictured in Taipei on Wednesday last week.
 
Photo: Chen Yu-fu, Taipei Times

previous presidents and its plaque should be changed to read “Democracy Square,” former vice president Annette Lu (呂秀蓮) said yesterday.

Her remarks came after Minister of Culture Cheng Li-chiun (鄭麗君) was on Tuesday last week slapped by entertainer Lisa Cheng (鄭心儀) over the Ministry of Cultures’ policies to repurpose the hall.

Lu, as well as academics from the pan-blue and pan-green camps, yesterday attended a seminar, titled “On One China, Two Chinas and ‘One China,’ One Taiwan.”

Taiwan could retain the strategic high ground if it cited unification of China under the Three Principles of the People to counter Chinese President Xi Jinping’s (習近平) “five points” announced on Jan. 2, National Taiwan University Graduate Institute of National Development professor Ger Yeong-kuang (葛永光) said.    [FULL  STORY]

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