The News Lens
Date: 2019/11/25
By: Lin Jia-he (Assistant Professor at the National Cheng Chi University Department of Law}

Within the scope of authority of the president as specified by the constitution, would it be possible for a president to commit treason and get away with it?

Written by Lin Jia-he (Assistant Professor at the National Cheng Chi University Department of Law)
Translated by Brian Hioe

Does Taiwan's president have the authority to "sell" the country? Politically and socially speaking, this is not easy to explain, and legally speaking, this is also a hard-to-answer question.

The question in dispute here is not whether the president could abuse his or her power, but whether an action constitutes as committing treason. If we are to focus on the question of whether the president could betray Taiwan, then this becomes a harder question.    [FULL  STORY]