First two years laid a foundation: Tsai

LIVE-STREAMED: The president spoke for a half-hour on the online platform Watchout, discussing her cross-strait policy and other issues, and taking netizens’ questions

Taipei Times
Date: May 21, 2018
By: Chen Yu-fu and Sherry Hsiao  /  Staff reporter, with staff writer, with CNA

On the second anniversary of her inauguration, President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) yesterday

President Tsai Ing-wen, right, meets Saint Lucian Minister of Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labor Stephenson King at the Presidential Office Building yesterday in Taipei. Photo: CNA

said that while the two years had been somewhat bumpy, it was natural, since her administration has been pushing through a series of reforms to lay the foundation for a better future.

In a live-streamed half-hour interview with the online platform Watchout, Tsai said she would ensure that the reforms her administration has launched would be put into practice and said that the public would soon begin to see concrete results.

“We spent most of my first two years doing preparation … the next two years of my presidency, we will speed up the pace of these proposed reforms,” Tsai said.

Her administration has been preparing the legal frameworks to deal with many of the fundamental problems the nation is facing.    [FULL  STORY]

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