Taipei Times
Date: Oct 15, 2015
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter
Parents and politicians on Tuesday were infuriated when they found a
Minister of National Defense Kao Kuang-chi, second left, attends an interpellation session yesterday in the legislature in Taipei. Photo: Liu Hsin-de, Taipei Times
government-sponsored educational Web site to promote national defense concepts showing a video of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on parade, along with about 40 World War II movies that were produced by the Chinese government.
The controversy also riled opposition legislators at the legislature’s Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee meeting yesterday, who accused top military officials of negligence for helping Chinese propaganda materials reach Taiwanese.
The Web site that broadcast the videos is among the programs managed by the National Defense Education Center, a collaboration between the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education, and is based at Hsinchu Senior Girls’ High School in Hsinchu City. [FULL STORY]