Taiwan News
Date: 2016-03-03
By: George Liao, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taiwan’s president-elect Tsai Ing-wen said on Thursday that the reason for
Urged by Central Standing Committee member Kuan Bi-ling and other members on Wednesday, Tsai promised to stay on as DPP leader after she becomes Taiwan’s president on May 20.
However, digging out Tsai’s critical talks about a Taiwan president doubling as a party’s chairperson, critics question Tsai for eating her own words.
In response, Tsai said during her visit to the semi-conductor industry at the Hsinchu Science Park on Thursday, “Of course I have to bear the consequences for what I have said,” but Wednesday’s decision was made in order to “adapt to the new political situations [we] face.” [FULL STORY]