The late president still features on one banknote and on coins
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/03/15
By: Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – If the new transitional justice legislation requires it, symbols of
President Chiang Kai-shek on the NT$200 banknote (photo courtesy of Chi-Hung Lin) (By Wikimedia Commons)
authoritarian rule such as effigies of President Chiang Kai-shek could be removed from the country’s banknotes and coins, new Central Bank Governor Yang Chin-long (楊金龍) said Thursday.
The government is preparing to form a Transitional Justice Committee, with one of its tasks taking a closer look at remnants of the Martial Law era, in particular the presence of Chiang statues on school campuses and on government land.
If the law demanded that such symbols were also removed from currency, then the Central Bank would of course respect the law, Yang told lawmakers during a question-and-answer session Thursday morning. [FULL STORY]
