Want China Times
Date: 2015-03-23
By: Chang Ya-chung and Staff Reporter

Taiwan’s government has lost its direction ever since the Democratic Progressive Party took

Chang Ya-chung gives a speech on his North America tour in August last year. (Photo/Lin Rui-yi)

the reins of the country in 2000 and the Kuomintang is not doing a better job at leading the country either, says Chang Ya-chung, a political science professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei.

In a piece published in our Chinese-language sister paper China Times on March 17, Chang said Taiwan’s lack of direction has arisen because the country retreated into an imaginary world instead of living in the real world. Chang said the DPP advocates separating the history of Taiwan and China but never bothered to educate its supporters that the US still maintains a “One China” policy.     [FULL  STORY]