EDITORIAL
Taiwan News
Date: 2016-09-14
By: Taiwan News, Staff Writer

A move by the director of a museum in Taiwan to find a new job in China consulting and advising a local museum there does not sound like a major national security crisis. Unless the Taiwanese institution is the National Palace Museum, which resorts directly under the central government and is one of the world’s most prominent repositories of priceless Chinese art.

The problem is that the museum’s director during the last administration of President Ma Ying-jeou, Feng Ming-chu, seemed to be contravening or at least evading government rules which state that a departing government official should obtain the permission from his former employer before moving to China, and that for a period of three years following his retirement or resignation.

Feng’s quick move looked like a flagrant violation of that law, her appointment as consultant to The Palace Museum in Beijing coming a mere three months after the departure of the Ma Administration last May 20.     [FULL  STORY]