The China Post
Date: November 22, 2016
By: The China Post news staff
President Tsai Ing-wen on Monday ordered the Cabinet to tighten supervision over state-subsidized
GACC President Liu Chao-shiuan is surrounded by photographers as he arrives at a screening meeting on Monday, Nov. 21. (CNA)
foundations and social organizations, in an apparent reply to a snub from a cultural affairs body.
The instructions came after Tsai’s admission to the General Association of Chinese Culture (GACC), a cultural affairs body that has historically received state subsidies, was apparently deliberately postponed two times.
A GACC committee meeting — designed to screen applications from over 600 new members including Tsai — was called off Monday afternoon, postponing Tsai’s admission into the organization for the second time within seven days.
In the past, it was customary for the nation’s president to serve as GACC head. [FULL STORY]