’NATIONAL CONCERN’An NTU professor said president-elect Tsai Ing-wen must prioritize the issue of the KMT’s assets and implement full-fledged transitional justice
Taipei Times
Date: Jan 24, 2016
By: Chen Yu-fu and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Having won the presidential election and achieved its first ever absolute
Taiwan Foundation for Asia-Pacific Development president Kang Ning-hsiang leads a discussion at a forum on power transfers and the sustainable development of government systems at the National Taiwan University Hospital International Convention Center in Taipei yesterday. Photo: George Tsorng, Taipei Times
majority in the Legislative Yuan, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) should seek to utilize its administrative and legislative resources to implement transitional justice and deepen the nation’s democratic system, Foundation for Asia-Pacific Development president Kang Ning-hsiang (康寧祥) said at a forum the foundation held in Taipei yesterday.
Academics also called on the DPP to prioritize the effort to deal with the issue of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) assets and establish a protocol for the transfer of power between different parties.
Without a democratic system, the good life would disappear, Kang said at the forum, which was held to discuss issues relating to sustainable development of governmental systems following the transfer of power.
The nation’s lack of economic success in recent years was the result of the overtly China-friendly policies of the KMT government under President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九), Kang said, adding that while some Taiwanese have made money, they are now paying the price for the economy being too reliant on China. [FULL STORY]
