GUILTY BY ASSOCIATION?Lo Cheng-tsung of the Zero Party Asset Alliance said that organizations affiliated with the KMT should be pursued in the same manner as the party
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 11, 2016
By: Aaron Tu / Staff Reporter
President-elect Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) should make a pledge to show her
Taiwan Nation Alliance supporters rally outside the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) headquarters in Taipei on May 13 last year. Photo: Fang Pin-chao, Taipei Times
incoming administration’s determination to address the issue of the Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) ill-gotten party assets, academics said yesterday.
Critics have labeled the KMT’s assets “ill-gotten” because the party took them from the Japanese colonial government, private businesses and individuals when it took control of Taiwan in the late 1940s.
Despite several bills proposed at the legislature on “ill-gotten party assets,” academics said they are worried about the actual result of the Democratic Progressive Party’s (DPP) campaign to pursue the matter, as the issue is politically sensitive and highly polarized.
Lo Cheng-tsung (羅承宗) of the Zero Party Asset Alliance said the incoming Tsai administration does not have to wait until the legislation is passed to pursue the KMT’s illegitimate party assets. [FULL STORY]
