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...Hou Yu-ih, a former police chief and candidate of the Kuomintang, said on Thursday that while the ruling Democratic Progressive party bore some responsibility for the rise in tensions with China in recent...
...For months Hou Yu-ih, nominated by the main opposition Kuomintang, and Ko Wen-je, founder of the small centrist Taiwan People’s party, have been neck and neck in opinion polls, behind vice-president and...
...Lin Ying-yu, a professor of strategic studies at Tamkang University, said China would “show muscle” in the event of a Lai victory, but added that Beijing was unlikely to drastically escalate military manoeuvres...
...Former police chief and New Taipei City mayor Hou Yu-ih, nominated by the largest opposition party Kuomintang, and former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, a surgeon who is running for the centrist Taiwan People’s...
...We stand together,” Hou Yu-ih, of the Kuomintang, told the Financial Times in his first interview with international media since receiving the KMT’s nomination in May....
...‘probation period’ to wait and assess what he will say in his inaugural address,” said James Chen, a foreign relations expert at Tamkang University in Taipei who advised KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih...
...The Kuomintang, Taiwan’s largest opposition party, and the Taiwan People’s party failed to agree in overnight talks on a formula to determine whether the KMT’s Hou Yu-ih or TPP founder Ko Wen-je is the stronger...
...The KMT wants Han Kuo-yu, a populist China-friendly politician who lost the last presidential election to Tsai, to become speaker....
...“We have come to a point where women leaders, both in the middle and at the top, are taking off,” says Zhao Ying, co-founder and publisher of WhichMBA.net, a management education platform based in Shanghai...
...In recent opinion polls, Lai is slightly behind Hou Yu-ih, the popular mayor of the country’s largest municipality from the Kuomintang (KMT), the more China-friendly opposition party....
...“The US itself may not do so much in terms of counter-A2/AD against China naval assets, but it will ask its allies to step up efforts to do so,” said Lin Ying-yu, an expert on the PLA at National Chung Cheng...
...midsized banks with inadequate capital bases and high bad debt ratios, since government support . . . may not be available for hybrid instruments issued by these banks,” S&P analysts Luan Xiaochen and Ying...
...It is owned by Lawrence Yu, a prominent Hong Kong businessman, and if you have a connection to someone in the know, you’ll be able to make a reservation. It is booked entirely by word of mouth....
...Lin Ying-yu, a PLA expert at National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, said the plans suggested that the PLA’s Marine Corps, which is being rapidly expanded, could evolve to more closely resemble the US...
...Elsewhere they have collaborated with performance artists and musicians, as well as choreographer Chou Shu-yi and dancers Tien Hsiao-tzu and Lin Yu-ju....
...battle to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty and democracy against the threat of encroachment from Beijing, as highlighted by the protests in Hong Kong, Ms Tsai defeated her more China-friendly challenger Han Kuo-yu...
...China relaxed restrictions on travel to Taiwan under the presidency of Ms Tsai’s predecessor, pro-Beijing leader Ma Ying-jeou....
...Four prominent detainees Yu Juncong Yu Juncong, a 25-year-old from a village in Jiangxi province in south-east China, started working at Jasic Technology in January 2017....
...According to several KMT politicians, Mr Gou already has the backing of heavyweights in the party including Ma Ying-jeou, Ms Tsai’s predecessor as president....
...At a joint ribbon cutting, a few minutes before the lettuce drama, Cheng’s elderly widow, Tsui Ying, struggled with a heavy pair of scissors. Sonia knelt beside her wheelchair to help....
...A fifth, the populist Han Kuo-yu who won a landslide victory in the November mayoral race in the DPP stronghold of Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s third-biggest city, is seen as having an outside chance....
...We were predictably sent down, me for 30 months and Ying for 24....
...“If we don’t consider red envelopes and [Alibaba] don’t count Taobao transactions, we don’t know which one is bigger,” Zhang Ying, Tencent vice-president, told a conference in Hong Kong last month....
...The panel also featured Eileen Nugent (Skadden), Ted Yu (SEC), Gar Bason (Davis Polk), Bill Lafferty (Morris Nichols) and JPMorgan's Simon....
...“The DPP is unbalanced in its foreign policy,” said Lin Yu-fang, a national security expert at the KMT’s think-tank and a former legislator....
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