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DPP Chair and 2012 Presidential Candidate
Tsai Ing- wen’s Europe visit
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Tsai Ing-wen visits Europe from
June 6 to 10
DPP Chair and Presidential Can-
didate Tsai Ing-wen visitedEurope on the second week of
June, stopping by the cities of
Berlin and London. Chair Tsai
was accompanied by Shieh Jhy-
wei, former representative of Tai-
wan to Germany; Chen Chi-mai,
executive director of the DPP’s
Policy Department and Bikhim
Hsiao, vice president of the DPP’s
think tank, the New Frontier
Foundation.
The purpose of the visit to
Europe was to understand green
policies adopted by European
governments, especially concern-ing renewable energy. Chair Tsai
has issued the 2025 Nuclear-Free
Homeland Initiative as one of her
campaign platforms for the presi-
dential election.
Prior to the delegation’s depar-
ture, Chair Tsai spoke to the me-
dia at Taoyuan International Air-
port, expressing her confidence
that this visit will promote the ini-
tiatives for a nuclear-free Taiwan.
“Renewable energies will
eventually replace traditional en-
ergy retrieval methods such as
nuclear energy,” Chair Tsai said.“This will serve as great benefit
and a basic policy direction for
the DPP when it returns to office.”
Berlin
On the first leg of the tour on June
6, Chair Tsai visited the Berlin
Central Station, and was given a
tour by a management representa-
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tive of the station. Mr. Alex Fischer, MP of the
CDU party of Germany, also accompanied her
on the train station tour.
During the tour of the Berlin Central Station,
Chair Tsai learned that the station is one of the
newest and largest construction plans by the
German government that utilizes alternative en-
ergy for its operations. The station representa-
tive also explained that in order to fulfill the
country’s energy policy, the German govern-
ment started an initiative to convert more than
5,000 train stations into 100% dependent on so-
lar energy.
Chair Tsai expressed her impressions of the
German government’s plan to adopt green en-
ergy policies, especially in regards to public
spaces. “As long as the government has clear
objectives and is willing to take initiative,
achieving the goal of a nuclear-free environ-
ment is definitely reachable,” she said.
Part of understanding Germany’s renewable
energy projects from the government perspec-
tive, Chair Tsai visited the offices of Germany
Trade and Invest, a government agency that
promotes foreign trade and investment. Chair
Tsai was greeted by Germany Trade and Invest
President Mr. Michael Pfeiffer, who organized a
presentation titled “The Renewable Energies &
Resources Industry in Germany”.
As the report indicated, Germany, as of 2010,generated 17% of electric power for consump-
tion, cutting CO2 emissions by 120 million tons per
year. The alternative energy industry also provided
37.5 billion euros in revenue for Germany.
After the presentation, Chair Tsai indicated that
Taiwan is the world’s second largest manufacturer
of solar energy panels with Germany being one of
its largest exporting markets. She said that 99% of
the panels are exported overseas, but the current
most important issue for Taiwan is to develop its
domestic markets in order to lead Taiwan’s indus-
trial development for the next generation.
During the second day of the Berlin visit, Chair
Tsai met, over a breakfast meeting, with members
of the Taiwan-Germany Parliamentary Friendship
Group led by Mr. Klaus-Peter Willsch, MP (CDU)
and Deputy Speaker of the German Parliament Dr.
Helmann Otto Solms, MP (FDP). Both sides en-
gaged in a discussion on renewable energies as well
as the topics of
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cross strait relations, China’s democratization andhuman rights and the influence of China’s rise. Mr.
Willsch, who has played an instrumental role in
strengthening EU-Taiwan relations such as pushing
for the visa-free status for Taiwan, expressed af-
firmation of Germany’s support of Taiwan.
Visiting the German Parliament, Chair Tsai ex-
changed views and engaged in a discussion about
renewable energies with the author of the 2000
German Renewable Energy Legislation, Mr. Hans-
Josef Fell, MP (Green Party). Mr. Fell, who has pushed for the government to offer tariffs in order to
accelerate the development of renewable energy
technologies, said he fully supported Chair Tsai’s
2025 nuclear-free project for Taiwan.
Chair Tsai described to Mr. Fell Taiwan’s situa-
tion on renewable energies. She said that Taiwan
currently relied more than 99% on energy imports.
“It is imperative that we find a solution to this
dilemma,” she said. “Before, Germany had the same
problem, but in the last ten years, the German gov-
ernment has taken the initiative to develop a policyto strengthen renewable energy technologies. For
this reason, Germany today, as the world’s largest,
has 17% of its energy attributed to renewable en-
ergy, and on the contrary, Taiwan only counts with
2%.”
On the last day of her visit to Berlin, Chair Tsai
visited the German Council on Foreign Relations
(Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik,
DGAP), which is a non-profit organization special-
ized on Germany’s national foreign policy network.She exchanged views on cross strait relations and
China issues with Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider and
Mr. Otto-Wolff, director of the Research Institute
China-Program.
Overseas Taiwanese living in cities across
Europe came to Berlin to attend an evening recep-
tion organized by overseas supporters on behalf of
Chair Tsai. She spoke to the audience about Tai-
wan’s domestic politics and current news about the
DPP.
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London
On the
evening of
June 8,
Chair Tsai
arrived in
London
and was
received by
Taiwanese
supporters
at Lon-
don’s
Heathrow
Airport.
She then
spoke at anauditorium with hundreds of overseas supporters
about Taiwan’s domestic politics and her cam-
paign plans for the upcoming elections.
The next day, Chair Tsai visited her alma ma-
ter, the London School of Economics and Political
Science (LSE), and was received by Dr. Judith
Rees, interim director of LSE and Dr. David Held,
director of the Centre for the Study of Global
Governance within the Government Department
at LSE.In speaking to Dr. Rees and Dr. Held, Chair
Tsai emphasized that democracy is Taiwan’s most
paramount value, becoming the “common lan-
guage” spoken between China and Taiwan. She
also said that in 2012, if returned to office, the
DPP will continue to promote cross strait eco-
nomic relations by promoting a more transparent
dialogue and informing the public of the out-
comes.
Chair Tsai then delivered remarks at a seminar on Taiwan, cross strait relations and the chal-
lenges to democracy at the University of London’s
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
Her presentation at SOAS came at the invitation
of Dr. Robert Ash, director of the Centre of Tai-
wan Studies and Dr. Dafydd Fell, senior lecturer
in Taiwan Studies.
In her remarks at the SOAS seminar, Chair Tsai
highlighted:
“The Asian region must have peaceful and sta-
ble cross straits, and maintaining this cross strait
peace and stability is the responsibility of Taiwan
for the rest of the world. In reality, Taiwan is not
facing China alone and cross strait issues are not
limited to just Taiwan and China. Taiwan, as well
as the rest of the countries in Asia and the world,
is facing a rising China and dealing with the influ-
ence China brings in political, economic and secu-
rity terms. For this reason, Taiwan must adopt a
multilateral framework in order to balance theinequalities between Taiwan and China.
“Taiwan and China possess different histories,
especially in the value of democracy. From the
perspectives of the 23 million people in Taiwan,
democracy is the system for the country’s national
foundation, and it serves as the line of defense for
Taiwan. In developing cross strait relations, Tai-
wan must not forsake its democracy.”
In London, Chair Tsai paid a call to the UK
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Parliament and met with members of the Taiwan-
UK Parliamentary Friendship Group. She ex-
changed views on Taiwan and cross strait rela-
tions with Lord Faulkner of Worcester, chair of
the friendship group, and Lord Giddens.
Chair Tsai met with members of both the Tai-
wan and UK media. She was interviewed by Ed-
ward Carr from The Economist and Charles Scan-
lon from the BBC. In the televised BBC inter-
view, Chair Tsai spoke about the DPP’s proposed
approach to relations with China and the increas-
ing worry of China’s military rise in the Asian re-
gion.
Mr. Scanlon, who specializes in reporting
Asian affairs for the BBC, asked Chair Tsai the
main question of the interview: “China is cur-
rently building up its naval forces. There are plans
to launch its first aircraft carrier this year, and ten-
sions are building up with other neighboringcountries in the South China Sea. How concerned
are you about China’s growing assertiveness?”
Chair Tsai re-
plied: “You can’t
rule out the possi-
bility that it has be-
come much more
ambitious militarily
and politically than
before, and there-fore, it will create
problems in terms
of its friendship or
relationship with its
neighboring coun-
tries. And in fact,
what I am saying is
that all the possible
conflicts in that area
have to be dealtwith in a peaceful
manner, including the problems that we have with
China.”
Mr. Scanlon then persisted on the question
about China’s military security, “But with this
crackdown on critics in China continues, if China
does take a turn for the more authoritarian rever-
sion to how it was before, that’s going to make it
more difficult for you, for your party to deal with
China, isn’t it?”
Chair Tsai responded, “I am the leader of a
party who struggled for decades in order to reach
this stage of democracy in Taiwan. We understand
fully the importance of a democracy, and we hope
China can have democracy as well. And if there is
a way for us to assist the development in China,
we would be more than happy to do that.”
The full interview can be seen on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FlUY3jnt8s&
feature=youtu.be
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DPP presents Q&A for 2025 Nuclear-Free HomelandInitiative
What is the "2025 Nuclear-Free Homeland Ini-
tiative"?
The "2025 Nuclear-Free Homeland Initiative" aims
to decommission the First, Second and Third Nu-
clear Power Plant in Taiwan and to prevent the
commercial operation of the Fourth Nuclear Power
Plant. Taiwan will be able to reach its goal of obvi-ating the need for nuclear energy by using other
alternative energy sources, improving the power
generation efficiency, energy conservation, indus-
trial restructuring, and the liberalization of the
electricity industry.
Why 2025?
It’s difficult to give up nuclear energy immediately
since it requires the consensus of the whole soci-
ety. 2025 is the deadline for decommissioning theThird Nuclear Power Plant, but Taiwan has to
strive to change the power structure so as to stop
using nuclear power by 2025.
How could Taiwan replace nuclear power?
(A) Increase the proportion of renewable energy:
the DPP’s initiative calls for increasing renew-
able energy by about 6.5% of total electricity
generation by 2025.
(B) Improve the efficiency of thermal power: Inaddition to increasing power generation effi-
ciency, invest in thermal power plants in order
to reduce the amount of carbon emissions.
(C) Construction of natural gas power plants as
priority because natural gas is a cleaner energy,
and future power plants should give priority to
using natural gas.
What are other methods to reduce power
consumption in the long-term?
(A) Energy Conservation: the Government can
encourage people to use energy-saving prod-
ucts.
(B) Adjust industrial structure: instead of just
focusing on economic growth, we should en-
courage green policies among energy-intensive
industries.
(C) Liberalization of the electricity industry: the
government should liberalize the electricity
market, which not only alters the issue of Tai-
Power’s monopoly, but it also encourages the
development of the renewable energy industry
Why should Taiwan completely give up using
nuclear power?
Of all the world's 564 nuclear power plants in op-
eration, six of them have experienced accidents,
and the probability of more accidents is approxi-
mately more than 1%.
Japan and Taiwan are both in earthquake-prone
areas. For this reason, what happened in Fu-kushima may also occur in Taiwan.
If a severe damage happens in one of the three
nuclear power plants near Taipei, tens of millions
of people will have to be evacuated, which is a
plan that cannot be implemented. Also, it may
result in the paralysis of state capital. The cost of
shutting down the government and rebuilding the
damaged area and the risk of trade and economic
loss is too high a price to pay for Taiwan.
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DPP Chair and 2012 Presidential Candidate
Tsai Ing- wen delivers speech at Liberal International’s
57th Congress in Manila
On June 19, DPP Chair and Presidential Candidate
Tsai Ing-wen gave a speech at the 57th Congress of
the Liberal International in Manila. Liberal Interna-
tional is a global organization of political parties,
which aims to promote the advancement of free-
dom, equality, human rights, free trade, tolerance,
social justice and the rule of law around the world.
The ‘Human Rights & Trade’-themed 57th Con-
gress in Manila saw a host of inspiring speeches
from political leaders all over the world, including
Moses Mzila Ndlovu MP (Zimbabwe), Otto Gue-
vara Guth (Costa Rica), Louis Michel (MEP), and
Sam Rainsy (Cambodia).
In her speech, Tsai Ing-wen emphasized the
DPP’s “proactive” role in “promoting a liberal and
democratic global agenda through Liberal Interna-
tional” and to “help strengthen the network’s pres-
ence in Asia…, with a particular emphasis on hu-
man rights.”
Tsai also talked about the historical importance
of Taiwan and Philippine democracy in demonstrat-
ing to the world that “contrary to the claims of a
few Asian leaders…, Asians are perfectly capable
of building systems and institutions of democ-
racy…” However, Tsai also noted the difficulties
faced by Asian democracy activists and freedom
fighters such as Sam Rainsy, Chee Soon Juan (Sin-
gapore), as well as those struggling for democracy
in Burma.Tsai Ing-wen devoted a large part of her
speech to the challenges that come with the rise of
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China. Tsai stated that “all too often, in the currentstate of the global political economy, economic
leverage is applied to silence critics on human
rights; economic strength is also utilized as a base
for expanding political and military influence.”
Tsai said that the debate concerning the way in
which the international community should deal
with China centers around two views. The first
approach advocates engagement with China, so-
cializing China into abiding with “international
rules, norms, and standards of behavior”. Thesecond more pessimistic view is that China will
continue to lib-
eralize eco-
nomically, but
that it will re-
main an
authoritarian
state that will
“attempt to
develop an al-ternative world
order”. Those
who subscribe
to the second
view argue “a
balance-of-
power strategy
is needed to
contain such a scenario.” Tsai emphasized that the
DPP advocates a combination of these two strate-
gies. She stated: “integration generates opportuni-
ties for business and travel, and it will give more
and more Chinese people a chance to witness and
experience alternative political systems. At the
same time, we must balance and hedge against
risks, managing the relationship in a way that
would safeguard our values and interests”.
Tsai Ing-wen emphasized that even though it
is necessary to engage with China through multi-
lateral frameworks in order to offset China’s
growing leverage and influence, Taiwan must also
be “vigilant in guarding our most cherished val-ues, mainly democracy and human rights.” Tsai
stressed that China and Taiwan have evolved into
very different societies and political systems, and
that the DPP is “particularly committed to pre-
serving the free choice of the Taiwanese people to
determine their own future”. However, the DPP
also recognizes the existence of “commonalities
and shared interests” and the need for “joint pur-
suit of peaceful development”. As such, the DPP
is committed to establish a “peaceful and stablemechanism for interacting with China without
compromising our
values.” Tsai further
stated that the DPP’s
doors are open to
“Chinese visitors
who are sincerely
interested in under-
standing the DPP”.
Such exchangeswould hopefully
“minimize the
chances of miscalcu-
lations”, and also
“help the Chinese
people and govern-
ment better under-
stand the functioning
of the democratic system that we have worked so
hard to build”.
Concerning the Taiwanese legislative and
presidential elections in January 2012, Tsai Ing-
wen acknowledged that the DPP has experienced
a “difficult three years”, but that the party also has
a “collective desire for our country to move for-
ward.” Tsai further stated that “we must build on
past achievements, but we must also constantly
reflect and renew, so that we can enhance our
competence and refine our capacity to govern, and
hopefully we will win back the mandate next
year.”
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DPP: judiciary must use consis- tent standards to evaluate special funds case
DEMOCRACY & PROGRESS
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DIRECTOR:
Bikhim Hsiao
DEPUTY DIRECTOR:
Hsieh Huai-hui
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Michael J. Fonte
EDITOR:
Ping -Ya Hsu
In regards to the indictment of Former President Lee Teng-hui,
DPP Spokesperson Chen Chi-mai made comments to the press
on June 30, saying that Taiwan’s judicial system must stay con-
sistent. He emphasized that the KMT governed Taiwan for 50
years, and the judicial system must keep a consistent standard
when evaluating cases concerning the confidential funds for
special projects on national security.
“Judicial impartiality and independence must be taken very
seriously,” Chen said. “The DPP does not wish to see people being influenced by judicial cases right before the presidential
elections, therefore, we appeal prosecutors and the judiciary to
remain neutral and independent.”
When asked by the media whether next year’s presidential
elections will receive a large influence from the indictment of
Former President Lee Teng-hui, Chen responded that this case
is still under development, and it is impossible to assess right
now the influence on election sentiment. However, he asserted
that if judicial fairness and independence is sacrificed, leading
people to respond by votes, this would cause a judicial tragedy
for Taiwan.