DPP’s Fan criticizes Ko’s ‘bizarre’ diabetes analogyBy Jason Pan / Staff reporterDemocratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Fan Yun (范雲) yesterday condemned as “bizarre” and insulting to patients comments by Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) Chairman Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on using diabetes as analogy for commenting on cross-strait relations when addressing the US business community on Tuesday. Taiwan Statebuilding Party Taipei chapter director Wu Hsin-tai, center, speaks at a news conference in the city in an undated photograph. “Ko’s comparison is way off the mark, he is an international laughingstock,” Fan told reporters yesterday. “Ko’s comparison to diabetes is too bizarre... Taiwan right now is more like an elderly person suffering from progressive loss of muscle mass. Taiwan Statebuilding Party (TSP) Taipei chapter director Wu Hsin-tai (吳欣岱), who is also a doctor, had a different take.

Source: Taipei Times September 13, 2023 16:44 UTC