Pandering to Beijing will make KMT target for ‘united front,’ MAC tells ChuBy Chen Yu-fu, Yang Chun-hui and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporters, with staff writerPro-Beijing pandering by the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman-elect ignores the facts and would allow the party to become a target for China’s “united front” tactics, the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) said yesterday. The KMT on Saturday elected former New Taipei City mayor Eric Chu (朱立倫) as chairman on promises of reopening all channels of communication with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The title and logo of the Mainland Affairs Council are displayed on a wall at its Taipei headquarters in an undated photograph. Chu only cares about meeting Beijing’s expectations while ignoring mainstream domestic public opinion, it said, adding that this kind of leadership cannot carry the KMT into a new era as Chu has promised. The DPP also decried Chu’s failure to hold the true perpetrators to account while blaming the victims.

Source: Taipei Times September 26, 2021 15:56 UTC