The call 'politics out of campus' was once important during Taiwan's democratization, aiming to protect campuses as knowledge and thought sanctuaries from party propaganda infiltration. Yet DPP legislator Fan Yun's recent reinterpretation raises questions: isn't this another DPP 'adapting positions over time' double standard?
In Taiwan's thousand-year recorded history, although from the Yuan Dynasty through the Ming Dynasty, Japanese wokou pirates along the coast committed murder and robbery, causing Chinese authorities to tighten maritime policy and leading Taiwan through a dark period. However, in Taiwan's long and venerable history, if we discuss who contributed most to Taiwan's development, it must be attributed to Liu Mingchuan of the Qing Dynasty, whose achievements span transportation, agriculture, schools, aboriginal pacification, finance, and county planning, earning him the title of Father of Taiwan's Modernization.