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Topping this past week’s headlines was Premier Chang San-cheng’s criticism of the military police’s seizure of classified documents from a private citizen’s home.
On Monday, the Premier told the legislature that the search and seizure had been “inappropriate”. The documents dated from the White Terror period, a sensitive four decades in Taiwan’s history that began in 1947. During that time, many innocent people were imprisoned and killed.
The military police says that it acted in line with procedure. Prosecutors have since taken over the case.
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President-elect Tsai Ing-wen was also in the news after meeting with James Soong of the People First Party on Wednesday. Soong had been one of Tsai’s rivals in this year’s presidential election.
But Tsai says she has taken Soong’s calls for cross-party dialogue to heart. She said Wednesday that she will make use of Soong’s experience and ideas. She also said she hopes that different political parties can join together to discuss the issues Taiwan faces.
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Finally, President-elect Tsai Ing-wen spent Thursday in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. There, she said she will support the city’s shipbuilders, which once built the world’s second-largest tanker and enjoyed the sixth-highest number of orders in the world.
Tsai said it is time to get rid of obsolete regulations that hold shipbuilders back, and to explore the promise of emerging markets in Southeast Asia.