MARCH 2011
DEMOCRACY & PROGRESS
DPP organizes Japan donation drive
The DPP announced on
March 16 that it will start a dona-
tion drive to help Japan during
the devastating earthquake and
tsunami disaster. The DPP Head-
quarters opened a bank account
at the post office bank dedicated
for the donation drive.
Taiwanese people immedi-
ately started to donate to the des-
ignated account by the DPP on
the first week. The account is to
remain open for the duration of
one month (until April 16), and
the funds will be directly donated
to the Red Cross in Japan.
The account number at the
post office bank is [50187239]
under the account name [民主進
步黨日本賑災專戶]. The DPP
invited people from all walks of
society to help Japan and donate
any amount that was convenient
for them. The DPP also organ-
ized donation drives throughout
21 counties in Taiwan from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, March
20.
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DPP organizes Japan
donation drive
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NT45 million collected by first Recent poll reflects
week
Taiwanese sentiments
over nuclear energy
By the first week of the Japan
donation drive, the DPP an- - Pg. 3
nounced that it already gathered
NT$45 million of donations by
the public.
DPP Spokesperson Lin You- DPP presidential
chang explained that approxi- primaries take full swing
mately NT$8.66 million was col- - Pg. 4
lected by the weekend activity
drive. He said that the remaining
NT$36.31 million came from
people donating directly to the Former US Deputy
post office bank account. Secretary of State visit
Posters with the slogan, “Safe DPP think tank New
Wishes for Japan”, were pro-
Frontier Foundation
duced by the DPP to advertise
the initiative. The DPP also pub- - Pg. 5
licized the donation drive on its
Facebook page and main web-
...and more
site.
DPP’s Director of the Youth
Department Lee Cheng-yi said
that Japan has never hesitated to
provide a lending hand to Tai-
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DPP organizes Japan donation drive
wan, and that it was the time for Taiwanese to return
them our gratitude.
“During Taiwan’s previous disasters such as the
921 Earthquake and the Typhoon Morakot disaster,
80% of our foreign donations came from Japan,” he
said.
Acting DPP Chair Ker Chien-ming said during a
press conference announcing the DPP’s initiative on
March 16 that, “The earthquake damage brought
great shock, sadness and suffering to the people in
Japan, and the DPP would like to convey its deepest
concern for the victims. We also hope that Japan is
able to start immediately its rehabilitation and re-
construction".
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Acting Chair Ker praised the Japanese people for
their civility even at times of crisis, in addition to
the professionalism presented by the media, which
are all examples that Taiwan may learn from.
The DPP passed the resolution to start the Japan
donation drive during a senior party staff meeting
on March 14, a few days after the earthquake hit
Japan. All senior party staff also donated one day’s
salary to the donation drive.
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Recent DPP poll reflects Taiwanese sentiments over
nuclear energy
76.5% believe that government should suspend
construction on Fourth Nuclear Power Plant to
conduct further security assessments
Japan’s recent earthquake has brought aware-
ness and concern to the Taiwanese people over the
safety of nuclear power plants in Taiwan.
The DPP conducted a survey from March 15 to
16, where 50.6% of the respondents said they did
not have confidence in the management capacity of
nuclear power plants.
61.1% of the respondents said that they didn’t
have confidence on the government’s ability to
handle a nuclear crisis. Most importantly, 76.5% of
the respondents said they believed in suspending
construction on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant
and that further government assessment was
needed.
Director of the DPP’s Survey Opinion Center,
Chen Chung-lin, said at the March 17th press con-
ference that more than half of the respondents
didn’t have confidence in the management capacity
of nuclear power plants in Taiwan, while only
37.2% said to have confidence.
He said that during the survey, when asked “In
regards to their confidence in the government’s ca-
pability to handle a nuclear crisis”, 61.1% of the
respondents said to not have confidence while only
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30.5% said that they did have confidence. Director
Chen said that the survey results are to give Presi-
dent Ma a high degree of alert.
Additionally, in regards to the question whether
they agree or absolutely agree to suspending con-
struction on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, and
that further government assessment was needed,
76.5% of the respondents said they agreed while
58.2% responded to ‘absolutely agree’.
“If more than half of the respondents in a survey
say that they absolutely agree, this is an important
point for the Ma Administration to pay concern to,”
Director Chen said.
Director Chen also added that among the pan-
green supporters, 83.4% agreed to suspend con-
struction on the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant to
conduct further assessments, and among pan-blue
supporters, 75.4% said to also believe the same. He
said this represents that both party supporters
agreed to suspend construction in order to conduct
further assessments.
This survey was conducted from March 15 to 16
through telephone calling of random numbers to
citizens 20 years and older. The sampling number
was 1,112 and under a standard of 95% confidence
level with approximately 2.99% sampling error.
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MARCH 2011

DPP presidential primaries take full swing

The DPP has finished the registration proc- on Wednesday, April 13 from 8:00 to 10:00
ess of candidates for the presidential primaries. p.m.; the third one on Saturday, April 16 from
The candidates that registered for the primary 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.; and the last one on Wednes-
are (in the order they registered): 1) Su Tseng- day, April 20 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. All the
chang, former DPP chair and premier; 2) Tsai four presentations will be televised and broad-
Ing-wen, DPP chair, former Mainland Affairs cast by four different television stations.
Council minister and former vice premier; and The presentations will each take approxi-
3) Hsu Hsing-liang, former DPP chair. mately 120 minutes. The format will be divided
DPP Chair Tsai Ing-wen has taken a leave into three parts: opening statement, Q&A and a
from her responsibilities as chair in order to concluding statement.
pursue the DPP presidential primary. According
to party regulations, Legislative Convener Ker
Chien-ming will take on as acting chair.
On March 26, a coordinating meeting was
held at the DPP to decide the procedure for
televised presentations among the registered
candidates. All three candidates agreed to pre-
sent their policy platforms during televised
presentations in order for the public to under-
stand each candidate's point of view.
During the meeting, it was decided that a
total of four televised presentations will be
held. The first one will be held on Saturday,
April 9 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.; the second one

Top: Former Premier Su Tseng-chang along with his wife and youth supporters, accom-
pany him to the DPP during the registration process for presidential primaries.
Bottom le%: A group of 2012 first-time voters greet DPP chair Tsai Ing-wen as she en-
ters the building for registration.
Bottom right: Former DPP Chair Hsu hsing-liang speaking to the press a%er he is the
last candidate to register for the DPP presidential primaries.

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Former US Deputy Secretary of State visits DPP think
tank New Frontier Foundation
Former US Deputy Secretary of State Mr. Rich-
ard Armitage meets with New Frontier Founda-
tion Chair Dr. Tsai Ing-wen
On March 29, a delegation of academic and think
tank scholars from Washington, D.C. led by For-
mer US Deputy Secretary of State Mr. Richard
Armitage visited the DPP think tank, the New
Frontier Foundation. In her capacity as chair of the
New Frontier Foundation, Dr. Tsai Ing-wen met
with the delegation and exchanged views on Tai-
wan’s domestic politics, cross strait relations, US-
Taiwan relations and US foreign policy.
Mr. Armitage first enquired about Taiwan’s do-
mestic politics, asking Dr. Tsai’s view concerning
the results of the Big-5 Elections. He also asked
about her views on the upcoming presidential elec-
tions. Dr. Tsai said that she believed the past local
elections have allowed the DPP to balance its
strength to compete against the KMT. She also
added that the DPP was able to gather more sup-
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porters from women and youth voters in addition to
increasing its support base in northern Taiwan.
Dr. Tsai said that during the election process, the
DPP presented solid policy platforms to respond to
the people’s anxieties about the future. She said
that over the past few years, the DPP has success-
fully transformed itself into a mature, stable and
modern political party. She asserted that in future
elections, the DPP is even more capable than the
KMT of producing comprehensive socio-economic
policies, which will help to ease the problem of the
growing wealth gap in Taiwan.
Responding to Mr. Armitage’s questions on the
DPP’s cross strait policy, Dr. Tsai said that the DPP
at this stage is cohering internal party consensus,
but the basic direction has been established with
the opening of the new think tank. She said that the
DPP acknowledges Taiwan, as part of Asia, under-
stands the importance of preserving stability in the
Asian region. She added that Taiwan and the US
share a common responsibility. She also said that
although Taiwan has many differences with China,
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... Former US Deputy Secretary of
State visit
there is no need to conceal these differences. She
emphasized that we must maintain the stable de-
velopment of the Asian region.
“We will find, together with China, where our
common interests are,” Dr. Tsai said.
Dr. Tsai reiterated that facing the challenges
brought by China’s rise in the political, economic
and security areas, Taiwan should not be alone in
facing these challenges, and that it should be the
world who should collectively face China. She ex-
pressed that she hoped to see Taiwan included in
the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) so that Taiwan
has even greater confidence in facing China.
In regards to US-Taiwan relations, Mr. Armitage
asked Dr. Tsai’s views on US arms sales to Taiwan
and agricultural trade between both countries. Dr.
Tsai said that the DPP’s consistent position is to
support the upgrading of Taiwan’s national defense
in order to cope with military threats facing Tai-
wan. She said that she hoped to see the US show-
ing a positive response to the proposed arms sales
to Taiwan, and at the same time, she said that she
hoped both sides continue to strengthen the secu-
rity bilateral cooperative relationship.
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Dr. Tsai also mentioned that
US-Japan security represents
the cornerstone of peace and
stability in the Asia-Pacific
region, and that she was op-
timistic towards the US re-
cently returning their focus
on Asia. She confirmed to Mr.
Armitage that the DPP will
actively engage in close dia-
logue with the US on issues
of great importance to both
countries.
As for trade relations, Dr.
Tsai said that despite recent
differences on the beef issue,
there is an overall segmenta-
tion between US and Taiwan agricultural products,
and that if there is going to be an integration of the
reciprocal relationship, agriculture will not be a
point of contention between both sides. She lastly
emphasized that on this aspect, the DPP has pro-
posed standpoints for Taiwan to strengthen its de-
velopment on agricultural services, including the
transformation of Taiwan’s agriculture to high-
value products in order to enhance Taiwan’s com-
petitiveness in agriculture.
Present at the meeting were DPP foreign policy
advisors: Mr. Michael Kau, former representative
to the EU; Mr. Luo Fu-chuan, former representa-
tive to Japan; Mr. Winston Dang, former Minister
of the Environment, Ms. Maysing Yang, former
chair of the Research and Planning Committee of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Mr. Lee Ying-
yuan, former deputy representative to US; and Ms.
Bikhim Hsiao, vice president of Security and Strat-
egy Research Center, New Frontier Foundation.
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MARCH 2011

DPP Acting Chair Ker Chien-

ming respects Vice President Lu’s
decision to drop out of primaries
DEMOCRACY &
In regards to the announcement by Former Vice President PROGRESS
Annette Lu on March 22 to drop out of the 2011 DPP Presiden-
tial Candidate Primary, Acting DPP Chair Ker Chien-ming said PUBLISHED BY:
that this time’s decision by Former Vice President Lu will play
a large influence on the primary.
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DIRECTOR:
Bikhim Hsiao

DEPUTY DIRECTOR:
Hsieh Huai-hui

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:
Michael J. Fonte

EDITOR:
Ping-Ya Hsu

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