Yesterday’s China Post headline: [KMT President-elect] Ma proclaims love for Taiwan
And the story in today’s papers? Ma Ying-jeou asks the Taiwanese Postal Service to delay releasing a set of stamps featuring his portrait alongside the word, "Taiwan."
Hey, give the guy a break, everybody. It should be obvious Ma LOVES Taiwan … He just doesn’t want to be caught dead having his picture on ANY stamp which bears the stinkin’ name!
UPDATE (Apr 4/08): Apparently I wasn’t the only one who had that reaction. From today’s Taipei Times:
A group of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday criticized president-elect Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) after he expressed reservations over the use of the word “Taiwan” on postage stamps, and accused him of discarding the name “Taiwan” like “toilet paper” after using it to win the March 22 election.
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The DPP legislators said Ma had expressed no such reservations when he used the slogan “Taiwan marches forward” in his election campaign.