Today's news first, with the English report summarizing the Chinese-language reports.
(1) Lawrence Chung, Judiciary Nominee Sparks Questions on Tsai's Endgame. South China Morning Post, Oct 16, 2016. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/a ... tions-tsais-endgame
("At a confirmation hearing, Hsu was asked by Kuomintang legislator Wang Yu-min about an article Hsu wrote in 1996 in which he said the Republic of China, as Taiwan is formally known, was 'factually and legally independent from all other nations, including the People's Republic of China.' * * * ]Hsu was] a member of the Council of Grand Justices [, which is literal translation; official translation: Justices of the Constitutional Court; 大法官會議] * * * His [HSU Tzong-li's] remarks, which echo the controversial 'state-to-state' theory espoused by former president Lee Teng-hui in 1999 [three years later]")