The 37 are all members of the pro-Beijing party – the KMT.
Tsao told the Nikkei that the KMT is a Trojan horse bent on enabling the annexation of Taiwan by Beijing.
The Yuan has 113 members of which 54 are KMT, 51 DPP and 8 TPP. The President of Taiwan is a DPP member who is finding his legislative programme obstructed by the KMT.
Tsao reckons there’s a good chance of getting rid of between 8 and 20 KMT members out of the 37 undergoing a recall vote.
Tsao said that at one time he believed that a closer union with mainland China could be achieved by negotiation but changed his mind after Beijing’s treatment of the Hongkongers.
Tsao founded UMC as a spin-off from the government research establishment ITRI in 1980 and set it up as a broad-based IDM designing and fabbing memory, standard logic, microprocessors including x86 clones, telecoms chips, custom ICs and consumer devices including watch chips.
In 1995, following on the runaway success of TSMC, UMC decided to drop proprietary products and become a foundry
