Hung Hsiu-chu (洪秀柱), the candidate of the ruling Kuomintang for the 2016 presidential election, said Friday that the Diaoyutai Islands in the East China Sea belong to Taiwan and that if she is elected next year, she will continue to fight for the rights of the country's fishermen.
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