Word: bian
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...President's a Hunk All along, we thought taiwanese President and dpp leader Chen Shui-bian's rise to political prominence was due to his steely competence. This was a man, his smug eagerness and wire-frame spectacles seemed to say, who could solve Taiwan's problems as easily as he performed differential calculus. He never actually wore a slide rule in his pocket, but we knew it was there, in spirit at least, close to his heart. Two years and a few gdp contractions later, that aura of can-do confidence has been chipped away and we are left...
...word: sex. A recent rerelease by Taiwan Colors Music of the 1986 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian?make that Ahhhhh!-Bian?is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who?and please...
TAIWAN The Last Domino The once-almighty Nationalist Party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in Taiwanese history, in an election marred by allegations of corruption. The pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party, led by President Chen Shui-bian, became the legislature?s largest party, a stunning blow for the reunification-minded Nationalists, who had controlled the chamber for more than 50 years. But the DPP fell short of a majority, setting the stage for fierce political jockeying as it seeks to form a governing coalition...
...exaggeration, many analysts believe that a significant chunk of the KMT harbors similar sentiments and that this could, at a minimum, portend a change of leadership and a major rethink of the party's policy toward Beijing. This would make the KMT even more like Chen Shui-bian's DPP, and leave the mainland, suddenly, without a Taiwan counterpart advocating reunification...
...Taiwanese to write off the campaign as nothing more than a bad joke. But by the time results were tallied on Saturday night, it was clear that, either by serendipity or intent, Taiwan's voters had orchestrated a revolution, one that is arguably even more sweeping than Chen Shui-bian's victory in the March 2000 presidential elections. As a result, Taiwan's relations with mainland China, which regards the island as a renegade province, could become a lot more testy...