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...surprisingly, the man trying to knock down the barrier is Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) broke the KMT's longstanding stranglehold on power in March 2000 elections. Chen last month made good on an election promise when his cabinet introduced legislation barring political parties from investing in profit-making enterprises. The bills, if passed by Taiwan's parliament, would also give the government the go-ahead to open the KMT's books and seize assets deemed to have been obtained illegally...
Person of the Week By urging a referendum on a declaration of independence from China, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian earned a week of sound bites and fury from an agitated Beijing bent on reunification. Fiery threats of p.l.a. military action eased after conciliatory gestures from Chen, and the parties got back to the business of forging stronger economic ties...
TAIWAN No War This Week Taiwan scrapped military exercises scheduled for Aug. 15 to help defuse tensions with China. A Taiwanese Defense Ministry official said the naval exercises had been called off to avoid misunderstandings. China was angered by President Chen Shui-bian's suggestion that, in reality, Taiwan and China were already separate countries. An unnamed "senior military source" warned in the China Daily, a state-run newspaper, that Chen might risk invasion if he pressed ahead with a referendum on Taiwan's independence. China regards the island as a rebel province...
Although diplomatic agreements with China prohibit the U.S. government from granting visas to Taiwanese officials, Harvard’s Fairbanks Center found a way Monday to bring President of Taiwan Chen Shui-Bian to Coolidge Hall anyway—they teleconferenced...
...noon on Saturday our local gourmand comes around to guide us to lunch. Xiao Gugu ushers us into an inconspicuous little dive, explaining that when Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian wants to treat foreign dignitaries to authentic local dishes, he brings them to this charming place?the Lian Hsin Yuan Vegetarian Restaurant on Hsinsheng North Road; call (886-2) 2560-1950 for reservations. Xiao Gugu orders a flurry of dishes. First out is xueyu (snow jade) doufu, a two-tone brick of bean curd, green on top, white on the bottom. The top "jade" layer gets its color from...