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...that direct elections will define the debate during the next round of polls for Legco, set for September, and that the democratic camp might end up dominating the legislature. Last month's messy presidential election in Taiwan?which, subject to a recount, gave victory to pro-independence incumbent Chen Shui-bian?probably didn't affect the timing of Beijing's tinkering with the Basic Law. But it undoubtedly reminded China's leaders of how troublesome they find democracy...
...custody. Last week, two senior staff members of the paper were sentenced to hefty jail terms on charges of corruption. (The prosecution said the two had embezzled company money. Their defense attorney asserts that the payments were standard performance-based bonuses.) In an open letter to authorities last week, Chen Feng, the Daily reporter who broke the Sun Zhigang story, wrote that such a crackdown, if politically inspired, could mean a big step backward for China's media. "The will of authorities," he wrote, "will be the black cloud that cages and smothers journalism...
...Close Call TAIWAN Hundreds of thousands of people in Taipei protested the presidential election, which incumbent Chen Shui-bian won by a margin of just 0.2%. Chen's opponent, Kuomintang (KMT) leader Lien Chan, claimed that the poll had been marred by vote rigging and the shooting attack on Chen the day before the vote. Chen agreed in principle to KMT demands for a recount, but rejected Lien's call for a new election...
...ELECTED. CHEN SHUI-BIAN, 53, President of Taiwan; by a razor-thin margin, just one day after he was shot in the abdomen while riding in a motorcade. The opposition Nationalist Party, which until the shooting had been narrowly favored to win, called for the election to be annulled and suggested that the assassination attempt may have been a final-hour campaign tactic...
...They figure I don’t need this kind of trouble. They think that I have had enough,” Chen said. “But I like Harvard students. That is why I stay...