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...Power Politics in Taiwan Your report on Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian's plan for a referendum on China's missiles and hints of independence was off the mark with regard to the political reality in Taiwan [Dec. 15]. You underestimated the judgment of the Taiwanese by describing Chen as a manipulative politician. In my view, he is a defender of human rights and democracy. I cherish Taiwan's open and sometimes rowdy democracy, which is in contrast to the previous, autocratic regime. Our society is maturing politically as it faces all kinds of daily challenges. The pace of progress...
...brother and I were working at the time, and he didn’t really speak English, so he couldn’t understand what was going on,” Chen told The Crimson in 1999. “I had to tell him in Chinese, ‘We’re being robbed...
...December 1999, Chen was assaulted with a wooden pole and suffered a slight laceration on his right cheek during a robbery...
Another incident one Halloween, when a group of teenagers descended on the store looking for beer, left Chen with a black...
...store has also been robbed of merchandise several times. Roughly $2,500 in cash and beer was stolen several months after Chen took over in 1987. But Chen said that Harvard students should not be scared to continue to shop at Louie?...