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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...
...Within hours of his announcement, Chen said his government was ready to work with the TSU and Lee's do tank. And there are signs that the former President's rallying cry has made an impression with large numbers of KMT members who oppose the party's current stance on cross-strait relations. KMT candidate Chen Hsueh-fen, for example, spent much of the campaign arguing that her party should cooperate more closely with the DPP, a move she said would involve adopting a Lee-esque position on China. If the mainlander element of the KMT proves stubborn, Chen hinted...
...When Chen rose to the presidency, ending 50 years of KMT rule, the commissars in Beijing worried that he and the DPP would try to assert formal independence for Taiwan. Those concerns proved unfounded, largely because Chen was constrained by the KMT, which not only retained a majority in the legislature, but also became a pulpit for decidedly pro-China politicians under its mainland-born chairman, Lien Chan. On Saturday, however, voters tore off Chen's shackles as the KMT won only 68 of the legislature's 225 seats, down from 123 coming into the vote. Chen's DPP, meanwhile...