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...million. Last week, the face-off between the KMT and Chen's government remained at an angry impasse. The KMT and its chief "Pan-Blue" alliance partner, the People First Party (PFP), have petitioned the courts for a recount and squabbled with Chen and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) over the procedure. The two sides also remain deadlocked over the shooting. The KMT has suggested it was staged to win votes and demands a special inquiry; Chen says police should first complete their investigation. Yet many KMT officials privately acknowledge that a recount holds little hope for a reversal...
...richest, to miss payroll for five days earlier this month. Many expect the KMT, facing so many loose ends, to unravel. "We're seeing it decline into something pitiful," says Byron Weng, a political scientist at National Chi Nan University in central Taiwan, "and that will leave the DPP in power for at least another decade...
...After imposing 38 years of martial law and brutally repressing political activists who later became the core of the now-ruling DPP, the KMT introduced democratic reforms in the 1990s. But Taiwanese used their new freedoms to demand bentuhua, which translates as "localization." Bentuhua means politicians bear Taiwanese lineage, speak the Taiwanese dialect, emphasize Taiwan's history in schools and promote Taiwanese culture. For many, bentuhua also means independence, or at least permanent separation from China. The KMT, which still draws heavily on support from mainlanders, can't please everybody. Says KMT adviser Wu Tung-yeh: "The old-line faction...
...DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian, also a native Taiwanese, is elected President, ending more than 50 years of Kuomintang rule...
...China fears that Taiwan will declare a formal split after the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) fares well in parliamentary and local-government polls...