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...because Hu, a Kuomintang (KMT) stalwart who was first elected Taichung's mayor in 2001 when he defeated the independent incumbent and the candidate belonging to the rival Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has turned the city around; he has built infrastructure, created jobs and sculpted Taichung into the island's cultural...
...Ying-jeou, the big winner of the March 22 presidential election. Ma's victory is a landmark development that has the potential to not just change Taiwan but transform its fraught relationship with China. For decades after its leadership fled to Taiwan in 1949, the KMT regarded the island merely as a transitional base from which to reclaim the mainland. The KMT, an outsider, ruled Taiwan in an authoritarian manner, and was out of touch with local folk, who identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese. In 2000, the KMT paid for its arrogance when it was stunningly - and deservedly - ousted...
...liberate its over-regulated economy to compete in a globalized world. He also recognized that Taiwan needed to acknowledge China's might. Now that he is President, Ma wants to launch direct transport links with the mainland, lift restrictions on Taiwan businesses operating in China and open the island to Chinese tourists and investors. As he told my colleague Michael Schuman: "We can make cross-strait relations work for both - a win-win situation...
...Jesus, who, at the behest of his aging dad, returns to earth for a comeback tour. Since he's a bearded Palestinian willing to die as a martyr, the messiah is stopped at U.S. Immigration and shipped off to Guantánamo Bay. He finds himself trapped on an island that's become a maximum-security prison, designed by the people who brought the world Kentucky Fried Chicken: "Tiny battery-size cages, guarded by ignorant teenagers ... and characterized by a profound feeling of despair...
...force will demonstrate that the continent is serious about policing itself. In reality, it may send the opposite message. That the AU feels comfortable, albeit after more than a year of diplomacy and sanctions, about attacking Anjouan's airport and roaring into tiny Moutsamoudou town - the entire island has a population of just 240,000 and its biggest claim to prominence is as the world's premier exporter of ylang-ylang flowers - only highlights how uneasy the organization becomes in the face of stiffer opposition...