Word: kmt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decades neither knows if the other has been killed. Fast-forward a half-century. The twins have survived. Peiyuan, politically maimed from the Cultural Revolution, lives quietly on a small pension in Changsha, the gray, polluted capital of Hunan. Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei. He is president of CTS, one of Taiwan's main TV networks. As boys they were indistinguishable. Now their faces tell very different stories: Peiyuan's face, thin and ravaged, is the story of a China that Mao wrought, with its famines, executions...
...future in the balance, Yang, a wealthy landowner with three wives, is breaking up his family. Yang Peiyuan, the older twin by half an hour, is to return to their hometown and join the communists. Yang Peiji, the younger twin, is to go south to join the Kuomintang (KMT) and fight in their Nationalist army. The train is about to leave. Peiji tells his brother to try to persuade their father to escape to Hong Kong. They hug, and Peiyuan boards the train...
After leaving his brother at the railway station, Peiji fought with the KMT and set about building a career for himself in Chiang Kai-shek's military. He spent two years in cadet school, and by 1960 he was promoted to captain. The same year he got married, but when his Taiwanese-born wife suggested they buy a house, Peiji said no. "At that time we all thought we were going back to China. What point in buying a house in Taiwan?" he says, laughing. "It was not until 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, that we changed our views...
...recently mandated "state to state" relations between the PRC and what the communist regime sees as its "renegade province." Although Lee is considered more of a talker on the independence front--who would consider unification after certain democratic reforms--his stance nonetheless added KMT weight to the drive for independence...
...course is the right one, diplomacy, democracy, capitalism and culture will permeate the communist nation and stabilize the region. If he is wrong, Taiwan may yet replace his KMT approach with a more forceful approach to dealing with the communist giant--the implications of which could be drastic...