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...Taiwan's 16 million voters fall broadly into two categories: those who see Taiwan's future as going it alone-the DPP's chief constituency-and those who don't want to provoke China by promoting independence for Taiwan-the traditional base for the DPP's archrival, the Kuomintang (KMT). But if Taoyuan voter Chou Hui-mei, a 45-year-old furniture importer, is anything to go by, Chen's strategy is having some success bridging that ideological gap. Chou's parents were mainlanders who fled to the island along with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists...
...ballot is proving to be a referendum on the big issues: Taiwan's relationship with China, and Chen's presidency. His narrow re-election in March-just one day after an apparent assassination attempt-left him without a clear mandate and spawned weeks of street protests by the KMT-led opposition. That stretched into acrimonious months of ballot recounts and lawsuits challenging both the vote tally and the circumstances of the shooting incident. Though the courts have upheld Chen's winning margin, KMT chairman Lien Chan, who ran against Chen, has yet to concede defeat, and the KMT...
...national identity. (Lee infuriated Beijing during his presidency by asserting the island's autonomy.) It was also an appeal to the youth vote in advance of next month's parliamentary elections, in which Lee's proindependence party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union, is fielding 43 candidates. The Kuomintang party (KMT), which Lee led before being expelled in 2001 for supporting the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, has downplayed Lee's gimmick. "No matter who Lee Teng-hui likes to dress as?be it a clown or comic character?that's his choice," shrugs KMT legislator Lin Yi-shih. "I believe...
...Vexed Voters in Taiwan Your article about Taiwan's Kuomintang (KMT) party described the problems it is facing after losing the presidential election [April 19]. I take strong exception to the view that the kmt is an ailing dinosaur whose time is over. The real issue for the majority of voters in Taiwan, regardless of political belief, is not who governs but whether the election process and the vote held on March 20 were legal, objective and fair. If many of us who oppose President Chen Shui-ban could believe that his election was honest, we would accept our defeat...
...Before December, the KMT will have to figure out what it represents. The new official line?that sovereignty issues are for the next generation to resolve?invites voters to flow to other parties at either end of the political spectrum. And efforts to make the KMT more bentuhua, although necessary to win elections, pits the KMT in an unfamiliar game. "Bentuhua lends itself to independence and extremism," says Jason Hu, one of the horsepower trio, "so we can't compete with the DPP on that subject." So what's left? Hu says the KMT must "hope voters...