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...year ago it was enough that Chen was Taiwan's pioneering non-Kuo-mintang (KMT) President, the first head of state not affiliated with Chiang Kai-shek's founding party. A year into his term, Chen's novelty as an opposition figure has worn off. He is mainstream now, occupying the political center, and has to present himself more as what he is than what he is not. Chen has to give people something to believe in, show the taxi drivers in Kaohsiung and the betel nut salesgirls in Chiayi what he is about. He must now explain, vividly, what...
...Eight" opposition group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel or a KMT politician. His method was bluntly effective and essentially unchanged from his academic blueprint: work harder, better and longer and eventually you will persevere. "He's a workaholic. He just doesn't stop studying," says Hu Chung-hsin, a former adviser. Hu thinks it all traces back to Chen's poverty...
...running over her legs. The driver stopped, put the truck in reverse and then backed over her. Chen swears it was a politically motivated attack and that he had been threatened by gangsters during the campaign. He had not heeded the threats, and last-minute vote-buying by the KMT had swayed the election. The hit, Chen's supporters say, was a warning to him as a rising opposition star: stay out of politics. (Police have ruled the whole affair an accident...
...Chen Shui-bian will face a mandate on his presidency in early December when all 225 seats of the Legislative Yuan come up for grabs. Until now, Chen's ability to push through a legislative program and stamp a new imprint on Taiwanese society has been stymied by the KMT's hold on a majority of parliamentary seats. His own DPP controls barely one-third of the seats. Since no party is likely to win a majority in the vote, taking 80 or 85 seats in the Yuan would be a crucial gain for Chen and his DPP. It would...
...country. And the country, despite its pop-cultural frenzy, desperately needs a blueprint to climb out of its economic morass. The Taipei Stock Exchange is down 40% since Chen was elected, and joblessness is at a 23-year high at 3.9%. The Taiwanese for decades forgave the KMT for a multitude of sins?even the imposition of martial law?as long as its stewardship kept economic growth pumping away. Chen cannot expect the same degree of patience in a floundering economy. He needs the people on his side. He needs a legislative victory...