Word: nationalists
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...hands of an increasingly assertive electorate. "The overwhelming majority of voters are native Taiwanese who?ve always considered themselves separate from China," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Democracy has allowed them to reassert control after a century of domination, first by the Japanese and then by nationalist emigres from the mainland...
...only garnered 39 percent of the vote, probably needs to take a wait-and-see approach as well. Chen's victory, which displaced the only ruling party Taiwan has ever known, was a product of timing - he was able to capitalize on a schism that emerged in the Nationalist party in the months before the election. What's more, concerns about a Chinese attack were softened by the fact that Beijing hopes to win both permanent Most Favored Nation status with the U.S. and membership into the WTO in the coming weeks, and is leery of any acts that might...
...uncle committed suicide in 1947, as the Communists gained momentum in their civil war with the Nationalists. As Communist victory seemed apparent in 1948, her family fled to the Nationalist island of Taiwan. Her mother died in 1950, leaving her to care for her three siblings...
Trimble is the leader of the Ulster Unionist party and the Northern Ireland government. He received the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in organizing the Good Friday Agreement, the peace treaty between Irish nationalist and Unionist groups...
...business as usual. The One China policy fashioned by Nixon and Henry Kissinger has been sustained precisely because it's a kind of geopolitical don't-ask-don't-tell, which can mean different things to each side: Beijing interprets it as meaning the mainland ultimately rules Taiwan; the nationalist government in Taipei has long contented itself with the fiction that "One China" means it is the legitimate government of all of China. Beijing may issue threats and even move troops around, but it can't afford to risk the humiliation of losing a military standoff...