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...you’re well adapted to a status quo that is oppressive, something is wrong,” he pleads from behind the pulpit...
...elected to a second four-year term in March, as a dangerous "splittist" who is determined to lead Taiwan to independence, something that China has made clear it will not tolerate. The U.S. is pledged to provide Taiwan with defensive weapons but has warned Chen against upsetting the status quo. Chen recently spoke with Time's Michael Elliott. Here are excerpts...
...TIME: You've heard comments from many world leaders that you should not disturb the status quo. Chen: Let me clarify the status quo. Taiwan is an independent, sovereign state and, according to its constitution, its moniker is the Republic of China. This is the status quo, and we must defend this status quo and keep it from being unilaterally changed...
...flip-flopper even though that charge was invented by the Republicans last March. And third, idealistic (and self-righteous) focus groups led the Kerry campaign to believe that they could make a case for change without ever telling people what was wrong with the status quo. It took until September, after Kerry fell five points behind Bush, for the Democrats to realize their focus-group-approved mistake...
...continuity of the status quo is paramount, and anything smacking of the impolite or the newfangled runs afoul of protocol, which proscribes that forbidden by precedent, such as tanning on the docks, as well as anything that peeves Kummer...