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...family had seriously damaged the strength of his party. The DPP's narrow victory indicates that the President, whom many opponents were expecting to step down just a month ago, still has some clout left. "I think that Chen passed a very critical political test," says Emile Sheng, a political science professor at Soochow University and a spokesman for the campaign to oust the president. "The fact that the DPP won this election, it probably means Chen passed the political crisis...
...approval rating has plunged below 20%. Faced with the threat of revolt from his own supporters, Chen last week beat a strategic retreat, announcing he would hand over day-to-day running of the government to Premier Su Tseng-chang. "He knows he's in political trouble," says Emile Sheng, a political-science professor at Soochow University in Taipei. "He's trying to do everything he can to remain in office...
...That, too, is working?so far. By forming an alliance with Su, Chen's withdrawal from domestic politics stabilized support from his own Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), says Sheng. And while opposition Kuomintang (KMT) lawmakers are demanding a recall of Chen, the party doesn't have enough support in Taiwan's parliament to secure the two-thirds vote necessary to push through a recall motion. That could change if Chen or his wife become directly linked to illegal activities, notes Sheng, which might cause a critical mass of DPP members to join calls for his ouster. "The DPP can tolerate...
...already considerable pressure on the President. If Chen does stay in office for the two years remaining in his term, he seems destined to be a lame duck. "I don't think there's any way the President can come back and gain substantial control of country," Sheng says. "He has already lost his mandate...
...Though it is Taipei's main backer, Washington is currently enjoying excellent relations with Beijing and has made it plain to Chen that it will not tolerate any change in the status quo between Taiwan and China. Chen is "mobilizing his electoral base by appealing to fundamentalists," says Emile Sheng, associate professor of political science at Taipei's Soochow University, yet also "speaking to the Americans...