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...future won over the past, and hope overcame fear in Taiwan Saturday as voters chose opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian as their next President--despite warnings from Beijing that his election could mean war. Chen's win, which ended 55 years of Kuomintang (Nationalist Party) rule on the island, sent tremors around Asia in anticipation of Beijing's reaction, even as the streets of Taipei turned into a party. Only 14 years ago, Chen, a pro-democracy lawyer, had been languishing in jail on charges of libeling a high-ranking KMT member. "This is the greatest victory of Taiwan...
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...consensual hallucination of "One China" is fading fast, and while armed conflict across the Taiwan Straits remains unlikely in the immediate future, it may have become inevitable in the long term. Taiwan's president-elect Chen Shui-bian began softening his rhetoric on independence from China even before his victory in Saturday's poll, and on Monday he called for peace talks with Beijing, an offer promptly rejected by President Jiang Zemin. The investors who bolted Taiwanese equities Monday, shrinking the value of the Taipei stock market index by 2.5 percent, may have had a savvy read of the long...
...post-election riots in the streets of Taipei subside, the Taiwanese are looking around and noticing one remarkable thing: life goes on. Concerns that China would make good on its promise to attack the island if Democratic Progressive Party candidate Chen Shui-bian won the presidential election Saturday have been allayed - for now. And so Beijing and Taipei have locked in a holding pattern: Chen maintains that his country is sovereign, while Chinese President Jiang Zemin holds (as does the U.S.) that Taiwan is a subset of China. As if to confirm that state of affairs, Chen, speaking...
Beijing's saber-rattling across the Taiwan Strait may well signify a coming conflict with Washington, but not necessarily over Taiwan. Beijing's threats to invade if Taiwan's presidential election on Saturday is won by Chen Shui-bian, who previously advocated a referendum on independence, have seen the Taipei stock exchange shed some 12 percent of its value in less than a week, and drawn a warning on Thursday from Defense Secretary William Cohen to tone down the rhetoric. Washington fears the threats from both sides could develop a momentum of their own, provoking a military showdown that would...