Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ying-jeou returned to his old stomping grounds at Harvard Law School, where he had picked up his doctorate nearly two decades earlier, last week. But Ma, the second popularly elected mayor of Taipei since 1967, came back to Cambridge a figure of global importance, whose career is pivotal to stability in Sino-Taiwanese relations...
...darling of the ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Party, ousted populist Chen Shiu-Bian of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in elections last December, as Taipei's voters showed they were in no mood to keep pushing for total independence from the mainland's communist government...
...Chen, a tough administrator who shut down Taipei's arcades and implemented a curfew on the city's youth, have been unwavering in their opposition to the mainland government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The DPP had seen Chen as their man to succeed current Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui, of the KMT, but Ma has all but dissolved that dream...
...relationship between the People's Republic of China (the mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) is one of "creative ambiguity," as the names suggest. For example, an airplane flight between Taipei and Beijing is neither domestic nor international, Ma said...
Indeed, those initiatives inspired Ma's visit to the U.S. With his popularity high, especially among women who kvell over his handsome features and image as a good husband, Ma is anxious to make Taipei "a world-class city...