How a government corrupted by special interests is spawning a generation of medicated preschoolers. Chinese leaders say no to a proposal for peace talks as equals. Those 13 years have seen a blossoming of native Taiwanese culture and self-identity. Not so long ago, it would have been almost unthinkable that supporters of the world's longest-serving and richest party would find themselves battling with police on the streets of Taipei.
Chinese leaders say no to a proposal for peace talks as equals.
Win he did. Nationalist elements promptly called foul. Their problem was not the election result in itself, but the failure of President and Nationalist Party Chairman Lee Teng-hui to team up with the breakaway independent presidential candidate and man of the people, James Soong. That failure fissured the Nationalist vote and denied what Nationalist Party supporters see as its historic right to rule. Having first lost China, now the Nationalists had lost Taiwan, too.