Kuomintang

...were once bitter rivals since they split at the end of a civil war in 1949, but relations have improved after President Ma Ying-jeou of the Nationalist Party or Kuomintang took office in May last year and adopted a policy to engage Beijing.

In this article: Taiwan, China, Risk management, Ma Ying-jeou, Beijing, and Taipei

...business, but its efforts of modernisation went into deadlock without private business." Others note that nationalisation by the Kuomintang in the 1930s led to the collapse of that regime and nationalisation in the 1950s helped produce a...

In this article: Coal, China, Climate change, Shanghai, Beneficiary, and Classical liberalism

...Barack Obama and 19 other Pacific Rim leaders is being held Saturday and Sunday. Hu and Lien, the honorary chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang party, met one-on-one at last year's APEC gathering in Peru amid a warming in ties brought about...

In this article: Hu Jintao, Lien Chan, China, Taiwan, APEC, Ma Ying-jeou, and Barack Obama

"The ECFA is important to Taiwan because it will institutionalise trade with China," Lien Chan, honorary chairman of Taiwan's ruling Kuomintang Party, told reporters in Singapore on Friday. "It will help us avoid being marginalised,...

In this article: Taiwan, China, Beijing, Singapore, Nationalists, Venture capital, Kuomintang Party, Tamkang University, and Taiwan Stock Exchange

...his embalmed body is displayed. Back in 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party won out over the Nationalists and Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang army fled to Taiwan, the victorious forces considered tearing down the Forbidden City.

In this article: Taiwan, Democracy, Allegation, Nationalists, Taipei, Chiang Kai-shek, and Ma Ying-jeou

...future husband, Kang-chi Cheng. The couple returned to China before 1940, and Kang-chi Cheng joined the ministry of foreign affairs for the Kuomintang. The couple were sent to Australia to establish an embassy and then transferred to the...

In this article: Nien Cheng, Mao Zedong, Shanghai, China, Zhou Enlai, Shell Oil, Beijing, Suicide, and Communism

...future husband, Kang-chi Cheng. The couple returned to China before 1940, and Mr. Cheng joined the ministry of foreign affairs for the Kuomintang, the ruling party at the time. The couple were sent to Australia to establish an embassy and...

In this article: Nien Cheng, Mao Zedong, Washington, Shanghai, China, Suicide, Communism, Totalitarianism, Cardiovascular disease, and Cancer

...of the horrors of that murderous period in Chinese history, died earlier today in Washington. She was 94. The widow of a former Kuomintang diplomat who remained in China after the Communist Revolution, she was arrested, imprisoned and...

In this article: Nien Cheng, Life and Death in Shanghai, Washington, Charles Krauthammer, China, and New York Times

...KONG - Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou, in his first interview after taking on the chairmanship of the ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang), again urged China to scrap missiles that stand along its coast, aimed at the island. The number of...

In this article: Taiwan, China, Beijing, United States, Taiwan, Taipei, and Climate change

...and submarines from the United States, U.S. and Taiwan officials said. Ma, 59, who became chairman of the ruling Nationalist Party or Kuomintang (KMT) at the weekend, said he would not rule out meeting Chinese leaders such as his counterpart...

In this article: Taiwan, China, Hu Jintao, United States, Europe, Recession, and Academia Sinica