Kuomintang

...part of the new ruling party. Mr Chen and his Democratic Progressive Party favoured Taiwan's independence from the Chinese mainland, angering Beijing as well as the pro-China Kuomintang (KMT) in Taiwan. Relations between Beijing and...

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...elected president of Taiwan. His victory in 2000 broke the Kuomintang (KMT), or Nationalist Party, grip on government in Taipei, and ushered in eight years of rule by his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mr. Chen and the DPP had two...

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...to appeal. Chen was the first politician outside the Kuomintang to become president of Taiwan, after he helped lead a prodemocracy movement that opposed martial law and other strict measures put in place by the Kuomintang. Martial law was...

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...Chen rose to power on a platform of promoting formal independence from China. He accuses the ruling Nationalist party, the Kuomintang or KMT, which took power in May on a platform of warmer ties with China, of jailing him to appease China. ...

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...Lu of the Democratic Progressive Party were re-elected by a margin of 0.22% of valid votes over a combined opposition ticket of Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party Chairman James Soong. Lien and Soong refused to...

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...to the wishes of Beijing. Mr Chen is an ardent supporter of Taiwanese independence, and a trenchant critic of President Ma Ying-jeou's Kuomintang (KMT) administration, which he accuses of pandering to Beijing. His detention comes days...

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...episode, if it was an accident or an intentional attack. In 1986, Chen Shui-bian was imprisoned because of a document in the Formosa Magazine, in which he libelled the Kuomintang. Wu Shu-chen represented her husband in the election into the...

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Analysts however discount the possibility the harsh sentences could rebound in yearend local elections against the Kuomintang, which swept out Mr Chen's Democratic Progressive party in legislative and presidential elections last year. The...

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...White Sun flag and the KMT party emblem made news during the ROC legislative elections of 2004 , when President Chen Shui-bian asked the Kuomintang to change their party emblem for being too similar to the national emblem of the Republic of...

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