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December 13, 2004
You are on the invidual archive page of Taiwan's election results. Click Simon World weblog for the main page.
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Taiwan's election results
The status quo prevailed in Taiwan's legislative elecitons, with the opposition KMT and their allies holding on to 114 seats of the 225, versus Chen's DPP and allies winning 101. The NYT points out China could read the result as a successful outcome for its saber rattling. China is not going to relent given Chen will be around for a few more years yet, no doubt hoping by the time of the next election Taiwan's voters get it "right" and elect a KMT candidate instead. If that happens China will then find itself in a tricky position. The KMT is closer to China than the pro-independence camp so they'd expect some kind of negotiations. But that's down the track. China is gloating (and lecturing) over the result. posted by Simon on 12.13.04 at 03:59 PM in the
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Certainly a big loss for Chen & the DPP. I guess it means we can look forward to 3 years of the same as before: no talks with China, virtually no legislation passed in Taiwan, and only the occasional food/fist fight to liven things up a bit! At least this time Taiwan managed to have an election without any rioting/legal challenges. posted by: David on 12.13.04 at 04:17 PM [permalink]You know things have really changed a lot when the Communist almost openly wants KMT to win. posted by: Rajan R on 12.13.04 at 10:11 PM [permalink]Besides, this win by KMT hardly means that the Taiwanese failure reunication. It just means that TSU and DPP did bad by competing against each other instead of cooperate, and both trying to outdo the other that they miss the centrists. And it also means that the Taiwanese prefer KMT's economic outlook to DPP which is, to say the least, crap (from a libertarian point of view). Or it could mean that Taiwan was just as divided as March and nothing changed. I favour Taiwanese independence, but if I was Taiwanese, I would find it hard to vote for DPP. posted by: Rajan R on 12.13.04 at 10:16 PM [permalink] |
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