Word: kuomintang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...China's future in the balance, Yang, a wealthy landowner with three wives, is breaking up his family. Yang Peiyuan, the older twin by half an hour, is to return to their hometown and join the communists. Yang Peiji, the younger twin, is to go south to join the Kuomintang (KMT) and fight in their Nationalist army. The train is about to leave. Peiji tells his brother to try to persuade their father to escape to Hong Kong. They hug, and Peiyuan boards the train...
...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...
Carine M. Williams' article titled "Taiwanese Official Lauds U.S. Relations" (Oct. 30) fails to emphasize that representative Stephen Chen spoke on behalf of the governing Kuomintang Party's views regarding Taiwan's reunification status, which does not necessarily represent the views of most Taiwanese in Taiwan. It is also an egregious mistake to say that "...Taiwan...remains a territory of the communist People's Republic of China." That is the mainland's assertion and infers subservience of Taiwan to China's political system, even in its thriving democracy. Taiwan is currently a separate entity that is not subservient to China...
...trying to be. He made a few blunders in praising the Kuomintang Nationalist Party's Madame Chiang Kai-Shek in front of people who hated her guts. He was promptly admonished by an outraged older gentleman for not doing his homework. Brownback was completely taken aback by the scolding and apologized immediately. That seemed a fair warning to speak with caution and sensitivity in mind...
...Taiwan has no intention of ever going back to being one province in a China ruled from Beijing. Taipei is not impressed with Jiang's offer of a special status like that of Hong Kong. "It will never happen," says John Chang, secretary-general of the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang. "We are not Hong Kong, a British colony that could not choose its future. This is a Chinese government...