Word: kuomintang
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...personal kickbacks on a state-sanctioned land deal, embezzling over $3 million from a state fund and laundering millions to overseas accounts. Chen has already admitted his wife wired $20 million in leftover campaign funds overseas, but he insists his case is one of political persecution by the new Kuomintang (KMT) administration, which has been forging closer ties with China since coming into power last...
...least five years in jail. After his arrest, Chen politicized his case by saying that the current President Ma Ying-jeou had him arrested "to appease China." Some Chen supporters are fiercely loyal to the "Son of Taiwan," Chen's nickname, and have strong suspicions of Ma's ruling Kuomintang party, which was an authoritarian regime for nearly 50 years. Analysts, however, don't think Chen's sensational detention will affect the government, in part because Ma has been careful to distance himself from the case. "There won't be many political repercussions, except die-hard supporters coming...
...hundreds surrounded the hotel where Chen was dining and refused to disperse until 2AM, when Chen could finally leave. "The protests were to be expected," says political scientist Yang Tai-shuenn at Taiwan's Chinese Culture University. "The Democratic Progressive Party has always had a deep mistrust of the Kuomintang [Ma's party], and the opposition uses mass movements to mobilize the party...
...Direct flights were halted after the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, when Mao Zedong's Communists took control of the mainland and Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomintang fled to the safety of the island. In recent years a limited number of direct flights were allowed during four Chinese holidays. Under the new agreement, 36 direct flights will be permitted each weekend beginning July 4. In addition, the number of mainland tourists allowed to visit Taiwan will increase from 1,000 daily...
...Later, at age 38, he became the youngest member of the cabinet when he was appointed as the chair of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission. He then served as the Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, as the Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of Kuomintang from 2005 to 2007, before being elected Taiwan’s president...