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...Soviet Communist Party, in 1949, told the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stop fighting and to negotiate with the Nationalists on how to divide China into two parts, the CCP turned a deaf ear and continued the civil war until it drove its rival totally out of the mainland. Therefore, in the Korean situation, due to the fact that it obviously involves the most unpredictable leadership of the contemporary age, it is really hard to say whether, in a severe crisis, North Korea would still keep the ties with China intact and be content with its current status...
...free, prosperous country, may demand to choose their own leaders through a similar election or a plebiscite on China's communist system. The only thing the U.S. should do now is to safeguard the democratization of Taiwan. Sooner or later, the desire for more political freedom will prevail in mainland China. JENNIFER WEN Sugar Land, Texas...
...WHEN MAO ZEDONG'S COMMUnist forces pushed Chiang Kai-shek's regime off mainland China and drove it to Taiwan, few expected the resource-poor province to thrive. Nevertheless, in its new home, the Republic of China has become one of East Asia's "economic miracles," with a per capita GNP today of $12,500. Even that transformation, though, is less startling than Taiwan's political revolution, culminating last Saturday in the presidential election. Voters ignored missile rattling from the mainland and gave current President Lee Teng-hui a strong mandate. He won 54% of the vote, more than twice...
Less than two decades ago, Taiwan's political system closely paralleled that of the mainland, a strict, authoritarian regime ruled by a single party whose structure was copied from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. Following his flight from the mainland, Chiang's martial-law regime banned opposition parties. Dissidents were jailed or went into exile, and newspapers and the broadcast media were tightly controlled. But Chiang's son and successor, Chiang Ching-kuo, opened the political system, lifting martial law in 1987. Lee succeeded him in 1988 and continued the reforms, holding the first parliamentary...
...real sin in Beijing's eyes may have been to give the lie to the common assertion of Asia's authoritarian regimes that East Asian cultures and de-mocracy do not mix. The element of Lee's platform that most disturbed the mainland was the powerful campaign slogan telling voters, "You're the boss." Says an Asian diplomat in Beijing: "Mainlanders are bound to ask, 'If the Taiwanese could directly elect their leaders, why can't we?'" This fear of democratic contagion comes at a difficult time for the Chinese leadership. While the Taiwanese people elected their President directly, China...