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| | Chen Shui-bian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In 1989, Chen was elected to the Legislative Yuan and served as the executive director of the Democratic Progressive Party Congress. | | | Throughout the election, Chen planned to hold a referendum in 2006 on a new constitution to be enacted upon the accession of the 12th-term president in May 2008. | | | Chen was elected as the mayor of Taipei in 1994, largely as the result of a vote split between the highly unpopular KMT incumbent Huang Ta-chou (黃大洲) and the KMT-spin-off New Party (NP) candidate Chao Shaokong (趙少康). |
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| | MSN Encarta - Chen Shui-bian |
| | Chen was elected mayor of Taipei in 1994. | | | Chen became the first member of an opposition party—the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)—to be elected to Taiwan’s top government post, ending more than 50 years of Kuomintang (KMT) party rule. | | | After Chen proposed a new referendum law to give voters a say in key constitutional and policy issues, the KMT led efforts to draft a watered-down bill that prohibits referendums on issues relating to Taiwan’s territorial status. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_701694365/Chen_Shui-bian.html
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| | Online NewsHour: Profile: Chen Shui-bian |
| | When Chen was released after eight months, he joined the newly-legalized opposition Democratic Progressive Party and worked for his wife until his 1994 bid to become mayor of Taipei. | | | Despite concerns about China, Taiwanese voters backed Chen with 39.3 percent of the vote in a three-way election. | | | While in prison, Chen's wife -- then confined to a wheelchair -- carried on their political cause, winning a seat in the national Legislative Yuan. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/china/chen_profile.html
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| | President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) |
| | Chen was elected to the Legislative Yuan and became the first executive director of the DPP caucus. | | | Chen first ran for public office in 1981 with the campaign slogan of “democracy, balance of power, and progress.?He was elected to the Taipei City Council with the highest number of votes. | | | Chen has also ensured the neutrality of the civil service, accelerated judicial reform, guaranteed the independence of the judicial process, and investigated vote-buying practices. |
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http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/president.htm
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| | BIOGRAPHY OF CHEN SHUI-BIAN |
| | Taipei, March 18 (CNA) Chen Shui-bian, who was elected president of the Republic of China on Saturday, was born on Feb. 18, 1950 to a farmer's family in Tainan County, southern Taiwan. | | | After graduating from the Law School of National Taiwan University in 1974, Chen began practicing as a lawyer in Taipei. | | | During his two terms as legislator from 1989-1994, Chen earned a reputation as an aggressive critic of the ruling Kuomintang, but was nevertheless elected convenor of National Defense Committee, a seat usually held by the ruling party. |
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http://www.fas.org/news/taiwan/2000/e-03-18-00-20.htm
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| | TSR-About-TSR |
| | Chen, however, said that he has confidence that an improved mechanism for a renewed cross-strait dialogue will be set up after his inauguration on May 20. | | | Chen has had to cross party lines to make up for his small Democratic Progressive Party's lack of experience in running a government. | | | Chen's public image was fixed by a supremely personal tragedy. |
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http://www.taiwansecurity.org/TSR-Chen.htm
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| | USATODAY.com - Taiwan ballot boxes sealed after election |
| | Chen, 53, grew up in a poor village and graduated from Taiwan's top law school. | | | Chen started out as a maritime lawyer before being recruited to defend dissidents before martial law ended in 1987. | | | Although Chen won re-election, the referendum he was pushing failed because many voters boycotted it. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-03-20-taiwan-vote_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
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| | BBC NEWS World Asia-Pacific Profile: Chen Shui-bian |
| | Much of Mr Chen's appeal to voters lies in his personal dynamism and his down-to-earth background - many refer to him by his nickname, A-bian. | | | He became a member of the Taipei municipal council, and after the birth of multi-party politics and the formation of the DPP became the capital city's first popularly elected Mayor in 1994. | | | Mr Chen fell into politics in the early 1980s when he defended a group of pro-independence leaders following a protest in the port of Kaohsiung. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2172980.stm
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| | Chen Shui-bian -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Wade-Giles romanization Ch'en Shui-pian lawyer and politician who served as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000. | | | A former mayor of Taipei, Chen was an ambitious, tough-talking politician best known for advocating independence for his country. | | | Born into a poor farming family, Chen won a scholarship to National Taiwan University and graduated with highest honours from its law faculty. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9346283?tocId=9346283
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| | CNN.com - Taiwan's Chen eyes power-sharing deal - May 18, 2001 |
| | In a speech marking his first anniversary in office Friday, Chen announced a power-sharing plan where no party is expected to emerge with a legislative majority. | | | Beijing has tried to isolate Chen diplomatically since he took office last May in the island's first democratic transfer of power because he has refused to kowtow to its cherished "one China" principle. | | | The territory has been represented by a cabinet minister or business leader at past APEC summits. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/05/17/taiwan.chen.speech
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| | Year 2004 Presidential Elections in Taiwan |
| | The present election campaign is enlivened by a heated international debate about Taiwan's brand-new referendum law, passed by the Legislative Yuan on 27 November 2003, and signed into law by the President on 31 December. | | | The debate about a referendum law had been going on for some time: the DPP -- and particularly legislator Chai Trong-rong -- had been advocating such a law for almost a decade, but it wasn't until the Spring of 2003 that the Legislative Yuan started to discuss the passage of such a law in earnest. | | | However, by mid-November 2003, the movement towards more openness and democracy became unstoppable, and the pan-blue coalition decided that a referendum law was unavoidable. |
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http://www.taiwandc.org/elec2004.htm
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| | Chen Shui-bian on Encyclopedia.com |
| | During the 1980s he became involved in the dissident movement against the long-ruling Kuomintang (KMT; Nationalist party), entering politics as a Taipei city councilor in 1981. | | | He won a legislative seat in 1989 and later (1994-98) served as mayor of Taipei. | | | Born into poverty, he obtained his law degree from National Taiwan Univ. in 1975 and practiced as a maritime lawyer. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/c/chens1huib.asp
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| | President Chen Shui-bian's Speeches |
| | President Chen expressed his views on the election results--December 1, 2001 | | | Full Text of 10th Term President Chen Shui-bian's Inaugural Address--May 20, 2000 | | | Full Text of President Chen Shui-bian's Second Press Conference--July 31, 2000 |
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http://www.taipei.org/current/chen.htm
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| | Protest against Chen Shui-bian |
| | A group of people from the Hong Kong and Kowloon Trades Union Council protest in Hong Kong against Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian's decision to abolish the island's policy-making body on unification with the Chinese mainland and its 15-year-old guidelines Monday February 27, 2006. |
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http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-02/28/content_524552.htm
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| | Chen Tests Patience of Loyalists In Taiwan |
| | Now, with his praise for recent visits by two political rivals to the Chinese mainland, he has muted and perhaps relinquished that aim in favor of seeking a negotiated peace -- an end to the state of war that has gripped the Taiwan Strait for more than a half-century. | | | Polls show that a slim majority of Taiwanese favored the trip as a potential icebreaker in dealings with China, but three-fourths of the governing party's supporters opposed it. | | | "He has compromised his principles," said Wang Sing-nan, a legislator and member of Chen's governing Democratic Progressive Party who hails from Tainan. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/08/AR2005050801022.html
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| | Chen Shui-bian - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Chen Shui-bian |
| | The son of sugar plantation labourers in southwest Tainan County,Taiwan, Chen studied and practised law, becoming politicized after unsuccessfully defending pro-independence dissidents in 1980. | | | A member of the Min-chu Chin-pu Tang (MCT; in English the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP), he broke the 51-year-hold on power by the Kuomintang (Guomindang, nationalist party). | | | A former lawyer, once jailed for eight months in 1986 on charges of defaming a member of the Guomindang, he gained a reputation between 1994 and 1998, when mayor of the Taiwanese capital, Taipei, for improving transportation and cracking down on prostitution. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Chen+Shui-bian
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| | Chen Shui-Bian News - The New York Times |
| | President Chen Shui-bian criticized mainland China&; s adoption of an antisecession law, and urged residents to join an islandwide day of protest on March 26. | | | The president of China reacted sharply to the decision by the president of Taiwan to terminate the island' s unification council. | | | Taiwan&; s president, Chen Shui-bian, has stepped down as chairman of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party. |
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http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/_chen_shuibian/?inline=nyt-per
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| | Taiwan: BBC interview's Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian |
| | I have great confidence in the universal value and in basic human rights and I have great confidence that referenda will eventually take root and become part of our daily lives in Taiwan. | | | Chen Shui-bian: I have great confidence in Taiwan's democracy. | | | 30 march Mr Chen gave his first broadcast interview since he was re-elected |
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| | Taiwan: Chen Shui-bian - Worldpress.org |
| | According to the Taipei Central News Agency (Nov. 5), the latest public opinion poll found that approximately “64 percent of Taiwan’s citizens [were] opposed to the plan by opposition legislators to recall President Chen.” The same poll showed that only 19 percent were in favor of the move. | | | Chang defended the anti-nuclear stance of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, saying that “the executive branch has done nothing illegal” and that the recall move was “the legislative body’s greatest abuse of power,” said a Nov. 8 report in Taipei’s independent China Times. | | | But what with former Premier Tang Fei’s resignation and the stock market’s index losing 40 percent of its value, even antinuclear Chen supporters are beginning to question the leadership abilities of their new president. |
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| | AWSJ: Welcome, Chen Shui-bian |
| | Chen will technically be a private citizen "in transit," although House of Representatives Majority Whip Tom DeLay will serve as the president's "tour guide" in Houston. | | | Lee, and he swept to victory in the island's first democratic presidential election by a wider-than-expected margin. | | | He won largely on an anticorruption platform, and as the president of all Taiwanese he has had to temper his party's independence rhetoric to suit the majority of the population who favor the status quo. |
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| | PROFILE: CHEN SHUI-BIAN |
| | TEXT: Despite opposition from China and accusations by his two main rivals for the presidency that he would lead the island to war, Chen Shui-bian has managed to persuade Taiwan's voters that it was time for a change on the prosperous, democratic island. | | | He was a young defense lawyer for editors of a dissident magazine who were jailed for organizing a pro-democracy march in 1979 that ended in a clash with military police. | | | DATE=3/18/2000 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT TITLE=PROFILE: CHEN SHUI-BIAN (L-ONLY) NUMBER=2-260320 BYLINE=ROGER WILKISON DATELINE=TAIPEI CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: Chen Shui-bian, who has just won election as Taiwan's president, is a one-time advocate of independence for his island and a constant thorn in China's side. |
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http://www.fas.org/news/taiwan/2000/000318-taiwan4.htm
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| | Chen Shui-Bian elected Taiwan’s President |
| | He often said that unlikely leaders – including President Nixon – often produce surprising diplomatic breakthroughs. | | | During his campaign, Chen worked the hardest to prove to voters that he was willing to work with Beijing. | | | Chen was swept to power in large measure on his promise to attack the "black gold" system of corruption that has permeated Taiwanese political life. |
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http://www.unb.ca/bruns/9900/issue23/intnews/taiwan.html
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| | President Chen Shui-bian's inaugural speech |
| | China's official response to Chen Shui-bian's inauguration speech | | | We pray for the prosperity of the Republic of China, and for the health and happiness of all compatriots and all honored guests! |
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| | Chen Shui-bian Wins Taiwan Election; Challenger Questions Results |
| | However, the referendum failed to receive the support of 50 percent of registered voters, as required for passage. | | | Supporters of President Chen Shui-bian cheered as the vote tallies came in. | | | President Chen had called the referendum more important than his re-election. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=5CC99BC4-6E05-413E-8A8C4A761A3DE219
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| | Meet Chen Shui-bian, the People's President |
| | This video portrait highlights the turning points in President Chen's extraordinary life, from a poor but studious farm boy to an outspoken lawyer uncowed by authority, who championed the rights of those daring to challenge the political order of the time. | | | It also chronicles the personal sacrifices he and his wife made to establish his political career and advocate his vision of Taiwan's future. | | | On March 18, 2000, the people of Taiwan made history by electing a youthful and idealistic president from the most prominent opposition party to lead Taiwan into the new century. |
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| | Opposition to Rally Against Chen Shui-Bian's Anti-Chinese Actions Asian American Daily GoldSea |
| | The opposition alleges the incident was staged to help the president gain sympathy votes. | | | Sunday's protest will also challenge Chen's legitimacy as it coincides with the anniversary of the shooting that slightly injured him and Vice President Annette Lu as they were riding in open Jeeps during campaigning for the 2004 election. | | | Opposition to Rally Against Chen Shui-Bian's Anti-Chinese Actions |
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| | CNN.com - Chen outrage at election claims - Mar 23, 2004 |
| | Earlier Tuesday, violent scuffles broke out among politicians after Chen's Democratic Progressive Party proposed revising election laws to allow an immediate recount. | | | Chen also voiced regret that some people doubted he and Vice President Annette Lu had been wounded in the assassination attempt. | | | The challenger, who was widely tipped to win the election, claims the poll was marred by voting irregularities and sympathy votes garnered by the assassination bid on the president. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/23/taiwan.elections
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| | In Taiwanese president's ancestral Chinese home, distant relatives watch and wonder |
| | Scores of Taiwan's citizens, including politicians in Chen's independence-leaning Democratic Progressive Party, have returned to worship at family shrines in the area. | | | Despite such ties, Chen Shuigun said he learned of the president's roots in the area only after Chen was elected president of Taiwan in 2000. | | | Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian may be Public Enemy No. 1 to the communist leadership in Beijing. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/03/16/international1341EST0624.DTL
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| | Taiwan's Chen Seeks to Restart Cross-Strait Talks (washingtonpost.com) |
| | While he declared his acceptance of the ambiguity of the 1992 Hong Kong accord, he also emphasized his long-standing insistence that Taiwan is a sovereign entity entitled to U.N. membership and diplomatic recognition. | | | Chen and his independence-minded group, the Democratic Progressive Party, had not previously embraced it, taking a clearer stand that there are two countries, one on either side of the 100-mile-wide strait. | | | Chen suggested that China's president, Hu Jintao, might be more flexible in addressing Taiwan's concerns now that former president Jiang Zemin has retired and left Hu in charge of the Chinese military in addition to the presidency and the Communist Party. |
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| | Chen Shui-bian voted into office! |
| | On: Sat March, 20 2004 @ 04:19 GMT | | | Chen Shui-bian was voted into Taiwan's presidential office today. | | | He ran against rival Lien Chan, who is friendlier towards China. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Chen Shui-bian |
| | Chen Shui-bian, leader of the DPP, won presidential elections held in March 2000, marking the first time presidential power has been given to an... | | | However, Lee's fortunes changed when the candidate he was backing in the March 2000 presidential elections came last in a three-way race. | | | Born into a farming family in Kuan-t’ien, T’ainan County, Chen gained a place at National... |
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| | TABLE: Chen Shui-bian's Tough Challenges |
| | Chen was elected with just 39% of the vote, and the archrival KMT party still dominates the legislature. | | | But his pro-independence record, and insistence that Taiwan be treated as a sovereign state in any talks, will make that difficult. | | | Cronyism and graft are pervasive throughout government and industries such as banking and construction. |
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http://www.businessweek.com/@@CQgTiWcQcHQBbAYA/2000/00_14/b3675012.htm
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| | Chen Shui-bian (2001) - Prize For Freedom - Politics - Liberalism |
| | President Chen has a solid record as a human rights activist and was the political leader of the first democratic party of Taiwan, the Progressive Democratic Party (DPP). | | | Chen has given high priority to this dialogue with Mainland China in his political agenda, without compromising Taiwan& democratic achievements in a search for a new framework for lasting peace and political integration. | | | In February 1980 Mr Chen was invited to join the team of defense attorneys for the arrested activists in the 'Kaohsiung incident'. |
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http://www.liberal-international.org/editorial.asp?ia_id=695
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| | Sun Bin: Chen Shui Bian's blog |
| | While Chen continues to hide from the media after the election fiasco, he finally published his blog. | | | I will definitely vote for him on that day. | | | I am also glad that Chen has also (apparently) abandoned his provocative independence stanch, and finally moves to a 'greater China' mindset. |
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http://sun-bin.blogspot.com/2005/12/chen-shui-bians-blog.html
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| | Contemporary Southeast Asia: Chen Shui-bian and Cross-Strait Relations.@ HighBeam Research |
| | Chen is unlikely to deviate from the pro-independence stand of the Democratic and Progressive Party (DPP). | | | This article discusses Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's China policy and the impact this has on the cross-strait relationship. | | | This "neiwai jiaokun" (internal trouble and external pressure) may emasculate Chen's will and ability to push for independence. |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:74523932&refid=holomed_1
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| | Taiwanâs Chen Low, But Few Blame Him for Scandal: Angus Reid Consultants |
| | Are you satisfied or dissatisfied with Chen Shui-bianâs performance as president? | | | Just one day before Taiwanese citizens were to head to the voting booths, Chen and vice-president Annette Lu were shot as they were riding in a convertible automobile during a campaign event in Tainan. | | | President Chen said he "felt very sorry for the lack of integrity of Chen Che-nan." 54 per cent of respondents believe the president had no prior knowledge of his former aideâs alleged irregular behaviour. |
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http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/9678
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| | Interview Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian |
| | Q: President Chen, you mentioned the new constitution, I wonder if you could tell us how the new constitution would define the territory of the Republic of China. | | | Following is a transcript of the interview with President Chen Shui-bian of Taiwan by Philip P. Pan, the Washington Post's Beijing bureau chief, and David E. Hoffman, foreign editor. | | | The interview was conducted at the presidential palace in Taipei on March 29, 2004, with a government translator. |
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