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| | Kuomintang: Information From Answers.com |
 | | The Kuomintang faced a split in 1994 that led to the formation of the Chinese New Party, which fell apart in the legislative elections of 2001. | | | The Kuomintang government at Nanjing received diplomatic recognition in 1928 and began the period of tutelage. | | | Lee Teng-Hui, the ROC President and the leader of the Kuomintang during the 1990s, angered the People's Republic of China and a significant number of voters on Taiwan with his advocacy of "special state-to-state relations" with the PRC, which many associated with Taiwan independence. |
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| | Politics of Taiwan - encyclopedia article about Politics of Taiwan. |
| | As the National Assembly took action in 1994 to allow for the popular election of the president, the LY in 1994 passed legislation to allow for the direct election of the governor of Taiwan Province and the mayors of Taipei and Kaohsiung Municipalities. | | | The National Assembly retained the authority to amend the constitution, recall or impeach the president and the vice president, and ratify certain senior-level presidential appointments. | | | Despite the official ban on forming new political parties, Taiwan authorities did not prohibit the DPP from operating, and in the 1986 Island-wide elections DPP and independent candidates captured more than 20% of the vote. |
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | He was a member of the Central Standing Committee of the Kuomintang from 1984 to 1993 and served as Minister of National Defense from 1989 until 1990 when he was appointed Premier. | | | Appointed as one of four vice-chairmen of the KMT in the 14th Party Congress (immediately following the defection of the New Kuomintang Alliance) in another effort by Lee to pacify the mainlander faction, Hau served from 1993 to 1995. | | | He married Kuo Wan-hua and has 2 sons and 3 daughters; one of his sons is New Party politician Hau Lung-pin. |
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| | In the Polish case "the task of the parliament elected in this year’s election is to produce a new, democratic constitution and a new democratic election law" (Daniels 331). | | | Echoed in other states, Hungary in particular, is the sentiment that in order to ensure the transition from the old to new order is successful in improving the conditions of citizens state monopoly on education must be abolished (Daniels 334). | | | Eastern Europe, led by the most reform minded Poland and Hungary, implemented true democratic reforms that guaranteed free and open elections, the drawing of new constitutions, introduction of separation of governmental powers, and de-monopolization of the communist party’s governmental powers. |
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| | Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan |
| | In 2003, Chen Shui-bian, the illegally elected president, proposed holding a referendum in 2006 for implementation of an entirely new constitution on May 20, 2008, to coincide with the inauguration of the 12th president of the ROC, and the 54th anniversary of the first inauguration of Jiang Jie-shi as president. | | | This unconstitutional second National Assembly retained the authority to further amend the constitution, to recall or impeach the president and the vice president, and to ratify certain senior-level presidential appointments. | | | Taiwan's political and legislative machinations are analogous to Hawaii's state legislature disbanding a duly elected Congress and to declaring that the territories of the United States would thereafter be limited to the islands of Hawaii - and eventually be known as the Republic of Hawaii. |
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| | Taiwan, a new emerging economy |
| | Both major groupings are committed to the democratic process (and indeed it was the KMT that introduced and fostered democratic reforms) and both see the unofficial alliance with the United States (as stated in the US-Taiwan Relations Act) as the cornerstone of Taiwan's foreign policy. | | | Rebellion and dissent were brutally repressed in the early years in what came to be known locally as the period of "white terror". | | | A human rights lawyer who had been imprisoned in the nineteen-eighties for his political activism, Chen Shui-bian, became President although within Taiwan's unicameral legislature, the KMT has still maintained a majority of seats. |
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| | The Alliance: Facing the Future Expectantly |
| | This election is a prerogative of the supreme court, the general council. | | | Immediately after its constitution in 1977, the new executive committee made it quite clear that it considered a general council to be needed. | | | For the important centenary consultation held in St. Andrews, Scotland, in 1977 was not in fact a real general council duly constituted in accordance with the provisions of our constitution. |
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| | Kuomintang |
| | The congress also decided that all members of the Communist Party were to join the Kuomintang as individuals. | | | The Chinese Communist Party held its Third National Congress in Guangzhou in June 1923, and the question of forming a revolutionary united front with the Kuomintang was discussed. | | | The congress affirmed Sun Yat-sen's contribution to the Chinese revolution and resolved to help him in reorganizing the Kuomintang and establishing cooperation between the two parties. |
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| | New Kuomintang Alliance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | This move was propelled by the resignation of Premier (Click link for more info and facts about Hau Pei-tsun) Hau Pei-tsun, whom New KMT Alliance members had viewed to be a counterbalance to Lee's power. | | | It accused President (Click link for more info and facts about Lee Teng-hui) Lee Teng-hui of autocratic tendencies and complained that the KMT was too corrupt. | | | Composed of mainly younger (Click link for more info and facts about mainlander) mainlanders, this faction was in favor of interparty reform. |
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| | 1940: On New Democracy |
| | This is another solemn declaration in the Manifesto of the Kuomintang's First National Congress held during the period of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation, and it is the correct policy for the economic structure of the new-democratic republic. | | | Such was the solemn declaration made in the Manifesto of the First National Congress of the Kuomintang, held in 1924 during the period of Kuomintang-Communist co-operation. | | | This kind of reactionary culture serves the imperialists and the feudal class and must be swept away. |
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| | Asia Society: New Chinese Art - Chronologies |
| | Chiang Ching-kuo continues his presidency with a new vice-president, Lee Teng-hui. | | | All 60 seats of the Legislative Council are up for election. | | | Chiang Ching-kuo becomes president and declares a state of emergency, canceling all elections and ordering all military units to assume positions for national defense. |
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| | To Save China: "New York Hand Laundry Alliance Intensifies Anti-Japanese Work" |
| | The Mayor of New York has been eagerly assisting the work of the Alliance, and will be sending as his representative to the conference the President of the City Council, Mr. | | | The CHLA sent letters and telegrams to American politicians urging them to adopt policies to support China against Japan. | | | But the CHLA’s main strategy was to appeal directly to the American public by approaching their customers, residents of New York City. |
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| | New Party (Republic of China) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Furthermore, the movement of the Kuomintang back to reunification in 2001 also took with it many voters. | | | The party reemerged in the December 2002 elections, where five of its six candidates for the Taipei City council won election with 9% of the vote. | | | The name "New Party" was seemingly inspired by the contemporary electoral success of the Japanese political party Shin-to Sakigake ("New Party Renegades"; see Politics of Japan). |
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| | James Soong |
| | Soong was given the job of addressing the nation following the Carter administration's decision to switch diplomatic ties to the PRC on December 16, 1978 in which he gave a patriotic condemnation of the American position. | | | Despite his Mainland origins, Soong was widely seen as a loyal supporter of Lee Teng-hui and opponent of the New Kuomintang Alliance and the New Party. | | | Though losses in the 2001 legislative elections made the DPP the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan, the pan-blue coalition holds a narrow majority over the pan-green coalition. |
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| | China's New War Fighting Skills |
| | He was also in steady contact with law enforcement and security experts in the Philippines and anti-Taliban political leaders from Afghanistan. | | | This has been caused, in part, by political pressure to appease Beijing from the Clinton Administration on Taiwan's new elected leaders. | | | The island has become the first Chinese society to reject authoritarian government in favor of elected leaders and a free society. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: NE: NEW |
| | New England Association of Colleges & Secondary Schools | | | New Brunswick New Democratic Party leadership election, 2005 | | | New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn |
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| | www.truthalliance.org/index.html |
| | the eligible voters showed up at the election booth to choose their new President for the next | | | The disputed 11th presidential election was held in Taiwan on March 20, 2004. | | | Chen Shui-Bian, and his Democratic Progressive Party won |
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| | Indian, Chinese, & Japanese Emperors |
| | When India became independent in 1947, it legally became a British Dominion, which means that the King of England was still the formal Head of State. | | | Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy, was asked by Jawaharlal Nehru, the new Prime Minister, to stay on as Governor-General of the Dominion. | | | Lord Reading was actually Jewish, probably the highest ranking Jew in the history of the British Empire, where the Viceroy of India, always raised to the Peerage for his office, held the highest Office of State next to the Throne itself. |
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| | ‘Pan purple’ alliance instant political force |
| | Taipei The Alliance of Fairness and Justice (AFJ) established yesterday by groups of welfare organizations representing underprivileged people in the country instantly became a new political force being wooed by major parties. | | | Chien said his association with the DPP will have no impact on the work of the | | | The alliance has not yet reached consensus on whether it will nominate its own candidate for the 2004 presidential election. |
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| | 18.1. To Meet a New Situation |
| | According to this new strategic policy, the Caoshuitan meeting partially reorganized the KPRA units and allotted the fields of action to the units in a realistic way. | | | Until the mid-1930s, however, China did not end its internal problems of the war, which was known as the Second Revolutionary Civil War. | | | Kong Xian-yong had been on intimate terms with us when he was a deputy commander of Wang De-lin's national salvation army. |
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| | A Biography of Mao Tse-Tung |
| | In 1921 he was one of 12 delegates at the ‘First Congress’ of the Communist Party at a time when national membership of the party totalled 57, and he became the CCP’s General Secretary for Hunan. | | | His adaptation of guerilla techniques from the writings of ancient military experts stood him in good stead in the civil war, which he probably would have lost in any other circumstances. | | | Mao surprised everyone by sending Chou En-lai, one of his long time friends and right-hand man, to plead for Chiang’s life, to prove to everyone defeating the Japanese was to be given absolute priority. |
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| | New America Media |
| | The DPP exulted when Bush was declared the winner because the new president had said he was going to take a hard-line vis-à-vis China. | | | Late last year President George W. Bush, with new Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at his side, warned both Taiwan and mainland China not to upset the calm in the Taiwan Straits. | | | He was one of the founders of the now ruling group, the Democratic People's Party (DPP). |
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| | Dictionary New |
| | -- not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" | | | -- very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" | | | -- other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" |
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| | In particular, the enormous prestige of the long-time Liberal Prime Minister, William Mackenzie King, prevented the CCF displacing the Libera 1000 ls as the main party of the left, as happened in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. | | | Tn support of Soong, Lee coined the term "New Taiwanese" to describe a person born in mainland China, raised in Taiwan, who calls Taiwan home. | | | Soong was widely seen as a loyal supporter of Lee Teng-hui and opponent of the New Kuomintang Alliance and the New Party. |
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