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Taiwan Elections
By Paul Midler | March 20, 2008
Someone asked me recently who I thought would win the upcoming election in Taiwan. I hadn’t been paying attention to it, really, but it struck me that we haven’t heard much news out of China. Since Beijing was so quiet on this one, their least favorite party - the DPP - was probably going to lose. If DPP was pulling ahead, Beijing would have ordered tanks to the coast, or else they would have tossed a few missiles into the Taiwan Strait.
Topics: China |
March 21st, 2008 at 1:32 am
The reason why the Chinese are being quiet THIS time around is because they sent Zhu RongJi to the CCTV studios to record a blistering and incredibly beligerant verbal attack on Chen Shuibian befoer the elections last time—and even though Chen was a long-shot to win–the Taiwanese people’s sensibilitites were ruffled enough by the Big Brother attack fromt the mainland that it pushed Chen into the Presidency literally overnight…
March 21st, 2008 at 2:05 am
Well thanks to the current “incidents” in that autonomous region next to Sichuan, the KMT has lost ground and the DPP is gaining. Expect the KMT to win BUT take a harder line on China/Taiwan relations in the future because of the current “incident”.
They have no choice but to…
March 21st, 2008 at 8:33 am
It’s the eve of the election and I just came back from the KMT rally in Taipei. To say that everything is a great big spectacle is an understatement. All the political commercials and commentary are continuing on TV and, frankly, I’m a bit sick of it all the common-denominator rhetoric. Most people I’ve run into expect Ma to win though.
April 8th, 2008 at 3:48 am
By the way, let’s file this one also under “The China Game was right”…