Reply #12: What to do with Lien's treachery? [View All]

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So Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan (??) thinks that Taiwan is not a real democracy -- or so he told students at Peking University yesterday. Well, perhaps he ought to know. After all, the system of government that Taiwan has -- where it is not a remnant of the 1947 Constitution -- is the result of six rounds of constitutional reform, all of which occurred under the previous Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) government. In that government, Lien successively occupied the posts of Taiwan provincial governor, premier and vice president, making Lien one of the principal authors of the current political setup.

It is hardly surprising, then, that he should be so flabbergasted that such an arrangement should twice fail to confirm his career trajectory into occupancy of the Presidential Office.

After a year of claiming the shooting of President Chen Shui-bian (???) was rigged to secure a sympathy vote, it was somewhat embarrassing for the pan-blue camp that the shooting was found to have been committed by a pan-blue supporter. When Lien, in Beijing, castigated the "partiality" of Taiwan's judiciary, could he have been admitting to the lack of a high-level investigation of possible collusion between the pan-blue gunman and the Lien campaign?

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