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...Relations with China and national identity — long the main dividing lines between the pro-Taiwan DPP and the KMT, which embraces a broader Chinese identity — have become even more dominant in this year’s...
...In 2012, the acquisition of media assets by pro-China figures triggered concerns that China was infiltrating our media....
...Since then, she has equated Taiwan with the ROC. She won re-election by a landslide in January by asserting Taiwan’s political identity as a democracy against Chinese threats....
...BMI is a performing rights organisation, or a PRO. PROs collect and distribute publishing royalties to songwriters and copyright owners for the public performances of their songs....
...“There should never be a quid pro quo, never ever, ever. And I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never experienced it.” “Do we have generous donors whose children have gone to USC?...
...Religion and the Church: the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is in irreversible decline in Ukraine, a country that, with although only a third of Russia’s population, had until 2014 the same number of ROC...
...“The KMT has suffered in the polls because it is already seen by the electorate as too pro-China and pro-authoritarian,” says Titus Chen, an associate professor at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan...
...“House prices have dropped 20 to 25 per cent across the board since then,” says Christian Muñoz of Roc Propietats, a local estate agency....
...In 2003, however, Taiwan was ruled by the pro-independence president Chen Shui-bian....
...The island has been using the ROC name, flag and constitution ever since. Martial law ended in 1987, and in 2000 the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party came to power....
...For the pro-independence movement on the island it was manna from heaven....
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