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...Cho previously served on the staff of former president Chen Shui-bian and as a lawmaker. The new cabinet will take office upon Lai’s inauguration on May 20....
...Poaching Taiwan’s diplomatic allies is a tactic China has used extensively against outgoing president Tsai Ing-wen and former president Chen Shui-bian, both from the DPP, which Beijing detests because the...
...Beijing’s suspicion deepened after Tsai headed the cabinet-level China policy body under Chen Shui-bian, the first DPP president, who oversaw a rapid deterioration of ties with Beijing after he embarked...
...Dennis Wilder, a former White House China official, said the administration was “very anxious” about Lai and wanted “to head off a Chen Shui-bian type situation”....
...the CCP’s increasingly tightened control of social and economic resources and opportunities, it has become even more important than before for elites in China to become ‘insiders’ of the ‘system’,” said Chen...
...After Chen Shui-bian, the first DPP president, was elected in 2000, “there was this tense feeling in the air: would the military follow orders from a DPP president? Would there be a coup, even?”...
...In 2005, when cross-Strait relations were at a nadir after the re-election of Taiwan’s pro-independence president Chen Shui-bian, then-KMT chair Lien Chan met Communist party general secretary Hu Jintao,...
...Most recently, General Chang Che-Ping, who retired as deputy defence minister in June, is under investigation over allegations of having contacts with a Chinese spy and leaking secrets....
...A Wall Street Journal reporter who left China in 2018 to return to the US, Te-Ping Chen knows the importance of both journalism and fiction....
...“Beijing will not hesitate to completely overhaul an entire business environment if it deems it politically necessary,” says Chen Long at Plenum, a Beijing-based consultancy....
...A final point on this, Gideon, is that President Tsai Ing-wen is not like her predecessor, Chen Shui-bian. Predecessor, in terms of the last DPP president, right? She’s not a bomb thrower....
...His chief financial officer, Arthur Chen, recalls: “He met several famous [venture capitalist] investors and laid out his business plan and road map....
...It also set the stage, four years later, for opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian to win the presidency, leading to Taiwan’s first democratic transition of power....
...Come the national day holiday next month Huanxi will release Leap, about Chinese volleyball star Lang Ping who led the national team to victory in the 1984 Olympics....
...Yet unlike Beijing’s “panda” or “ping-pong” initiatives of the past, it is driven by popular grassroots enthusiasm — which has made Chinese officials sit up and take notice....
...“It could be that there is a change in personnel and there’s no one there to sign the document to release the fund,” said Ms Chen at Fitch....
...By contrast, Li Kui-ming, a local feng shui consultant and arts impresario, reaches from the ground up....
...The appointment marks a return to the premiership for Mr Su, 71, who served in the role under president Chen Shui-bian during a period of heightened tension between Taiwan and China from 2006 to 2007, before...
...Established in 2017, Buzao is an offshoot of Bentu, a studio co-founded by Chen Xingyu, Xu Gang, Peng Zeng and Chen Xingguang in 2011....
...Chen Furong Furong founded lighting, furniture and accessories brand WUU....
...Chinese insurer Ping An is hoping to raise up to $1bn with the float of its fintech unit OneConnect....
...“Yayoi Kusama’s works were not famous in Japan in the beginning; her market really started in Taiwan in the 1990s,” says Hong Ping Tao, founder of Caves Art Center, one of the oldest commercial galleries...
...Formosa Alliance, a group formed recently and backed by former Taiwan presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian, organised the march, which included many hardline independence supporters who travelled to...
...He acquired pieces by the new-media pioneer Yuan Goang-Ming and by Chen Chieh-jen, an artist known for his active social practice....
...Such a scenario has come to look more likely with the current government losing allies at a faster rate than during the last DPP administration of Chen Shui-bian, who lost nine allies in eight years....
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