Taiwan Communiqué no. 69, January 1996

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Taiwan elects new Legislative Yuan
  • Chinese threats and intimidations didn't work
  • KMT loses popular majority, but maintains a thin Parliamentary edge
  • The DPP wins, but is hampered by factionalism
  • Were the elections fair ?
  • The New Legislative Yuan: shifting alliances
    
    
• Presidential Elections coming up
  • DPP's Peng prepares for campaign
  • President Lee Teng-hui moves to "Taiwanize" KMT
  • Old Kuomintang hardliners join up with New Party
    
    
• "Enter-the-UN" campaign continues
  • UN 50th anniversary has something missing
    
  
  

• Why Taiwan says "no" to China
  • Chinese insecurity and power struggles
  • What will the United States do ?
  • The Wei Jingsheng case: no human rights
  • Taiwan's Choice: freedom and democracy ... free from China
    
    
• Second Generation Report
  • What Thanksgiving Means to Me, by Kristie Wang
    
    
• Aborigine / Environmental Report
  • Aboriginal activists sentenced to prison term
    
    
• In Memoriam Robert Tsai