China And Taiwan

This past January 12, Taiwan held its parliamentary elections. In said elections, President Chen Shui Bian's Democratic Progressive Party, which advocates the independence of Taiwan and its participation as an independent State in the United Nations, suffered a catastrophic electoral defeat at the hands of the Kuomintang (KMT), which is the party that supports a "One China" policy. The KMT won 81 seats out of the 113 seats in Parliament, against only 27 seats for the President's party. So embarrassing was the defeat that President Chen Shui Bian was left with no option but to accept responsibility for such an electoral rout and resign from the leadership of the party.