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Asian Affairs: An American Review, January, 2002 by Li, Yitan
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Editor's note: This study is a revised version of a paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 30 August-2 September 2001.
The Republic of China (ROC or Taiwan) enters the new millennium as an economic powerhouse and one of the world's fledgling democracies. In fact, Taiwan is now described officially by the U.S. Department of State as a "multi-party democracy." In March 2000, the island elected a new president--the first opposition candidate to win the office of the presidency in the history of the ROC. It is ...
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