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Lafayette Case Resurfaces

Apr.11, 2008 in Hau Pei-tsun, Lafayette, Lee Teng-hui, Ma Ying-jeou, Vincent Siew

The Lafayette case, the kickback scandal involving France, China, and the KMT, is a still limping along. Last year it surfaced briefly when the Swiss returned some money to Taiwan. Now the day before President-elect Ma Ying-jeou is sworn in, the district court plans to call as witnesses reactionary right-wing heavyweight politician Hau Pei-tsun, father [...]

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Personality Cult Touchstone and the Future of the KMT

May.25, 2007 in Chiang Kai-shek, China, DPP, Hau Lung-bin, Hau Pei-tsun, KMT, Ma Ying-jeou, agriculture, corruption, democracy

During the martial law period the KMT government fostered a personality cult around the figure of Chiang Kai-shek (the Australian academic Jeremy Taylor has done a sterling job of chronicling the development and ramifications of this cult, and political religion in general in Taiwan). The ultimate realization of this personality cult is of course the [...]

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