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	Lien Chan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lien held assistant professorships of political science at the University of Wisconsin from 1966 to 1967 and the University of Connecticut from 1967 to 1968.
		Lien took an active role as a representative of Lee Teng-hui in quasi-official diplomacy in the mid-1990s.
		Lien Chan led a KMT delegation to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lien_Chan (1601 words)

	ROC presidential election, 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Curiously most polls indicate that while Chen is widely considered the cleaner candidate and that the public has doubts as to Lien's and Soong's honesty and the source of their wealth, this does not appear to affect voting decisions.
		Lien Chan and Wang Jyng-ping tried to visit Chen on the night of the incident, but were unable to see the president because he was resting.
		Lien told the crowd that he had counted more than 1,000 election irregularities (though he was not specific), but urged the crowd to disperse, promising more protests in the future if their demands were not met.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ROC_Presidential_Election_2004 (4142 words)

	Lien Joins Chen Referring To Taiwan As 'Separate Country'
		Lien said at the weekend he saw nothing wrong with the view that Taiwan and China were "one country on each side" -- a formula Chen used last year that drew angry denunciations from Beijing, which sees the island as part of its territory.
		But they said Lien's comments would be sure to worry China, which fears the Nationalists may be drifting away from their platform of eventual reunification with the mainland.
		Chen repeated a warning on Monday that any missile tests would be considered an attack which could drive the island further toward independence.
	www.rense.com /general46/asasep.htm (547 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Taiwan's President Narrowly Wins Reelection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If Chen's victory stands, it would be a major setback for the Chinese government, which has refused to open talks with him during his first term and had quietly hoped he would be defeated.
		Before the final count was announced, Lien appeared before a large crowd outside his campaign headquarters and declared on national television he would challenge the validity the election.
		In his victory speech, Chen played down the failure of the referendum, saying that citizens did not fully understand its "democratic value" and noting that it still made history as the first to be held in Taiwan.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A10424-2004Mar20?language=printer (1153 words)

	R.O.C. Vice President Lien Chan -- A Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lien Chan was sworn in as vice president of the Republic of China on May 20, 1996.
		Lien Chan has always cherished the counsel from his forefathers to "make Taiwan your home, but keep the Chinese mainland in your heart." With "utmost sincerity, selflessness, and rectitude," Lien puts all his services at the disposal of the nation and people he so loves.
		Lien Chan is by nature a calm, sincere, modest, and pragmatic scholar and statesman.
	www.taipei.org /current/president/lien_p.htm (1523 words)

	Chen wins, Lien demands recount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Speaking to crowds of supporters in front of the KMT headquarters earlier, Lien and Soong called the election "unfair", citing that the election was held under suspicious circumstances.
		Chen and Lu suffered gunshot wounds in the incident in southern Taiwan.
		Lien and Soong ran separately in the previous presidential election in 2000 and won a combined 58 percent.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=2806 (250 words)

	'REFERENDUM' RIGHTFUL WAY TO PROTECT TAIWAN: PRESIDENT CHEN
		Chen made the remarks in a televised debate with the sole challenger to his re-election bid, opposition Kuomintang (KMT) Chairman Lien Chan.
		Chen further said his administration has managed to turn several state-owned enterprises into profitable companies, and he promised to set up a public university in each county if he is re-elected.
		Refuting Lien's ridicule of his administration's poor economic record, Chen said Taiwan has actually outperformed many other countries in economic growth even when the global economy was suffering one of its worst recessions in recent memory in 2002.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2004/taiwan-040214-cna01.htm (973 words)

	Taiwanese President Narrowly Reelected
		If it stands, Chen's victory would be a major setback for China, which refused to open talks with him during his first term and had condemned his pro-independence policies.
		He urged his supporters not to gloat and reached out to Lien and his vice presidential candidate, James Soong, by expressing his "highest respects." "The election is over, and even though there are people who have different ideologies and beliefs, from now on we must all embrace each other," Chen said.
		Chen played down the failure of the referendum, saying that citizens did not fully understand its "democratic value" and noting that it still made history as the first to be held in Taiwan.
	www.taiwandc.org /wp-2004-04.htm (1032 words)

	The Epoch Times :: Taiwan Candidates Focus On Referendum in Second Debate
		Chen, however, countered Lien's remarks, urging people to vote and calling Lien's attitude contradictory in asking people to exercise their democratic right by voting for him but to abrogate that right in the referendum vote.
		Chen also said in his concluding speech that he will endeavor to normalize cross-strait relations by dispatching Taiwan's first representative to be stationed in Beijing and push for Taiwan's entry into the World Health Organization within two years of his re-election.
		Lien yesterday again attacked Chen's character as "capricious," citing his inconsistency on the policies of whether to continue the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/4-2-22/20046.html (602 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		Chen, the nominee of the DPP, himself won the election with a mere 39 percent of the vote on this island of 21.5 million people.
		For example, Lien Chan was the KMT candidate at a time when former president Lee Teng-hui was still leader of the party and in theory had put his imprimatur upon Lien's candidacy in March 2000 voting.
		Lien, after his election defeat, contrived to blame his failure on Lee and oust him in a leadership coup - considered an astonishing and successful piece of insolence so soon after his humiliating repudiation by voters.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FA13Ad01.html (2531 words)

	ED031700a: The Taiwan Election: Democracy on Steriods
		Chen, on the other hand, could only boast - like the late Will Rogers - of belonging to no "organized political party" because he was a member of the DPP.
		Lien represents the mainstream, business-oriented, competent bureaucratic wing of the KMT.
		Lien and Soong have been beating each other's political brains out since November, with Lien striking a mortal wound in December by revealing Soong's ill-gotten political gains and undermining his reputation as a "clean-government" reformer.
	www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ED031700a.cfm?RenderforPrint=1 (1037 words)

	Taiwan Elections 2004 Photo Gallery by Jerome Favre at pbase.com
		Chen of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and opposition candidate Lien Chan of the nationalist Party are locked in a tight race ahead of the March 20 elections.
		Lien and incumbent President Chen Shui-bian are locked in a tight race ahead of the March 20 election.
		Chen's narrow victory in a March 20 election is being challenged as unfair by the opposition.
	www.pbase.com /jfavre/elections&page=5 (827 words)

	WUSA - Print Story
		Lien did not go that far, but he demanded a full investigation of the attack's effect on the election.
		Lien demanded that the Central Election Commission seal all ballot boxes in the 13,000 polling booths around the island so a recount could be done.
		Chen and his vice president, Annette Lu, were shot and slightly wounded Friday while campaigning for the election.
	www.wusatv9.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=27775 (1006 words)

	CNN.com - Chen, Lien bid to defuse tension - Mar 28, 2004
		Chen has said he is willing to ask the court to skip a hearing on evidence and order an immediate recount, The Associated Press reports.
		Lien is alwo expected to a call for an independent investigation into the mysterious shooting that lightly wounded Chen and Vice President Annette Lu on the last day of campaigning.
		Lien has claimed the attack unfairly swung sympathy votes Chen's way, and he has insinuated that the president might have staged the incident, though no conclusive evidence has been presented for the conspiracy theory.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/28/taiwan.election.meeting (572 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁): We know that given 10 years, the previous government was unable to pass the Equal Protection Employment Act (兩性工作平等法) that the Chen administration finally enacted.
		Lien: After being elected, I plan to invite all the political parties to participate in a conference on national development to strike a consensus on national policy.
		Lien: With Chen's proposal for referendums, a new constitution, and rectification of our country's names and a timetable, it is not clear if Chen's five-noes stance has stayed the same.
	www.taipeitimes.com /News/archives/2004/02/22/2003099687/print (1127 words)

	CNN.com - Taiwan: The two candidates - Mar 19, 2004
		Chen, who was elected in 2000 in Taiwan's first democratic transfer of power, will hold a referendum to coincide with the election on strengthening defences against China and restarting reconciliation talks with Beijing.
		Chen, with his wheelchair-bound wife at his side, his folksy style and his vows to end corruption have made him one of Taiwan's most popular and charismatic politicians.
		Lien, a scion of one of Taiwan's wealthiest families, was hand-picked by former President Lee Teng-hui to succeed him as head of state in the 2000 polls.
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/19/taiwan.profiles/index.html (440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Profile: Lien Chan
		Mr Lien was actually born on the mainland, in 1936 in the ancient Chinese capital of Xian, but his also has long links with Taiwan.
		Analysts say Mr Lien's resounding defeat may have been partly as a result of a major earthquake in Taiwan a few months before the election.
		He lost the vote by only 0.2% and later challenged the results, saying that the shooting of President Chen Shui-bian and his Vice-President Annette Lu on the eve of the poll was a conspiracy which had improved their chances of winning.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/661500.stm (391 words)

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		Lien and Soong were backed by 41 percent of those surveyed, compared to 28 percent who supported the Chen-Lu combination, with 31 percent undecided.
		Chen Chun-lin stated that the result of the survey of 966 adults over 20 years of age was within its plus or minus 3.2 percent standard deviation.
		Chen said the change lies in the DPP incumbent's improving support among "middle" voters who do not identify with any of the major political parties.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TN/2003/TN-281003.htm (669 words)

	Lien garners Chen Li-an's endorsement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chen, the son of the late Vice President Chen Cheng and a former defense minister, broke with the ruling KMT in 1995 and mounted an independent bid for the presidency the following year.
		Chen went on to say that Lien, if elected, would promote a number of KMT heavyweights known to oppose President Lee "special state-to-state relations" model.
		Therefore Chen's tactic is to make an issue of the relationship between Lien and Lee and create an image of being Lee's successor in resisting mainland China's menace.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20000229/20000229p1.html (423 words)

	Taiwan Communique no. 94
		Lien Chan _ feeling insulted by the timing of the decision _ apparently decided to use the situation to try to unseat President Chen Shui-bian, and together with the pro-unificationist PFP and the tiny right-wing New Party started a drive to recall the President and Vice-President Annette Lü Hsiu-lien.
		Lien Chan and James Soong are thus a farce.
		President Chen and his team have worked hard to make the transition as smooth as possible, and have been generally lauded for a cautious approach in both foreign and domestic policy: by all accounts, the economy is doing well (see the account "A question of different perceptions" by former US ambassador Nat Bellocchi).
	www.taiwandc.org /twcom/94-no1.htm (1862 words)

	AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version
		Chen's approval rating was 56 percent and Lien's 15 percent.
		Lien also belittled Chen's height when he had to stand on a raised podium in order to appear of the same height as Lien during the debate.
		Tsai was referring to Chen's concluding remarks during the debate, when Chen, aiming to dismiss Lien's charge that he was a capricious person, said that his hairstyle has never changed over the years nor his love for his wife and that he had never abused her and never will.
	www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=7678 (718 words)

	CNN.com - Chen to press for independence - Mar 29, 2004
		Chen has vowed to proceed with plans to write a new constitution, developing Taiwan as an "independent, sovereign country" despite the risk of war with China, he said in an interview with the Washington Post.
		Chen -- who was re-elected by a scant 30,000 votes over Kuomintang leader Lien Chan -- has agreed to a recount by the High Court.
		Lien is also expected to a call for an independent investigation into the mysterious shooting that lightly wounded Chen and Vice President Annette Lu on the last day of campaigning.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/29/taiwan.election/index.html (593 words)

	USATODAY.com - Taiwan ballot boxes sealed after election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The court order came after Lien, a former vice president, said more than 330,000 ballots from Saturday's vote were spoiled and there were too many unanswered questions about the assassination attempt on the president and his running mate, Vice President Annette Lu.
		Chen won Saturday by 30,000 votes, although he lost a referendum on strengthening the island's military.
		Before the election, Lien said he trusted that Taiwanese voters would be rational and not let the shooting cause them to cast a sympathy vote for Chen.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2004-03-20-taiwan-vote_x.htm?csp=24 (1336 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Angry Protests Erupt Over Close Taiwan Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Lien's Nationalist Party filed several lawsuits in major cities demanding a recount.
		It was the first violence since Lien lost the election.
		China welcomed Chen's referendum humiliation, saying it was proof that any attempt to split the motherland would fail.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/03/20/angry_protests_erupt_over_close_taiwan_election (745 words)

	CNN.com - Lien gets closer to Beijing - Apr 29, 2005
		Lien made his speech just hours ahead of a highly-anticipated meeting with China's president Hu Jintao, the first between the two rivals in half a century.
		Chen, who been in office for five years, won reelection in a bitterly contested campaign battle against Lien last year.
		Beijing has refused to deal with Chen because of his pro-independence views and many observers believe China's invitation to Lien is part of an effort to isolate Chen and send a signal to the people of Taiwan that only politicians with a softer line on China can make progress with Beijing.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/28/taiwan.china/index.html (730 words)

	In Taiwan, 'unprecedented' voter vigor \| csmonitor.com
		Lien's 20-second prostration on March 13, shown repeatedly on TV this week, took place at a rally here of 400,000 flag-waving voters, as the island of 23 million prepares for its third presidential election this Saturday.
		Chen's wife has been forced to apologize for what appears to be insider trading.
		A Taiwanese tycoon, Chen Yu-hao, who escaped to the US rather than face criminal charges for embezzlement, has been holding daily press conferences via satellite from a five-star hotel in Los Angeles, telling how he made large donations to the DPP, all of which was not accounted for but which was legal.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0318/p06s01-woap.html (892 words)

	Taiwan's high-stakes election drama \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Chen weathered a gunshot wound and won by a narrow 30,000 vote margin in the island's third national elections - which were immediately contested by opposition candidate Lien Chan of the Kuomintang (KMT) as being fraudulent.
		The KMT is disputing the outcome on the basis of three issues: the mystery shooting of Chen and Vice President Annette Lu in a motorcade in the final day of campaigning, some 340,000 destroyed ballots, and the ordering of some 200,000 officials to work on voting day after Chen was shot.
		The forensic evidence - a bullet grazing Chen's abdomen, a shot through a windshield that nicked Lu's knee - suggests that the shots weren't fired with the intent to kill, since the aim was low.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/0322/p01s03-woap.html (977 words)

	US-China Engagement
		Shooting of Taiwan's Chen 'Not Self-Inflicted': US Forensic Expert (AFP, Apr. 11, 2004) US forensic expert Henry Lee ruled out one of the more outlandish theories in the election-eve shooting of President Chen Shui-bian when he said it was not self-inflicted.
		By Philip P. Pan and David E. Hoffman (WP, Mar. 30, 2004) President Chen Shui-bian declared that his narrow reelection victory was a mandate from voters to press ahead with an aggressive agenda to develop Taiwan as an "independent, sovereign country" despite the risk of war with China.
		Chen, for his part, needs to understand that even if he has won a second term, the voters have given him no mandate to move toward independence.
	www.taiwansecurity.org /TSR-2004President.htm (5510 words)

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