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 Sisy Chen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chen then travelled to the United States to pursue a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley and later at the New School for Social Research in New York.
Sisy Chen, an ally of Hsu Hsin-liang, left the DPP in 1999 and emerged as one of its harshest critics.
She was a strategist for the Pan Blue Coalition in the ROC presidential election, 2004 and debated Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen on the March 20 referendum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sisy_Chen   (525 words)

  
 - The Washington Times: Special Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chen began his campaign for a second term as president of what is officially known as the Republic of China on Taiwan.
Chen said that the centerpiece of his re-election campaign — calls for a new constitution and a referendum law to take domestic issues directly to voters and bypass the legislature — were merely steps to "deepen" his nation's democracy and not an attempt to provoke China.
Chen returned from his recent trip abroad — a visit to Panama to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its independence from Colombia, with stops in New York and Alaska on either end — polls were showing the race a dead heat and some gave Mr.
washingtontimes.com /specialreport/20031116-123956-7010r.htm   (2604 words)

  
 REFERENDUM DEBATES GET FIRST GROUP OF CHALLENGERS
Sisy Chen, who has denounced the referendum as illegal, unnecessary and flirting with conflict from neighboring states, volunteered to serve as a member on the opposition side in the debates after the CEC failed to find any team to debate against the affirmative side, which is made up of government officials and pro-referendum scholars.
Sisy Chen also named several people that she said had no place in the debates since they are in charge of implementing the referendum: Premier Yu Shyi-kun, Minister of the Interior Yu Cheng-hsien and spokesman for the Executive Yuan Lin Chia-lung.
Until Sisy Chen and Jaw got the needed signatures to be in the debate, no opposing political party had come forward to take part and the debates were to have been transformed into one-sided information sessions conducted by the Executive Yuan.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2004/taiwan-040218-cna01.htm   (549 words)

  
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The DPP, under the leadership of President Chen Shui-bian, was also denounced by an independent lawmaker for its reluctance to laud Trong Chai, a lawmaker renowned for his conviction that the country's fate be determined by referendum.
Sisy Chen, a former member of the DPP who turned around to side with the pan-blue camp, challenged the DPP for breaking down one of its founding objectives of pursuing the country's final independence by holding referendums.
Chen Chi-mai promised that the final copy will exclude wording about a unification or independence referendum.
taiwansecurity.org /TT/2003/TT-070603.htm   (662 words)

  
 Chen (surname) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
Initial surname Chen was from Gui (Chinese:媯, pinyin: Gūi), which was an ancient Chinese surname of descendants of Emperor Shun, who was one of the Three August Ones and the Five Emperors.
To show his respect for Emperor Shun, the new state, which was also named by Chen, was one of the Three Guest States of Zhou (Chinese:三恪, pinyin: Sān Kè), which meant this nation was not the subordinate, but the guest of Zhou.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chen_(surname)   (466 words)

  
 Jerome F. Keating's writings
By 2001, Sisy Chen had broken completely with the DPP and ran as an independent to become a lawmaker representing South Taipei.
Sisy Chen has changed positions like a weather vane with the prevailing winds being those of financial reward and notoriety.
Sisy Chen’s most recent defining moment was forever captured on TV footage on March 19, 2004, the election eve of Taiwan’s 3rd Presidential Race.
zen.sandiego.edu:8080 /Jerome/1094711206/index_html   (1727 words)

  
 Troubled Taiwan
President Chen Shui-bian, having survived the bullet wound that punctured his stomach, won re-election by less than a quarter of a percent -- 50.1 percent of the vote, compared with 49.9 percent for Lien Chan, the candidate for the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party or the KMT).
Photographs of President Chen bleeding at a campaign rally where he was shot as well as the released photographs taken during the operation seemed to disprove the opposition's claims.
Chen is risking military intervention by pushing for a unilateral declaration of Taiwanese independence.
www.motherjones.com /news/dailymojo/2004/03/03_653.html   (1202 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Bevin Chu: The Big Lie of Taiwan's Election A Lie Heard Halfway around the World
Chen is especially formidable in bare knuckles television debates with her former comrades, because, as the DPP's former "Minister of Propaganda," she "knows where the bodies are buried."
Sisy Chen, along with former DPP party chairmen and "White Terror" political prisoners Shih Ming-teh and Hsu Hsing-liang were the DPP's political superstars.
Sisy Chen has mentioned on her nightly TV program that she is one fourth Japanese.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2002/01/25/26007_.html   (2221 words)

  
 Association for Asia Research- China planted Hong Kong spy story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
On Nov. 30, President Chen Shui-bian specified the locations in Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian provinces where China has deployed 496 ballistic missiles that are aimed at Taiwan.
On Dec. 19, the media reported that retired Major-General Chen Hu-men -- a former intelligence official at the National Security Bureau -- had said that many of the nation's intelligence agents in China, including his former subordinates and old friends, had suddenly disappeared after the president's statement on missiles.
Chen Hu-men should speak directly to the authorities if he feels they have made mistakes, instead of recklessly making confidential information public.
www.asianresearch.org /articles/1809.html   (980 words)

  
 The China Desk - Taiwan at the Crossroads: Postscript
Chen Shui-bian exploited every last administrative resource at his disposal campaigning for the Democratic Progressive Party, appealing to the voters to give the Pan Greens a majority in the legislature.
Chen Shui-bian's abdominal wound was not inflicted by the lead bullet.
Based on the way Chen Shui-bian normally wore his clothing, the complete lack of bloodstains on his underwear and trousers violate the basic laws of biology, and the lack of bullet holes violate the laws of physics.
thechinadesk.tripod.com /taiwan_at_the_crossroads_postscript.htm   (2073 words)

  
 One China Issue
Chen refused to defend himself and pan-green lawmakers boycotted the procedure.
Chen Said Using Part of State Fund for Covert Intelligence Operations (Taiwan News, Aug. 22, 2006) Prosecutors scrutinizing President Chen Shui-bian's alleged misuse of a public fund have found that part of the fund was diverted to covert intelligence gathering, the Liberty Times said.
For Chen, a Painful Fall from the 'Son' to the 'Shame of Taiwan' By Goh Sui Noi (Straits Times, June 2, 2006) Mr Chen, a native Taiwanese, was celebrated as the 'son of Taiwan' when he came to power in 2000, the first president from an opposition party.
www.taiwansecurity.org /TSR-Recall-2.htm   (6553 words)

  
 The Floridazation of Taiwan
Rather than ripping head-on into President Chen's stomach, the bullet struck at the very instant President Chen turned to wave and carved a bloody half-inch deep groove 8 inches along his abdomen--the wound required 11 stitches.
The KMT then began to focus their public case not on the margin of their loss, but on the charge that "Chen Shui-bian cheated us with a faked assassination attempt." The accusation of a staged assassination, had already been disproved by a steady stream of interviews with the Hospital doctors, police, and body guards.
(Chen: "So, I stand in the car, and then a guy is going to shoot me with a bullet, through the windshield into my abdomen, but I should be careful to turn aside so the bullet will only cut a half-inch slice through me?.
www.heritage.org /Press/Commentary/ed061604h.cfm   (1839 words)

  
 AsiaMedia :: Story, Print Version
Her eyes no longer sparkle with youthful idealism and her flashy outfits are at odds with the memory of the willowy and elegant Sisy Chen many Taiwanese once knew.
Ms Chen is one of several talk show hosts whose power in swaying Taiwan voters in the March 20 presidential polls is generally acknowledged.
He was the first to call Mr Chen 'Joshua' to promote his image as the best man to succeed former president Lee Teng-hui, popularly called the 'Moses of Taiwan', and to underscore their shared vision of taking Taiwan down the independence road.
www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /print.asp?parentid=8784   (960 words)

  
 TIME Asia Print Page: Taking It to the Brink -- December 15, 2003 / Vol. 162 No. 23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Chen, 52, is taking the biggest gamble of his political career and, in the process, whipping up an international storm.
Chen may be refraining from calling a referendum on sovereignty, but that's unlikely to appease China.
Not lost on Beijing is the message implicit in Chen's Nov. 29 announcement to call a referendum: in the face of Chinese aggression, Taiwan—for the first time since it split with China in 1949—has the legal means by which to hold a nationwide vote on independence.
www.time.com /time/asia/magazine/printout/0,13675,501031215-557122,00.html   (996 words)

  
 TAIWAN-CHINA CONFLICT TO REMAIN NO MATTER WHO WINS ELECTION: LAWMAKER
Sisy Chen, who once served as spokeswoman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) before it came to power in May 2000 and who is now Lien's top campaign adviser, said Taiwan's national identity plight will also not evaporate overnight with the end of the presidential election.
In her view, Sisy Chen said, if the opposition "pan-blue alliance" ticket of KMT Chairman Lien Chan and People First Party Chairman James Soong wins, Taiwan and mainland China will still have conflicts from time to time.
Commenting on Sisy Chen's analysis, DPP Legislator Chen Chung-hsin, who also heads the DPP's China affairs department, said it's an exaggeration to describe the upcoming election as a "historic choice." "Even if the DPP is defeated in the race, it can still stage a comeback in the future.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/taiwan/2004/taiwan-040207-cna03.htm   (421 words)

  
 Reporters sans frontières - Taiwan - 2004 Annual Report
President Chen Shui-bian, who wants to hold a referendum on the fraught issue of Taiwan’s independence, likes to be viewed as someone who defends press freedom.
But there are still laws in place that allow journalists to be imprisoned for defamation, revealing "state secrets" or publishing reports that jeopardise "national security." A journalist was sentenced to a year and a half in prison in 2003 for a report about military manoeuvres.
Star TV cancelled the contract of the political programme "Sisy’s News," presented by independent parliamentarian Sisy Chen, who said the decision was "politically motivated" and accused the ruling DPP being involved in an attempt to silence opposition voices.
www.rsf.org /article.php3?id_article=10224   (954 words)

  
 Defending Taiwan's "Democracy"
Chen's Gestapo raids were in clear and direct violation of Article 11 of the Republic of China's Constitution, which guarantees the right to freedom of expression.
Chen responded the way he always does – the way he responds to strenuous objections from majority Pan Blue voters on Taiwan that "stealth separatism" and "creeping independence" were in clear and direct violation of Article 4 of the Republic of China's One China Constitution.
As Sisy Chen, former Public Relations Chief for the DPP has noted, the new generation of DPP leaders exhibits an unseemly eagerness to sell out the party's long professed ideals in exchange for money, power or a combination of the two, that is downright sickening.
www.antiwar.com /chu/chu-col.html   (5989 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Q&A: Taiwan election dispute
But Mr Chen was campaigning when the attack took place, in a motorcade driving through the streets of the southern city of Tainan.
The government released pictures of Mr Chen being operated on, pictures of the bullet's damage to his stomach and to the knee of his Vice-President Annette Lu, and pictures of the bullet itself.
Mr Chen has now been inaugurated for a second term and can afford to carry on governing regardless, although the nature of his election victory will continue to undermine his legitimacy.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/asia-pacific/3560355.stm   (1172 words)

  
 Taiwan Matters!: Key points of Chen Shui-bian's speech
Last night, Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian went on TV for approximately an hour and twenty minutes in order to respond to an indictment brought by Taipei prosecutors against his wife and three top aides on charges which include corruption, forgery, and perjury.
Finally, Chen Shui-bian admits in his speech that he conspired with his wife + assistants in intentionally lying to the prosecutor tasked with investigating possible corruption.
Chen Shui-bian tells us that he did all of this for a good reason.
taiwanmatters.blogspot.com /2006/11/key-points-of-chen-shui-bians-speech.html   (1316 words)

  
 Politics in Taiwan
Sisy Chen, an original member of the DPP in its 1986 defiance of martial law, now co-anchours one of Taiwan's most popular radio show with one of Taiwan's staunchest defenders of unification with China and appeared numerous times in demonstrations supporting the KMT.
Chen Shui-bian stands as both the party chairman and the presidential candidate because he is possibly the only member of the DPP with the charizma to hold the party together.
Chen is wildly popular among ethnic Taiwanese for whom he is viewed in much the same light as Abraham Lincoln is by Americans; the embodiment of what poor Taiwanese can achieve through hard-work and talent.
scottsommers.blogs.com /taiwanpolitics   (12028 words)

  
 It's Not Democracy, It's A Conspiracy!: December 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
To the protests of the opposition, who felt Chen had abused his powers, and that the issues to be voted on were totally meaningless, Chen pushed ahead and used public funds to widely publicize his "Peace Referendum" and exhort his supporters to come out and create history by voting to show their patriotism.
Chen Shui-bian stated his approval of a recount just three days after the election, and formalized it within two weeks, it was the pan-blues who continued protesting, making rather "creative" demands along the way such as wanting to recount only the Chen-Lu ballots -- y'know, to be "fair" and all.
Chen is said to have thought he had been hit by a firecracker, and adrenaline levels were probably pretty high all around.
indiac.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_indiac_archive.html   (9527 words)

  
 BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Taiwan's stars vie for votes
Sisy Chen is familiar to many in Taiwan as the host of popular TV talkshow Big Little Sister Sisy.
But Ms Sisy is not just a TV celebrity.
Although many of these - including President Chen Shui-bian, jailed for libel in 1986 - date back to Taiwan's authoritarian martial law period before 1987, Mr Ting says the electoral system itself is at fault.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1664866.stm   (564 words)

  
 KOUMINGTANG ARMY KMT-1
The loss of the presidential election of 2004 to DPP President Chen Shui-bian was a bitter disappointment to party members, leading to a few rallies for a few weeks protesting alleged electoral fraud and the odd circumstances of the shooting of President Chen.
However, the fortunes of the party were greatly improved when the KMT did well in the legislative elections held in December 2004 by maintaining its support in southern Taiwan achieving a majority for the pan-blue coalition.
Chen’s original intent for the promotion of a KMT party member to the second highest office in a DPP administration was to cultivate cross-party cooperation and collaboration in policy-making.
asiantigers.8k.com /photo4.html   (11257 words)

  
 seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Dire straits in Taiwan
Sisy Chen is notorious for her constant fabrication of purportedly true stories based on "unidentifiable" sources.
President Chen's reputation as a wily politician has been saved by a miraculous escape from an assassin's bullet--a bullet that apparently penetrated the windshield, made a 90 degree turn to graze Chen's tummy and nick Annette Lu, the vice president candidate, on her knee.
Chen, who was shot in an apparent assassination attempt last Friday, the day before voting, was reelected by a margin of 0.228 percent over his challenger, Lien Chan of the opposition alliance of the Kuomintang (KMT) and People First Party (PFP), known as the pan-blues (from the color of the KMT emblem).
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /buzz/archives/002464.html   (10594 words)

  
 Association for Asia Research- Blue camp proves it's China's pawn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The high-profile treatment President Chen Shui-bian received during his stopover in the US en route to Panama indicates that Taiwan's effort to walk out and join the international community has yielded good results, exciting those who love Taiwan.
Second, on the legislative floor on Nov. 10, blue-camp schemer and independent Legislator Sisy Chen questioned the incident in which Yang Liu-sheng, a National Security Bureau (NSB) member stationed in the US, was kept by the CIA for a three-day investigation when the scandal related to a secret NSB account was revealed in Taiwan.
As a result, Chen Shui-bian's trip to the US was a success while the issue of referendums has become a curse for the blue camp.
www.asianresearch.org /articles/1725.html   (783 words)

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