March 30, 2004

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Turmoil in Taiwan

The Post’s Philip Pan and David Hoffman report:

President Chen Shui-bian declared Monday 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.

And washingtonpost.com, in relentless pursuit of online journalistic excellence, has the entire transcript of the interview with Chen posted on the site. Nice.

Here’s a piece from the new Foreign Affairs that says (and I paraphrase) “Hell no Taiwan does not need to be all declaring independence right now.”

Also, I don’t know if you remember, but Chen is the guy who got shot a day before the election.