fredag 18. september 2015

Taiwan's Nationalist Party looks to be heading toward a historic defeat

The party of Gen. Chiang Kai-shek appears on track to lose not just Taiwan's presidency, which has happened only once before, but is also in danger of forfeiting control of parliament. That would be unprecedented since Chiang and millions of his supporters lost China's civil war in 1949 and set up a completely separate government on the island, 100 miles off the mainland's southeastern coast. Read more