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Kuomintang have no roots here, nor do they want to have any".
It showed pictures of Li Hongzhang signing Taiwan away to Japan, of Taiwanese people resisting the Japanese, of Taiwanese people fighting the police in Kaohsiung. Her campaign staff described the Kuomintang as using Taiwan as a hotel, bastion and stepping stone. In her rallies Fang spoke intelligently and critically of the shortcomings of the Kuomintang He contrasted this with the performance of one of the KMT candidates, Chi Cheng who had won a bronze medal in the Olympics. She had a wonderful appearance and show business presentation, but could only speak ridiculous clichés about the honest government of Kuomintang which tried the patience of most of her audience. Interestingly Chi spoke in Mandarin (she is an aboringinal Taiwanese) while Fang's other non-party candidates and indeed most of the KMT candidates spoke in Taiwan dialect.
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The Kuomintang won overwhelming support. non-party candidates lost two seats and won only nine of those contested. This was in part due to splits among the non-party candidates. But largely because the Kuomintang was the only credible government party. Fang Su-min was elected, but Kang Ning-hsiang a veteran and more moderate opposition leader lost
lost his seat. There were however no allegations of election rigging.
6. According to Mirsky the mainlanders have yet to come to terms with the myth that the mainland was lost in 1949 through Communist subversion. For them to face up to the possibility that it was possibly through their own incompetence and unfitness to rule will be
rule will be as agonising a reappraisal as that for the Chinese Communists over Mao. It is not likely to happen until after Chiang Ching-kuo's death. When it does happen it may help
help to lessen the suspicion that the KMT has of the so-called Taiwan Independence Movement, which they see as a Communist tool, and may help make it easier for native Taiwanese to achieve a greater short of power. He thought that although Taiwan is now very different from the mainland (a separate history for most of the past hundred years, more advanced economically and SO on) it is unlikely that the myth of Taiwan being part of China would entirely be given up in the foreseeable future. A declaration of independence would force the Chinese Communists into some sort of action.
Nonetheless even for KMT eminences like the Premier Sun Yun-hsuan reunification was no longer an imminent possibility through the collapse of the CCP but something that would evolve gradually over a long period of time. Needless to say Sun (whom he interviewed) and other KMT dignitaries rejected Peking's overtures out of hand.
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