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Taiwan’s Presidential Elections by Dr. John Garver
Opinion polls are forbidden in Taiwan ten days before a presidential election, but informal surveys by journalists in the several days before 20 March suggested that “pan blue” candidate Lian Chan had a slight lead over “pan-green” candidate Chen Sui-bian. (Blue is the color of the KMT and was the name given to an electoral coalition between the Kuomintang headed by Lian Chan and the People First Party headed by Song Chu-yu. Green, the color of the DPP, symbolizes a coalition between that party headed by Chen Sui-bian and a group headed by former President Lee Teng-hui after he split from the KMT in the run up to the 2000 election. ) Standing in the back of an open jeep during a campaign parade in southern Taiwan, Vice Presidential candidate Annette Lu was stuck in the knee by a bullet, while Chen Sui-bian was wounded when a second bullet grazed his stomach. Neither candidate realized immediately that they had been shot, or even shot at. Firecrackers were being discharged along the route of the parade, and both candidates, along with their bodyguards, mistook the report of the gun (or guns) firing the bullets as firecrackers. (Discharging long strings of firecrackers in celebration is a common practice in Taiwanese culture, common at weddings, shop-openings, and political events.) Once the shooting and wounding of both Chen and Lu was discovered, they were rushed to a hospital, though not to the nearest one. Shortly following the assassination attempt, Taiwan’s military and police were put on alert. This move prevented a number of soldiers and police from voting. Taiwan’s officer corps and professional soldiers tend to vote for the Nationalist, so the alert had the effect of favoring Chen. The shooting of Chen and Lu produced a groundswell of sympathy and support for the DPP candidates. This eruption of emotional support apparently played a critical role in producing the DPP’s thin margin of victory. Chen carried the election by a razor thin margin--less than 30,000 votes out of some 13 million votes cast. Further complicating the situation, nearly 300,000 votes--nearly ten times the margin of Chen’s victory--were deemed invalid by election authorities (continues to the next page). * Dr. John Garver is professor of international affairs at the Sam Nunn School at Georgia Tech. The Center Welcomes Kathy Chiang to the Advisory Board Kathy Williams Chiang currently holds the position of Vice President, Market Strategy and Business Intelligence for BellSouth Latin America. The Market Strategy and Business Intelligence team is generally responsible for evaluating competitive issues, long-term market planning, business dynamics and strategic issues for BellSouth’s Latin American operations. Ms. Chiang has 17 years experience in business development and strategy serving in a number of roles—including financial analysis, capital budgeting and management, business planning, market planning and strategic planning. She has extensive experience in international business notably in China and Latin America. Ms. Chiang, a native of New Orleans, speaks Mandarin Chinese and holds a bachelor of science degree in chemistry, summa cum laude with University honors, from Louisiana State University, as well as a MBA from Tulane University. Three New Research Associates Join the Center Dr. Xiaoliang Li teaches Chinese in the School of Modern Languages at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is developing Georgia’s online Chinese language course, and has taught a course with Feiling Wang on contemporary topics with Chinese as the language of discourse. She has a number of research projects relating to linguistics, including how people acquire a second language and why Chinese syntax is structured the way it is. She also is working on a project based on solders’ letters written during the U.S.-Vietnamese and Sino-Vietnamese wars in the1960s and 1970s. Dr. Li’s Ph.D. is from the University of Virginia. Dr. Cai Rong teaches Chinese, Chinese literature and Chinese film at Emory in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. She is currently working on the representation of history in popular culture in China today using the image of nation in contemporary historical TV dramas. She spent part of fall semester doing research in China. Dr. Rong’s Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature is from Washington University in St. Louis. Her forthcoming book, The Subject of Crisis in Contemporary Literature, is being published by University of Hawaii Press. Dr. Joachim Kurtz teaches at Emory in the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His current research interests are, first, the history of Chinese-Western exchanges from the 17th century to the present, with special emphasis on the history of science and thought and issues of translation. His second area of interest is modern Chinese political thought. Most recently, Joachim has been involved in a collaborative project studying similarities and differences in Chinese, Japanese and Korean nationalisms. Dr. Kurtz earned his Ph.D. in Chinese Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. International Forum on “China’s Foreign Relations and Non-Proliferation Issues” Was Held at the University of Georgia The Honors
College and the Center for International Trade and Security at UGA,
and the China Dr. Clif Pannell, Associate Dean of the Franklin College and Professor of Geography, set the stage for the discussion. China has seen rapid change in its economy, and now is experiencing increasing technological sophistication. This has led to shifts in its manufacturing base to high value-added goods and increasingly high-tech production. It has also led to an ability to carry out manned space exploration and other impressive technological challenges. At the same time, China’s political system has seen comparatively little change. Mr. Hou Hongyu, a visiting scholar from the Chinese People’s Association of Peace and Disarmament in Beijing, presented his view of the situation from China’s perspective. He argued that China’s top priority is economic development, and that peace is essential to this goal. He pointed out that China has an export control system in place, and that much of the criticism of China’s sales of magnets and chemical equipment ignore the fact that these are not on the list of agreed to controls. China’s policy is not to help any country develop nuclear weapons, and in particular, China wants North Korea to be non-nuclear. Dr. John Garver, professor of international affairs at the Sam Nunn School at Georgia Tech, discussed China’s changing position on non-proliferation. Under Mao, China saw non-proliferation efforts as U.S.-U.S.S.R. collusion to keep the rest weak. At this time China helped Pakistan research, develop and produce nuclear weapons and sold virtually without restriction nuclear technology to Iran, Algeria and other countries with nuclear weapons ambitions. This attitude changed slowly but steadily under Deng Xiaoping, although there were strong commercial incentives to continue sales. By 2003, China had become a genuine supporter of the global non-proliferation regime and was actively cooperating with the U.S. on Korea and the Indian sub-continent. China has a lot of leverage with some countries, and with North Korea in particular because of the economic aid it provides. The question will be to what extent will China be willing to use that leverage. . PRC Visiting Scholar at Georgia Tech. Mr. Hu Wen-tao, Associate Dean of the School of Legal Studies and Lecturer in the Department of International Affairs at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, is spending the 2004 calendar year at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Hu’s visit to the United States, his first, is supported by a highly competitive and prestigious fellowship from the Ministry of Education. Mr. Hu is currently a Doctoral student in Sino-foreign relations at Jinan University in Guangzhou (Canton), in Guangdong province, and researching U.S. cultural diplomacy toward China. During 1998 and 1999. Mr. Hu served as vice head of Huangben township government of Qingyuan city in Guangdong province where he had responsibility for elementary education and participated in organizing local elections. Huangben region is one of the poorest townships of China. From 1992 to 1993 Mr. Hu was instructor of politics in Guzhen township of Zhongshan city, also in Guangdong province. Guzhen is one of China’s richest towns in China. Mr. Hu received awards for his outstanding work in both Huangben and Guzhen. Professor Hu can be contacted at Georgia Tech. via his email at: wentaohu68@hotmail.com or via Dr. John Garver at 404-894-6846.
Chengdu, Sichuan, China June 22-23, 2004
Sichuan University, Southwest University of Finance and Economics, and Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences will co-host this inaugural conference of the Consortium for Western China Development Studies on June 22-23, 2004 in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
The Consortium for Western China Development Studies was established in Chengdu on December 11, 2003 by a number of universities and research institutions located in Western China with the support of the Office for Western China Development in the State Council of China, Sichuan University, Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Davis. The Consortium is a non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering research cooperation among universities, research institutions, and government agencies to promote sustainable development in the western provinces. The Consortium will work to raise funds to support research on Western development issues, to facilitate information exchange on development within the western provinces, to boost collaboration on western studies between domestic and foreign institutions, and to improve education in the western region.
International Advisory Committee: Co-Chairs:
Secretariat: Co-General Secretaries:
Deputy Secretaries: For Information on Topics, Abstract Submission, and Other Details, please go to http://chinadatacenter.org/westchina2004/. International Conference on "China Interacting with the World: Influences and Implications" to be held at Towson University, Maryland The Association of Chinese Professors of Social Sciences in the United States (ACPSS) cordially invites you to submit a paper for presentation at the above titled high-profile and multi-disciplinary international conference to be held at Towson University, Maryland between October 29 and 31.
Please send a two-page abstract to Yufan Hao: yhao@mail.colgate.edu AND Xiansheng Tian: tian@mscd.edu. The deadline for submission has been extended to April 30 2004. For more information please contact:
Aimin Chen Associate Professor Department of Economics Indiana State University Terre Haute, IN 47809 USA Tel.: 812-237-2175 Fax: 812-237-4349 International Conference on "Global Counter-terrorism and the Changing of Asia Pacific Security Order" to be held at Zhongshan Univesity, Guangzhou The Center for Asia Pacific Studies and Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Zhongshan University would like to host an international conference entitled as above to discuss the issues we are commonly concerned about, between July 02 and 04, 2004 in Guangzhou, China. The conference will focus on the following issues: (1) Global Counter-terrorism and the US Military Strategic Adjustment: Current Situation and Future Development; (2) The Development of Sino-US Bilateral Relations: Problems and Prospects; (3) Situation in the Northeast Asia& Relations among China, America, Japan and Russia; and (4) The Role of the International Organizations on Counter-terrorism. The working language in the conference is English. The board and lodge and city travel expense of all invited participants during 3 days conference will be covered by CAPS. We note that the delegates should pay the international tickets themselves. For more information, please contact: Wang Xinsheng Professor and Director Center for Asia Pacific Studies(CAPS) Zhongshan University Guangzhou, China Email: xshwang@international.ucla.edu; hsswxs@zsu.edu.cn; or hscaps@zsu.edu.cn
The Journal of Chinese Political Science Calls for Paper Submission Journal of Chinese Political Science is a refereed academic journal published by the Association of Chinese Political Studies (ACPS). The journal publishes theoretical, policy, and empirical research articles, research notes, and review articles on Chinese politics across the whole spectrum of political science and its related fields. JCPS articles are abstracted and indexed in OCLC Public Affairs Information Services, International Political Science Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, and America: History and Life. For more information, please visit our website: http://jcps.sfsu.edu/ SubmissionsManuscript submissions should conform to The Chicago Manual of Style. The editorial office prefers electronic submission. The electronic file of the manuscript, saved in Microsoft Word/Windows format, should be sent as an attachment via email to jcps@sfsu.edu. Both text and endnotes should be double-spaced throughout. Since all manuscripts are subject to external reviews, author’s name, affiliated institution, contact information, and an abstract of 100-120 words should be included in a separate cover sheet. The journal does not use bibliographies, and therefore please convert and incorporate into standard endnote form as indicated above. All inquiries and correspondence should be addressed to Dr. Sujian Guo at jcps@sfsu.edu. Book Reviews Books for review and book review articles should be sent to: Dr. Baogang Guo, Associate Editor of Journal of Chinese Political Science, Division of Social Sciences, Dalton State College, 213 North College Drive Dalton, GA 30720. Email submission to: bguo@em.daltonstate.edu
"Tetley Distinguished Leader Lecture" by
John
K. Morgan, the
President and Chief Development Officer of Acuity Brands, Date:
5 April, 2004, 2:00 p. m. Sponsors:
Third Annual China Conference, The one-day international event is part of the Practical Transportation Perspectives (PTP) Series organized by Marine Digest & Cargo Business News. Date: 7 April, 2004. Venue: Savannah International Trade & Convention Center. More information is available at www.marinedigest.com/news/news2.html.
2004 Spring Picnic. Date: 10 April, 5-9 p.m. Sponsor: Chinese Business Association of Atlanta. Venue: the Baseball Complex of Medlock Pavilion at Pinckneyville Park. Direction: 4758 South Old Peachtree Road, Norcross, GA 30071. Pre-registration and fees are required. Deadline of the registration will be April 8, 6:00PM. Please email to Charley@frontech.com or call 678-612-3405 to register.
Panel discussion on "Democracy in
China." Chaired by Dr. Yawei Liu, Associate
Director of the Carter Center's China Village Elections Project. Date: Thursday, 15 April, 2004, 7
- 8:30 p.m..
Sponsor: The
Carter Center Village Elections Project. Venue: The Carter Center, One Copenhill,
453 Freedom Parkway, Atlanta.
Advance tickets necessary and available at 404-420-3804. For further information call Dr.
Yawei Liu at 404-420-5196.
Public talk on "China Today: The Persistence of the
Past," by Dr. Jonathan Spence, Professor
of History, Yale University.
Date: 16
April, 2004, 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
Sponsors: the Department of History and the Center for Asian
Studies, Georgia State University.
Venue: room
GCB939 (9th floor), Troy Moore Library in the GSU General
Classroom Building on the corner of Decatur Street and Peachtree Center
Avenue. For further
information contact Dr. Susan Walcott at 404-651-1825, email: swalcott@gsu.edu. Public talk on "How Dynasties Fall: A Seventeenth Century View," by Dr. Jonathan Spence, Professor of History, Yale University. Date: 16 April, 2004, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Sponsors: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of History, Technology, and Society, and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. Venue: Wiley Room, Gilbert Memorial Library, Georgia Tech campus. For further information contact Dr. Hanchao Lu at 404-894-6844. “Buddhist Meditation” by Geshe Lobsang Tenzin. Date: 21 April, 2004, 11a.m.--12:15 p.m. Sponsor: The Center for Asian Studies, Georgia State University. Venue: room GCB939 (9th floor), Troy Moore Library in the GSU General Classroom Building on the corner of Decatur Street and Peachtree Center Avenue. For further information contact Dr. Susan Walcott at 404-651-1825, email: swalcott@gsu.edu “'The Last Samurai' Book Talk
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The Presidential elections
on 20 March 2004 were Taiwan’s third direct presidential election.
The first in 1996 saw Lee Teng-hui lead the Chinese Nationalist Party
(Kuomintang or KMT) to continued rule of the island, but a rule now based
on the electoral will of the people. The second in 2000 produced the
transfer of the Presidency from the KMT, which had ruled Taiwan since
1949, to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), an opposition party
formed through a long period of resistance to KMT rule. While both
the 1996 and 2000 elections were held under the specter of military threat
from the People’s Republic of China, the losing side in Taiwan in both
cases accepted the results. Since viable, stable democracy requires
that the losers of an election accept that result as the outcome of a fair
and just process, the 1996 and 2000 elections were major steps toward the
institutionalization of democracy in Taiwan. The 2004 Presidential
election was the first in which the losing side felt the electoral process
was unfair, and thus challenged the legitimacy of the result.
Successfully maneuvering the shoals of the March 2004 election will
require considerable prudence by politicians on Taiwan and will test the
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Research Center, co-sponsored a
panel discussion on non-proliferation issues related to China on 27
January 2004 on the UGA campus. The speakers were Dr. Clif Pannell,
Dr. John Garver, and Mr. Hou Hongyu. Dr. Gary Bertsch, the Director
of the Center for International Trade and Security, moderated the
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