President Chen Shui-bian‘s new willingness to reconsider his long-standing drive for Taiwanese independence has provoked charges of betrayal and risked alienation of his core supporters.
Following his election five years ago, Chen consistently encouraged loyalists’ hopes that he would one day turn Taiwan, which China still claims, into a fully independent country. Now, with his praise for recent visits by two political rivals to the Chinese mainland, he has muted and perhaps relinquished that aim in favor of seeking a negotiated peace — an end to the state of war that has gripped the Taiwan Strait for more than a half-century.
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