{"id":153373,"date":"2013-03-21T09:08:28","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=153373"},"modified":"2013-03-21T09:08:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T16:08:28","slug":"censorship-vault-2004-taiwan-election-and-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/03\/censorship-vault-2004-taiwan-election-and-fallout\/","title":{"rendered":"Censorship Vault: 2004 Taiwan Election and Fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"
From the Censorship Vault<\/a> features previously untranslated censorship<\/a> instructions from the archives of the CDT series Directives from the Ministry of Truth<\/a> (\u771f\u7406\u90e8\u6307\u4ee4<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n State Council Information Office:<\/strong> We ask that website management personnel in all locales pay attention to the contents of [forum] posts over the next few days. Please delete all posts which touch upon the Taiwan elections! (March 20, 2004<\/a>)<\/p>\n \u56fd\u65b0\u529e\uff1a\u8bf7\u5404\u5730\u7f51\u7ad9\u7ba1\u7406\u5458\u6ce8\u610f\u8fd9\u51e0\u5929\u5e16\u5b50\u5185\u5bb9\uff0c\u51e1\u662f\u6d89\u53ca\u53f0\u6e7e\u9009\u4e3e\u7684\u653f\u6cbb\u5185\u5bb9\u5e16\u5b50\uff0c\u8bf7\u52a1\u5fc5\u5220\u9664\uff01<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Taiwan’s 2004 election was an iron-hot race between Kuomintang (KMT) candidate Lien Chan and Democratic Progressive Part (DPP) incumbent Chen Shui-bian. Controversy heated up in February, when Pan-Blue Coalition campaigners were spotted courting businessmen–and Taiwanese fugitives–on the mainland<\/strong><\/a>. (The coalition comprises the KMT and other parties in favor of Chinese nationalism.) Then on March 19, the day before the polls opened, Chen and his running-mate Annette Lu were injured in an assassination attempt<\/a><\/strong>. Chen won the election by less than one percentage point, leading to street protests<\/a> <\/strong>and Lien’s call for a recount. Lien’s wish was honored, but Chen still came out on top.<\/p>\n Chen is the only president of Taiwan to date who is not a member of the KMT. Despite its historical enmity<\/strong><\/a> towards the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the KMT is now pro-Beijing. The DPP, on the other hand, favors Taiwan independence.<\/p>\n