Who needs China? Taiwan.(Kuomintang party continues in power in Taiwan in local elections, but may face a more difficult time in national elections in the autumn of 1998)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: February 21, 1998 | Copyright information

TAIPEI

NOBODY sticks to the rules in a life-or-death fight. Hence Taiwan's long-ruling Kuomintang (KMT) has jettisoned attempts to clean up the island's murky politics for fear of destroying its power base. After the party had taken a drubbing in local elections last year, a similar contest in January turned into an orgy of vote-buying on behalf of some of the party's gangster-dominated local cells. The KMT nearly swept the board. But while the Taiwanese may be prepared to ...

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