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Article: What's in a name? Taiwan.(Taiwanese nationalism)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 13, 2003
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Don't tell Beijing
Taiwanese nationalism makes a comeback
SINCE Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won the presidential election three years ago, it has found life in government too difficult--hedged in as it is by an economic slump and the desire to annoy neither enemies in Beijing nor friends in Washington and Tokyo--to pursue its traditional agenda of pushing for independence from China. But nascent nationalism has now returned to the fore. On September 6th, up to 150,000 people took to the streets--the largest demonstration Taipei has ever seen--to have government agencies, companies and private institutions which use China in their names ...