ASIAN POLITICS Changing of the guard: Taiwan votes*

Every hour, on the hour, the guard changes at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei. The changing of the guard is an impressive display of precision military drill.


The guard at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial in Taipei.

Chiang Kai-shek was known as “the man who lost China” but he was determined not to lose Taiwan. Chiang ruled the Republic of China (ROC), as Taiwan is officially known, with an iron fist. The party he led, the Kuomintang (KMT) held…

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