ASIA: "Taiwan's opposition: Street life: The opposition barks for want of bite," The Economist, 23 May 2009.
Ma Ying-jeou and the KMT are proceeding in their efforts to bring Taiwan closer to the mainland, primarily in commercial terms.
Past word was that the current economic downturn was sapping the KMT's popularity, to include the policy of economic tethering to China.
This is true. The only problem with this analysis is that the main opposition party's popularity has not gone up in the meantime, while popular benefits are starting to appear, such as the improved stock market (responding to economic deals with China) and Taiwan's health minister getting a seat at the WHO for the first time in 38 years.
And so Taiwan's application for membership in an embryonic China-centric Asian union continues to be processed . . .
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