Taiwan Hold Elections for National assembly..

Taiwan has a wonderful democracy that is full of fire. A set-up of a married female legislator with a hired gigolo caught on tape and broadcast around the world on the internet as-well-as full fledged fist fight battles on the floor of the assembly mark this vibrant democracy. There is lots of fireworks going on but not too much energy in the most recent election. It is interesting to note that the turnout is reported to be only 23.3 % of the eligible voters.

Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party won a National Assembly election Saturday, largely viewed as a referendum on policy towards China.

It secured 1.64 million votes, followed closely by the opposition Kuomintang's 1.5 million votes, reports the Central Election Commission. There was 23.3 percent turnout.

Chinese television did not report the results of the election.

Of course they wouldn't broadcast the results of the election since the Communists had invited two of the opposition parties leaders for a love-fest, kissy-face meeting with senior PRC officials and they didn't win!


The doctor that delivered my son in New York was Taiwanese and he always returned to Taiwan for the important elections so that he could vote and campaign for his favored candidates.

There are around 500,000 Taiwanese living and working in China now forming the backbone of China's manufacturing industries where they have invested around US$100 billion. I wonder how they get to vote? Maybe they return home during their presidential elections but it would look somewhat suspicious, don't you think? And I wonder if they are allowed to send in absentee ballots and if they are, how would they get delivered from China? Maybe the Communists open them and discard the ones from the candidates that they oppose! I wouldn't put that beyond their coterie of juvenile tactics.