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- <text id=93CT1423>
- <title>
- Taiwan--Government
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Taiwan
- Government</hdr><body>
- <list>
- <l>Names:</l>
- <l> conventional long form: none</l>
- <l> conventional short form: Taiwan</l>
- <l> local long form: none</l>
- <l> local short form: T'ai-wan</l>
- </list>
- <p>Digraph: TW
- </p>
- <p>Type: multiparty democratic regime; opposition political
- parties legalized in March, 1989
- </p>
- <p>Capital: Taipei
- </p>
- <p>Administrative divisions: some of the ruling party in Taipei
- claim to be the government of all China; in keeping with that
- claim, the central administrative divisions include 2 provinces
- (sheng, singular and plural) and 2 municipalities* (shih,
- singular and plural) - Fu-chien (some 20 offshore islands of
- Fujian Province including Quemoy and Matsu), Kao-hsiung*,
- T'ai-pei*, and Taiwan (the island of Taiwan and the Pescadores
- islands); the more commonly referenced administrative divisions
- are those of Taiwan Province - 16 counties (hsien, singular and
- plural), 5 municipalities* (shih, singular and plural), and 2
- special municipalities** (chuan-shih, singular and plural);
- Chang-hua, Chia-i, Chia-i*, Chi-lung*, Hsin-chu, Hsin-chu*,
- Hua-lien, I-lan, Kao-hsiung, Kao-hsiung**, Miao-li, Nan-t'ou,
- P'eng-hu, P'ing-tung, T'ai-chung, T'ai-chung*, T'ai-nan,
- T'ai-nan*, T'ai-pei, T'ai-pei**, T'ai-tung, T'ao-yuan, and
- Yun-lin; the provincial capital is at Chung-hsing-hsin-ts'un
- </p>
- <p>note: Taiwan uses the Wade-Giles system for romanization
- </p>
- <p>Constitution: 25 December 1947, presently undergoing revision
- </p>
- <p>Legal system: based on civil law system; accepts compulsory
- ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations
- </p>
- <p>National holiday: National Day, 10 October (1911) (Anniversary
- of the Revolution)
- </p>
- <p>Political parties and leaders: Kuomintang (KMT, Nationalist
- Party), LI Teng-hui, chairman; Democratic Progressive Party
- (DPP); China Social Democratic Party (CSDP); Labor Party (LP)
- </p>
- <p>Other political or pressure groups: Taiwan independence
- movement, various environmental groups
- </p>
- <p>note: debate on Taiwan independence has become acceptable
- within the mainstream of domestic politics on Taiwan; political
- liberalization and the increased representation of the
- opposition Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan's legislature
- have opened public debate on the island's national identity;
- advocates of Taiwan independence, both within the DPP and the
- ruling Kuomintang, oppose the ruling party's traditional stand
- that the island will eventually unify with mainland China; the
- aims of the Taiwan independence movement include establishing a
- sovereign nation on Taiwan and entering the UN; other
- organizations supporting Taiwan independence include the World
- United Formosans for Independence and the Organization for Taiwan
- Nation Building
- </p>
- <p>Suffrage: 20 years of age; universal
- </p>
- <p>Elections:
- </p>
- <p> President: last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held NA March
- 1996); results - President LI Teng-hui was reelected by the
- National Assembly
- </p>
- <p> Vice President: last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held NA
- March 1996); results - LI Yuan-zu was elected by the National
- Assembly
- </p>
- <p> Legislative Yuan: last held 19 December 1992 (next to be
- held near the end of 1995); results - KMT 60%, DPP 31%,
- independents 9%; seats - (304 total, 161 elected) KMT 96, DPP
- 50, independents 15
- </p>
- <p> National Assembly: first National Assembly elected in
- November 1946 with a supplementary election in December 1986;
- second and present National Assembly elected in December 1991;
- seats - 403 total, KMT 318, DPP 75, other 10; (next election to
- be held in 1997)
- </p>
- <p>Executive branch: president, vice president, premier of the
- Executive Yuan, vice premier of the Executive Yuan, Executive
- Yuan
- </p>
- <p>Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Yuan and unicameral
- National Assembly
- </p>
- <p>Judicial branch: Judicial Yuan
- </p>
- <p>Leaders:
- </p>
- <p> Chief of State: President LI Teng-hui (since 13 January
- 1988); Vice President LI Yuan-zu (since 20 May 1990)
- </p>
- <p> Head of Government: Premier (President of the Executive
- Yuan) LIEN Chan (since 23 February 1993); Vice Premier (Vice
- President of the Executive Yuan) HSU Li-teh (since 23 February
- 1993)
- </p>
- <p>Member of: expelled from UN General Assembly and Security
- Council on 25 October 1971 and withdrew on same date from other
- charter-designated subsidiary organs; expelled from IMF/World
- Bank group April/May 1980; seeking to join GATT; attempting to
- retain membership in INTELSAT; suspended from IAEA in 1972, but
- still allows IAEA controls over extensive atomic development,
- APEC, AsDB, ICC, ICFTU, IOC
- </p>
- <p>Diplomatic representation in US: none; unofficial commercial
- and cultural relations with the people of the US are maintained
- through a private instrumentality, the Coordination Council for
- North American Affairs (CCNAA) with headquarters in Taipei and
- field offices in Washington and 10 other US cities
- </p>
- <p>US diplomatic representation: unofficial commercial and
- cultural relations with the people of Taiwan are maintained
- through a private institution, the American Institute in Taiwan
- (AIT), which has offices in Taipei at #7, Lane 134, Hsiu Yi Road,
- Section 3, telephone [886] (2) 709-2000, and in Kao-hsiung at #2
- Chung Cheng 3d Road, telephone [886] (7) 224-0154 through 0157,
- and the American Trade Center at Room 3207 International Trade
- Building, Taipei World Trade Center, 333 Keelung Road Section 1,
- Taipei 10548, telephone [886] (2) 720-1550
- </p>
- <p>Flag: red with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
- corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays
- </p></body></article></text>
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