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Government
Long-form name: none.
Type: one-party presidential regime; opposition political
parties legalized in March, 1989.
Capital: Taipei.
Administrative divisions: 16 counties (hsien, singular and
plural), 5 municipalities* (shih, singular and plural),
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, Yun-lin;
note--the Wade-Giles system is used for romanization.
Constitution: 25 December 1947.
Legal system: based on civil law system; accepts compulsory
ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations.
National holiday: National Day (Anniversary of the Revolution),
10 October (1911).
Executive branch: president, vice president, premier of the
Executive Yuan, vice premier of the Executive Yuan, Executive Yuan.
Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Yuan.
Judicial branch: Judicial Yuan.
Leaders:
Chief of State--President LI Teng-hui (since 13 January 1988);
Vice President LI Yuan-tzu (will take office 20 May 1990);
Head of Government--Premier (President of the Executive Yuan)
HAO Po-ts'un (since 2 May 1990); Vice Premier (Vice President of
the Executive Yuan) SHIH Ch'i-yang (since NA July 1988).
Political parties and leaders: Kuomintang (Nationalist Party),
LI Teng-hui, chairman; Democratic Socialist Party and Young
China Party controlled by Kuomintang; Democratic Progressive
Party (DPP); Labor Party; 27 other minor parties.
Suffrage: universal at age 20.
Elections:
President--last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held March 1996);
results--President Li Teng-hui was elected by the National Assembly;
Vice President--last held 21 March 1990 (next to be held March 1996);
results--Li Yuan-tzu was elected by the National Assembly;
Legislative Yuan--last held 2 December 1989 (next to be held December
1992); results--KMT 65%, DPP 33%, independents 2%; seats--(304 total,
102 elected) KMT 78, DPP 21, independents 3.
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; member of ADB and PECC, seeking to join GATT and/or
MFA; attempting to retain membership in ICAC, ISO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL,
IWC--International Wheat Council; suspended from IAEA in 1972, but
still allows IAEA controls over extensive atomic development.
Diplomatic representation: 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 with all addresses and telephone numbers NA;
US--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,
Hsin Yi Road, Section 3 with telephone 002 [886] (2) 709-2000 and in
Kao-hsiung at 88 Wu Fu 3rd Road with telephone NA.
Flag: red with a dark blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side
corner bearing a white sun with 12 triangular rays.