Chiang Ching-kuo. The Chiangs and the KMT ruled with an iron fist, which makes their willing embrace of democracy in 1986 all that much more surprising. This video tells the story of how Taiwan ...

However, under the regimes of former presidents Chiang Kai-shek (蔣介石) and Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國), dissidents were repressed for having a conscience. Taiwanese democracy pioneer Peng Ming-min (彭明敏) in ...

When he died in 1975, his son Chiang Ching-kuo took over and began tentative steps towards more political openness. The elder Chiang’s memorial, with its giant bronze statue, dominates central ...

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and his son Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國) referred to as “conflating us with communist bandits,” as a way of gradually rebuilding a diametrically opposed world order in the aftermath of World War II. The ...

Chiang died in 1975 and he was succeeded as president by his eldest son, Chiang Ching-kuo (蔣經國). Katherine Graham, publisher of the Washington Post, interviewed him during a visit to Taiwan in 1986, ...

Chiang Ching-kuo, as having hidden pro-democracy aspirations that emerged late in his life. In reality, the KMT stepped back from power because it recognized that it could not forever contain the ...

Taiwan might face impossible expectations from US president-elect who has called for island to drastically increase military ...