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President Lee's rise to power and his reform program
In: Issues & studies: a social science quarterly on China, Taiwan, and East Asian affairs, Band 28, Heft 6, S. 59-69
ISSN: 1013-2511
After the death of President Chiang Ching-Kuo of the ROC on Taiwan in January 1988, his vice-president, Lee Teng-hui, took over the presidency in accordance with 1947 constitution. In the first two years of his presidency, his most outstanding achievement was his policy of "flexible diplomacy". However, it was only after Lee was elected president in his own right by the National Assembly in March 1990 that he was really able to steer the ROC toward institutional reform. The author explores Lee's rise to power and his reform programme. (DÜI-Sen)