Taiwan's China-Friendly KMT Mimics Chiang Kai-shek's Fall from Pedestal

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JR Wu, Taiwan's China-Friendly KMT Mimics Chiang Kai-shek's Fall from Pedestal. Reuters, July 9, 2015.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2 ... USKCN0PJ2RL20150709

Quote:

KMT "is expected to be dealt a thrashing in the presidential poll by the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)

Hung Hsiu-chu's "stated intention of signing a peace treaty with China and appearing to move closer to Beijing's position of 'one China,' including Taiwan, has rubbed a lot of party cadres the wrong way.  In short, KMT supporters are bailing out * * * [of] a party that numbered well over a million in 2000 but is now down to about 890,000, with only about a third of them active.

Note: "Cast in bronze and in different shades of red, brown, gray and blue, the generalissimo is saluting, holding a book, leaning on a cane, sitting regally or perched on a plinth"
(a) plinth
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plinth
(b) plinth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plinth

* Yimou Lee and Faith Hung, How China's shadowy agency is working to absorb Taiwan. Reuters, Nov 26, 2014
www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/ ... USKCN0JB01T20141127
(United Front Work Department)