The End of an Era?

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For Ma? For China which puts all eggs in one basket?

Jonathan Manthorpe, Coming election signals cooling of relations with china; Support for president collapses over belief that entente with Beijing threatens island's sovereignty. Vancouver Sun, May 2, 2011
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Coming+election+signals+cooling+relations+with+china/4708472/story.html
(Recent polls show Ma Yingjeou trailing DPP nominee Tsai Ing-wen by up to 14 percentage points)

My comment:
(a) Regarding Pres. Ma. Live by the Sword, die by the sword.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_by_the_sword,_die_by_the_sword

Upon his inauguration, I stated at TheStrait board of MItbbs.com that PRC must make concessions, quickly and copiously, to shore up Ma's political fortunes. China wavered. After a year, Taiwanese saw Ma for what he was, a braggadocio. Never paying tribute to government, Taiwanese themselves always take credits for specutacular economical performance, from the Chiangs to Chen Shui-bian to Ma.
(b) Compare
Taiwan's opposition |  Just Ask the Public; The DPP chooses a promising candidate for the presidency. Economist, Apr 28, 2011
http://www.economist.com/node/18621569?story_id=18621569&CFID=163370551&CFTOKEN=13550582
("Unlike members of the DPP, Mr Ma is able to talk to China. Increasingly, though, Taiwanese see this as a weakness rather than the strength he hoped for. Perceptions are growing that Mr Ma’s economic policies, including a cross-strait pact on free trade signed last June, benefit large corporations more than ordinary folk")
(c) I do not hold a favorable view of Ms Tsai.


------------------------Separately
(1) Michael Wine, Surviving Beijing's Diplomatic Tightrope, and Ready for More. New York Times, May 2, 2011 (title in print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/us/politics/01huntsman.html?scp=1&sq=gates%20huntsman&st=cse

My comment:
(a) Read only the first three paragraphs, which said defense secretary Robert Gates came close to "pack up and leave" Beijing.
(b) to poke/stick a thumb/finger in somebody's eye: to provoke somebody

(2) Yesterday I was mistaken. Qaddafi's youngest (and sixth) son Saif al-Arab died in NATO airstrike. Saif al-Islam, the second son, shook hands with then Taiwan Pres. Chen Shui-bian.

(3) 美官员称DNA检验证明本.拉登之死. VOA Chinese, May 2, 2011 (12 minutes ago).
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/news/20110502-Obama-on-Bin-Laden-death-121089154.html
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