Taiwan's Democratic Labor Pains

Young democracies can be cruel: their voters are often as unforgiving as political opponents. The two weeks since Taiwan's disputed presidential election of March 20 - only the third such democratic vote in the country's history - has tested this truism almost to the breaking point. Taiwan's young democracy must now cope with the balancing act that President Chen Shui-bian's re-election has thrust upon it.

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