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The international environment has changed substantially in the years between 2000 and 2008, causing subtle changes in relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China. In Taiwan, the long-ruling Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) government was voted out of office for the first time in 2000 in a democratic election, and a peaceful transfer of power took place. In 2004, the independence-inclined and ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won another victory by defeating the opposition alliance of the KMT and the People First Party (PFP). However, the DPP failed to gain a majority in the Legislative Yuan, Taiwan’s Parliament, during the years it was in power, and politics in Taiwan was unstable as a result.
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Wu, J.J. (2011). The United States as a Balancer in Cross-Strait Relations, 2000–2008. In: Lin, Cy., Roy, D. (eds) The Future of United States, China, and Taiwan Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118966_7
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