The KMT yesterday cited the achievements of late president and chairman of the KMT Chiang Kai-shek (
Former president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝), who was dismissed from the KMT in September, has repeatedly made the allegation against the party and claimed credit for the party's "localization" policy of his 12 years in power.
Speaking on the 115th anniversary of Chiang's birth yesterday, current KMT Chairman Lien Chan (連戰) said the party was localized under Chiang's leadership.
"Chiang led the KMT and was devoted to Taiwan's development his entire life," Lien said.
"He developed Taiwan into a region that for the most part practices the doctrines of our founding father [Sun Yat-sen,
Lien instructed all party members to "seriously rebut" the "defamatory allegation" against the party by "a small minority of ill-intentioned people."
Lien further directed his criticism against the DPP.
Over the 50-year period of KMT rule, Lien said, Taiwan's average annual per capita income grew from US$224 to US$14,000. But the value of people's assets has decreased by half during the one-and a-half years of DPP rule, Lien added.
He said the DPP's "ever changing policies" and its "deliberate attempt to incite ethnic confrontation" were rapidly destroying the nation's political and economic accomplishments.
Echoing Lien, Liu Chao-shiuan (劉兆玄), a member of the KMT's Central Standing Committee, said the KMT's localization policy was the one best suited to Taiwan's 23 million people because its goal is to promote ethnic harmony.
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