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1910–1988
Chiang Ching-kuo (Chinese: 蔣經國) (27 April 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a Chinese politician who served as the president of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1988. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was the party's chairman from 1975 until his death.
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We must enlarge political participation, safeguard freedom and human rights, and assure that democracy and freedom are based on the will of all the people.
The fierce conflict confronting us will decide our fate - whether it is to be "glory or humiliation, freedom or slavery.
To talk peace with the Chinese Communists is to invite death. This is an agonizing, bloodstained lesson that we and many other Asian countries have learned.
'To the Communists, peace talks are another form of warfare. Although the two look different, the aim is identical.
Our progress toward democracy should be evolutionary and not imprudent; democracy must be adapted to our own national environment so it can strike root in our own soil.
Asia is an issue for the world. The issue with Asia is China. China’s problem is the existence of the Chinese Communist Party, which is a snake that has turned its back on the wishes of the Chinese people and causes pain for the rest of the world.
We must have determination to eliminate violent elements if we want to bring peace and prosperity to the citizenry. The violent elements are few, but if we don't eliminate them, we cannot bring prosperity and peace to the millions of people.
We must make use of every minute, value every unit of our material power and pool the wisdom and talent of all so that we can accentuate both our visible national defense combat capability and our invisible political, social and cultural vitality, and combine these into a powerful, compact and undivided force.
At this moment, every one of us greets the new era with matchless excitement, joy, optimism and hope. And all of us are convinced that the seventies of the Republic is bound to be an era for the reign of the Three Principles of the People and the recovery of the Chinese mainland.
New Year Speech (1981)
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