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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.

— Chiang Ching-kuo New Year Speech (1981)

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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.

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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.

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