Lee launches his new book with swipe at KMT - TW

By Chang Yun-ping
STAFF REPORTER
Monday, May 17, 2004,Page 1

Former President Lee Teng-hui (???) yesterday said today's leaders of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) didn't understand the late President Chiang Ching-kuo's (???) efforts to push through localization and democratization, and could only reminisce about the benefits they enjoyed in the party-state era.

Speaking at the launch of his new book, Witness Taiwan: President Chiang Ching-kuo and Me (????:?????), Lee said Chiang ushered in the localization and democratization changes because he had realized there was a change in social trends.

However, Lee said "people within the KMT only followed Chiang's ideas on the surface. They didn't truly carry out those ideas. The KMT leaders couldn't appreciate Chiang's expectations , but were only reminiscing about the benefits they reaped in the party-state era."

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