Taiwan's former president Lee Teng-hui, who defied China and earned the nickname
"Mr Democracy" for the part he played in the island's transition away from authoritarian rule, died on July 30 aged 97.
“He died of septic shock and multiple organ failure today despite the medical team’s all out efforts to revive him,” Taipei Veterans General Hospital vice president Hwang Shinn-jang told reporters. After Chiang lost a civil war to Communist forces on the mainland four years later, he fled to Taiwan to set up a rival government.Ruling with an iron fist, Chiang instigated a “White Terror” purge of opponents which lasted until his death in 1975.
His government introduced wide-ranging political reforms, including the election of a new parliament and a direct vote for president. Lee was succeeded by Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2000 when the KMT lost for the first time.
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