This debate alone will not have made a big impact on the primary.

Mrs  Clinton...said “that’s why I’m still in the race.” That “still” pointed up,     perhaps unintentionally, that Mrs Clinton remains well behind Mr Obama. She has no hope of making up her deficit among elected delegates to the nominating convention in the last few primaries. She must instead convince a number of unelected party officials (“superdelegates”) to throw the balance of the election in her favour. This means she must make, or abet Republican attacks in making, (that)Mr Obama seem unelectable.

At home, the chief challenge for the soft-spoken Mr Ma is to assert control within a party, full of political thugs, in which he lacks a powerful base. Here he may struggle. Preferring the company of scholars and a family life rich in women (mother, wife, three sisters and two daughters) but no men, Mr Ma is not cut out for strong-arming, and at the least will need loyal henchmen to help him. In the election, he showed voters his gentle, conciliatory side. Just to succeed within his own party, let alone stand up to future Chinese bullying, he will need to show his grit.

eight years of lacklustre rule under President Chen Shui-bian

Yet Mr Chen soon appeared to insist on this identity at the expense of anything else. His agitation for formal Taiwanese independence riled not just China, but the United States, Taiwan’s protector.

the KMT’s famously ruthless machine did everything to get him there.

英國《經濟學人》以spot the president的標題與照片點破蘇俄政治發展與普丁、Medvedev兩人的關係，辛辣至極，也極有擔當...

"都是「大政府」的干預思維，期待透過增加政府支出，達到提振經濟、創造就業目的...蔣經國沿用相同理論，藉十大建設的規劃與推動，適巧挽救台灣免於能源危機的衝擊...然而，台灣現在的經濟結構早已大不同前，政府早就入不敷出了，再用相同藥方治病，或許在短期上，暫維持一個局面，但長期而言，過度扭曲市場機制的運行，其實無法讓經濟體正常成長，也失去適度調整產業結構的機會。"

"在台灣外貿出口，每一百美元，有三二元是以中國大陸為目的地的情況下，實在不能再輕忽中國市場對台灣的重要性"