No doubt he remembers that in 1996 Mr Lee did splendidly in an election campaign based almost exclusively on defiance of China.
ECONOMIST: Taiwan's flexibility has not been rewarded by China
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And so the government had organized a get-out-the-vote campaign that equated domestic submission with international defiance.
NEWYORKER: Election, Monitored
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Local officials argued that there was no evidence of a "systematic campaign of voting discrimination" in Shelby or any current "defiance" or resistance to ensuring the rights of minorities to vote.