...Ma garnered only 51.6 percent of the vote this time; his chief rival, Tsai Ing-wen of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, got 45.6 percent. In 2008, the charismatic Ma helped the Kuomintang, or KMT, return to power...

...course, not everyone agrees with Ma's policies, as underscored by the sizable protests that the opposition Democratic Progressive Party engineered in Taipei late in October. Although some of the outrage stems from the government's new direction...