Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian and Vice President, Lu Hsiu-lien have both been shot while campaigning in the DPP heartland of Tainan in southern Taiwan. Conspiracy theories immediately beagn piling up like a grassy knoll. Surprisingly, most of them did not point fingers at the opposition Pan Blue team of the KMT and the People First Party. Rather echoes rumbling up to Cold Mountain were that Chen's people pulled this themselves as a desperation attempt to win tomorrow's election. Never mind the absurdity of that, there remain the hard facts that that Chen's DPP is far too disorganised and loose-lipped to even attempt a decent conspiracy.
The danger here is that hotheads in the Chen camp could spread rumours of KMT and/or Beijing involvement, leading to some potentially very ugly confrontations, especially in the soutrhern part of the island.
I vote to blame the French.
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