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Chiang Ching-kuo
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Chiang Ching-kuo
Chiang Ching-kuo
(
Shanghai
/
Ningbo dialect
: ) (April 27, 1910 – January 13, 1988),
Kuomintang
(KMT)
politician
and leader, was a Chinese-
Taiwanese
politician and the son of Generalissimo and
President
Chiang Kai-shek
and held numerous posts in the government of the
Republic of China
(ROC). He succeeded his father to serve as
Premier of the Republic of China
between 1972 and 1978 and was the
President of the Republic of China
from 1978 until his death in 1988. Under his tenure, the government of the Republic of China, while
authoritarian
, became more open and tolerant of
political dissent
. Towards the end of his life, Chiang relaxed government controls on the media and
speech
and allowed native Taiwanese into positions of power, including his successor
Lee Teng-hui
.
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