He is believed to have fled the U.S. to China, as the Democratic Party was forced to return more than a million dollars in possibly illegal campaign gifts Trie arranged.
From the Democratic Party, which China dislikes, he is not the party's most popular member.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is scheduled to hold a high-level dialogue with the Democratic Party and Republican Party in the United States by the end of this year, a senior CPC official has said.
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This, together with suspicions that China's own money found its way to Democratic Party coffers in 1996, brings doubt upon the administration's motives at every turn, regardless of the merit or otherwise of its actions towards China.
Punishing Taiwan economically would play into the hands of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is far more suspicious of China and the benefits of open trade with it.
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In fact, Chen's speech appeared to fairly successfully straddle a line between the demands of China on one hand and the radical, pro-independence faction of his Democratic Progressive Party on the other.
Mr Hu is indeed sympathetic: scholars close to him have been studying Europe's social-democratic parties presumably to see how their experiences might help China's Communist Party transform itself into a more broadly representative organisation.
Optimists in China have suggested that internal democracy could help the party evolve into something like Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled for 54 years with only a brief interruption until its defeat this year.
They say that by accepting an expanded electoral base for the district council-filled seats, the Democratic Party has implicitly endorsed the idea of functional constituencies, and made it even harder to persuade China to abolish them.
When the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) swept to power in 2009, ending 54 years of virtual one-party rule, one of its most controversial policy platforms was to establish a friendship with China that balanced the close post-war relationship with America one of the hallmarks of the Liberal Democratic Party's rule.
China has no choice but to be vigilant against "tough" words made by some hawkish politicians within the Liberal Democratic Party during the election.
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