10 Facts About Lin Cho-shui

Lin Cho-shui is a Taiwanese writer, newspaper editor and politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1993 to 2006.

Lin Cho-shui was a longtime member of the Democratic Progressive Party's New Tide faction.

Lin Cho-shui was elected to the Legislative Yuan three times as a representative of Taipei 1.

Lin Cho-shui opposed the bill, because the MOI draft did not make Taiwanese sovereignty an issue eligible for referendum.

Lin Cho-shui won the 2001 and 2004 legislative elections via party-list proportional representation.

Also that month, Lin Cho-shui asked Chiou I-jen to step down as claims of corruption within the Chen administration began.

Lin Cho-shui had pledged to resign if Chen were detained, and gave up his seat on 13 November 2006, officially leaving the legislature on 15 November.

Lin Cho-shui has written on party politics within the Democratic Progressive Party, and believes vice chairman positions within political parties contribute to bureaucracy.

Lin Cho-shui has expressed disapproval of the DPP, specifically targeting politicians Annette Lu and Yen Ching-chang.

Lin Cho-shui has covered the 1992 Consensus repeatedly, as well as Cross-Strait relations, and China itself in his writings.