Combat Fatigue

There are moments these days when a person like Chloe Lee, a 32-year-old boutique owner in downtown Taipei, can seem like a forgotten soul amid the bitterness that now defines politics in Taiwan. In the 1990s, she worked for the then opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), when it stood for reform and change, she says, not just for Taiwan's autonomy from China. But nowadays, she says, the ruling DPPand, for that matter, its leader Taiwan President Chen Shui-bianseems like a one-trick pony, and a tired pony at that. "We spend too much time on Chen and his independence," says Lee. "We...