In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

In many districts Taiwanese aborigines tend to vote for the Kuomintang, to the point that the legislative seats allocated to the aborigines are popularly described as iron votes for the pan-blue coalition.

(" Legislative Yuan " 2004 ) The tendency of Taiwanese aborigines to vote for members of the pan-blue coalition, has been cited as having the potential to change the balance of the legislature.

Citing these six seats in addition with five seats from smaller counties that also tend to vote pan-blue, has been seen as giving the pan-blue coalition 11 seats before the first vote is counted ().

A series of high-profile visits in 2005 to mainland China by the leaders of the three pan-blue coalition parties was seen as an implicit recognition of the status quo by the PRC government.

The New Party ( NP ), formerly the Chinese New Party ( CNP ), is a centre-right conservative political party in the Republic of China ( ROC, commonly known as " Taiwan "), and part of the pan-blue coalition.

The ROC legal theory, which is supported by the pan-blue coalition, suggests that any fundamental constitutional changes would require that the amendment procedure of the ROC constitution be followed.

In the 2004 legislative election the three parties from the pan-blue coalition organized themselves to properly divide up the votes () to prevent splitting the vote.

The party maintains a close but tense relationship with the Kuomintang ( KMT ) as part of the pan-blue coalition.

Though losses in the 2001 legislative elections made the DPP the largest single party in the Legislative Yuan, the pan-blue coalition retained a narrow majority over the pan-green coalition.

Although the pan-blue coalition did well, the PFP did not, and Soong ended talk of a KMT-PFP merger.

The legislative elections in late 2001 produced a contentious situation in which the pan-blue coalition has only a thin majority over the governing pan-green coalition in the legislature, making the passage of bills often dependent on the votes of a few defectors and independents.

The pan-blue coalition views mainland China as an economic and cultural opportunity, seeks greater links between Taiwan and mainland China, and believes in a common Chinese identity.

By contrast, keeping the 3 / 4 legislative vote requirement would mean that any constitutional amendment would require a consensus among both the pan-green coalition and pan-blue coalition to be considered.

The constitution states that " The exercise of the rights of initiative and referendum shall be prescribed by law ", but legislation prescribing the practices had been blocked by the pan-blue coalition largely out of suspicions that proponents of a referendum law would be used to overturn the ROC Constitution and provide a means to declare Taiwan independence.

In response, the pan-blue coalition dropped its opposition to non-constitutional referendums and offered to consider through going constitutional reforms.

On the other hand, the KMT underestimated itself by predicting that the pan-blue coalition altogether would win 109 seats.

* tactical voting strategies – the pan-blue coalition greatly limited the number of candidates nominated while the pan-green coalition nominated a very large number of candidates.

In addition, the DPP nominated a large number of new unknown candidates, in part because the big names in the DPP were in the government, whereas the pan-blue coalition, being in opposition, found it easier to nominate people with a large amount of name recognition.

Campaigning on a " save Taiwan from corruption " platform, the KMT-led pan-blue coalition won 16 of 23 county and town offices and became the majority party at the local level.

Each team comprised seven members-one judge, two members each from the district court and the local government election authorities, and two witnesses each representing the plaintiff ( pan-blue alliance ) and the defendant ( pan-green alliance ).

The DPP's strategy was to " slit the throats " ( 割喉 ) of the pan-blue coalition by dominating the government with many candidates, following their success in the presidential election.

Significantly, the pan-blue coalition consistently referred to the government by its formal name of the Republic of China whereas pan-green referred to the government using the term Taiwan.

The pan-blue coalition strongly argued that having a majority pan-green legislature would lead to a " super-president " while the pan-green coalition stated that a majority pan-green legislature was necessary to prevent deadlock and chaos and to finally eliminate the vestiges of the KMT's previous authoritarian government on Taiwan.

James Soong leader of the PFP, was quoted earlier as stating that he was willing to have the KMT win all of the seats in the pan-blue coalition if this was necessary to keep the pan-blue in power, whereas the TSU actively campaigned for a large number of seats and in some cases sharply criticized the DPP, and Lee Teng-hui urged the husband from each household to vote for DPP, and the wife to vote for TSU so both parties would have equal representation.

* the victory of the pan-blue coalition also strained the relationship between the KMT and PFP.

However, it is still frequently seen in political rallies and other meetings of KMT and the pan-blue coalition.

Traditionally, career personnel of law enforcement, intelligence agencies, military organizations in Taiwan are labeled as pro-KMT or pan-blue because most of them have been lifelong KMT members.

Sun's tomb was one of the first stops made by the leaders of both the Kuomintang and the People First Party on their pan-blue visit to mainland China in 2005.

Hsu came out to support DPP candidate Frank Hsieh in the 2008 presidential election even though he had been connected with the pan-blue camp during much of the period Chen Shui-bian served as president.

The election also appeared to call into question the accuracy of public opinion polls, most of which failed to project a pan-blue victory just as they failed to predict the election of Chen Shui-bian.

Among the notable candidates elected, independent candidate Li Ao won a legislative seat, whereas former DPP chairmen turned pan-blue supporter Shi Ming-teh and Hsu Hsing-liang failed to get elected in their seats.

* intra-coalition cooperation – many observers noted that the parts of the pan-blue coalition were much more adept at cooperating than the parts of the pan-green coalition.

A powerful multi-national ( or more accurately, multi-ethnic ) coalition headed by the king of Hazor, the most important northern city, is defeated with Yahweh's help and Hazor captured and destroyed.

On the other wing the French at last routed the Flemish cavalry and captured Ferrand, Count of Flanders, one of the leaders of the coalition.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the capital Beijing was captured and the Summer Palace sacked by a relatively small Anglo-French coalition force numbering 25, 000.

* 1053: the Norman commander Humphrey of Hauteville is victorious in the Battle of Civitate against the Lombards and the papal coalition led by Rudolf of Benevento ; Pope Leo IX himself is captured by the Normans.

The battle ended with a victory for the Masovia-Kuyavia coalition ; from two of Henry IV's allies, Duke Przemko of Ścinawa was killed in the battle, and Duke Bolko I of Opole was seriously injured and captured by Władysław I the Elbow-high.

The Alamanni, a coalition of Germanic tribes from beyond the Limes, captured the fort c. 260.

About 150, 000 Chassepot rifles had been captured by the German coalition that defeated France in 1871.

As Arif and his brother had done in the 1963 coup against Qasim, the coalition declared victory once they had captured the radio station and the ministry of defense.

# The United States should engage its friends to develop a common coalition approach toward the detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists.

The soldiers of the coalition were quite terrified by the creative and insane treatment Dong designed for them, if captured: he would have the captives tied up with fat-soaked clothes, and started a fire from their foot ; as the captives ' heads were unbound, he could enjoy the scream and facial expressions from them, however, such hobby was not shared by most of the educated imperial officials.

However, it ceased to function as the personal project of the Speaker, as it had originally ; instead, as the seniority system took root, it was captured by a coalition of conservative Democrats and Republicans.

Later, apart from several significant French revolutionaries captured during the coalition wars with France, Jean-Baptiste Drouet, famous as the former postmaster of Saint-Menehould who had arrested King Louis XVI, was the most known of them all.

As a part of the coalition set by Louis VII, William the Lion first invaded Northumberland in 1173 and then again in 1174, as a result he was captured near Alnwick and had to sign the tough Treaty of Falaise.

Supporters of the emergentist coalition model argue that, as a hybrid, this model moves towards a more holistic explanation of word learning that is not captured by models with a singular focus.

This age marks the climax of Iberian chivalry: it was then that King Ferdinand the Saint, after the definitive coalition of Castile and León ( 1229 ), in ( 1235 ) captured the capital of the old caliphate, Córdoba, soon afterwards Murcia, Jaén, and Seville.

The election concluded with an overwhelming victory for the centre-left Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union, the electoral coalition between both the Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ) and the Labour Union ( UP ), which captured 41 % of the vote in the crucial lower house Sejm.

Its captured activists have stated that they were trained and hoped to join their Jihadist comrades in Afghanistan and Iraq in fighting against the U. S .- led coalition and the democratic political establishments in place within those countries.

For the 2004 European election the party joined with Azione Sociale and Forza Nuova in the Alessandra Mussolini-led coalition Alternativa Sociale, which captured a single seat in the European Parliament.

It then became the capital of the unruly and often disunited coalition until 22 January 1555 when it was captured by King Bayinnaung.