Fears that the DPP would one day take control of the legislature led then-President Lee Teng-hui to push through a series of amendments to strengthen presidential power ( for example, Taiwan's premier would no longer have to be confirmed by the Legislative Yuan ).

The Yuan rulers whom Polo served, as well as the preceding Jin and Liao Empires controlled territories both north and south of today's wall, and would have no reasons to maintain any fortifications that may have remained there from the earlier dynasties.

After the dynastic head of the Red Turbans suspiciously died in 1367 while a guest of Zhu, there was no one left who was remotely capable of contesting his march to the throne, and he made his imperial ambitions known by sending an army toward the Yuan capital Dadu ( present-day Beijing ) in 1368.

As no president of the Executive Yuan ( also known as the Premier ) has ever succeeded to the presidency under these provisions ( or their predecessors, under Article 49 ), it is untested whether, should the office of the premier be vacant as well, whether, pursuant to the Additional Articles, Article 3, the vice president of the Executive Yuan ( vice premier ), who would be acting premier, would act as president.

There is currently no constitutional provision for a succession list beyond the possibility that the vice president of the Executive Yuan might succeed to the presidency.

The ill and weakened Song soldiers were no match for the Yuan troops in close combat, and the chaotic environment made battle command impossible.

However, they soon realised that Liu Bei was no longer in Yuan Shao's territory and had already left for Runan.

Yuan Shu was very impressed with Sun Ce and often lamented that he had no son like him.

Because the majority of seats in the Legislative Yuan were held by delegates elected in 1947, pending the promised retaking of mainland China, the Tangwai movement had no possibility of seizing power, but they were able to use the legislature as a forum for debating the ruling Kuomintang.

no: Yuan T. Lee

Unlike the paper bills and the copper coins, the silver dollars had no communist symbols and instead, they were the direct copy of other silver dollars produced by other mints in China, including the most popular Chinese silver dollar with Yuan Shikai's head engraved, and the eagle silver dollar of the Mexican peso.

He overcame Liu Bei in an extremely short period of time, leaving Yuan Shao no chance to aid Liu on second thought.

In traditional Chinese theater, prior to Yuan Dynasty, no plays were performed in vernacular Chinese or without singing.

Further, by that point, Emperor Ping's grandfather, Emperor Yuan had no surviving male issue.

In a widely cited account of the war, Wei Yuan wrote that about 40 % of the Zunghar households were killed by smallpox, 20 % fled to Russia or Kazakh tribes, and 30 % were killed by the army, leaving no yurts in an area of several thousands li except those of the surrendered.

However, he soon panicked at the prospect of losing, and at the suggestion of Chao Cuo's enemy Yuan Ang, he executed Chao to try to appease the seven princes, to no avail.

Emperor Ping's grandfather, Emperor Yuan, had no surviving male issue — of his three sons, Emperor Cheng had no issue, and sons of the other two, Prince Kang of Dingtao ( 劉康 ) and Prince Xing of Zhongshan ( 劉興 ), had succeeded to the imperial throne ( as Emperor Ai and Emperor Ping, respectively ) and died without issue.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, then in command of the palace guards, saw that they could no longer control their forces, which had been so intimidated by the stronger Liang Province forces that they were not following orders, fled the capital.

They were, however, no more than military outposts, and it was not until the Yuan ( Mongol ) invasion of southwest China in 1279 that the area was made the seat of an army and a " pacification office.

The secretary-general and the deputy secretary-general of the Executive Yuan also attend, as well as heads of other Executive Yuan organizations by invitation, but they have no vote.

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In addition, the foreign powers had placed the Empress Cixi on their list of war criminals, although provincial officers such as Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai defended her, claiming that she had no control whatsoever over the whole escapade.

Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).

After the takeover of the Republican government by Yuan Shikai and the failed Second Revolution in 1913, Chiang, like his KMT comrades, divided time between exile in Japan and the havens of the Shanghai International Settlement.

On May 18, 1916 agents of Yuan Shikai assassinated Chen Qimei.

Notions of the Mandate of Heaven and divine monarchy were discarded, as shown in two unpopular and failed attempts to restore the imperial system by Yuan Shikai and Zhang Xun.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.

* 1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

Yuan Shikai was an adept politician and general.

This was followed by the dismissal of General Yuan Shikai from his former positions of power.

Seeing a desperate situation unfold, the Qing government brought an unwilling Yuan Shikai back to military power, taking control of his Beiyang Army, with the initial goal of crushing the revolutionaries.

After taking the position of Prime Minister and creating his own cabinet, Yuan Shikai went as far as to ask for the removal of Zaifeng from the regency.

With Zaifeng gone, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang commanders effectively dominated Qing politics.

With permission from Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Shikai began negotiating with Sun Yat-sen, who decided that his goal had been achieved in forming a republic, and that therefore he could allow Yuan to step into the position of President of the Republic of China.

The most successful of these was the Beiyang Army under the overall supervision and control of a former Huai Army commander, General Yuan Shikai, who exploited his position to eventually become President of the Republic of China, dictator and finally abortive emperor of China.

A poster that commemorates the permanent President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai and the provisional President of the Republic

* 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China ( d. 1916 )

* Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament and rules as a dictator.

* Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China and briefly Emperor

* September 16 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese dictator ( d. 1916 )

** The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.

* June 6 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician ( b. 1859 )

* December 12 – Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor.

In 1912 the troops of Lu and Feng Yuxiang, now subordinates of Yuan Shikai, were regrouped and Feng had then been Song's superior.