Lien Chan, the chairman of Taiwan's main opposition Nationalist Party, [comments on President Chen Shui-bian's] performance after two years in office in an interview at the Nationalist headquarters in Taipei May 20, 2002. [Lien, a former vice president who lost the 2000 presidential elections which ended the party's five-decade rule in Taiwan, blamed Chen for a political stalemate with China, which views self-governing Taiwan as a breakaway province that must be reunified, by force if necessary.]