is the Republic of China, and the Republic of China is Taiwan.", "Taiwan is a sovereign and independent country", and "...after we began directly electing our president, the current Republic of China government is no longer a foreign government. It is now the government of Taiwan." Chen Yi-shen (陳儀深), an associate researcher at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica, said "many are aware that the ROC and Taiwan are two faces of the same coin" and Tsai's ROC was an extension of the ROC from former presidents Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian. While some understood "elections have their own languages", many Taiwanese, including former DPP Chairman and former president of the Examination Yuan Yao Chia-wen, are absolutely against the ROC and insist "we need to promote the rectification our nation's name to the Republic of Taiwan". Tsai won the 2016 Taiwan presidential election and sworn in as first female President of Taiwan on May 20. See also References Peter Kien-Hong Yu, Chapter 5: The LEE Teng-hui March: A Zig-Zag Line / Chapter 6: The CHEN Shui-bian March: A Forced, Untrodden Split Line with Sideroads, The Second Long March: Struggling Against the Chinese Communists Under the Republic of China (Taiwan) Constitution, 2011/11/3 External links TIME: Strait Talk: The full interview (with Chen Shui-bian) President Chen's Address to the National Day Rally (2004) Taiwanization Taiwanese nationalism Taiwan independence movement Democratic Progressive Party Politics of Taiwan 2005 in Taiwan 2011 in Taiwan Political theories