Hackers attack Taiwan ruling party website
Suspected Chinese hackers have attacked the website of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), officials said. The party's homepage was replaced with pro-China pictures and digitally altered images of Chen and his Vice President Annette Lu, a DPP official said. One photo shows a Chinese People's Liberation Army soldier aiming his rifle at a target while another shows two men raising the Chinese national flag. Another picture shows Chen's head transposed onto the body of a man clad in traditional Japanese costume of kimono while Lu was transplanted onto a nude woman. The hacker also wrote "I'm proud of being a Chinese and a Chinese veteran" in Chinese. The DPP has temporarily closed the website. The opposition Kuomintang Party website suffered a similar attack in May. Since Chen's re-election in March, China has ratcheted up its rhetoric, reiterating its long-standing vow to take Taiwan by force should Chen move the island towards formal independence. Beijing has considered Taiwan part of its territory awaiting reunification since the two sides split at the end of a civil war in 1949.
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