What is Chen Shui-bian?
{{BLP unsourced|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox President | honorific_prefix = ''[[His Excellency]]'' | honorific_suffix = ''The [[President of the Republic of China]]'' | name = Chen Shui-bian <br /> Tân Chúi-píⁿ <br /> 陳水扁 | nationality = {{ROC}} | image = 總統陳水扁先生玉照 (國民大會實錄).jpg | caption = Official portrait, 2000 | order = 5th [[President of the Republic of China|President of Taiwan]] | term_start = 20 May 2000 | term_end = 20 May 2008 | primeminister = [[Tang Fei]]<br>[[Chang Chun-hsiung]]<br>[[Yu Shyi-kun]]<br>[[Frank Hsieh]]<br>[[Su Tseng-chang]]<br>[[Chang Chun-hsiung]] | vicepresident = [[Annette Lu]] | predecessor = [[Lee Teng-hui]] | successor = [[Ma Ying-jeou]] | order2 = 8th [[Democratic Progressive Party|Chairperson of the DPP]] | term_start2 = 15 October 2007 | term_end2 = 12 January 2008 | deputy2 = [[Cho Jung-tai]] | predecessor2 = [[Yu Shyi-kun]] | successor2 = [[Frank Hsieh]] | deputy3 = [[Chang Chun-hsiung]] | term_start3 = 21 July 2002 | term_end3 = 11 December 2004 | predecessor3 = [[Frank Hsieh]] | successor3 = [[Su Tseng-chang]] | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|10|12}} | birth_place = [[Guantian]], [[Tainan County|Tainan]], [[Taiwan]] | death_date = | death_place = | constituency = | party = [[Democratic Progressive Party]] | spouse = [[Wu Shu-chen]] | profession = | signature = | footnotes = }} '''Chen Shui-bian''' ({{lang-zh||c=|s=|t=陳水扁}}, born 12 October 1950 in [[Guantian]], [[Tainan County|Tainan]], [[Taiwan]]) was the [[President of the Republic of China]] from 2000 to 2008. His term ended 55 years of [[Kuomintang]] rule in [[Taiwan]]. His [[nickname]] is ''Ah-bian'' ({{lang-zh||c=|s=|t=阿扁}}). Chen is a member of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]]. == Early years == Chen Shui-bian is raised from a poor fa